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Heavenly Citizens

Key Verse: Philippians 3:20  ·  NASB1995

Key Verse

“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;”

Philippians 3:20

Your primary citizenship was transferred the moment you believed. You now live here as someone whose true home and allegiance are somewhere else.

Also See

“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household,”

Ephesians 2:19 · NASB1995

“But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels,”

Hebrews 12:22 · NASB1995

“Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.”

Luke 10:20 · NASB1995

Philippians 3:20 states it plainly: “our citizenship is in heaven.” Ephesians 2:19 says you are now “fellow citizens with the saints,” and Hebrews 12:22 pictures you as having already “come to Mount Zion...the heavenly Jerusalem.” Jesus even redirects His disciples’ excitement in Luke 10:20 away from spiritual accomplishments and toward this very fact: “rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven.”

Reflect

  1. How would remembering your citizenship is in heaven change your response to something disappointing about life here?

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Adapted from “The Riches of Grace in Christ Jesus” by Lewis Sperry Chafer, from Salvation (Sunday School Times Company, 1917, public domain).

Scripture quotations are from the NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible, 1995 update), © The Lockman Foundation.

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