Selected Topics from Philippians

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Selected Topics from Philippians
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Topic 3 Heavenly Citizenship 1

• NT verses that talk about
• Citizenship in general
• Strangers and aliens
• Heavenly citizenship
• Verses in Philippians
• Verses in other NT books (next week)

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Citizenship in general

• Original Word GK 4177 polites (noun)
  citizen
• Usage Notes "a member of a city or state, or the
  inhabitant of a country or district," Luke 1515,
  is used elsewhere in Luke 1914 Acts 2139, and
  in Heb. 811
• Original Word GK 4847 sympolites (noun)
  fellow citizen
• Usage Notes syn, "with," and polites, denotes "a
  fellow-citizen," i.e., possessing the same
  "citizenship,"
• see Eph. 219

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Citizenship in general

• Original Word GK 4174 politeia (noun) -
  citizenship
• Usage Notes signifies (a) "the relation in which
  a citizen stands to the state, the condition of a
  citizen, citizenship," Acts 2228, "with a great
  sum obtained I this citizenship" (KJV -
  "freedom").
• (b) the condition of a state, a commonwealth,
  said of Israel, Eph 212
•  Original Word GK 4175 politeuma (noun)
  citizenship
• Usage Notes signifies "the condition, or life,
  of a citizen, citizenship" it is said of the
  heavenly status of believers, Phil. 320
• Original Word GK 4176 politeumai (verb)
  conduct
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  yourself as a citizen
• Usage Notes to be a citizen (polites), to live
  as a citizen, Phil. 127

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Strangers and Aliens

• Original Word Gk 3581 xenos (adj) - stranger
• strange, foreign, not of one's family. Used
  metaphorically with the
• meaning of not belonging to
• Original Word Gk 3941 paroikos (adj) alien
• sojourner, one who dwells in a foreign country, a
  temporary
• dweller not having a settled habitation in the
  place where he
• currently resides
• Original Word Gk 3927 parepidemos (adj)
  exile, stranger
• an adjective signifying "sojourning in a strange
  place, away
• from one's own people" (para, "from," expressing
  a contrary condition,
• and epidemeo, "to sojourn" demos, "a people"),

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Strangers and Aliens

• Important verses
• separate from Christ -- Eph 211-12
• no longer strangers and aliens Eph 219
• abstain from fleshly lusts 1 Peter 219

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Heavenly citizenship

• Verse in Philippians
• heavenly citizenship occurs 3 times in
  Philippians

Philippians 127, conduct yourselves Greek
politeuomai
conduct yourselves - politeuma - to live or
conduct
yourself as a citizen (polites)
Philippians 320, citizenship is fixed in
heaven Greek politeuma
Philippians 43, names are in the book of
life. Greek biblos zoe
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Phil 127a Only conduct yourselves in a manner
worthy of the gospel of Christ,
conduct yourselves - politeuma - to live or
conduct
yourself as a citizen (polites) see Luke 1515,
Acts 2139, Acts 231 Where is our citizenship
at ? in a manner worthy the idea here is
suitably,
or properly gospel of
Christ Paul uses this term 8 times in his
writings see Rom 1519, 1
Cor 912 1 Thess 32
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Phil 320 For our citizenship is in heaven, from
which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ
For our citizenship is in heaven subject our
citizenship verb is - exits or has its fixed
location (present, indicative,
active) prep. phrase in heaven lit in the
heavens
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Phil 320 For our citizenship is in heaven, from
which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ
from which also we eagerly wait for a
Savior subject we verb eagerly wait - expect
eagerly (present, indicative,
middle/passive) prep. phrase from which or out
from where direct object a Savior
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Heavenly citizenship

• Verse in other NT books
• to be covered next week !