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A Closer Walk

Attitude of the Righteous

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Our ministry is to reach out to the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ and to help believers be equipped with a solid knowledge of the Word of God, the Bible, and be encouraged to apply it in every aspect of their daily lives. There are simple truths for these complex times to help people live in a way that brings real spiritual victory to them and more importantly, through the Lord Jesus Christ, glory to God our Father.

Ephesians 2:19
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household...
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We who have been saved by the free gift of God’s grace through the work of Jesus on the cross are no longer strangers and aliens in the kingdom of God. Of course, that also means we are now strangers and aliens here in this world! Our citizenship has changed and we who have accepted Jesus as our Lord are now citizens of heaven. {Php.3:20} PS: No dual citizenship allowed! No man can serve two masters. (Mat.6:24)
 
We are now to speak a different language (wholesome words) and we are to dress differently (robes of righteousness and the whole armor of God) and we now have a different attitude—the attitude of the righteous. {Php. 3:15} Peter makes that clear when he writes to us as aliens and strangers telling us to abstain from the fleshly lusts that wage war against the soul. {1Pt.2:11} We are indeed a ‘new creation’. The old things have passed away; behold, new things have come just as the Word says. {2Cor.5:17}
 
Equally, if not more importantly, is the fact that we are now part of God's household just as the apostle Paul wrote saying that we who are now being led by the Spirit of God are sons of God, adopted children of God able to cry out. Abba Father! {Rom.8:14-16} It should fill our hearts with joy to know that we are more than a ‘church’, something so much greater than some organization, to know that we are indeed the family of God!

If someone asks you what church you go to you may want to reply “I don’t go to church, I am the church along with my family.’ If they ask, as so often is the case, what church or denomination you belong to, the proper response would be to say I don’t belong to a church, I belong to God and Jesus His Son—for I was purchased with a price. {1Cor.6:20} A high price indeed, Christ and Him crucified! {1Cor.2:2} So Jesus wants everybody, saints and sinners alike, to know who and what we are:

“While He was still speaking to the multitudes, behold, His mother and brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak to Him. And someone said to Him, “Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside seeking to speak to You.” But He answered the one who was telling Him and said, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?”
   And stretching out His hand toward His disciples, He said, ‘Behold, My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.’” (Matthew 12:46-50)
 
REJOICE AND BE GLAD