Is a believer already a citizen of heaven?
Yes. According to Philippians 3:20–21, a believer’s conversation, or citizenship, is in heaven, and believers are already citizens there. From that same heaven they look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will change their vile body to be fashioned like His glorious body.
Les teaches that the believer’s citizenship is already in heaven. In Philippians 3:20–21, Paul writes that our conversation, or citizenship, is in heaven, and that as a believer we are already citizens up there. From that same heaven we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body so it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself. This fits the surrounding discussion of the eternal state: someone asked whether we will have a body in eternity, and the answer is absolutely, because never in all Scripture does the human being operate without a body, and the soul and spirit by itself does not operate as an entity.
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: