Answering God’s Call as a Kingdom Citizen | Tony Evans Sermon

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if you’re going to be a kingdom citizen

whose citizenship is in heaven who is a

visible verbal follower of Jesus Christ

bringing the concerns of heaven and

executing them in the culture you live

up there you just work down here that

I’m going to function as a citizen of

heaven and not just a citizen of this

country I’m going to take my stand with

Jesus Christ

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what we have

today is secularism

secularism

humanism and all forms of

idolatry that have invaded our culture

and our

world and God has called his people not

to sit on the

sidelines but to get in the

game this goes beyond a

candidate or a group of

candidates this has to do with the role

of Christians in the

culture no matter how you

voted whether you’re happy or sad about

which candidate won or

lost God is still calling you to be

Christian in fact he’s calling you to

something even

higher I love the way Philippians

chapter 3 verse 20 puts it

which says for our

citizenship is in

heaven so I want to talk to you about

now being a kingdom

citizen now that we can push all of the

bantering behind us it’s time for

Christians to decide that you’re going

to be Christian no matter whether your

party won your candidate

won it’s time now for there to be

Kingdom

citizens for your

citizenship is in

heaven Luke

16:16 Jesus says my father gave me a

kingdom and I give you a

kingdom because he caus his

followers to be Kingdom

citizens now what is a kingdom

citizen a kingdom citizen

is a visible

verbal follower of Christ who seeks to

bring the perspective of heaven and

deposit them into the concerns of the

culture let me say that again a kingdom

citizen is a citizen who visibly and

verbally follows Christ in such a

way that they draw down the concerns or

the perspec perspective of heaven and

injects them into the chaos the problem

the conflicts and the concerns of the

culture you see far too many

Christians are too Earthly minded that

they are no Heavenly

good they know more about politics than

they do about the

Lord they know more about political

parties than they know about the word of

God

and they will often argue like

secularists while naming the name of

Jesus Christ in fact if you bring up

what God thinks about a subject they’ll

get mad at you even though it can be

defended by the word of God because they

are so aligned with the culture that

they’ve lost sight that their

citizenship is not first

here I love the way 1 Peter 2:11 says

says you are aliens and strangers

that your

citizenship is not first on these

Shores now you are a resident here but

your ultimate Allegiance is to another

king another kingdom in another location

when you have a

passport it allows you to enter foreign

countries but you enter foreign

countries as a citizen of the

Homeland you don’t ENT foreign countries

as a citizen of that country unless

you’re trying to give up your

citizenship in the

Homeland far too many Christians have

surrendered their

passports some of surrendered their

passports to the Democratic party others

have surrendered their passports to the

Republican party some have surrendered

their passports to no party they just

surrendered their

passport no you are a citizen of Heaven

you belong to another kingdom he says

clearly vers 20 of Philippians 3 for our

citizenship is in

heaven now Paul is writing to the city

of

Philippi Philippi was located 800 miles

from the city of

Rome so what Paul does is he uses the

principle of

citizenship of Philippi to make a

principle to

Christians Philippians even though

you’re located 800 miles from

Rome your citizenship is in Rome in

terms of your Earthly Earthly

Allegiance so they were informed by

Roman Customs they were informed by

Roman laws they were informed by Roman

influence even though they were 800

miles from

Rome I know we are a long way from

heaven but our citizenship is to be

connected there you and I are to be

informed by Heaven’s Customs Heaven’s

laws just like Philippi was informed by

Caesar you and I are to be informed by

the

Lord and that’s why we have no full

Allegiance

here this is a time to lovingly and

responsibly take your stand for the Lord

Jesus

Christ to bring the values of heaven

where your C iens ship is

into the Earthly realm that’s why God

has left us here to influence our

surroundings as Salt and Light Matthew

513- 16 you are the salt of the earth

you are the light of the world you’re

not the salt of the Shaker you’re not

the light of the bulb your job is to

infiltrate every sphere of your

influence as a full-time disciple not a

part-time Christian

everybody ought to know where you stand

because you’re not an undecided voter

why because you have made your

declaration clear which kingdom you are

a part of as Colossians 1:13 says you’ve

been transferred out of the kingdom of

darkness into the kingdom of his dear

son you’re in another kingdom now you

are a resident here which means that

you’re not going to act like this is

defining you anymore

and you take your stand if somebody ask

you are you a Democrat you say which

issue are you talking about because

I’mma take that issue I’mma put it

against the word of God and then I’ll

tell you whether I’m a Democrat right

now somebody tells you you’re a

republican which issue you talking about

I’m gonna take the Bible look at the

Bible based on that issue and say well

I’m a republican right now why because

I’m a kingdom all the time I’m say I’m

247 Kingdom that’s why you must be a

kingdom independent and you must roll

forward now whether you are happy or sad

to day you must roll forward as a

representation of

Heaven why cuz government belongs to God

so he got something to say and what he’s

saying is since you are citizens of

Heaven why don’t you find out what I say

first why you going to everybody else

and every party and every candidate find

out what they think how they feel and

what they say and you never check with

me no we need some Kingdom citizens we

need some citizens who understand that

they are to think think Heavenly not

Earthly not not man’s Wisdom James 3

says there’s a wisdom that comes from

above then there’s a wisdom that comes

from demons and he calls that Earthly

wisdom did you know Earthly wisdom is

demonic thought whenever what you think

what you say what you hear that you

agree with that disagrees with what God

says don’t you know that you have just

become

demonized so we got a lot of demonized

Christians because James was writing to

Christians he’s they they say you’ve

been de

demonized secularized in fact you play

for the wrong team we got too many

Christians playing for the wrong team

because they’re agreeing with things

that God doesn’t agree on and that’s

true no matter who you identify with he

says you are now citizens of

Heaven you to get your instructions what

goes into your mind and informs your

decision is no longer Earth it’s it’s on

Earth it relates to Earth I I love I

love John

18 because in John

18 they asked Jesus a

question they asked Jesus are you a

king uh he says in verse 33 are you the

king of the Jews okay everybody talking

about you a king are you the king of the

Jews Jesus answers in verse 36 my

kingdom is not of this world if my

kingdom were of this world then my

servants would be fighting so if you out

there

fighting if you out there

inappropriately expressing how you uh

are

frustrated he said you’re not part of my

kingdom because my kingdom don’t doesn’t

roll like that or my servants would

fight so that I would not be handed over

to the Jews but as it is my kingdom is

not of this realm then he says in verse

37 you say correctly I am am a

king for this I have been born and for

this I have come into the world to

testify the to the truth everyone who’s

of the truth hears my voice you know why

we’re not hearing from Heaven because we

don’t want the truth he says my kingdom

is not of this world but I have come

into this world so he’s not talking

about Pie in the Sky Kingdom he’s

talking about a kingdom that starts up

there of that world but it comes down

here in this world so in this world we

should be talking and defending that

world so your first

question as a kingdom citizen what does

God say how does he feel what does he

think what does he want and if I don’t

know it I’m G find somebody who does

know it who can validate it by the word

of God and if the word of God

contradicts it then I have to reframe my

thinking because I’m no longer an

Earthling you’re full-time Citizen and

happen to be a resident down here so you

think as a resident you vote as a

resident you appeal to policies as a

resident because you now are a kingdom

citizen God has a problem he’s got too

many benedic HS yeah it

does we no longer need double-minded

Christians I love the way Gideon said it

in Judges chapter 8: 22 and 23 when they

call on gide and Gideon we want you to

be our political leader we want you to

lead us cuz cuz we need a great leader

get in and say you better check on the

Lord you need the Lord to to lead you

and the mess that our society is in our

culture is in our country is in and our

world is in when we look at one problem

after another problem after another

problem we better get the Lord back in

this and that’s the church’s job to

bring God back in it to do it with the

right spirit with the right attitude to

do it with legitimate Unity to do it

based on truth

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guard until we kind of get that kind of

church that takes its stand because

we’re citizens of heaven and he says if

you’re a citizen of Heaven in

Philippians chapter

3 he says from which we also eagerly

wait for a

savior that is the Lord Jesus

Christ you hear

that he said look you you you going to

have to get Jesus in his proper proper

role here Jesus made it plain all

authority is given unto me in heaven and

on Earth Matthew chapter

28 16-20 he said look I’m in charge here

and now but Christians don’t believe

that we

believe the world’s in charge the

president is in charge the Congress is

in charge no no no

Jesus is in

charge remember God’s philosophy of

History Ephesians chapter

1:10 God’s goal is to summarize all

things all things he says ought to be

summarized in Jesus

Christ he he concludes verse 22 and 23

of Ephesians chapter 1 he is the head of

all things but he’s only been given to

the church so God is going to decide

what he does because in this country

he’s going to decide what he’s going to

do in any country based on what the

church

does so as you’ve heard me say many

times if we don’t fix the church house

we can forget the White House if we

don’t fix the church house we can forget

the house of

Congress why because God works through

the church to the principalities and the

powers and the authorities in the

culture Galatians 1:4 he has delivered

us from this present age you don’t have

a loyalty here you have a responsibility

here you are to be in the world but not

of the world but your ultimate loyalty

is not here you know

uh Spain had what was known as fifth

columnist let me tell you about fifth

columnist when they were going to invade

a

country a year before the

invasion they would send in people to

become of the

culture so doctors would become doctors

in the culture that would be invaded

sometime later lawyers would become

lawyers teachers would become teachers

families would set up shop in the

culture business people would set up

shop in the culture you see they would

they would set up shop in the

culture you know what they were they

were

sabots they invaded the culture but they

represented Spain so they were setting

things up for the big

invasion they were called fifth

columnist because Spain marched in four

columns but the fifth columnist who were

sent in early were to set things up for

the big Invasion that’s what’s gonna

happen when Jesus comes back but he has

some fifth columnist folk he set in

ahead of time you and me your family and

my family your church my church he sent

us in ahead of time and set it

up we we are we are his fifth columnist

who’ve been sent in to set things up for

the big Invasion when he comes to set up

his Earthly Kingdom called his

Millennial Reign you and I are here to

set it up are you setting it up or have

you become part of the culture and lost

sight of your true citizenship back in

Spain or in this case as part of the

Kingdom of

Heaven you you know I’m in cowboy

country and we got different kind of

fans you

know we got the Casual fan they watch

some games sometimes or parts of

games sometimes and if the game is not

going well they’ll turn off the

television because they’re fair weather

casual

fans but then you got committed fans I

mean they buy

tickets they they uh they’re going to

watch the game win or

lose because they’re they’re committed

to the Cowboys then you got

Fanatics these are the Fanatics you know

these are season ticket holders these

are come rain or shine they gonna defend

the Cowboys because they they all in all

the time they read the stats you know

they they do all the fan gaming they

they are all in cuz they didn’t

they didn’t become

fanatical that’s what God’s got he’s got

casual followers they go to church

maybe then you got some committed

ones these are the ones they they gonna

make Church most of the time they gonna

bring their Bibles and they have learned

Christian e to the max because there is

a level of

commitment but then then there’s those

are fanatical Christians these are

these are committed

disciples Jesus is all up in there it’s

Jesus in the morning Jesus at noon time

and Jesus when the Sun goes down when

life is good it’s

Jesus when life has collapsed it’s Jesus

during the good times they’re following

Jesus and when tears are rolling down

their face they’re following

Jesus because they don’t care what the

culture says about their team they don’t

care about what the culture says about

who they’re following they are going to

be

unmistakable followers of

Christ when it comes to taking your

stand in the culture you must understand

Jesus’s name is always on the

ballot you say but I don’t know who to

vote for Jesus’s name is not on the

ballot oh no wrong his name is always on

the ballot because remember you’re a

kingdom independent you’re a kingdom

citizen

so that means Jesus goes in with you and

you’re taking Jesus into consideration

not only when you vote but how you roll

after the vote is over and the decision

is made on who won and who didn’t win

because Jesus was on the ballot you only

GNA live for the kingdom anyway so

there’s no Jesus is not on the ballot

Your Allegiance is to him and your vote

for him must be

clear there is no undecided voter when

it comes to a Christian

oh I’m voting

Jesus that means I can go this way or

that way depending on what the issue is

cuz I have taken my stand with

him because I’m a radical follower of

Christ because my citizenship is not

here he says your citizenship is in

heaven and so

now what are you going to

do are you going to take your stand or

you going to play

Church you just going to go through the

motions am I just going to go through

the motions preach because it’s Sunday

I’m GNA take my stand and challenge the

flock to take their stand with the right

heart and the right Spirit but with

Clarity that this is God’s perspective

on whatever the issue happens to be and

that’s how we roll that’s what we do I

do it my life my family my church and my

civic duty that’s how I roll

so what are you going to do what am I

going to do what are we going to

do first of all you’re going to be

publicly known as a citizen of Heaven

you don’t mind you don’t mind saying in

the right way with the right heart my

first

Allegiance is to the Lord Jesus Christ

don’t even say God because that’s vague

let’s get specific

my first Allegiance is to the Lord Jesus

Christ now we know which God you’re

talking about the father of the Lord

Jesus Christ so you GNA be

Unapologetic about your commitment and

allegiance to what he says in verse 20

the Lord Jesus Christ because that will

get Jesus’s

attention then you’re not only gonna be

a good church goer you’re gonna be gauge

the

culture you’re got to bring a Christian

influence to the sphere of your

influence

you you you’re going to be concerned

about what the school is reading your

children and whether those books are

consistent with a Christian worldview or

whether they’re trying to force

unrighteousness down the throat of your

children you’re not g to back away from

that because you are a you you are a

Christian

parent and you are responsible for the

education of your child they’re on loan

to that school they don’t own them you

own them so you want to make sure that

it is consistent

with your world view and not in

competition or in conflict with it

you’re going to challenge The

evolutionary theory when it challenges

creation yeah you are you’re gonna make

sure that God is Not dismissed because

you represent another

kingdom you’re going to go to the City

Council

meetings you want to hear what’s

happening in your community and whether

there are unjust practices that are not

being addressed in your

community whether there’s evil

happenings that need to be

reversed you want to make sure that the

police are handling things in the right

way but that the citizens are also

responding in the right way because you

don’t play favorites you play

Kingdom so you take your stand as a

citizen of Heaven bringing it drawing it

down to

earth and you

vote based on the will and the word of

God you you you take your stand churches

don’t just preach Pie in the Sky sermons

as though they don’t have anything to do

with the with the world in which we live

you we challenge

people how not to be doctors but to be

God’s representative in the medical

field so the medical field sees what God

looks like when God helps hurting people

that lawyers are not just lawyers

they’re God’s representative in the bar

association so the bar association gets

to see what God looks like when God

tries a case that teachers are not just

teachers that God’s representative in

the educational Fields so the

educational field sees what God looks

like when God teaches a lesson where

business people are not just business

people but they’re God’s representative

in business so that the business World

sees what God looks like when God cuts a

deal when Housewives and homemakers are

not just Homemakers they’re God’s

representative in the home to make sure

that the home reflects the character of

God where men have defined their mhood

not by the culture but by What God Says

a man ought to be and the responsibility

of a man spiritually and how he ought to

lead his family and relate to his mate

and raise his children we are trying to

create Kingdom people who are citizens

of heaven and not mimics of the

culture when we do

that when we go that

way let’s get this

straight there’s no salvation in

politics we we we’ve been acting like

politics is the savior boy if we get the

right person in we’re going to be saved

you don’t get it we don’t get it

if God is not postured properly it

doesn’t matter who you elect it is the

absence or presence of God in an

environment that is why the more secular

you become the less God you will see the

less God you will see the more chaos you

will deal with so the church better

shake up wake up and get up

so that we can see what God can do if

Christ be not come through a church

where the citizens understand where our

true citizenship

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Lies We Are visitors on Earth this is

not our final home we’re passing through

we have an

assignment as people who represent our

homeland of

Heaven in this location temporarily on

Earth and we will be measured by how

much of heaven we brought into

history so let’s not become so

comfortable on Earth that we forget this

is a temporary dwelling

location on

assignment from our homeland to fulfill

his purpose in history and as his

Representatives assigned by him to this

earth we are to be bringing his

governmental rule its principles

policies and influence to a world

desperately in need of the government of

Heaven to guide the politics of Earth

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