In this series we are examining the components of your earthly inheritance, bought and paid for by Jesus Christ. When you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, His enemy becomes your enemy. Your enemy wants to destroy you, destroy your testimony, steal your inheritance and take others down with you.

Your inheritance has both future and present components. The future components are reserved for you in Heaven.

This is how Peter describes your future inheritance- I Peter 1:

³Blessed 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,

⁴ To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

⁵ Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

In this series we will examine the present components of your inheritance, which your enemy seeks to steal.  The next present component we will examine is your body as His tabernacle.

In the Old Testament, the Israelites went to the tabernacle and later to the temple to meet with and commune with God. Exodus 25:

²¹ And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

²² And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

But Jesus Christ has a different plan for His church. As a partaker of the New Testament, the new covenant built on better promises, the Triune God dwells in you! You are able to meet with and commune with Him at all times! No need to wait for an appointed time or to go to an appointed place.

The triune God dwells within you!!! You and I as new creatures in Christ have what King David, Solomon, Noah, Joseph, Daniel and Job did not have.

Your body is a tabernacle for Jesus Christ to dwell for your fellowship –Ephesians 3:

 ¹⁴ For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁵ Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

¹⁶ That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

¹⁷ That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

¹⁸ May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

¹⁹ And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

²⁰ Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

²¹ Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

What benefits of Jesus Christ dwelling in you do you see in these verses?

So what is the significance of Jesus Christ dwelling in you?

1-access to Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, your Creator, the author and   finisher of your faith, the One Who has a good plan for your life, at all times –ponder that

What difference does that mean to you?

2-hope for your future inheritance

The graciousness of Jesus Christ to choose to dwell in you while you still possess your   rebellious sin nature and potential for disobedience evidences His ability to present you   spotless and without wrinkle when you cross the finish line into His physical presence.

-ponder that

What difference does that mean to you?

3-the hope of glory, Colossians 1:

²⁶ Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:

²⁷ To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

What difference does that mean to you?

Christ Liveth in Me –Daniel Whittle, 1891

Once far from God and dead in sin, No light my heart could see;
But in God’s Word the light I found, Now Christ liveth in me.

• Refrain:
  Christ liveth in me, Christ liveth in me,
  Oh! what a salvation this, That Christ liveth in me.

As rays of light from yonder sun, The flow’rs of earth set free,

So life and light and love came forth From Christ living in me.

As lives the flow’r within the seed, As in the cone the tree,

So, praise the God of truth and grace, His Spirit dwelleth in me.

With longing all my heart is filled, That like Him I may be,
As on the wondrous thought I dwell That Christ liveth in me.

Questions for reflection

1) How can you fellowship with Jesus Chrsit throughout your busy day?

2) How can you use the hope of glory to overcome your enemy’s attempts to steal your hope?

Hebrews 12:

¹ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

² Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God

Dearly Beloved,

Run with your eyes on Jesus alone!

Run in faith that Jesus loves you, has uniquely designed and created only one you, has a good

plan for your life, runs with you and will accomplish His purposes for you and through

you!

Run in His strength alone!

Run with your eyes on the prize!

Run with the desire to finish strong!

Run with the desire to finish with your lamp burning!

Run with the expectation of being in His physical presence when you cross your finish line!

Run to His glory alone!

Run and keep on running!

Coach Patti