Last week we saw from this first verse in chapter one that we Christians are aliens on the earth.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who reside as aliens, exiles, sojourners.

Our first citizenship is not the United States of America. Our first citizenship is in heaven.

Our first and primary constitution is not the Constitution of the United States with its

Bill of Rights. Our Constitution is the Bible, which is over the Constitution of

the United States and judges it.

Our king is not first President Clinton or Governor Carlson, or Mayor Frazier, our King is Jesus Christ,

and he stands over in judgment and qualification, all other human leaders.

Our cravings, our cravings not for the things of the world, our cravings, our cravings for the kingdom,

cravings for God and for the spirit and for power and for gifts and for joy and hope and peace in him.

Something very radical has happened to make us aliens or exiles on this earth.

Peter says in verse 3 here of chapter one, God has caused you to be born

again unto a living hope. So you don't have the same hopes that the world has anymore. You are made an alien here

because something radically supernatural happened inside to give you new hopes and new cravings and new

yearnings and new desires so that now as you walk through the world

its desires, its priorities, its values, its language, feels alien.

It just feels strange.

As we were walking out of church last Sunday,

one of the young men in the church,

he came up and he said, I can't believe how right that has become how right you are in my life recently

Me and a friend were at a thing the other night and we both said this doesn't feel right. That means God's doing something, you see. God's doing

something inside to alienate this person and all of us from things that are not of God.

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