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with so many competing and even
contradictory voices and opinions
swirling around us today
it can be a challenge to know just what
you should do when it comes to voting
how should a christian vote after all
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principles
today christians find themselves
as the visiting team in the culture
when a pro team is a visiting team
that means they’re going to battle in
enemy territory
not only do they have the other team
against them but the crowd
is against them as well
there was a time in our history when
a christian world view informed
the culture and even though the culture
had flaws in it you could appeal
to a judeo-christian frame of reference
to seek to appeal to it and call it back
into the proper frame of reference
and the proper way of operating
but unfortunately today largely due to
the failure of christians
and the church we have now become the
visiting team
we are being booed in the culture
as the church and our christian faith
and even the lord jesus christ is being
marginalized
insulted rejected or
more often than not simply ignored
even though god’s name will come up from
time to time
but even when you are a visiting team
you’re still expected to win
even when there’s opposition against you
and the crowd is booing you
you’re still called to outperform the
environment in which you found you
find yourself located
i remember uh when we had some ant hills
on our
front lawn as these ants served their
queen
they built mounds on my lawn turning
a green lawn into a place of foreign
habitation
they were building their own kingdom on
milan
and there were ant hills everywhere and
i needed to address their presence
because they were bringing destruction
to the culture
of my lawn what we have today
is secularism secularism
humanism and all forms of idolatry
that have invaded our culture and our
world
and god has called his people not to sit
on the sidelines
but to get in the game this goes beyond
a candidate or a group of candidates
this has to do with the role of
christians
in the culture no matter how you voted
whether you’re happy or sad about which
candidate won or lost
god is still calling you to be christian
in fact he’s calling you to something
even higher
i love the way philippians chapter 3
verse 20 puts it
which says for our citizenship
is in heaven so i want to talk to you
about now being a kingdom citizen
now that we can push all of the
bantering behind us
it’s time for christians to decide that
you’re going to be christian no matter
whether
your party won your candidate one
it’s time now for there to be kingdom
citizens
for your citizenship is in heaven
luke 16 16 jesus says my father gave me
a kingdom
and i give you a kingdom because he
calls his followers
to be kingdom citizens
now what is a kingdom citizen
a kingdom citizen is a visible
verbal follower of christ
who seeks to bring the perspective of
heaven
and deposit them into the concerns of
the culture let me say that again
a kingdom citizen is a citizen
who visibly and verbally follows christ
in such a way that they draw
down the concerns or the perspective of
heaven
and injects them into the chaos the
problem
the conflicts and the concerns of the
culture
you see far too many christians
are too earthly minded that they are no
heavenly good
they know more about politics than they
do
about the lord they know more about
political parties than they know about
the word of god and they will often
argue like
secularists while naming the name of
jesus christ
in fact if you bring up what god thinks
about a subject
they’ll get mad at you even though it
can be defended by the word of god
because they’re so aligned with the
culture that they’ve lost sight that
their citizenship
is not first here i love the way first
peter 2 11 says
says you are aliens and strangers
that your citizenship is not
first on these shores
now you are a resident here but your
ultimate allegiance is to another king
another kingdom in another location when
you have a passport
it allows you to enter foreign countries
but you enter foreign countries as a
citizen of the homeland
you don’t enter foreign countries as a
citizen of that country
unless you’re trying to give up your
citizenship in the homeland
far too many christians have surrendered
their passports
some have surrendered their passports to
the democratic party
others have surrendered their passports
to the republican party
some have surrendered their passports to
no party they just surrendered their
passport
no you are a citizen of heaven you
belong to another kingdom he
says clearly verse 20 of philippians 3
4 our citizenship is in heaven
paul is writing to the city of philippi
philippi was located 800 miles
from the city of rome so what paul
does is he uses the principle of
citizenship
of philippi to make a principle of
christians
philippians even though you’re located
800 miles from rome
your citizenship is in rome in terms of
your earthly
earthly allegiance so they were informed
by roman customs they were informed by
roman laws
they were informed by roman influence
even though they were 800 miles from
rome
i know we are a long way from heaven
but our citizenship is to be connected
there you and i are to be informed by
heaven’s customs
heaven’s laws just like philippi was
informed by caesar
you and i are to be informed by the lord
and that’s why we have no full
allegiance
here that’s why i say you you now have
to be democrat light or republican light
i’m not
telling you don’t be for a certain party
i’m just saying don’t turn your passport
over to him
because you belong to another kingdom
and you belong to another
culture you know a thermostat
sets the temperature a thermometer reads
it
god is called you as a christian we as a
church to set a thermostat
bringing the heat to the culture
we’re not here just to give a reading of
what’s in the culture
because the culture is too far from god
we’re on enemy territory now
no matter who’s in power because jesus
christ does not rule god’s word
it’s not the final authority so like it
or not
you are the visiting team and you’re
still expected to win
this is not a time to run home the mama
this is a time
to lovingly and responsibly take your
stand
for the lord jesus christ
to bring the values of heaven
where your citizenship is into
the earthly realm that’s why god has
left us here
he didn’t leave us here to sit soak and
sour he didn’t leave us here just to go
to church on sunday he left us here to
penetrate
the culture with the customs of heaven
to influence our surroundings as salt
and light
matthew 5 13-16 you are the salt
of the earth you are the light of the
world you’re not the salt of the shaker
you’re not the light of the bulb
your job is to infiltrate
every sphere of your influence as a
full-time disciple not a part-time
christian
everybody ought to know where you stand
because you’re not an undecided voter
why because you have made your
declaration clear
which kingdom you are a part of that
means you got to adjust i’ve got to
address
we’ve got to adjust some things doesn’t
it you remember different strokes don’t
you
you remember here these two boys from
the hood wind up going
uptown and living lodge
but they were bringing some of their old
life into a new environment
so they had to be recalibrated into the
new environment that they now found
themselves in
they had to learn to dial down what they
grew up
living with and learning in order to
learn how to function
based on the environment that they were
in
see many of us have brought the old
environment of the world
into the new environment of the kingdom
and we got to be recalibrated and
retrained
that you’re not from that hood anymore
you’re not from that location anymore
you’re not from
that old suburban uh lifestyle anymore
you belong
to another king and another kingdom
because
your citizenship he says is in heaven
you’re supposed to be getting your
instructions from above
from the sweep by and by you’re no
longer to be instructed by the nasty
here and now
that is no longer to be the definitive
influence
in your life in my life in your
decisions
or in my decisions when people immigrate
to this country
they say i want to belong here i want to
be the citizen of the united states of
america they lift their hand
and they pledge allegiance to become a
citizen of here which means
that the old home no longer has dominant
sway
far too many christians who name the
name of jesus christ
are letting the old way have sway that’s
why
when things don’t work out like they
think they ought to work out on the
earthly realm
they lose it they start fussing and
cussing
and complaining because they’re confused
about where their citizenship lies
he says you are now a citizen of heaven
and you are to take your stand there or
as colossians 1 13
says you’ve been transferred out of the
kingdom of darkness
into the kingdom of his dear son you’re
in another kingdom now
you are a resident here this is not
this is not permanent locale this is
temporary passport location
and you ought to treat it that way which
means that
you’re not going to act like this is
defining you anymore
you take your stand if somebody asks you
are you a democrat you say which issue
are you talking about
cause i’m gonna take that issue i’m
gonna put it against the word of god and
then i’ll tell you whether i’m a
democrat right now
somebody tells you you’re a republican
which issue you talking about i’m gonna
take the bible
look at the bible based on that issue
and say well i’m a republican right now
why
because i’m a kingdom all the time i’m
24 7
kingdom that’s why you must be a kingdom
independent
and you must roll forward now whether
you’re happy or sad today
you must roll forward as a
representation of heaven
because you and i are the visiting team
and they’re not going to applaud you on
either side once you start disagreeing
when they disagree with your master
that’s why he says in the previous verse
he complains about those who set their
minds
on earthly things verse 19 of
philippians 3.
he says stop thinking like an earthling
stop thinking like a secularist stop
thinking
like the old way stop thinking about how
you grew up and what your mama said
and what your daddy said and what your
party thinks stop
thinking like an earthling
the bible calls that worldliness it
calls it human wisdom it means
you have adopted a way of thinking that
is incongruent
with a kingdom perspective
it’s a mental issue he says you’ve got
some mental problems
because you have he says you have
set your mind your mind talk about the
way you’re thinking
say stop thinking earthly so let me ask
you a question let me ask me a question
do you bring heaven in on the discussion
after the elections do you bring heaven
in on the policies
do you bring heaven in on the platforms
or do you revert back
to earthly things that is anti-god
thinking
because we are too lazy or irresponsible
to appeal to what god says we’ll
re-platform our parties but we won’t
open our bibles
we won’t get somebody to explain what
god has to say
and he has something to say as i hope
you’ve learned
about all this stuff stuff we haven’t
even gotten into
god has something to say about it why
because government belongs to god
so he got something to say and what he’s
saying is since you are citizens of
heaven
why don’t you find out what i say first
why you going to everybody else
and every party and every candidate find
out what they think how they feel and
what they say and you never check with
me
no we need some kingdom citizens we need
some citizens who understand
that they are to think heavenly not
earthly not not man’s wisdom
james 3 says there’s a wisdom that comes
from above
and then there’s a wisdom that comes
from demons
and he calls that earthly wisdom did you
know earthly wisdom is demonic thought
whenever what you think what you say
what you hear that you agree with
that disagrees with what god says don’t
you know that you have just become
demonized so we got a lot of demonized
christians
because james was writing to christians
he’s they say you’ve been
demonized secularized in fact you
playing for the wrong team
we got too many christians playing for
the wrong team
because they’re agreeing with things
that god doesn’t agree on and that’s
true
no matter who you identify with
he says you are now citizens of heaven
you’re to get your instructions what
goes into your mind
and informs your decision is no longer
earth
it’s it’s on earth it relates to earth i
love
i love john 18. because in john 18
they asked jesus a question they asked
jesus
are you a king
he says in verse 33 are you the king of
the jews
okay everybody talking about you a king
are you the king of the jews
jesus answers in verse 36 my kingdom is
not of this world
if my kingdom were of this world then my
servants would be fighting
so if you out there fighting if you out
there
inappropriately expressing how you
uh are frustrated he said you’re not
part of my kingdom
because my kingdom doesn’t roll like
that or my servants would fight
so that i would not be handed over to
the jews but as it is my kingdom is not
of this realm then he says in verse 37
you
say correctly i am a king
for this i have been born and for this i
have come into the world
to testify the to the truth everyone
who’s of the truth
hears my voice you know why we’re not
hearing from heaven
because we don’t want the truth he says
my kingdom is not of this world
but i have come into this world so he’s
not talking about pie
in the sky kingdom he’s talking about a
kingdom that starts up there
of that world but it comes down here in
this world
so in this world we should be talking
and defending that world
so your first question as a kingdom
citizen
it’s what does god say how does he feel
what does he think what does he want
and if i don’t know it i’m gonna find
somebody who does know it who can
validate it by the word of god
and if the word of god contradicts it
then i have to reframe my thinking
because i’m no longer an earthling you
know when people uh
leave their cars and they want to go out
and
check on the traffic they’ll often look
at the news
and they’ll often hear from the
helicopter helicopters flying high right
and the helicopter says about where
which highways
are backed up in traffic by construction
or accidents
it’ll give you a view from up there what
does that view
that they tell you the traffic report
from the helicopter do
it changes your mind about the route
you’re going to take
in other words when you hear from them
high up there
it affects what you do down here because
you’re listening up there
because up there sees more than you can
see down here
well guess what god up there
sees more than you see down here
so you need that world to make the right
decisions
in this world you don’t see start with
this world because you can’t see that
much
you can’t see that much god sits
high he looks low and he calls on his
people to follow him
to take their stand with him and to get
his perspective because you are citizens
of heaven first
problem today is uh we’ve got
double-minded christians
the bible says let not that person think
they will receive anything from the lord
a double-minded man is unstable in all
his ways
we got we got we got am fm christians i
call them
they keep switching channels on sunday
they fm you know they they
tuned into the kingdom network they they
they tune into the heavenly broadcast
system
amen hallelujah praise the lord but then
on monday
sometime sunday afternoon they switch
frequencies
and become become am christians
now they just switched frequencies and
now
they’re on the they’re no longer the
heavenly broadcast they’re on the
secular
broadcast network and they’re getting
their instructions from the world
in fact they’ll do that monday through
saturday and tune back into the kingdom
on sunday no you are not a part-time
citizen
you’re a full-time citizen and happen to
be a resident down here
so you think as a resident you vote as a
resident you appeal to policies
as a resident because you now are a
kingdom citizen god has a problem he’s
got too many benedict
arnolds yeah he does you know benedict
donald is a turncoat
somebody who who goes to the other side
who leaves where their loyalty ought to
be and they’re working for the wrong
team
yes you can be a democrat but you can’t
you can’t you can’t have an allegiance
there
not an ultimate allegiance you can be
with the republicans but you can’t have
an ultimate allegiance there
why because you belong to another king
you belong to another kingdom and god
looks at us
and he sees a benedict arnold church not
just
individuals he’s these whole churches
that have gone rogue
because you see them compromising you
see them
walking away from god’s standing on life
god standing on family
god standing on justice god standing on
government
god standed on on a whole plethora of
issues
tamar i think i feel i won’t my
perspective is
no no no uh-uh you are a
citizen of heaven and until we get that
kind of
radicalization among god’s followers we
will not see
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to bring order to a chaotic environment
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we no longer need double-minded
christians i love the way
gideon said it in judges chapter 8
verses 22 and 23
when they call on gideon getting we want
you to be our political leader we want
you to lead us because
because we need a great leader here get
in and say you better check on the lord
you need the lord the need to to lead
you
and the mess that our society is in our
culture is in
our country is in and our world is in
when we look at one problem after
another problem after another problem
we better get the lord back in this and
that’s the church’s job
to bring god back in it to do it with
the right spirit
with the right attitude to do it with
legitimate unity
to do it based on truth but to do it
until we kind of get that kind of church
that takes its stand
because we’re citizens of heaven and he
says if you’re a citizen of heaven and
philippians
chapter 3 he says
from which we also eagerly wait for a
savior
that is the lord jesus
christ you hear that
he said look you you’re gonna have to
get jesus in his proper proper role here
jesus made it plain all authority is
given unto me
in heaven and on earth matthew 28.
16-20 he said look i’m in charge here
now
but christians don’t believe that we
believe
the world’s in charge the president is
in charge the congress is in charge
no no jesus is in charge
remember god’s philosophy of history
ephesians chapter 1 verse 10
god’s goal is to summarize all things
did you hear me
without did i did you catch that
i didn’t stutter and neither did god
all things he says ought to be
summarized
in jesus christ he concludes
verse 22 and 23 of ephesians chapter 1
he is the head of all things but he’s
only been given to the church
so god is going to decide what he does
in this country
he’s going to decide what he’s going to
do in any country based on what the
church does
so as you’ve heard me say many times if
we don’t fix the church house we can
forget the white house
if we don’t fix the church house we can
forget the house of congress
why because god works through the church
to the principalities and the powers and
the authorities
in the culture galatians 1 4 he has
delivered us from this present age
you don’t have a loyalty here you have a
responsibility here
you are to be in the world but not of
the world but your ultimate loyalty
is not here until we
satisfy the issue of lordship
of the kingdom and he says you must be
radical to do this
luke chapter 22 verse 29
he tells them that this kingdom you must
advance on
not passively he says but forcibly
he doesn’t mean irreverently he doesn’t
mean physically violently
he means aggressively you got to be
aggressive
not passive uh
during the elections there wasn’t a lot
of passivity hey folk arguing
using all kind of profanity getting mad
on social media
being disgusting and how they relate to
even other christians
and then putting jesus’s name in it oh
no no no yeah they you know people
getting aggressive
people wanting to fight people wanting
to wanting to throw blows
or no uh-uh no no
but you should be aggressive
we complain about schools falling apart
when aggressive christians walked away
from them
we complain about racial issues when
christians fail to address them
we complain about injustice when we do
not
righteously appeal to them
no no no it’s time to be aggressive
kind loving but aggressive
there shouldn’t be any of this
passive christianity
too many have surrendered their
passports
you know uh spain have what was known as
fifth columnist
let me tell you about fifth columnist
when they were going to invade a country
a year before the invasion
they would send in people to become part
of the culture
so doctors would become doctors in the
culture
that would be invaded sometime later
lawyers would become lawyers teachers
would become teachers
families would set up shop in the
culture
business people would set up shop in the
culture
you see they would they would set up
shop in the culture
you know what they were they were
saboteurs
they invaded the culture but they
represented spain
so they were setting things up for the
big invasion
they were called fifth columnist because
spain marched in four columns
but the fifth columnist who was sent in
early
would have set things up for the big
invasion
well there’s a big invasion coming to
town i hope you know that
because jesus is coming back that’s the
big invasion
you talk about a pandemic that’s going
to be a pandemic
when jesus comes back uh that’s that you
talk about
stuff being shook up and toe up from the
flow
up that’s what’s gonna happen when jesus
comes back
but he has some fifth columnist folk
he’s setting ahead of time
you and me your family and my family
your church my
church he sent us ahead of time to set
it up
we we are we are his fifth columnist
who’ve been sent in
to set things up for the big invasion
when he comes to set up his earthly
kingdom called his millennial
reign you and i are here to set it up
are you setting it up or have you become
part of the culture and lost sight of
your true citizenship
back in spain or in this case as part
of the kingdom of heaven
you know i’m in cowboy country
and we got different kind of fans you
know
we got the casual fan they watch some
games sometimes
or parts of games sometimes
and if the game is not going well
they’ll turn off the television
because they’re fair-weather casual fans
but then you got committed fans i mean
they buy tickets
they uh they’re gonna watch the game win
or lose
because they’re they’re committed
to the cowboys then you got fanatics
these are the fanatics you know these
are season ticket holders
these are come rain or shine they’re
going to defend the cowboys because they
they all in all the time
they read the stats you know they they
they they do all the fan gaming they
they
are all in because they didn’t they
didn’t become
fanatical that’s what god’s got
he’s got casual followers they go to
church
maybe never then when they feel like it
their bedtime baptist or mattress
methodist
and now they’ll yawn through the sermon
they’re casual then then you got some
committed ones
these are the ones they they’re gonna
make church most of the time
they’re gonna bring their bibles and
they have learned christianese to the
max
they can spit out all the christian
vocabulary
they’ve memorized a few verses they’re
going to say their grace
and their prayers because there is a
level of commitment
but then then there’s those are
fanatical christians these are
these are committed disciples
jesus is all up in there
it’s jesus in the morning jesus at noon
time and jesus when the sun goes down
when life is good it’s jesus when life
is collapsed
it’s jesus during the good times
they’re following jesus and when tears
are rolling down their face
they’re following jesus because they
don’t care
what the culture says about their team
they don’t care about what the culture
says about
who they’re following they are going to
be unmistakable
followers of christ
when it comes to taking your stand in
the culture you must understand jesus’s
name is
always on the ballot you say but i don’t
know who to vote for
jesus name is not on the ballot oh no
wrong
his name is always on the ballot because
remember you’re a kingdom independent
you’re a kingdom citizen so that means
jesus goes in with you
and you’re taking jesus into
consideration not only when you vote but
how you roll after the vote is over
and the decision is made on who won and
who didn’t win
because jesus was on the ballot you’re
only going to live for the kingdom
anyway so there’s no jesus is not on the
ballot
your allegiance is to him and your vote
for him must be clear
there is no undecided voter when it
comes to a christian
no i’m voting jesus that means i can go
this way or that way depending on what
the issue is because i have taken
my stand with him so sometimes the
democrats gonna like me
and they’re gonna not like me sometimes
the republicans are gonna like me not
like me or
any other group you got out there
because i’m voting for jesus all the
time
because his name is always on the ballot
because i’m a radical follower of christ
because my citizenship is not here
he says your citizenship is in
heaven and so now
what are you going to do are you going
to take your stand
or you’re going to play church
you’re just going to go through the
motions am i just going to go through
the motions preach because it’s sunday
i’m going to take my stand and challenge
the flock to take their stand
with the right heart and the right
spirit
but with clarity that this is god’s
perspective on whatever
the issue happens to be and that’s how
we roll
that’s what we do i do it my life my
family
my church and my civic duty
that’s how i roll and when god sees
enough folk doing that
with the right attitude and right heart
and the right spirit
you know one of the reasons that so many
jews lost their lives
under hitler it’s because the church got
silent let me tell you what
hitler said hitler an evil man
leading an evil empire
he wanted the final solution to get rid
of
the jews so he told the pastors he said
now look
y’all go to church and take care of
their souls i mean
you can you can have that souls but i
got everything else so you don’t
you don’t touch politics you know you
don’t touch society
you don’t touch nothing you just go to
church and i’m going to leave you alone
while you’re in church that’s what he
told him
dietrich bonhoeffer went in and said oh
no oh no
oh no we don’t we don’t roll like that
we don’t just
tell people what to do in the pew why
you acting crazy in the culture
while you pass in wrong laws in the
culture well we don’t do that
but he had gotten the church so
anesthetized so secularized
that as the train went by some churches
with jewish people crying out for help
as they were taken to the camps
to be killed they would sing their songs
from the hymn book
and when one of the people was asked
when you heard the people crying
and begging for help as they passed your
churches and you were singing
what did you do the person said
we sang louder
we sang louder
too many christians and churches are
singing
louder while lives are going into hell
while people’s lives are being destroyed
by
unrighteousness or by injustice
and we sing louder preach longer
without becoming citizens of heaven
invading the culture with the worldview
of the king
the lord jesus christ so
what are you going to do what am i going
to do what are we going to do
first of all you’re going to be publicly
known as a citizen of heaven you don’t
mind you don’t mind saying
in the right way with the right heart
my first allegiance is to the lord jesus
christ don’t even say god because that’s
vague
let’s get specific my first allegiance
is to the lord jesus christ now we know
which god you’re talking about
the father of the lord jesus christ so
you’re going to be unapologetic
about your commitment and allegiance to
what he says in verse 20
the lord jesus christ because that will
get
jesus attention then you’re not only
going to be a good church goer you’re
going to
gauge the culture you’re going to bring
a christian influence
to the sphere of your influence
you you’re going to be concerned about
what the school is reading your children
and whether
those books are consistent with a
christian worldview
or whether they’re trying to force
unrighteousness down the throat
of your children you’re not gonna back
away from that because you are a
you you are a christian parent
and you are responsible for the
education of your child
they’re on loan to that school they
don’t own them you own
them so you want to make sure that it is
consistent
with your world view and not in
competition or in conflict with it
you’re going to challenge the
evolutionary theory when it challenges
creation
yeah you are you’re going to make sure
that god is not dismissed
because you represent another
you’re going to go to the city council
meetings
you want to hear what’s happening in
your community and whether they’re
unjust practices that are not being
addressed in your community
whether there’s evil happenings that
need to be reversed
you want to make sure that the police
are handling things in the right way
but that the citizens are also
responding in the right way
because you don’t play favorites you
play kingdom
so you take your stand as a citizen of
heaven
bringing it drawing it down to earth
and you vote based on the will and the
word of god you
you you take your stand churches don’t
just preach
pie in the sky sermons as though they
don’t have anything to do with the
with the world in which we live you we
challenge people
how not to be doctors but to be god’s
representative in the medical field
so the medical field sees what god looks
like when god helps hurting people
that lawyers are not just lawyers that
god’s representative in the bar
association so the bar association
gets to see what god looks like when god
tries the case that teachers are not
just teachers that god’s representative
in the educational fields or the
educational field
sees what god looks like when god
teaches a lesson where business people
are not just business people but they’re
god’s representative in business
so that the business world sees what god
looks like when god cuts a deal
when housewives and homemakers are not
just homemakers they’re god’s
representative in the home
to make sure that the home reflects the
character of god
where men have defined their malehood
not by the culture but by what god says
a man ought to be
and the responsibility of a man
spiritually and how he ought to lead his
family and relate to his maid
and raise his children we are trying to
create
kingdom people who are citizens of
heaven and not
mimics of the culture when we do that
when we go that way let’s get this
straight
there’s no salvation in politics we
we’ve been acting like politics is the
savior well if we get the right person
in
we’re going to be saved you don’t get it
we don’t get it
if god is not postured properly
it doesn’t matter who you elect
it is the absence or presence of
god in an environment that is why
the more secular you become the less god
you will see
the less god you will see the more chaos
you will deal with
so the church better shake up
wake up and get up
so that we can see what god can do if
christ be not come
through a church where the citizens
understand
where our true citizenship lies
one day a man was going to the shoe shop
and the shoe shop closed at
five o’clock but by the time he got
through the traffic
he got there at 5.01
he was late but he could see in the
window
that the shoe repair man was still there
inside
the door had been locked so he knocked
on the door
the schumann says i’m closed he said
please
please please please i i didn’t mean to
be late please i really got to get my
shoes
the proprietor opened the door and let
him in
he said i’m so sorry i’m so sorry that
i’m late
but then the gentleman noticed something
he says i see the lot where this shoe
shop is located
it’s all clear that no cars
um are you are you getting ready to go
home
oh he says i’m already home no i mean
leave the shop and go home
he said i’m already home so
what do you mean you’re already home he
said you see those steps up there
see those steps over there in the corner
i’m getting ready to go upstairs
i live up there i just work down here
i live up there but i just work down
here
if you’re going to be a kingdom citizen
whose citizenship is in heaven who is a
visible
verbal follower of jesus christ
bringing the concerns of heaven and
executing them in the culture
you live up there
you just work down here
now if you hear my voice
and you don’t have a passport to heaven
you need to get one
you need to get a passport to heaven
uh you can get them for free it doesn’t
cost you a thing
jesus christ is giving away passports to
heaven
to anybody who comes to him for it
the bible says all have sinned and
fallen short of the glory of god
everybody
has failed god but on the cross
jesus christ took your sin your failure
and he bore the penalty that you and i
would do
because of our own sin
and jesus says if you will come to me
recognizing your sinfulness
and your inability to save yourself
and if you will come to me to be your
savior
i will take my goodness and give it to
you
because i took your badness and suffered
on the cross for it
we will do the great exchange i’ll
exchange
your bad for my good so that you will
stand before god
as somebody who has never sinned
and you will be given a passport to
heaven
now i want you to live it out on earth
but your eternal destiny will be secure
because i’m giving passports away to all
who come to me
for it you want a passport to heaven
can you say if you died right now you
know where you would spend eternity
if you can’t would you go to god right
now
repeat after me you just have to mean it
for yourself
lord jesus i’m a sinner and i can’t save
myself
but i believe you died for me make it
personal
that you arose from the dead for me
and i invite you to be my savior
i’m believing in you now for the
forgiveness of my sins
and i receive from you
the gift of eternal life
thank you for my free passport to heaven
and if you just prayed that prayer and
you meant it we want to pray for you
because we care about you
for your eternal destiny but also for
your usefulness in history
as a kingdom citizen if you’re already a
follower of christ
you can do two things right now you can
thank him that you have a passport
and you can commit yourself to using it
okay
don’t have it in a draw use it because
you’re in foreign territory
that i’m going to function as a citizen
of heaven
and not just a citizen of this country
i’m going to take my stand with jesus
christ
and that’s going to be how i roll i’m
going to confess where i’ve fallen short
and then i’m going to take my stand out
lord when you raise up an army
of christ followers who are citizens of
heaven
who don’t bank on a political party
for their destiny because our destiny
has already been taken care of
we just want to live it out in history
and we’ll give you the glory in jesus
name
amen may god continue to bless you
as you follow him as a kingdom citizen
as a full-time follower of jesus christ
with so many competing and even
contradictory voices and opinions
swirling around us today
it can be a challenge to know just what
you should do when it comes to voting
how should a christian vote after all
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