An Expatriate’s Manifesto

We are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives.
And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior.…
Philippians 3:20 nlt


8 God called Abraham to travel to another place that he promised
to give him. Abraham did not know where that other place was.
But he obeyed God and started traveling because he had faith. 9
Abraham lived in the country that God promised to give him. He
lived there like a visitor who did not belong. He did this because
he had faith. He lived in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who also
received the same promise from God. 10 Abraham was waiting
for the city that has real foundations. He was waiting for the city
that is planned and built by God. Heb 11:8-10 erv


Matt6:19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where
moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but
lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor
rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.” esv


Matt 24 45-51 It will be good for that servant whose master
finds him doing so when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will put
him in charge of all his possessions. But suppose that servant is
wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long
time,’ and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat
and drink with drunkards. The master of that servant will come
on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not
aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with
the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth. niv