PARTAKERS OF CHRIST!
📖Heb 3:14
For we are made PARTAKERS OF CHRIST, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
To be a PARTAKER means ASSOCIATE; it means, an EQUAL SHARER!
✒ Followers And Fellows
👉 We are FOLLOWERS of Christ for the purpose of IMITATION. 📖Eph 5:1
👉 We are FELLOWS of Christ for the purpose of POSSESSION
📖Eph 2:6
Now let ME read 📖Heb 3:14 to you from another version:
NLT: For if we are faithful to the end, trusting GOD just as firmly as when we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ!
You see, when you first got saved, you were burning with zeal, a zeal that was driven by faith and that faith was powered by the knowledge of the fact that no matter what comes your way, JESUS would show up for you.
This knowledge-based and faith-filled zeal generated a certain confidence in JESUS that nothing could break.
But along the line, because of wrong doctrines and your reception to the suggestions of your situation, you cast away that confidence.
It was for this purpose that 📖Hebrews 10:35 was written:
"Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward".
✒ Considering The Subject Matter
It will bless your heart and establish your faith as you come to understand that:
📝 All that ABBA FATHER possesses has been WILLED to JESUS.
It is Incontestible... Not then, not now, not ever! No one can challenge JESUS' Place, Power, Position or Possession with him.
📖John 3:35 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given (willed) ALL THINGS into his hand.
📖John 16:15a "ALL THINGS that the Father hath are mine..."
📝 These Possessions are called INHERITANCE
📖Ephesians 1:11 In WHOM (JESUS, to One to Whom ALL THINGS has been willed) also we have obtained an INHERITANCE, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will
✒ The Two-sided Inheritance
📝 These INHERITANCES are divided into two parts:
1⃣ Those Inheritance That Are RELEVANT On Earth.
📖Luke 18:29 And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, 18:30 Who shall not receive manifold more in THIS PRESENT TIME, and in the world to come life everlasting.
2⃣ Those Inheritance That Are RESERVED In Heaven For Us.
📖1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 1:4 To an INHERITANCE incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, RESERVED IN HEAVEN for you,
✒ The Access
👉 Our only Access to this EARTHLY INHERITANCE is by FAITH IN JESUS
It becomes your present hour possession at New Birth; in other words, when you become Born Again.
📖Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and INHERITANCE among them which are sanctified BY FAITH that is IN ME.
This is why when Apostle Paul was asked how to be saved in order to enjoy the earthly inheritance of deliverance and escape such as he and Silas experienced in prison at Philippi, his reply was definitive:
📖Acts 16:30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 16:31 And they said, BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Our FAITH IN JESUS is our HYPOSTASIS (Subsistence); The Foundation upon which all our Peace, Comfort & Salvation (Inheritance) is built.
👉 However, our Participation in the HEAVENLY INHERITANCE is predicated on our PERSEVERANCE.
By Perseverance I mean "continuity in believing"!
That's why Apostle JOHN wrote his epistle:
📖1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may CONTINUE TO BELIEVE on the name of the Son of God.
✒ Defining Perseverance
📝 What is Perseverance?
📚Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
📚 Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence!
In other words, as believers in Christ Jesus, even though challenges and oppositions may billow against us, nevertheless, we must be willing to persevere to the end of our Christian Race
When I see so called Christians who because of challenges and oppositions become offended in JESUS, turning their backs on their the confidence and trust they once possessed when they first received CHRIST as Lord, it drives me to tears.
What are we gonna to say about the early Apostles who gave their all, including their lives for the sake of JESUS and ALL that He stood for!
Were they ignorant or unwise? Should we call them stupid and fanatics? No, God forbid.
The fact that they withstood challenges (whether they were financial or physical or emotional or economical or social or marital etc) means that:
1⃣ They Knew beyond any shadow of doubt that JESUS CHRIST was REAL and that He was every bit of Who He said He was: GOD!
2⃣ They understood the blessedness of enduring to the end.
They knew that the blessedness of enduring to the end was not just ENORMOUS, it is NUMEROUS and GLORIOUS.
📖Matthew 10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but HE THAT ENDURETH TO THE END SHALL BE SAVED.
No wonder the writer of the book of Hebrews said:
📖Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 10:39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
✏ What should be our attitude?
📖John 6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Don't just believe JESUS for a change of situation and a supply of finance and other necessities of life (which are all wonderful, because that's part of exercising your faith) but discipline yourself to continue to believe IN JESUS (refusing to be offended in Him) even when those things you expected didn't showed up at all or as expected.
✒ "New Testament Perspective Of "LABOR"
📖Hebrews 4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
👊 Our labor in the New Testament is TRAINING and DISCIPLINING ourselves to BELIEVE JESUS irrespective of what happens around us.
👊 To STAND with the consciousness of JESUS CHRIST in the face of seemingly stubborn challenges.
👊 To ARM ourselves with the knowledge of the Finished Work of CHRIST and boldly confront all that the enemy may throw at us.
📖Ephesians 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and HAVING DONE ALL, TO STAND (keep standing, remain standing).
✒ Beloved, Be Encouraged!
The Holy Ghost knowing and seeing the end from the beginning dropped a package 🎁 for us long before we came on the scene. And the agent He used to deliver this package 🎁 was Apostle Paul. You would do well to wholeheartedly accept and agree with this message 👇:
📖Romans 8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
As it is, we are already partakers of CHRIST in this TIME but we MUST keep believing Him, making Him our Eternal Focus and Consciousness and Concentration and Attention in order to partake of the Heavenly Inheritance.
Though the earthly inheritance may be mostly physical things (because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God) however, the heavenly inheritance are CROWNS 👑.
📖2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I HAVE KEPT THE FAITH:
4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and NOT TO ME ONLY, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Apostle Paul enjoyed earthly inheritance such as protection, provision and preservation because he was a BELIEVER in JESUS but he was going to partake of the Heavenly Inheritance (which are given in CROWNS) because he KEPT THE FAITH!
In other words, against all odds he Continued to Believe. He refused to vacillate (change confession or direction of his faith IN JESUS)!
GOD BLESS YOU BY ALL MEANS IN JESUS NAME
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