23rd Sunday after Trinity + Matthew 22:15-22 + November 4, 2018
In the Name of the Father and of the Son + and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. As our nation goes to the polls on Tuesday to elect representatives, St. Paul wants us to contemplate our true citizenship. He says, “ Our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. ” We are no longer citizens of this world. That’s not to say that being a citizen of a nation is unimportant. Citizenship in heaven and citizenship in the United States aren’t opposed to one another. The opposite of being a citizen of heaven is being a citizen of the world, which is the kingdom of devil. Paul writes in Colossians 1:13-14 that God the Father “ has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. ” Jesus says in John 3:19, “ the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. ” Citizens of...