A PERMANENT CITIZENSHIP
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. The Priceless Citizenship
Ephesians 2:19
"You are fellow citizens with the saints."
a) In this world, we can gain the right to enter another country and stay there awhile, even though we are not citizens of that country. The permission to enter usually comes in the form of a visa. When we come back to our own country, we have no need of a visa, for we are citizens.
b) Heaven is a country that issues no visas. Nobody may enter that country unless they are citizens. If you do not have citizenship, you cannot come in. Heaven has no tourists, temporary residents, or asylum seekers. Citizens only may enter in.
c) This citizenship has several characteristics. As we meditate upon the nature of our heavenly citizenship, we will look at some of these characteristics.
2. A Permanent Citizenship
a) There is no expiry date on our citizenship in heaven. It is eternal. When God "seated us with Christ in the heavenlies" (Ephesians 2:6), he did so for all "the ages to come" (Ephesians 2:7). Those ages in that new world are "without end" (Ephesians 3:21). In that verse, the Greek expression "age of the ages" means "forever and ever".
The End ...
1. The Priceless CitizenshipEphesians 2:19
"You are fellow citizens with the saints."
a) In this world, we can gain the right to enter another country and stay there awhile, even though we are not citizens of that country. The permission to enter usually comes in the form of a visa. When we come back to our own country, we have no need of a visa, for we are citizens.
b) Heaven is a country that issues no visas. Nobody may enter that country unless they are citizens. If you do not have citizenship, you cannot come in. Heaven has no tourists, temporary residents, or asylum seekers. Citizens only may enter in.
c) This citizenship has several characteristics. As we meditate upon the nature of our heavenly citizenship, we will look at some of these characteristics.
2. A Permanent Citizenship
a) There is no expiry date on our citizenship in heaven. It is eternal. When God "seated us with Christ in the heavenlies" (Ephesians 2:6), he did so for all "the ages to come" (Ephesians 2:7). Those ages in that new world are "without end" (Ephesians 3:21). In that verse, the Greek expression "age of the ages" means "forever and ever".
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