How is the church a spiritual nation?

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In what ways is the church a spiritual nation we read that from 1st

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Peter 2 and Jesus talked about taking the kingdom and giving it to a nation bearing the fruits thereof

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So he's talking about the church Peter affirms that So if we call ourselves a spiritual nation in what way are we a spiritual nation?

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Somebody is hearing that and said I don't get it. That doesn't make sense to me how the church is is a nation

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We have a king, okay, so in order to have a nation you need a few different things. What do you need?

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Well, the king would be the government right? You need a government Obviously you need people

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So I mean we have the people Christians and New Testament believers are the people we have a king we have a government

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What are we lacking though? When you think of a nation and what that would include what are we lacking the obvious thing?

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The thing we're lacking and the reason this wouldn't make sense to people How how are we a nation because we don't have a land?

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Like this world we say it and we hear a priest. This world is not our home Our citizenship is in heaven.

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So we're lacking a Land, so if this whole idea of the church being a spiritual nation if it doesn't make sense to you

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Here's here's why because especially as Americans when we think of a nation

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We think first we think about the land with a certain

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You know set of borders, you know, no comments on the border thing But that typically that's what you would think of right a nation would have it's a specific plot of land with borders, but biblically a nation

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It's not necessarily talking about land there are

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Nationalities there are nations in the Bible where the people they are a nation, but they don't actually occupy a land

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Can you give an example of that matter of fact, we covered it. We went through a whole book that dealt with that The children of Israel, when did they become a nation at Mount Sinai?

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They were a people at that time. They had the Covenant. So they had their leaders with Moses and Aaron They had their religion.

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God was their king in a sense, but did they have a land? No, they were sojourners and they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years

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So here's the thing do have a nation. You don't actually need a land and as the church we are a spiritual nation

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We ain't got the land because we're sojourners upon the earth But another way a nation can be defined is a group of people united by common descent or We are united by identity

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Culture we have standards and practices. So does that apply to us?

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Do we have a common descent? Biologically no, but we

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Spiritually are all children of who we're children of God. So in that way we have a common descent

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Do we have a common identity? Yes, we have an identity in Christ. Do we have a

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Culture does the church have a specific culture? Yeah, and even though churches in the

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United States are going to differ from churches in Eastern Europe in Africa And there are going to be some differences obviously a

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True believer no matter where they are even with the language barrier if you can communicate you're gonna find that you have a lot of things in common