WE ARE JUST PASSING THROUGH IN THIS WORLD

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Do not store up for yourselves treasures here on earth, OUR CITIZENSHIP IS IN HEAVEN.

King James Version of Colossians 3 vs 1-2 says:

1.If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth
Christians are freed from the ceremonial law, WE MUST walk more closely with God in TOTAL SUBMISSION and Gospel obedience.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+3&version=KJV

Temptations are everywhere. Remember that your enemy, satan will do everything and anything and also use anyone who would allow him to accomplish his evil and wicked purpose, to steal, kill, and destroy.

We are born again, new creations and we are dead to sin, because sins dominion is broken, its power has been subdued by the operation of grace, and it has been extinguished by the perfection of glory.

To be dead, means that we who have the Holy Spirit are mortifying within ourselves the lusts of the flesh, we are able to despise earthly things, and to desire those that are heavenly.

And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead. Colossians 2:12.

Romans 6:1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
2 BY NO MEANS! WE ARE THOSE WHO DIED TO SIN; how can we live in it any longer?
3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
4 WE WERE BURIED WITH HIM through baptism into death in order that, JUST AS CHRIST WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD THROUGH THE GLORY OF THE FATHER, WE TOO MAY LIVE A NEW LIFE.
5 For if we have been united with Him in a death like His, we will certainly also be united with Him in a resurrection like His.
6 For we know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should NO LONGER SLAVES TO SIN
7 because anyone who has died has been SET FREE from sin.
8 NOW IF WE DIED WITH CHRIST, WE BELIEVE that we will also live with Him.
9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over Him.
10 The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
13 DO NOT OFFER ANY PART OF YOURSELF AS AN INSTRUMENT OF WICKEDNESS, but rather OFFER YOURSELVES TO GOD AS THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT FROM DEATH TO LIFE; AND OFFER EVERY PART OF YOURSELF AS AN INSTRUMENT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 14 For SIN SHALL NO LONGER BE YOUR MASTER, because you are not under the law, BUT UNDER GRACE.

LET US, SET OUR MINDS ON THINGS ABOVE, not on earthly things (Colossians 3:2), it is no longer us who live BUT CHRIST LIVES IN US (Galatians 2:20). OUR CITIZENSHIP IS IN HEAVEN, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. (Philippians 3;20).

God instructed us to

CONTINUE TO FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT. RUN AND FINISH THE RACE, AT THE END, I WILL RECEIVE YOU TO MYSELF.

And He said again,

YES, I WILL RECEIVE YOU TO MYSELF.

We are only visitors in this world. The earth is not our home. We are in the world but, not of the world.
We should focus on storing up treasures fit ourselves in Heaven were we shall reign with Jesus forever.
So keep your mind focused on Heaven and it's glory. For the earth will pass away with all its vanity.