Therefore, The Church

But you are God’s chosen treasure—priests who are kings, a spiritual “nation” set apart as God’s devoted ones. He called you out of darkness to experience His marvellous light, and now He claims you as His very own. He did this so that you would broadcast His glorious wonders throughout the world.  1 Peter 2:9 TPT 

It’s easy to look back to our grandparents era and imagine it must have been the good old days of our country, imagining that they really asked and trusted God, that our national anthem was almost a prayer asking God to keep our land glorious and free. 

And it’s easy to look around today and feel like our position as a nation under God is slipping away. Yet we—the squarely under-God Church—don’t ever need to respond to changing times with fear, anger, or vengeance!

Why? Because Jesus Christ, our leader, doesn’t live in a 10,000 sq ft cottage, a mansion estate or penthouse, He lives in God’s house. He lives in us. The Church.

Therefore the Church, His body in Christ, you - me, we - owe allegiance to our Savior.  As Jesus-followers, we don’t just go to church, we are the Church, and we exist for the world. 

Jesus made it clear that we become citizens of the Kingdom of God by putting our faith in Jesus and giving our lives to be His follower and friend.

Being a citizen of God’s Kingdom gives us incredible rights. We’re adopted into God’s family and given full access to God as His son or daughter. We can approach our King boldly and pray in Jesus’ name.

We can overcome the power sin had over our lives by tapping into the same power that brought Jesus back to life and then we will escape the sting of death by passing from this life into Heaven.