![]() ![]() Our supreme loyalty is to Him, and if someone demands we do wrong, “we must obey God rather than men!” (Acts 5:29). But we are also citizens of the kingdom of God, that invisible kingdom of which Christ is the head. ![]() ![]() On one hand we owe allegiance to our nation and are called to be good citizens. The second thing God gives you when you commit your life to Christ is a new citizenship.You are still a citizen of a particular country − but now you are also a citizen of the kingdom of God.Īs long as we are on this earth, we possess dual citizenship. He is now your loving heavenly Father, and you are now His child, spiritually reborn into His family. Yes, the first thing that happened when you committed your life to Christ is that God gave you a new relationship. The Bible Says we were “excluded …, without hope and without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12). Once we were separated from God because of our sins − and not just separated, but alienated from Him. The first thing that happens when we give our lives to Christ is that God gives us a new relationship. What does this mean? What really happens to us when we believe in Christ? Let me list seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ. If you have given your life to Christ, you are a new creation − whether you feel like it or not. God’s promise is true: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation the old has gone, the new has come!” (2 Corinthians 5:17). If we don’t know who we are, we’ll never know how we ought to live. ![]()
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