A CITIZEN OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD!

One thing you realize when you travel is the value and importance of a passport. As you enter and leave a country you need to  show that passport, or you aren’t going anywhere. That passport is  proof of your citizenship. When we talk about citizenship, we are  talking about our identity. Our citizenship plays a role in shaping who we are, what we value, what is important to us, and how we live. Since as believers we are citizens of God’s kingdom, that reality should shape the way that we we live as sojourners  in this world. Scriptures says be ye holy for I am holy. Faith is our passport.
PHILIPPINES 1:27-30, 27 Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in the one Spirit, striving together as one for the faith of the gospel
28 without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a sign to them that they will be destroyed, but that you will be saved—and that by God. 29 For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him,
30 since you are going through the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have. Phil. 3:20 reads: “Our citizenship is in heaven.” The believers are called “strangers and pilgrims” (foreigners) on earth, (1Pet. 2:11; Heb. 11:13). They are a “holy nation” and “the people of God,” (1 Pet. 2:9,10). As such they look eagerly for “a city which hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God,” (Heb. 11:10, 16). They “desire a better country” than the one in which they live while on earth, “that is, an heavenly” country. Through faith they have become“fellow citizens with the saints” and members “of the household of God,” (Eph. 2:19).