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Heirs of God the Father
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Genesis 12:7  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Abraham is in Shechem at this time. The land is the focus of this and other restatements of the promise. Because God promises to give it to Abraham and his descendants, the land becomes an inheritance. In Romans 4:13, the apostle Paul interprets the giving of land to be a reference to the entire world. Prophetically, Israel's domain is the whole world. Charles Whitaker Searching for Israel (Part One): The Promises to the Faithful

Luke 13:28  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) The promises God made to the fathers included entrance into the Kingdom of God! And so their inheritance will include 1) eternal life in 2) the Kingdom of God and 3) the earth on which that Kingdom will reign—the very same inheritance we may receive through Christ! Will You Go to Heaven?

Romans 8:17  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) We are heirs of God the Father, and we are co-heirs with Jesus Christ, the Son. The Holy Spirit, however, is not mentioned. We have to conclude that we are not heirs of the Spirit or co-heirs with it. John W. Ritenbaugh The Holy Spirit

Hebrews 2:5-10  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Now, since we are co-heirs with Christ, we are co-heirs with Him of all things—everything that God made through Jesus Christ: the universe and everything that is in it! Are we, in the rush of life, forgetting who we are? Are we neglecting the fact that God will turn the governance of the things He has made—this awesome universe—over into our hands? When that happens, we will not be as poor and pitifully weak as we are now. But we should not undervalue what we are. If we do, we will not take Passover in the right attitude, because what Passover represents was done for us so that we would be in a position to inherit all things. We do not have to feel like we just crawled from under a rock! We have been blessed beyond our wildest imaginations, but for now in God's plan, we are a little lower than Elohim. Yet, what a future lies before us! Even now, we are the "apple of God's eye," the focus of His attention. We are so important to Him that His Son died for us. Truly, He died for the whole world, but right now, before He calls and converts the whole world, it is for you and me that the Creator died so that we could become co-heirs with Him. He wants to share what He made with us because He likes what He made. It is beautiful and has awesome potential, and just as any artist who makes something beautiful wants to share his creation with others, so does Jesus Christ, so that we can appreciate it and emulate it in our own works. John W. Ritenbaugh A Pre-Passover Look

Hebrews 3:1-6  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Jesus, the Son of God, is greater than Moses, a servant, and He is certainly greater than Elijah. We will do well if we first start with the teachings of Christ and use them to "interpret" the rest. He is the Chief Cornerstone (Isaiah 28:16; Ephesians 2:20). Upon Him, everything hangs. In Hebrews 3, Paul admonishes us to hold fast to what Jesus taught us (see also Revelation 3:11). If we do, he writes, we also will be sons and daughters in His house. We will no longer be servants, but heirs, actual children of the Father (Romans 8:16-17). Richard T. Ritenbaugh Why the Transfiguration?

Hebrews 9:15-17  (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up) Christ left a will—a "testament." This is why the last fourth of the Bible is called the "New Testament." It teaches us what we must do to become co-heirs with Him of the promise of eternal inheritance in the Kingdom of God. But a testament, or will, is of no effect unless the one making it dies. So Christ died that we may inherit the promises through Him. But He lives today at the Father's right hand, ready to intercede for us (Hebrews 7:25), to help us, to give us strength so we can all overcome sin and inherit the glorious promises of God! Will You Go to Heaven?

 

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