Your community is in heaven. Let others see your eagerness to see Jesus.

Your community is in heaven. Let others see your eagerness to see Jesus.

“For our citizenship [politeuma=community] is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait [apekdechomai] for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Phil 3:20)

“and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Eph 2:6)

“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” (2Cor 9:15)

“whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory” (1Pet 1:8)

“how he was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.” (2Cor 12:4)

“But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.” (Rom 8:25)

“so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1Cor 1:7)

“For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.” (Gal 5:5)

“so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.” (Heb 9:28)

“Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.” (Rom 8:23)

“For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.” (Rom 8:19)

Reading: Phil 3-4; Col 1; Matt 12