The Ripley’s comic recently featured a story about a man named Rejual Mondal. Mondal has a kitchen in India and a bedroom in Bangladesh. This is because his house is on the border of both countries, which have insisted he pay taxes in each. So, he pays taxes in both countries.
Our situation is not unlike his. Christians live in two worlds, and sometimes that creates conflict. There is the earthly world and the kingdom of God. We are in the world, but not of it.
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