Citizenship Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Citizenship-------------------------- Date: 8/19/2001 Keywords: "abstain" "alien" "citizen" "stranger" "war" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: 1 Peter 2:11* Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul. Questions 1. Where is your citizenship?   2. Does your citizenship come with any extraordinary benefits?   Practical help In today's passage the Apostle Peter is urging you to do something that you weren't able to do before. He wants you to appropriate a new power you possess because of the new citizenship you possess. Before you accepted Christ as your personal savior (if you're not sure you have, click here to find out more) you were a citizen of the world with a desire to do the things of the world. Now that you've accepted Christ, you've renounced worldly citizenship and have been "naturalized" into heavenly citizenship. You now see the world (and its worldly things) as an alien and a stranger. As a heavenly citizen, worldly things now seem to go against your grain. They seem foreign to you. These are the first indications that you have a new power gifted to you by God. You can believe that Peter wouldn't urge you to do something that you're unable to do. When he urges you to abstain from fleshly lusts, he knows you now have the power to do just that! Notice also that Peter doesn't minimize what fleshly lusts can do — they're tantamount to war. The great news is that you can take this passage to heart, and you can bring it to bear on a struggle with porn. As a heavenly citizen you can trust that you're going to win the war on fleshly lusts. Start battling like you believe it. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2001 by eXXit *"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."