The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - What Does It Mean To Be Sojourners In The Land？

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00:00:23.480 five-star review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. Abraham was sojourning.

00:00:30.180 And I love that that word is used, and it is the word that is used. Abraham is sojourning

00:00:35.640 in the land of Canaan. He leaves the land of his father to go to the land that the Lord will show

00:00:41.460 him, and he's in the land of Canaan, the very land that his descendants, generations later,

00:00:47.860 will in fact conquer and inhabit. And the Bible says he's sojourning in that land,

00:00:54.920 which means there are at least in biblical terms and biblical definitions, two types,

00:01:00.720 at least two types of sojourners. There is a sojourner who is in exile in a land that they

00:01:06.560 are not meant to be in, eventually waiting for the Lord to deliver them and take them out.

00:01:12.920 And there are sojourners like Abraham who are not in exile in a land where they don't belong.

00:01:17.860 but in the land that they're currently sojourning in as a stranger, as an alien, a foreigner with

00:01:25.760 people that they do not know, but they're sojourners in that land, not in exile waiting

00:01:30.940 to be beamed up out of the land, but they're sojourning in that land waiting to take the land.

00:01:38.280 And in that sense, New Testament Christians are sojourners in this earth. Matthew chapter 5,

00:01:44.900 the meek will inherit the 17th dimension because the world doesn't matter. Wait, I got it wrong.

00:01:50.660 Let me think. Oh, the meek will inherit the earth. That's right. Jesus is king, not just in an

00:02:00.180 ethereal dimension, not just a spiritual king. He is king of kings. Have you ever stopped and

00:02:07.100 wondered, what are these lowercase k kings that Jesus is king over? They are earthly kings.

00:02:14.460 What are these lowercase l lords that Jesus is lord over?

00:02:18.760 They are earthly lords.

00:02:22.160 And so Abraham is a sojourner in a land that he is meant not to be removed or delivered from,

00:02:27.760 but his future descendants will indeed conquer.

00:02:43.520 We'll be right back.

The NXR Podcast - September 21, 2023