1. Believers are heirs of salvation, eternal life, and a heavenly inheritance according to scripture. They inherit these things through God's grace by faith in Jesus Christ.
2. Believers also inherit spiritual blessings as God's children, including an inheritance of riches in the saints mentioned in Ephesians.
3. As adopted sons and daughters of God, believers inherit the full rights of sonship, are no longer slaves but children, and joint heirs with Christ.
2. Colossians 1:12
Always thanking the Father. He
has enabled you to share in the
inheritance that belongs to his
people, who live in the light.
3. Romans 8:17
Now if we are children, then we
are heirs—heirs of God and coheirs with Christ, if indeed we
share in his sufferings in order that
we may also share in his glory
4. Ephesians 1:18
I pray that the eyes of your heart
may be enlightened in order that
you may know the hope to which
he has called you, the riches of his
glorious inheritance in his holy
people,
5. Our inheritance comes only by grace
Gal 3:18
For if the inheritance depends on
the law, then it no longer depends
on the promise; but God in his
grace gave it to Abraham through a
promise.
6. Our inheritance comes only by grace
Acts 20:32
And now I entrust you to God and the
message of his grace that is able to
build you up and give you an
inheritance with all those he has set
apart for himself.
7. 1. BELIEVERS ARE HEIRS OF
SALVATION & ETERNAL LIFE
Titus 3:7
So that being justified by his grace we
might become heirs according to the
hope of eternal life.
8. 1. BELIEVERS ARE HEIRS OF SALVATION & ETERNAL LIFE
1 Peter 1:3-4 (NIV)
Praise be to the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy
he has given us new birth into a living
hope through the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead, and into an
inheritance that can never perish, spoil
or fade. This inheritance is kept in
heaven for you,
9. The world is but a great inn, where
we stay a night or two, and be
gone; what madness is it so to set
our heart upon our inn, as to
forget our home ~ Watson
10. 2. BELIEVERS INHEIRIT SPIRITUAL
INHERITANCE
Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us
in Christ with every spiritual blessing in
the heavenly places,
11. 2. BELIEVERS INHEIRIT SPIRITUAL INHERITANCE
Ephesians 1
V11 - In him we have obtained an inheritance, having
been predestined according to the purpose of him
who works all things according to the counsel of his
will,
V18 - having the eyes of your hearts enlightened,
that you may know what is the hope to which he has
called you, what are the riches of his glorious
inheritance in the saints,
12. What do we inherit?
They inherit salvation (Heb 1:14)
They inherit eternal life (Mt 19:29; Lk 10:25; Tit 3:7; 1Pe 3:7)
They have the full rights of sons (Gal 4:4-7)
They have the rights of the firstborn (Heb 12:22-23,Ex 4:22;
2Ki 2:9)
They inherit the earth (Mt 5:5, Ps 37:11)
They inherit the kingdom (Mt 25:34,Lk 22:28-30; Rev 3:21)
They inherit all things (Lk 15:31; 1Co 3:21-22; Rev 21:7)
Their inheritance is the word of God Ps 119:111
It is a good inheritance Ps 16:6
13. 3. BELIEVERS ARE HEIRS TO THE FULL
RIGHTS OF SONS & DAUGHTERS
Eph 1:5
He predestined us for adoption as sons
through Jesus Christ, according to the
purpose of his will,
John 1:12
But to all who did receive him, who believed in
his name, he gave the right to become children
of God,
14. Galatians 4:1-7 (NIV)
What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is
no different from a slave, although he owns the whole
estate. The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until
the time set by his father. So also, when we were underage,
we were in slavery under the elemental spiritual forces of
the world. But when the set time had fully come, God sent
his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem
those under the law, that we might receive adoption to
sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his
Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba,
Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and
since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
15. Romans 8:14-17
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the
children of God. The Spirit you received does not
make you slaves, so that you live in fear again;
rather, the Spirit you received brought about your
adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba,
Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit
that we are God’s children. Now if we are children,
then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with
Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order
that we may also share in his glory.