Claiming Your Inheritance - Audio
Big Idea - God’s work in saving Israel and bringing them into the promised land as their possession, an inheritance from God, is a picture of our salvation and taking possession of our inheritance of His kingdom. God’s work of saving Israel from bondage in Egypt was a work that God did fully and completely in His own with any help or participation by the people of Israel. But, the work of getting to the promised land and taking possession of the inheritance of the land was a work that they had to participate in by faith and through obedience, driving out the enemy, maintaining holiness in the land, and holding on to what belonged to them. They could not succeed without God’s help, and in a very real sense it was God who would drive out the enemy, but unlike the Exodus, God would only work as they stepped out in faith and acted. The life of the Christian operates in exactly the same way. Salvation, or deliverance from bondage to sin and death is fully the work of God in Christ and we had no part in accomplishing our atonement or redemption. But taking full possession of our inheritance, life in the Kingdom, is very much a joint effort in which we participate with God by stepping out in faith to drive out every enemy, maintain holiness in kingdom life, and hold on firmly to all that is ours in Christ.