Inheritance in Christ: Living Boldly in Faith

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If you belong to Christ, here are the two consequences: one, then you are Abraham's descendants; secondly, heirs according to the promise. We become heirs of the world the same way we become descendants of Abraham, namely by being grafted into Christ, the Messiah, the heir of Abraham. [00:01:00]

The reason all things are ours is because all things belong to Christ, and we belong to Christ, and therefore they are ours. And the second thing to notice here is that it's all things. Hebrews 1:2 says Christ has been appointed the heir of all things, and if Christ has been appointed the heir and we belong to Christ, we are in Christ, then all things belong to us. [00:04:18]

There are truths in the Bible that are so stunning, they are so wonderful, that when you read them, you feel like they are so far out there that my little problem here has no connection to that at all. And so we just don't even connect. We'll walk out of this room, some of you, if the Holy Spirit doesn't work, and you will just whistle through the day with no recollection of what was said here. [00:04:49]

If our union with Christ is so profound and so deep that we will, in him, be co-owners with him and co-rulers with him of the whole world, the implication is that among ourselves there will be such a unity and such a harmony and such a togetherness that there will be no difficulty in your having it all and my having it all. [00:09:25]

If you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own? Let me paraphrase: right now, you own nothing. Everything you drive, every button you push, every food you mix, every coat or dress you put on belongs to God. [00:11:12]

The dictate over your lives as a steward, trustee, manager, administrator is: use my goods for my glory. Therefore, how you dress, how you drive, how you eat, how you live, where you live, how you do all you do, and how you handle the stuff of this world is yours, and I do it for your glory. [00:12:04]

Let it fill you with indomitable joy. Romans 5:2: We exalt, we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. God's glory is going to fill the Earth, and we're going to be an inheritor of that Earth, and the glory of God will be our portion, and no one can take it away from us or separate us from the love of God in Christ. [00:14:02]

When we suffer small things and big things, and some of you are suffering very big things, and some of you are suffering little things, do thoughts like this really make any difference? Thoughts that someday soon or far, I'm going to inherit the universe. Does that make any difference? It makes a difference. [00:14:49]

These kinds of glorious truths become granite under our feet, and we stand there, and it doesn't change the wind, and it doesn't change the waves, but oh, what a difference to feel it down there, to feel it down there makes all the difference in the world, whether the waves are going to drown you or whether you got a rock under your life. [00:15:48]

Venture something on this God because of this hope. Venture something. Venture something on God. Do something new. Be a little bit crazy because if, in fact, yours is the world, that in just a very short time, death and then joy and wealth and glory forever and ever, wouldn't that make you a little bit crazy? [00:17:38]

The reason we fit into America so easily and just go along with our half-baked, low-yield, no-satisfying satisfactions is because we don't believe it. That's why I'm pleading with God: get it in, Lord. Come on, come on, get it down so that we walk out of here saying, "My God, I'm an heir of the world." [00:18:20]

Father, would you come and make it real, make us crazy, I beg of you, aliens, exiles in this world, not at home, waiting eagerly for the appearing of our great King Jesus, who will transform this lowly body into a body like his, fit to inherit the glory of God. [00:20:15]

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