Sunday, June 05, 2005

Our Inheritance

Acts26:17-18 (Amplified)
"Choosing you out [selecting you for myself] and delivering you from among this [Jewish] people and the Gentiles to whom I am sending you. To open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of of satan to God, so that they may receive forgivenes and release from their sins and a place and portion [inheritance] among those who are consecrated an purified by faith in Me."

Because the church kept itself busy dealing with sin, people are not able to see the inheritance they are missing. As we see in the verse Jesus said to Paul that He is going to tansform them from darkness into the kingdom of light, that is the portion or inheritance we see in this verse. We are spending to much precious time on trying to get rid of what happened that we forget to go back to the cross, accept the blood of Jesus to wash our sins away. The problem was the law and not the sin. That is why Jesus died on the cross. Sin has no power without the law. The law get people into bondage still today.

Romans 5:13
"For until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed where there is no law." (KJV)

Sin and darkness are dealt with, Jesus wants us to get from darkness to light and see the inheritance he has left us.

Matthew 26 we read what happend the night before Jesus was crusified. Jesus took bread and broke it and said, "take and eat this is My body". He then took the cup and said "for this is My blood of the new testament". It is both New..and a Testament.

We are the heirs of Christ Jesus, free from the law and received unmerited favour and grace. Sin and darkness had been delt with by Jesus, we are not under the law anymore but under grace, and that grace is the light.

We can receive this grace by only believing and not by works of the law. This inheritance include healing and deliverance. Jesus paid the price for us, but did you really receive it and are you living in that grace.

Jesus shed His blood and cried out "it is finished" the price was paid in full and if you believe it you are righteous. Paul understood this, once a leading persecuter of the church but met Jesus in a powerfull encounter on the Damascus road. He was then converted and he believed God's grace for him. He accepted that Jesus paid the price for him fully on the cross, and although he could do nothing to change his past, he knew that nothing of that would be held against him because of the cross.
1 Cor 4:3-4
"But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by a human court. In fact I do not even judge myself.
For I know of nothing against myself and yet I am not justified by this; but He who who judges me is the Lord."

God is so almighty that nothing we can do will impress Him. We can only accept and receive His grace. To see the miracles and be partakers of the blessings of the Testament that He promised to Abraham we must allow it to manifest in our midst.

Jesus died on the cross and by believing this work of the cross, we can partake of all He has for us,we can be joint heirs with Jesus. This is the Testament. We can live without the law condemning us, but with grace that sets you free.

I am blessed abundantly above all, my marriage, my business, my children,everything is blessed! We are going to be healthy, wealthy and very succesful because of the grace of God!

1 comment:

Andre Rabe said...

So bek moet gesoen word! Shout it from the mountains! What you hear in your secret place of intimacy with the Lord is meant to be shared with the world. Continue to share your insight - it blesses us.