Jesus our Inheritance
The land before them stretched out as far the eye could see. God had called the Promised Land, their inheritance and they were to make sure the inheritance was not lost or given away but handed on to the children. In the New Testament Pauls basic theology is receive Jesus Christ and you will become a child eligible for part of His inheritance, or to be come co heirs. All that God has given to us in Christ, is our inheritance. Every blessing we are given; the Holy Spirit, peace with God, every privilege we enjoy, every right we are given in the name of Jesus, every benefit we receive such as salvation forgiveness and atonement are our wonderful inheritance in Jesus.
Friend, every state we enjoy now and for eternity. This is the inheritance God has given His New Creation family. It is complete in Jesus. He has paid the price so fully, that He could enter in to heaven and take a seat.
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Peace at Last
Men are without peace because they are without God, the source of peace. Jesus came to bring us near to God through his blood. The Bible says He is our Peace. Ephesians 2. 13.
When a little boy sees his parents arguing he tries to drag the two of them together, seeking to join up their hands. That's what Jesus came to do.
It is hard to describe the peace of God we feel. It is that deep down serenity and peacefulness inside, us even though outside there can be a raging storm. Waves can be 40 feet high whipped by tornadoes but oceanographers tell us that right at the bottom of the deepest part of the sea, the water is absolutely still. That's the deep peace you feel in the midst of life struggles when you have Jesus in your heart.
As believers, we can listen to His promises that keep us in peace within our mind. We are the children of God, and we need to think like it all the time. God is with me, God loves me, and God is for me and watching over me. He’s leading me, guiding me and all things are working out for good because I love the Lord. No weapon formed against me will prosper because I am the righteousness of God in Christ. I’m the son of God.
Friend, we can learn a new way of thinking, by reading, marking and memorizing the Bible. This is your new way of living and thinking.
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Use it
Before Dad died he gave me his shot gun and after he died I ended up with all his tools among other treasured blessings. A righteous man leaves an inheritance for his children. It may be money but hopefully a legacy of values. An inheritance is sometimes left to you when your relative dies. The bible is big on inheritances. You are meant to leave one to your kids and God the ultimate Father has laid up an inheritance for you; all the riches that are in Christ. One day some KGB stopped some Russian believers who were on their way to church. They didn’t want lie, so they said “Our elder brother has died and we are on the way to the reading of the will.” That is a great description of Church meetings. Jesus died and there is an inheritance been left to you. Today some parents don’t hand on an inheritance because they think the kids are going to use the inheritance frivolously. The reason some of the old money families have wealth, is because they trained the children how to use money and when the inheritance was left, the kids were able to maintain the wealth and increase it for the next generation.
Friend, an inheritance is a trust for future generations as they too carry on the work of the fathers business and values. Carry on His work for He has left you the recourses.
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Aliens
God has made us new creations in Christ Jesus. A new type of being and we are called to bear the image of God as His children. Only His workmanship and sons, can do the new creation works He planned. His work can’t be done by flesh from the natural world but He has birthed a group of family members who dwell in the kingdom of heaven that can do the work of God. Like he did for Elisha, God opens our eyes to see into that realm. We are in the spirit. We are able to act in both worlds; we are in the world but we are not if it. We are created to do what God would do and even to behave like Jesus would behave. The new man is created in true righteousness and holiness. Putting on the new man is “putting on” the thinking that allows us our New Creation spirit man, to manifest in the natural realm.
Friend, you are an over-comer. You were born an overcomer and that means you can overcome the world. Though it is against us, you can over-come it.
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Striving
Paul had the attitude that we should press after God; to run the race and to fight the good fight of faith. It sounds like we are to be striving and exerting a lot of energy to reach for and win the prize but surely it is not striving in our own human effort. It is not fighting human battles and it is not running a physical road race with strenuous self effort. It is a fight and a race against the self that we were, compared the self we can be, by pressing in to receive grace from God.
The more grace you can receive, the greater success as a believer you will be. Grace gets inside us and changes us from the inside. It grows in you, strengthens you and lifts you up. Grace can bring you out and get you over and that Grace came by Jesus. Moses gave the law because man can only bring law; it takes God to bring Grace. If you look to yourself or to human help, at its best it can only be law. You will do things because its right and we rely on our strength to overcome. Moses went down to deliver the people and to bring them up to their inheritance in the Promised Land, but they couldn’t go in. God gave then the law, but never helped them to enter in. They kept breaking the law and suffering judgment.
Friend our deliverer Jesus has come down from heaven to rescue us and has given us something that will enable us to go into our inheritance. It’s called grace.
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Truth
It takes truth to bring us into true freedom and freedom must run on the rails of truth. If your freedom ever gets off the rails of truth it will hurt you badly and destroy those around you. People may want to be free to take other people’s money but it will destroy them and others. So the truth will set you free and knowing and living the truth will keep you free.
Truth is reality; life as it truly is. When you’re a child you need adults to tell you how life really is because a five year doesn’t know about scalding water. Truth protects and sets free.
A teenager needs parents to tell the truth because they don’t know about the danger of men or drugs. The truth set free. An adult needs God to tell them by a revelation about how life is designed to work best, how to become right with God or how to live successfully with their wife or husband.
The law or the Old Testament is not the Truth by itself. It set no one free and made no one righteousness. The Truth is not any one part of the bible; it is the whole Bible. Thy Word is Truth and that truth was perfectly demonstrated by Jesus Christ. Another word for truth is reality and the Bible tells us how a thing really is. There really is a God. There really is a hell. There is a devil and you do reap whatever you sow.
Friend the greatest reality is that God loves us and Christ died for us to bring us back to God forever. That is real love, really awesome and real truth.
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Growing in the Lord
The old farmer walked home as the sun slowly set behind him. He was happy the seeds had been sown and with rain about to fall, there was nothing more to do but wait. God also wants us to grow from babies into fully mature sons of God but He knows that we can’t make ourselves grow up. If a parent said to his child to increase in height it would be impossible. Jesus said “consider the lilies of the field. They don’t toil or spin yet they are beautiful” He also said. “Which of you can by worry can add an inch to your height?’ In other words you cannot make yourself grow up. Only God can make you grow. The seed, the flower, the lily of the felid does nothing except receive. It just stays rooted in the ground or connected to the vine. Similarly the little baby, doesn’t try to grow; it just grows. The seeds DNA says grow and as long as it receives, it will grow. Be a hungry receiver!
Friend, receive the Word and the grace of God and the water of the Spirit and you will grow.
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Through the cross
Although the cross is central to our believing, when Paul says that we died with Christ on the cross, it seems a bit hard to grasp as we never literally hung on a cross. So what happened on that terrible day of suffering and how did we die? Five things transpired.
First the flesh was crucified or the old man was crucified. This referring to the old nature; our dead spirit that was cut of from God; this was brought to an end.
Also the world is crucified to us. In Galatians 6:14 he says: But may it never be that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Christians can never belong to the world again - we are aliens here.
The law is taken away on the cross as it was "nailed to the cross.’ When a debt was paid, they would nail the notice of debt to the door of the debtor but written on it was paid in full.
On the cross the enmity between Jews and Gentiles (which covers everyone in the world), is removed. God has forever removed all class distinctions.
And of course as Isaiah says, we have peace with God because of what Christ did. We were once enemies of God, but through Christ we have been brought near (Ephesians 2:13). In other words, we have been reconciled to God through the cross (verse 16). It is a basic Christian belief that our relationship with God depends on the death of Jesus Christ.
Friend, the work of the cross is so great and so complete that now we are free from everything that we couldn’t be freed from, by the law.
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