The apostle goes quickly to our eternal purpose. Oh Paul, you are racing ahead of us.
Access to heaven. When you come to Christ, when you are made a child of God, when you know him and you love him, then your citizenship is in heaven, your name is written among those who belong to that glorious, eternal home. Your future is there. Your happiness and joy are there. We have joys on earth, joys in the family, joys in various experiences, but our greatest joy is in our heavenly home to which we go, to which we look forward. I am ruled from there. I am ruled by the word, I am ruled from heaven, it is the heavenly word. I am taught and I am guided from where? From Parliament, from earthly universities? No, from heaven, by the truth of Almighty God. I am as good as there, if I am saved through Christ and that is what is meant in the glorious words of verse 6.