Becoming a Kingdom Citizen Pt 2
Let us continue. When Jesus the Christ began His public ministry, He announced that the Kingdom of Heaven had arrived. By the way, that was the only message that He preached and taught. He brought back to earth the kingdom we lost at Eden and gave us access to it again. We entered the Kingdom of Heaven through the process that Jesus the Christ called being born again. Read what He stated to a leader who came to Him in the early part of the morning: “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
New birth is: changing our mind and turning from our rebellion against the Lord God, placing our trust in the Lord and King Jesus the Christ for the forgiveness of our rebellion, and acknowledging Him as the Lord--Owner of our life. This new birth gets us into the Kingdom of Heaven. Throughout the gospel, Jesus only mentioned being born again once. Many believers call this being saved, but I think it is more enlightened to look at it for what it is, the new birth as the naturalization process by which we become Kingdom citizens. By the way, religious individuals call it "being saved".
The new birth makes us naturalized citizens of the kingdom. It also naturalizes us in the sense that it returns us to our original natural state of authority and dominion over the earth as God intended from the start. When we become citizens of the Lord God's Kingdom, it means that we voluntarily align ourselves with a new government and a new country, embracing its language, its ideals and especially its values.
The Kingdom Constitution (Bible) is very explicit regarding our citizenship:
Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ
...giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love
Not only does the new birth make us citizens of Heaven, but our citizenship begins immediately. We are Kingdom citizens right now. Our citizenship is a present day reality. We are His sons and daughters, not sinners saved by grace. Our citizenship is in Heaven. The Lord God has brought us into the Kingdom of His Son.
John 3:3 Ephesians 2:19 Philippians 3:20 Colossians 1:12-13
~~W.R. Luchie
www.kingdomcitizens.org
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New birth is: changing our mind and turning from our rebellion against the Lord God, placing our trust in the Lord and King Jesus the Christ for the forgiveness of our rebellion, and acknowledging Him as the Lord--Owner of our life. This new birth gets us into the Kingdom of Heaven. Throughout the gospel, Jesus only mentioned being born again once. Many believers call this being saved, but I think it is more enlightened to look at it for what it is, the new birth as the naturalization process by which we become Kingdom citizens. By the way, religious individuals call it "being saved".
The new birth makes us naturalized citizens of the kingdom. It also naturalizes us in the sense that it returns us to our original natural state of authority and dominion over the earth as God intended from the start. When we become citizens of the Lord God's Kingdom, it means that we voluntarily align ourselves with a new government and a new country, embracing its language, its ideals and especially its values.
The Kingdom Constitution (Bible) is very explicit regarding our citizenship:
Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ
...giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love
Not only does the new birth make us citizens of Heaven, but our citizenship begins immediately. We are Kingdom citizens right now. Our citizenship is a present day reality. We are His sons and daughters, not sinners saved by grace. Our citizenship is in Heaven. The Lord God has brought us into the Kingdom of His Son.
John 3:3 Ephesians 2:19 Philippians 3:20 Colossians 1:12-13
~~W.R. Luchie
www.kingdomcitizens.org
This article may only be reproduced, in print or on the internet, if the author's name and website address are included at the end of the article as originally placed. Thank you
