Exodus 15: 17 - You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of your inheritance--the place, O LORD, you made for your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, your hands established.
If you read in the book of exodus there was a nation called the Israelites. They were living as slaves to the Egyptions. Everything the egyptions commanded they had to do, and when they disobeyed they were whipped, beaten and abused. But the Israelites were God’s chosen people, and so God did set the free. So one day the Israelites packed their things and headed out into the desert. When they left God promised to take them into Canaan, the promised land, the land of milk and honey. This was their inheritance...
So now what is our inheritance? Our inheritance is huge, we’ve heard so much lately of the authority, anointing and power that we hold as Christians. We can raise dead, cast out demons and see the lost saved. This is all part of our inheritance. But there’s more... our schools, varsities, families and this city are our inheritance! We are where we are today for a reason. God says he will make the nations our inheritance if we just ask. Our inheritance is nothing ordinary!!!
So i hear you asking, "but David, how do we get there?" and i'm glad you brought that up, Below are 4 f bombs to help you walk into your inheritance...
1) Family
In order to claim an inheritance from God, we need to be part of His family. When we become Christians, we are adopted into the family of God and become heirs to the kingdom.
How do we be saved? Accept Jesus died for us.
John 14: 6 – Jesus answered, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.”
We are born seperated from God, But God made a way, he sent His son Jesus to die on the cross. So if we accept Jesus then we become a son or daughter of God. He took our sin away and gave us robes of righteousness.
So the first step to this inheritance is have you given your life to Jesus? Are you no longer living with the egyptions?
2) Freedom
Are we free?
2 Corinthians 5: 17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
Now we part of the family, we are free, BUT ARE WE LIVING FREE? Jesus says it is for freedom that I have set you free. Are we living in the freedom we have been given?
Further on in the story, we read of how the egyptions start complaing and talking of how they wish they were back in Egypt. They got hungry or thirsty and so they complained and wanted to go back to Egypt. They were not walking in the complete freedom that had been given to them when they escaped Egypt. Are we still living slightly captive?
Getting drunk... not of God and will cost you your inheritance,
sex out of marriage, pornography... You may think that these things are small but I’ll tell you from personal experience, that as small and harmless as masturbation or pornography may seem to you, it will absolutely rip your life to shreds! Other things like lieing, stealing, etc etc will also cut down your inheritance.
WE NEED TO PUT THESE THINGS TO DEATH NOW!! Our inheritance is not for 10 years time or when you older, our inheritance is for now and the longer we are dabbling in sin, the longer we put off walking in our inheritance. The Israelites took 40 years in the desert, 40 YEARS!!! The longer we take to get rid of our sinful habits, firstly the harder it comes for us to break them and secondly, we slowly missing out on our inheritance.
Think of it like this:
Our salvation is like the lease to a house and the house is our inheritance. We may walk into the first part, we get the gate open and move into the garden. But if we then start moving back into our old ways, we’ll just stay camped in the garden, going around and around the house, every now and then you may get a glimpse through a window of the beauty inside... (big screen tv, aircon, pool table, food, etc.) and I believe that’s just God egging us to come back to His ways to push on for the better and the greater. There’s also if we stall our walking into our inheritance we may only come in through the back door, through the laundry room. The front entrance hall is always grander and more awesome than a boring laundry room and you may need to sort the stuff out in the laundry room before you can procede into the next room.
3) Faith
This journey in our inheritance and as we travel deeper into it isn’t always going to be easy. God may not take us the way we want to go, but we need to learn to trust in Him no matter where he takes us and what comes our way. The isralites had to travel through a desert. And even the God didn’t take them the way they expected.
Exodus 13: 17 - When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. For God said, "If they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt."
God can’t just throw us into the depth of our inheritance because we won’t handle it. It’s a journey, and as we overcome the small obstacles in the way our capacity to handle more is increased and so we start to walk in more. It may be tough but it’s worth it. God’s always going to be there. He wants to see us owning that house, not just peering through the gate or windows, but living in luxury upstairs and throughout the whole house.
Exodus 15: 13 - "In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling.
David