Comments on: Expatriates – Part Two: Family Matters https://parables.blog/expatriates-part-two-family-matters/ Sat, 26 Sep 2020 07:02:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Anonymous https://parables.blog/expatriates-part-two-family-matters/#comment-1125 Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00:06 +0000 #comment-1125 Regardless of what calling and leading is given to each of us in this world as believers, it seems that ALL who have believed on Jesus and have become 'born again' in the spirit are already expatriated.

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John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Ephesians 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

Ephesians 2:6 is definitely not a 'future tense' statement. Even though we still physically occupy this earthly realm, our true residency as an expatriate from this world cannot be disputed.

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