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Philippians 3:20-4:1                                                                                                      12/16/07

In this passage Paul is making a stark contrast with the sort of persons he mentioned in the previous two verses.  In verses 18-19 Paul warned about those who were enemies of the cross of Christ.  These people set their mind on earthly things and their end is destruction.  In contrast to them, Paul says, “our citizenship is in heaven.”  Is your citizenship in heaven this morning?  It would perhaps be easy to say yes to this question, but how are we to know where a person’s true citizenship is?  To know where your citizenship truly is, you must consider where your mind dwells.  In other words, is your mind set on earthly things or heavenly things?  Do you live for this world or the next?  If you live for this world only you aren’t going to heaven in the next.  Your end is destruction.  You don’t love and worship the true God.  Your god is your sinful desires.

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Deuteronomy 8

Remembering is the key to thanksgiving and forgetfulness is the source of ingratitude.  How good is your memory?  If you are an old guy like me, you find it more and more difficult to remember things.  But here in our passage, God commands His people to remember!  There is no excuse not to remember God and all His blessings!  Yet all of us, young or old, are prone to forget God.  This is a very dangerous thing to do.  Scripture tells us in Romans chapter one that those who forget God will stop being thankful.  Those who stop being thankful become foolish and their hearts are darkened.  Those who become foolish God gives over to uncleanness and vile passions.  Those whom God gives over to uncleanness will be punished with God’s righteous judgment.  What an awful progression!  It all starts with forgetfulness.

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