Exiled - Sent, Not Stranded - Audio
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- All right, we are continuing our series, Exiles. I am Tom Lee Pastor here at Coast, and we are super glad you are here to share with us. Last week, my buddy Craig, also an old school coast Bible guy. He and I grew up together. We both needed the way to assemble when we were kids. He gave us our kind of opening salvo into Exile, and kind of the basis of this series is the idea that we as Christians are sent here. This is not our home. Like we think that our natural instincts think for us California, Orange County, the United States of America, that's home. That's where we belong. But I wanna show you that that's not how the Bible thinks. So for the, just to start out, here's a couple of examples from the New Testament, which show us how we're supposed to think about our environment, okay? So here as Paul and Philippians 3 says, our citizenship is in heaven. We look forward to a savior that comes from there, the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, okay? Our citizenship, that was a big deal. I guess it's a big deal now in our current political climate. Citizenship is a big deal in the ancient world. And the Christians, we believe that we're not citizens. I mean, I guess we are. We're dual citizens if you wanna think of it that way. But our true citizenship, our home is heaven. That's where we have our inheritance. That's where we have our hope. Peter says, dear friends, since your immigrants and exiles in the world, I urge that you avoid worldly desires that wage war against your lives. Live honorably among the unbelievers. That's a big because what Peter's gonna say is, you're living honorably and that's gonna cost you. That's what he's gonna follow up with. You can look that up. But for our purposes, notice what we are. We're immigrants and exiles. Immigrants, sometimes translators and strangers in the world. This is not home. And I think that most of us know that. I think that most of us sense that. We feel it. We feel at some level that as wonderful and really,
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Coast Bible Church, PastorTom Bennett, San Juan Capistrano, CA, www.coastbible.org