God Does Not Allow Dual Citizenship!

I have lived here in Amarillo Texas most of my life. It is my home here on earth. I can go on ministry trips or vacations and such for a couple of weeks but any more than that and I get a little homesick. I long for home. It is strange but I’ve never been to heaven but I am homesick for God’s kingdom. I have not yet met my king Jesus face-to-face and yet I miss him. It sounds strange but it feels so normal. My spirit is a citizen of heaven and I feel its pull upon my heart. It seems so close but at times so far away. I have truly left my citizenship in the world. It no longer feels like the home it once was. I get a little homesick for Amarillo but I would leave this place to be with the Lord in the twinkling of an eye….

Where is home for you? I am not talking physically but where is home in your heart? Is it here in this world or do you long to be with Jesus? Those who enter heaven will not be the ones who simply do not want to go to hell. Jesus is not fire insurance. Those who think a quick prayer at the altar gets them saved and then it’s back to the pleasures of the flesh once again will be in for a shock. This fire insurance they think they bought with a half-hearted prayer and made the premiums on at church every Sunday will backfire on them on judgment day when they find out their false beliefs wrote checks their heart couldn’t cash. It is these people Jesus was speaking about in Matt. 7:21, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.” True faith is always accompanied by obedience to God’s will not our own. Your level of faith in God is directly proportional to your level of obedience to God. If home is where the heart is, where is your heart?

If I lived in Oklahoma and I wanted to come home to Texas, what is the first thing I must do? I have to leave Oklahoma. I cannot live in two places at once. In the story of the prodigal son in the Bible, the son was at a pig farm when he decided that servants had it better in his father’s house. He decided to go back home and beg his father to have him back. His father received him with joy but…he had to leave the pig farm. He could not live at home and at the pig farm.

So, must we all do if we want to come home to our heavenly Father. We have to leave the pig farm. This is called REPENTANCE. We turn away from the pig farm (sin) and we accept Jesus Christ as our king and obey His will, not our own. We cannot serve righteousness until we leave sin. We cannot serve the truth until we leave lies. We cannot serve the kingdom of light until we leave the kingdom of darkness. Romans 6:16 says we become a servant of whomever we obey. Who do you obey? God’s will? Or your own? Jesus also said we cannot serve two masters (Matt. 6:24). You cannot be a citizen of heaven and obey the master of the kingdom of darkness. God does not allow dual citizenship. You must choose. Choose wisely.

By; Pastor David Grisham