1. "Citizens of Heaven" Phil. 3:18-21

5. Philippians 3:18-21 18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

6. 1. A Contrast: "Enemies of the Cross" Philippians 3:18-19 18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. The enemy of the cross trusts in self and rejects what the cross of Christ stands for. The Cross is a reminder in human history that we are terribly lost and God has come to bring us home.

7. 1. A Contrast: "Enemies of the Cross" Philippians 3:18-19 18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. Final destination is God's just and righteous judgment Idolizes physical pleasures Calling what is actually shameful to be wonderful Life orientation focuses only on the material world

8. 2. A True Hope: "Citizens of Heaven" Philippians 3:20-21 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. Valuing God's purpose, love, grace, and holiness Boasting and glorying in all that Jesus is and has done Waiting in hope to be transformed in glory

10. WSJ Saturday Essay, "Steve Jobs: The Secular Prophet" "...the genius of Steve Jobs was to persuade us, at least for a little while, that cold comfort is enough. The world—at least the part of the world in our laptop bags and our pockets, the devices that display our unique lives to others and reflect them to ourselves—will get better. This is the sense in which the tired old cliché of "the Apple faithful" and the "cult of the Mac" is true. It is a religion of hope in a hopeless world, hope that your ordinary and mortal life can be elegant and meaningful, even if it will soon be dated, dusty and discarded like a 2001 iPod."

11. WSJ Saturday Essay, "Steve Jobs: The Secular Prophet" "Dr. King, too, had had a close encounter with his own mortality when he was stabbed by a mentally ill woman at a book signing in 1958. He told that story a decade later to a rally on the night of April 3, 1968, and then turned, with unsettling foresight, to the possibility of his own early death. His words, at the beginning, could easily have been a part of Steve Jobs's commencement address: 'Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now.' But here Dr. King, the civic and religious leader, turned a corner that Mr. Jobs never did..."

12. WSJ Saturday Essay, "Steve Jobs: The Secular Prophet" "'I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land! And so I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything, I'm not fearing any man! Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!'"

13. WSJ Saturday Essay, "Steve Jobs: The Secular Prophet" "Is it possible to live a good, full, human life without that kind of hope? Steve Jobs would have said yes in a heartbeat. A convert to Zen Buddhism, he was convinced as anyone could be that this life is all there is. He hoped to put a 'ding in the universe' by his own genius and vision in this life alone—and who can deny that he did? But the rest of us, as grateful as we are for his legacy, still have to decide whether technology's promise is enough to take us to the promised land.... Is the troublesome world simply awaiting another Steve Jobs, the evangelist of our power to unfold our own possibilities?"

14. WSJ Saturday Essay, "Steve Jobs: The Secular Prophet" "For people of a secular age, Steve Jobs's gospel may seem like all the good news we need. But people of another age would have considered it a set of beautifully polished empty promises, notwithstanding all its magical results. Indeed, they would have been suspicious of it precisely because of its magical results. And that may be true of a future age as well. Our grandchildren may discover that technological progress, for all its gifts, is the exception rather than the rule. It works wonders within its own walled garden, but it falters when confronted with the worst of the world and the worst in ourselves..."

15. WSJ Saturday Essay, "Steve Jobs: The Secular Prophet" "Indeed, it may be that rather than concealing difficulty and relieving burdens, the only way forward in the most tenacious human troubles is to embrace difficulty and take up burdens—in Dr. King's words, to embrace a 'dangerous unselfishness.'" Will you live as citizens of heaven?