Title: Our Citizenship is in Heaven
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Recently, I often want to see us by asking, 'What country are the believers in Jesus?' I have recently asked myself, 'What nationality am I from?' about my own identity.
The Apostle Paul said that we are no longer Jews, nor Greeks, nor Romans, but people of Jesus Christ. The people of Jesus Christ have their nationality in the kingdom of God, and the Christian citizenship is also in heaven.
Many Koreans who immigrate to the United States live with dual citizenship. Citizens of most of the world's lesser countries go abroad and retain their own nationality, but also have the nationality of the country they live in.
There was a man named Kenjo Uchimura, a famous Japanese thinker and believer. While serving as a high school teacher, he was sacked for writing an article criticizing the militarism of the Japanese government at the time. Even after losing his schoolteacher job, he was publishing monthly a small magazine called "Bible Study," which he had previously published an evangelistic magazine. One day, an American missionary visited Mr. Lee Uchimura and offered words of comfort. "Teacher, how do you live after losing your job?" Sensei Uchimura answered, "Why did I lose my job? My job is to spread the word of God. And my only job as a side job for my life is teaching." Later he wrote the facts at this time. "So-called missionaries do not know what the main job of a believer in Jesus is, so what kind of evangelism can there be with hundreds of such missionaries? said to have done it.
If we are definitely citizens of the kingdom of God, then even if we study, we do it for the growth of the kingdom of God, if we do business, we do it for the growth of the kingdom of God. should be aimed at.
The architecture company that designed and built the old buildings of the Jongno Christian Seohoe and YMCA in Korea was built by an architecture company organized by a missionary, an American lay architect who was visiting Japan. They were all comrades of faith and devoted themselves to expanding the work of the kingdom of God.
The author who wrote the history of the early church wrote that there was a Roman emperor on the earth at that time and there were Romans with citizenship, but God did not exist in the heavens of Rome, and that was the cause of the fall of Rome. It is said that the visible kingdom of the world can grow properly only if there is a God who manages and provides the work of serving God, although it is invisible. As long as we live in this world, we want our country to prosper. In order for our country, our Republic of Korea, to not be destroyed, citizens of the kingdom of God on this earth must clearly protect the land.