In Philippians 3:20 Paul reminds us that our eternal citizenship is in heaven, but in Romans 13 we are told to be in submission to the governing powers of our homeland. As Holy Spirit-driven Christians we are citizens of two realms. We need to walk in both with direction of the Holy Spirit and obeying the laws of both.
This week the essay deals with being an obedient of both kingdoms.
We are moving into a new era in the United States. We may have won the election and things are moving slowly in the right direction, but 49% of our population is not happy and we are on the edge of a civil war that will make the last one look like a Sunday school picnic.
We are reaching a critical mass over emotionally explosive issues as immigration. We are a people that are 85% ignorant of their government system. We are a nation of entitlements and getting my way. We are a nation on meth, marijuana, tobacco, pain pills, and alcohol. We are betting on the lottery to get something for nearly nothing, and the church is closing its doors and circling the wagons as never before since the fourth and fifth century A.D. To top this, both sides are well armed, while Evangelical Christians are demanding their civil rights rather than obeying their Lord’s commands. If it were not for immigrants, legal and illegal, we would be going into a population decline so severe as to create a sub-zero population growth, and a new demographic of Muslims, Latin Americans, and Orientals taking over. Pray for Latin Americans.
Our country is not guaranteed existence any more than Greece or Rome. It all depends on Christians being good citizens of both kingdoms and God the Father, God Immanuel, and God the Holy Spirit stepping in and making the difference.