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January 26, 2025 · 51 min
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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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Citizenship in Heaven 0:00 Wow, that's gotta rank up as 1 of the most creative generosity moments we've had in a long time. So, thank you, professor Levy for instructing us0:12 along those lines, and isn't it amazing now? The church is offering you, you know, a financial university so that you can grow in all realms, to come out of debt,0:24 to buy a home, to have a second stream of income, to understand what stewardship may look like in the kingdom of God, and help you to be a blessing to your family and a blessing to others creating legacy.0:37 And so I know the church doesn't often like to talk about finances within the church, but you have no problem talking about finances outside the church. And so I'm glad that we are coming in to resource our people, and0:49 so you can go to now Generosity University I guess, and get a doctorate, because some of you need 1. So, it'll be a great experience. My next wow1:01 is that next week starts Saturday night service. And, you know what? I, again, I've always said this, I love firsts,1:13 so technically this is a reboot of a first, because we used to have it pre COVID. So you know, it's been nearly 4, 5, 6 years, I can't do math, do do the1:25 math, you know, now 5 years. At least 5 years since we've had a Saturday night service. So it's a reboot, it's gonna meet the needs of people that work on Sunday morning, that have things they1:37 do on Sunday morning. I know this, if I didn't have a position of leadership and I wasn't the pastor, and I was just a lay person like you who came to church, I'd come to Saturday1:49 night service. That would that would like be my service. So it gave me the option if I wanna go have breakfast at Denny's, I'd get up and have breakfast at Denny's. If I wanted to sleep in, I'd sleep in.2:01 If I wanted to go on a long bike ride, I'd go on a long bike ride. I just love Saturday night service. As a Catholic, I went to Saturday night service. Are there any Catholics like me, ex Catholics, that went to2:12 Saturday night service? 1 ex Catholic here, God bless you. In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, sprinkle some dust on you, amen. Anyways, I'm just excited about the people that will come. Now tell your family2:24 and friends as you witness and share that we offer a Saturday night service and watch what God'll do. We're gonna pray, stand on our feet for the reading of God's word, and we are gonna continue in this series on2:36 press. Father, thank you for the few moments that we have. Thank you that people pushed out through the bad rain, through the bad weather, through the coldness, because it's important for them to be here, God.2:49 You don't, they may not know and I may not necessarily know what you are exactly going to say by the spirit of God, But we anticipate that we're gonna hear from you God, whether it deals with our3:01 past, whether it deals with our present, or whether it deals with our future. We just open our heart to hear from you now. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Stay for standing3:13 into the word. I'm gonna read this scripture to you. We've been in Philippians the whole month, and we're gonna continue here and finish it out. It says, but our citizenship is in heaven, and from it3:25 we await a savior, he's coming back, the Lord Jesus, who will transform our lowly body. If you don't have a body you like today, it's okay, you're not gonna have that body forever. To be3:37 like his glorious body, redeemed body by the Lord that enables him even to subject all things to himself, connects to chapter 4 now, therefore, therefore because you know3:49 your citizens on your way to heaven and your citizenship is already sealed in heaven today, therefore my brothers, in whom I love and long for, my joy and crown,4:01 you need to stand firm against the adversities of life. Anything that threatens that citizenship, any difficulty that you're facing in life, stand firm in this knowledge thus in the Lord,4:13 my beloved. You may be seated. In this series we talk through is pastor Adam, Adam, excuse me, pastor Aaron talked to us a little bit4:24 about pressing on. And he talked about crushing it, and that meant the brokenness of our lives and what suffering God would challenge us to go through, but we needed to press through that. And then pastor4:36 Adam challenged us with pressing in, which dealt with spiritual maturity and how we4:41 are to progress and grow.4:44 And the last week he talked about, pastor Adam did, about pressing out. He really talked about our influence and how we will model and be an example. Today we're gonna talk about pressing4:56 up. That's our up today. And we read it today in Ephesians of Philippians, excuse me, Philippians 3 20, which dealt with citizenship. We are going to press up.5:08 How many of you have ever gone to a gym and you're gonna bench press? To be effective you gotta press that weight up. And by pressing it up, you are now building stamina in your life. You're5:19 building muscle in your life. You're building strength into your life. And only through pressing up in situations through God's strength are we gonna gain a spiritual5:31 strength and a stamina in our lives? In worship a few moments ago, we lifted our hands, we pressed them up toward heaven. What was that for? To recognize that I am dependent upon you,5:43 God. I need you. I am not the source, and I wanna exalt you. And that's why we need to live this pressed up life that reminds ourselves we aren't in charge and we're dependent upon God.5:55 And if you ever gone to an elevator and you press, you press the up button, And the button begins to mobilize. It begins to activate. And when you and I live a pressed6:07 up life, we begin to be activated in the kingdom of God. With that in mind, I wanna break this word down that we talked about when he talked about citizenship. Our6:19 citizenship is in heaven. Paul is talking to the church at Philippi. These are that's where they lived, a city in the Macedonian region,6:31 Philippi, Colossae, Ephesus, they were all they were all in this area. But they were a providence of Rome, which meant they had all the benefits6:43 of Caesar, the empire, the known strongest nation6:49 of6:49 the world was Rome at that time. So they were well boasters, very proud of being a Roman citizen even though they were in Philippi. They weren't physically7:02 living in Rome. They were miles away in Philippi, but their but their citizenship was connected to the empire of Rome. So whatever Rome7:14 offered them, Philippi could benefit from. So they knew exactly what Paul was speaking of when he talked about citizenship. So he would say this, Philippi,7:26 you pride yourself on your Roman citizenship and all its benefits that it offers you. Do you equally pride yourself as citizens of heaven with the7:38 same proudness and boastfulness, or do you consider earthly citizenship far greater than heavenly citizenship? It would have registered in their7:49 minds the number 1 country in the world. There are over 230 Over 200 countries in the world. The number 1 country where8:01 people wanna join and become a citizen is what? America. America. Now I'm not trying to say anything political, but why are they all coming here?8:14 Are they coming here because they wanna be persecuted? Are they coming here because they wanna live in poverty? Are they coming here to be slaves? Are they coming here to be in8:26 bondage? They're coming here to America because they love our prosperity. They love our liberty that we have. They love our non biasness. How many of you know what I'm talking about?8:38 Our diplomat diplomatic democratic way of our nation functioning. And they long legally or illegally8:50 to become American citizens because they want the rights and privileges that America offers them. If Paul was here today, he'd say, don't you9:02 Americans love your benefits? God bless America. The red, white, and blue that I put on my house on holidays.9:15 You're very, very boastful, and you're very, very proud to be an American. But do you have equal, if not greater pride in you being a Christian today?9:28 Yes. That's what he would tell you. That's what he would tell you. I'm gonna ask you a question right now, kinda put you on the spot. Is there anybody here that was not9:40 born an American, but you have now become an American citizen? Would you raise your hand? Okay. There you go. Look at that. Alright. I have friends that have gone9:52 this way. Okay? They all share the same thing in common. Tell me what it felt like to become an American citizen. Tell me what you felt when you10:04 became an American citizen. They said I cried. They said I was so joyous. Some say I kissed the ground. Some say I held that little flag with pride10:16 in my hand. I sang the song with joy. They were overwhelmed. I wanna challenge you. Is that how I feel about being a Christian?10:29 I don't give a hill of beans. It's no biggie. It's You know what? Let me put it this way. So here is my, let's just say, my this is my heavenly citizenship10:41 card, okay? This is my heavenly citizenship card. Keep it in my wallet here, right here. It's in my heart. Okay? My heaven Oh, yes. Love it so much. But I wanna ask you a question.10:52 I I also I am a membership, a country club membership because I love golf, of the Beechwood Town Country Club. Here's what I know, I love being a member there.11:05 Get to tee off anytime I want. I need to walk around with the VIP big shots. Come on, pastor Garfield knows what I'm talking I don't have to ask for a tee time. I'm a member. Show up at 5,11:17 8 or 7, you better serve me. They call me sir at the Beechwood Country Club. I'm proud of my membership at the Beechwood Country. Here's 1, I'm proud not in here but in other churches. I'm proud11:29 to be a member of the rhino club of spearmint club. Come on you used to go to rhino club, you know what I'm talking about, spearmint club. You're an active member there every Friday night,11:40 Saturday night, and Sunday night with my dollar bills. Remember, the rhino club. Some of you weren't just the ones paying,11:52 some of you the words was the ones performing, but let's move on. I'm a fraternity club member.12:04 Don't you know where I graduated from?12:17 Sorority, fraternity, I'm proud. How do you feel about being a Christian? How much money you give in the kingdom of God concerning but your fraternity,12:30 How many home games you go to? How many parties you go to? Anniversaries? The kingdom of God. But here, you're all up into your fraternity. Let's get real personal.12:42 I belong to the Dodger club, Laker club, Ram club. How many of you hear what I'm talking about? Season ticket holder. Never miss a home game. She even12:54 travel in the visitors game, but I don't know when the next time I'm coming to church though, hallelujah. Premier Club of whatever that is, I don't even know what that is, Premier Club, but13:06 it's a club out there. Some of you are proud of your Costco club. Oh, I can have all these samples if I want. Do you see this? I'm a member of13:18 Costco. You get what you're, those giant oversized shopping carts and you pack it up. How many of you know what I'm talking? Because you a Costco member, you proud of your13:30 Costco membership. Hollywood film club here. Or for some of you, you like all those designer clothes, Versace, Gucci, how many of you know what I'm talking about? Coach, listen, I'm13:42 a VIP member, they said I could come Friday after hours or before the Christmas sale, and I'm going to be there, because I love my membership. But how do we feel again about this heavenly13:54 membership? Does it have to compete with all those other memberships in your life? That's what he was drawing from, from our lives. And so from that, I wanna give you 3 Versus14:05 that will minister to us today, 3 Versus to talk to us about the benefits of being a citizen of heaven. The first 1 is the victory that you and I walk in. We walk in the14:17 victory of heaven today. I love this scripture and I'll give I'll give them I'll give 2 of 2 of them together right now. But the first 1, I'm sorry I lost my point. My14:29 pipette is going really crazy right now. Ephesians 2 and verse 19, so you then are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the14:41 household of God. I'm not a nobody, I'm not a worm. I'm not worthless. I'm not even a sinner anymore. I14:53 could still sin, but I'm not a sinner anymore. I have the victory today. Here's another great scripture that's found in the Bible in Romans, or15:05 Romans, let's go to Romans please. It says, what then shall we say to these things? What things? The things that you are facing today, a bad marriage, health issues,15:17 financial downturn in your life, job related problem. What shall you say to those things? Speak to them. Here's what you're to say those things. If God be for me, who can be15:28 against me? God is for me today. That's a place of victory that you and I have to walk in. I'm walking in the victory today of Jesus Christ. How he15:40 died on the cross, how he went down to hell, How he stripped principalities and powers, made a show of them openly triumphing over them in it. How he took the keys of death, hell,15:52 and the grave against Satan. Put our enemy under our feet today, and we are seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. I'm victorious today. I have16:04 problems, but I'm victorious today. I have challenges, but I'm victorious today. I have opposition, but I am victorious today. All because Jesus was victorious,16:16 I am victorious today. And I will walk in the privileges of that, and I walk in the authority of that. So when the enemy comes against me, I will remind him that he is a defeated16:28 foe and that he is a liar in the name of Jesus. And I will remind him of his future and what that looks like when he is cast out into hell itself. I'll16:39 remind him of what Jesus did to him when he stripped him of his authority. So you and I have a level of victory that you and I walk in today. We have victory.16:51 We fail sometimes but we're not a failure. Peter failed but he wasn't a failure. David failed but he wasn't a failure. John Mark failed but he wasn't a failure.17:03 Jonah failed but he wasn't a failure. Abraham failed but he wasn't a failure. And you're gonna fail but I'm not a failure. I'm not a failure because I have the victory because I'm a17:15 citizen of heaven. And and failure people don't go, failure people don't go to heaven. Losers don't go to heaven. I17:27 have the victory today in all areas of my life. I'm not I'm not fighting for victory, I'm fighting from victory. I wanna say this because this revolutionized17:39 my understanding when I was going through terminal cancer stage 4, and people don't understand this, but I had to get the revelation of it because I thought I was fighting17:51 for my health. I was fighting for my healing. I was fighting for my victory. But when the revelation came that 2000 years ago, Jesus really bore my18:03 sicknesses and diseases on the cross, and that past tense, by his stripes I am healed, I fast forward it through application into my life today,18:15 and the victory was wrought 2000 years ago. So I'm healed today in Jesus name. I'm not fighting for victory, I'm fighting from a place I'm already healed.18:27 Sickness and disease, an enemy, an arch enemy has already been defeated. Now Diego, walk in that. Now Diego, rest in that now. Diego, now accept that. It18:39 has to be a revelation. And I've seen so many of my friends not understand that. You're fighting from a18:51 place of victory. When on our fourth date my wife's lovely Cindy tried to impress me by making me dinner. And so, she made a pot roast for me. And so I19:03 anxiously sat at the table and she brought in this pot roast and it it you know it smelled really good and it looked good. How many have ever been a place where, you didn't know what19:15 to do when people asked you, do you like it? What does it taste like? And you're not sure if you should give them the honest answer or just smiles, oh this is the19:26 best pasharo I've ever tasted in my life, thank you. As you are just chewing it 200 times, looking for a chainsaw to cut the meat with.19:41 Let me see, if I could be Do you have a wife like mine, she's always watching the cookie shows but I'm waiting for it to ever be lived out in my home? Why you watching all these cooking shows? Can you bake a19:53 cookie for me if it's the least? Anyways, let's back to the story. Anyways, I came to terms that I did not marry my wife for her cooking.20:06 I married my wife for her heart. Jesus did not marry you for what you could do for Him. He married you for what He could do for you.20:23 See, you and I walk and live in a place of absolute victory in our lives. What is the opposite of victory? Is it defeat? I'll give you another word. It's a victim.20:35 And can I be honest with you? A lot of us walk around as victims. Didn't have a daddy. So I do what I do. I take care of mine.20:47 Listen, you didn't have a man your husband cheat on you. I don't trust these men out here. You gotta do for yourself, girl. Victim. Hallelujah. But praise the Lord, I'm going to church on Sunday. You wanna come with20:59 me? The Bible says you have the victory. You're telling me that no matter what devastation that has taken place in your life, God cannot redeem it?21:12 So you're gonna go your whole lifetime talking about what happened to you rather than what's promised to you. And you're gonna carry that negative attitude with you.21:24 Woe,21:25 woe is me like Eeyore. I'll never have a husband. I'll never have a job. I'll never be successful. Never have a man love me. I'll never have anything good to me. It'll never work, never work,21:36 never work, never work.21:39 Victims, victims, victims, victims, victims. I'm not walking around as a victim. Yeah, bad things happened to me. I was dejected, I was rejected. Who who in this room hasn't been lied21:51 to, betrayed, taken advantage of? If we want, we can all be chainsaw massacres and kill the whole world, wipe them away based on what happened to us. What am I talking22:03 about? I'm 8 years old, I have a little red skateboard with steel wheels, because that's what they looked like back then when I was a little boy, and I had a sidewalk, and there was a down It was a little bit22:15 of a downhill grade that ended in a cul de sac in my neighborhood. The only day you could really play was Saturdays after you did your chores, so you wanted to play all day. I'm only about 8 years old. I22:27 get my little red skateboard, and I'm going down. Don't even I just have to push 1 time, and then gravity will take me, and there I go, and it would sound like this, click, click, click, click, click, click, click,22:36 click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click,22:40 click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click I'm 8 years old. And all of a sudden I go k k k k k k k and a man comes out22:52 from the house. And he says, don't be riding your skateboard on this sidewalk anymore, I'm trying to get some sleep. You could begin to see Diego and his nature. I thought to myself,23:04 you don't own this sidewalk. So I walked up that street again and went down, and he came out and he looked at me and he shook his finger at me and I just click, click,23:16 click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click,23:24 click, click, click, click, click. This time he was standing right in front of me. He had a hacksaw in his hand. He got the red skateboard and he cut it in half right in front of me, and he handed me23:36 both, gospel story, true story, handed me both pieces of the skateboard. Today if anybody has a right to be a chainsaw killer and kill every 1 of you, and be a23:47 victim. I'm gonna get me mine and you ain't gonna do me. And I'm making up for the fact that someone took my little red skateboard and I would have been a happy little boy24:00 and I would have grown up successful and I would have been somebody. I probably wouldn't be a skater today. I probably have a skating company. You probably hear about Diego and not Tony Hawk. But I've got all jacked up.24:12 So why don't I have a right? I have a right. I'm a citizen of heaven. I'm not a victim.24:25 I'm victorious. Lady named Sarah. She's in living in Manhattan. She's on her way to a business meeting. The24:37 car picks her up in Manhattan. She's dressed very nicely in a business suit, wearing a a blouse. She blows her nose with a tissue. When24:49 she does that, her nose begins to bleed, but she can't stop it, and she's getting tissue after tissue, and it bloodies her white blouse. She can't go to25:01 her meeting to work that way. She turns her asks the driver to turn back around. She runs into her flat and she changes into another white blouse. At that moment, she25:12 feels her building shake and it's overwhelming the noise that is taking place. She turns on the TV and she sees the first tower on nineeleven fall, and that's where her25:24 business meeting was. And it dawns on her that the blood covered and protected me from dying in that25:36 meeting. I have the victory because of the shed blood of Jesus Christ that covers me and my family and my children, that reminds the25:48 devil that I am no longer his property, I am off limits, I am protected, I am washed, I'm cleansed, I'm redeemed, and I'm forgiven, all because I've been covered in26:00 the blood of Jesus Christ. The second thing, the second thing, the second V, because I'm a citizen I have victory. The second 1 is because of this I have values26:12 in my life. There are certain values that an American citizen lives by. If you have a membership at a country club or or at a26:23 gymnasium or, you work at a job, there are certain values that your company carries, and you are to represent that value. 1 of the most exclusive clubs that26:35 people long to join is something called Club 33. Does anybody know what Club 33 is? Yes. Half of you, only 5 of you. The rest of you need to get out, you need to26:47 come to, you need to come to the university, Generosity University, so that you could finance your money, so that you could become members of Club 33. It's an exclusive26:59 club at Disneyland, where the Pirates of the Caribbean is, it's somewhat of a 10 to 13 year wait, you have to make a certain amount of money, they take a27:11 certain amount of money, you gotta give them to be a member of Club 33 to have Mickey in your corner. And these people if you know them, they pride themselves27:23 on being members of Club 33. Recently, it happened that Scott and and Diana Anderson just got27:35 booted out of club 33. Wow. All because Scott was seen drunk walking the property of Disneyland. He violated a27:47 value and is no longer given membership anymore to Club 33. That's Disneyland that has values. Your job has value.27:58 Your fa your marriage is supposed to have values. What we do and what we don't do. Where we go and where we don't go. We are to have values in raising our children. Who we hang around, what we28:10 watch, and what we listen to. We need to have health values. This is what I eat and this is what I don't eat. It's all about values in our lives and when we become citizens of28:22 God and citizens of heaven, then we are to partake of the values that are in heaven. The values that are represented in heaven. I named I I I have a28:34 few of them, generosity, holiness, obedience, love, respect, honesty, courage, faith, patience. These are our values28:46 as Christians. We value coming to church, it's a value. I value tithing, financially, it's a value of mine. You say, I value serving, sharing my gifts with28:58 others. It's a value of mine. You and I, in the kingdom of God, ought to express our values. Now, when I got saved,29:12 it took me a minute to have certain Christian values. And so 1 of the values of when I was in the world was that I loved to drink. And29:23 my drink of choice was beer. I grew up in a world where yellow jackets are what my family drank. I could see that nobody knows29:35 what yellow jackets are. Coors. So I love to drink beer, but it took me a minute to take on a Christian29:47 value. Another thing that I had was I loved to gamble when I lived in the culture of the world. When I had the values of the world. When I was a citizen of the29:59 world, I just was a byproduct of my environment. I was trying to act cool. I was trying to act macho. I was trying to impress the ladies. I was a citizen of the world, therefore I acted like30:11 the world. But then I joined the kingdom of God, and that privilege was extended to me. He didn't discriminate toward me. He extended it in love and mercy. He didn't30:25 offered me everything and now I wanna have new values. Amen. But I drink and I love to gamble. Shoot.30:37 Nobody knows what I'm talking about, the thrill that goes into you when you lay it down, when you throw it down, when you spin it, when you bet it.30:50 Come on, you all get lottery tickets, you all buy your lottery ticket, don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about. It took me a minute to change that value.31:03 I was a bull driver. Do you know what a bull driver is? That's somebody who can't tell the truth. He'll lie to you and tell you anything you wanna hear. Maybe you hear what I'm talking about.31:16 Bull You're lucky if you get the truth out of me. I'll bull drive you up and down. What do you want to hear? I have the gift of communication. I have the gift of tongue. I have the gift of talk. I have the swag in me.31:26 What do you want to talk about? Like Jacob. Yeah, I was in the Olympics, sure. 19 84, I was in the Olympics, I was a boxer.31:40 And they called me Master Blaster, I was in the DJ industry. Maybe you saw me, man. I was part of the disco movement. I think I could still crack some right now. Watch. Oh,31:51 yeah. It took me a minute to change my values. Some of you it's taking longer than a32:03 minute. But I'm glad you're here today. Because I'm here to tell you that now you're a Christian who's a citizen of the heaven and you now gotta change your values. How do you do that32:15 bro? How do you do that because it's still a struggle for me? I'm glad you asked. See, I have this 19 63 Volkswagen Beetle, this bug, and I bought it.32:27 And to get it insured, I had to declare a value on it to get it insured in case it got stolen or got in an accident. So I got it and I put 18000 dollars,32:40 not what I paid for it. Okay. Then I started putting money into it. Put upholstery in it, got a paint job, so I had to raise the value of it.32:52 Then I had a big engine put in it. You could race a little bit and have fun, not really. But I did put a big engine in. So I had to call and I raised it to 35000 dollars.33:04 How was I able to raise my value? I called my agent and I asked him, can I raise my value? Some of you need to raise your value in the kingdom of God. How do you do it? You can't do it on your33:16 own. The victory is not in you, the victory is in him. You don't have the strength to change, you don't have the strength to be faithful to 1 woman if you're married. You don't have strength as a single to stop33:26 fornicating. The victory is in him, he's the supplier of it. So I went to my agent and I asked and he raised it. So your agent is the holy33:38 spirit. You say holy spirit, I can't give up that drinking. I can't give up that fornication. I can't give up that masturbation. I can't give up that pornography. I can't give up that nagging. I can't give up that33:47 gossiping. But you ask the holy spirit to now come so that he could start raising your Christian values in you.34:01 It's the help of the holy spirit that will help you to raise your values. Values are not determined by times and seasons and environments. They're not34:13 predicated on those things. Values are based upon your fear of God, and how much you love God. I'll move on to my last point with the 3 minutes that I have. Neil McDonough will be a34:25 picture behind you. Maybe you've seen this actor, he's a pretty famous actor, Neil McDonough. And, he has lost, been fired off of34:37 sets, TV and movie, he has lost million dollar contracts, he is now labeled by some companies as blackballed on the blackball list because he34:49 will not do any nude scenes. He will not allow himself to see a nude woman, he will not embrace a nude woman, he won't take off his clothes. He now has elevated Himself. He will35:00 not in for a scene kiss another woman. And this was a statement, the only woman that I will kiss is my wife and not another. Wow, values.35:13 Does that challenge you? Because really for us, it's all about money, money, money, money. Money, money, money, money, money.35:25 I ain't turning down a contract. I ain't walking away from cash and we gotta raise our values. I'm not part of this world system. I'm35:37 part of a heavenly system. And the last word is the word vantage. Because I'm a citizen, I walk in victory. Because I'm a citizen, I have values, certain values in my life. Places I go and places I don't go.35:49 Things I do and things I don't do. When in the When I was in the world, I maybe didn't possess those but now I'm a citizen of God. But now I have vantages in my life, vantages. You've heard of36:00 this like come to this point of vantage. This is a point where you can see things that you can't see normally. They're called vantage points. Everywhere you go there's like some36:12 kind of vantage point on a cleft, like in a on a park somewhere, around mountains. There's vantage points. And if you could get to that vantage point, then36:24 all that can obscure your vision is taken away. Like I go up here mountain biking and from this 1 vantage point, I can see Catalina Island. I see past36:36 LA, I see past the ocean, and I can see cattle, but I can't see it from any other point than that vantage point. And when I'm biking with somebody who's not been up there, I'll say come on up here.36:48 Well, why? It's higher, it's can I No, no, come on up? Just come, come, come with me, come with me. And so they follow me up and I'll say, look over there. And I say, wow, I'm glad I came up here.37:00 See, you have a vantage point and the fact is that you're going home 1 day. This isn't your home. The Bible says you're a sojourner, a pilgrim, which means a temporary resident on this earth just passing through.37:12 I'll be here for a minute, but I long for my real home, the place that God has prepared for me. That 1 day he will descend with a shout, the voice of the archangel, the37:24 trumpet of God, and I'll be caught up to meet him in the air, and forever be with the Lord. And when I die, I'm going to my real home called heaven. How many of you37:36 have ever gone to a luxury vacation? I don't care where it is. Name your favorite place you've ever gone to. Somebody might say somewhere in Europe or Hawaii or wherever it is. How many of you enjoy it,37:48 you loved it, but it wasn't your home? No matter how pleasurable and enjoyable it was, I can't wait to get home and there's no place like home. No matter what enjoyment there is on this38:00 planet, it's not my home. I await to get home 1 day where I enjoy the majesty, the beauty. I'll look down at the rivers of life, I'll see the tree of life. I'll see the38:12 foundations of God and all the jaspers, and all the emeralds, and all the sapphires. All the jewels of the world will be in the foundation. I'll walk the concrete, the sidewalks, they're in gold. I'll walk into38:24 the throne room of God, and I'll see his majesty, and I'll see him face to face. No more stagnation, no more interruptions. I will forever be the Lord. Now that I have that vantage point, I38:35 wanna take other people with me. Amen. So that they can experience that vantage in their life. Thank you, Lord.38:50 As I end this message, the individuals that has to raise their hands that became American citizens to be illegal American citizens, then this is what you haveShow more In this video 0:00 Citizenship in Heaven
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