Life Capsule for Today Nov 15/ 2024
Theme: Joint Heirs with Christ (3)
Memory Verse: Rom 8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Topic: Believers as Joint Heirs
Today’s Reading: Rom 8:16-17
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Gal 3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ
Words of the Ministry:
Today we want to consider the matter of the believers as joint heirs with Christ. Before we look at the term joint-heirs, I would like us to define who an heir is. In simple terms, an heir is a person legally entitled to the property or rights of another on that person’s death. By this definition, we would automatically see that for an heir to inherit the principal’s property, the said principal must be dead. In other words, the benefits to be enjoyed by an heir only becomes possible at the demise of the principal. Keeping that in mind, I want us to define two other terms, joint-heir and co-heir. Both a joint-heir an co-heir are persons who shares with another, or others, the right to inherit a person’s money, property, or title when that person dies but there is a major difference between a co-heir and a joint-heir,
In the case of co-heirs, the division of property between two parties, for example, is done according to percentages, such as 60-40%, 70-30%, 55-45%, etc. But for joint-heirs, the property belongs to both parties equally… 100%; they’re equal owners, equal participants, or fellow heirs of the inheritance as it were.
Having defined the terms, we would then see that God’s original plan is that we have equal right, 100% with the Lord Jesus Christ, we are destined not to be co-heir but joint heirs, hallelujah, God thought highly of us to partake of the fullness of his riches with Christ equally. That then brings up the matter of inheritance, as an heir, we can’t inherit the promise until the demise of the father. Having realized that God cannot die, how then can the saints enjoy the inheritance or are we to be in wait in perpetual hope for the promise. For us to understand this, I like us to look closer to what we considered yesterday, as we saw in yesterday’s lesson, after God provided a lamb for himself, the ram was killed and then God could release the blessing on the blessing, we must note that before then in Gen 15 and 18, God made a promise of a son that would be like the sand of the earth and stars in heaven but in Chapter 22, after God provided for himself a sacrifice, the blessing changed and went beyond Abraham having a seed like the sand but his seed shall possess the gate of their enemies and through his seed all nations of the earth would be blesses (Gen 22.17-18).
Today we have seen a partial fulfilment of the promise in Isaac, how Isaac was to inherit the blessing as Abrahams heir, both being a type of The father and the Son. For Issac, the father he loved was dead to him just before God stepped in and for Abraham the son he loved was dead just before the supernatural provision. God on the other hand provided the lamb to enable the heir Isaac to inherit the promise. Now we must remind ourselves of God’s great offer to Abraham in Gen. 15 which was that God was to be Abrahams’s reward. So, at this point, the reward as God was also passed to his son Isaac as a partial fulfillment of the promise These are all types of reality as we would see the actual fulfilment in later lessons. May the Lord grant us light.
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