Romans 8:16-17 (Amp) says, "The Spirit Himself thus testifies together with our own spirit, assuring us that we are children of God. And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also; heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, sharing His inheritance with Him; Only we must share His suffering if we are to share His Glory."
When reading this scripture, many of us focus solely on "we must share His suffering," while reading over "sharing His inheritance." The worldview of Christianity, portrays Jesus and the Church as being victims, instead of victors. When Jesus came from the Father into this world, He gave up His Heavenly Power to bring it back into the hands of God's family, like God had done in the beginning. Philippians 2:6-7 (Amp) says, "Who, although being essentially one with God and in the forum of God (possessing the fullness of the attributes which make God), did not think this equality with God was a thing to be eagerly grasped or retained, But stripped Himself of all privileges and rightful dignity so as to assume the guise of a servant (slave), in that He became like men and was born a human being." In other words, Jesus didn't come as God, but as a man representing God in the flesh, with the authority and dominion that God gave man.
We are certainly not God, but like Jesus was in the flesh, we are sons and daughters of God and we're representatives of God, in human form on this earth. We have yet, as Jesus was, to be in the Heavenly form of the Glorified body, but we're still heirs of the Father like Jesus was. Although Jesus had these things, He laid them up for His return to His rightful place with the Father. The Last Adam, Jesus still had the same authority and dominion that God conferred on the First Adam.
We are not God, but we're God's children, like the First and Last Adam were. We're heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus. Our having glorified bodies remains in the future. As a man, Jesus walked in everything God conferred on the First Adam in the beginning and we've inherited everything that Jesus has. Just prior to His Ascension, Jesus said in John 16:15 (Amp)Everything that the Father has is Mine. That is what I meant when I said that He (the Spirit), will take the things that are Mine and will reveal, declare, disclose, and transmit it to you."
The above scripture tells us that we've inherited everything that God, our Father, has. This inheritance isn't future tense, but is already ours now. Matthew 28:18 (Amp) says, "Jesus approached and breaking the silence, said to them, All authority, all power of rule, in Heaven and on earth, has been given to Me. God then and make disciples of all the nations." In this, He also delivered His authority of His Name into the hands of God's new creation family, and we, by His Name received our inheritance.
Remember that Jesus said, "I only speak what I hear My Father say." Jesus spoke this Truth in Matthew 18;18 (Amp) saying, "Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth, must be what is already forbidden in Heaven, and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth must be what is already permitted in Heaven." Do we even understand what this means in the life of a joint heir of Jesus Christ, in this earth? Through Him and His power of rule, we can now, as fellow heirs, declare His Own Name, so things improper and unlawful things the enemy has brought on the earth and into our lives and the lives of others, will be removed.
Isn't this exactly what Jesus did in Luke 13:16 (Amp), when He met the woman who satan had made bent for eighteen years? This woman was a daughter of Abraham and was a covenant woman. It wasn't God will for her to be sick, according to the Blessing He pronounced on Abraham. This wasn't allowed and was improper in Heaven, as was in accordance with His covenant. Thus, Jesus says, "And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom satan has kept bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath Day?"
God's will for this woman, was that she be loosed and never been bound. The priests had the authority to loose her, but over the years they had lost all understanding of the authority and the anointing they had been given. Jesus went about healing and setting the captives free, knowing this was disallowed and improper in Heaven. He applied this Law, into the earth. Jesus knew that healing and deliverance were already proper and lawful in Heaven and that the bondage of Abraham's own daughter was disallowed even in the earth, so He applied God's Word and set her free.
There is so much of what our Father has for us here in this life, but we need to set our hearts on what He wants for us. Jesus stepped out beyond what the Jews thought about God and brought deliverance to God's people, which had been theirs all along. Jesus suffered persecution for His actions, because His actions threatened the religious dealings and satan's lies, which held the people in bondage. The people and priests didn't even realize that they were in bondage.
When Moses brought the Israelites out from the bondage of Egypt, the people wanted to return, because they had become accustomed to that way of life. Christians has allowed the world's view of Christianity to bind us for so long, that we've become accustomed to the bondage and fight to remain under it. If all of God's Promises are "Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus," then why don't we seek out His Promises and stop allowing satan to keep us under bondage? Are we supposed to bind or loose, allow or disallow, permit or declare improper? It's not God's job to allow or disallow, but it's for us to do. If we allow it, then God will allow it. If we declare it improper and unlawful, then God will also declare it so. This is God's rule and authority in and from Heaven.
If this wasn't true, then Jesus wasn't doing God's will on the earth. Jesus said that, "I came only to do the Father's will." We're joint heirs with Christ and have received everything the Father has, through Jesus. How much does He have, that we don't know is already made ours?
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