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CHILD OF GOD YOUR INHERITANCE AWAITS YOU!
In this months issue we feature a guest article by our good friend, Pastor Tim Hodge, of Restoration Ministries, Charleston, S.C. We hope that you find great spiritual enrichment from this article.
(By Pastor Tim Hodge)
The entire Bible is Jesus Christ's LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT to the
Redeemed! The Word of God should not be deemed a hypothetical, hyper spiritual conglomeration of religious men.
Hebrews 9:14-18 can be broken down as follows...
1. Jesus was the perfect sacrifice who shed His own blood. (Verse 14)
2. Jesus is the "Negotiator and Mediator" (Amplified Bible) of an "entirely new"(Amplified Bible)agreement(literally to be observed as a REVISED WILL... Old Testament {Last Will & 'Testament'}and now the New 'Testament') (Verse 15a).
3. A DEATH HAS TAKEN PLACE "which rescues and delivers and redeems"
(AMP - Verse 15b).
4. Where there is a LAST WILL & TESTAMENT involved the death of the
one who made it must be established (Verse 16) -- and -- as long as the
person who made it is alive it is not valid (Verse 17).
5. Even the Old Testament was not inaugurated without the shedding
of blood (Verse 18).
JESUS WROTE HIS LAST WILL & TESTAMENT -- DIED TO RATIFY IT -- ROSE AGAIN TO ENFORCE IT!
Genesis -- God created the FIRST ADAM to have dominion in the earth.
God intended man (created in His own image) to reign in the earth as a
MICRO-COSM of how God ruled as Sovereign in the MACRO-COSM!
God created everything in the natural realm and gave it to this First Adam (who is referred to as God's son in Luke 3:38). When Adam sinned he abdicated this sphere of authority and dominion... losing all that God had given him. The ruler in the earth became the subject. The one given dominion became dominated. The one who knew divine health became prone to sickness. The one who knew continual provision and supply now was working his way through lack. The peace of the garden was lost to the chaos of the earth.
STOP! This all happened under the FIRST ADAM! The saga does not end there!
1 Corinthians 15:45-49 draws a distinction between two men -- the FIRST
ADAM who lost all in the garden and the SECOND ADAM (Jesus Christ) Who
Redeemed everything on the Cross!
Colossians 1:12-14 records these words: "Giving thanks to the Father
who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the
light. (v.13) He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us
into the kingdom of the Son of His love, (v.14) in whom we have redemption
through His blood, the forgiveness of sins" (NKJV).
INHERITANCE... A LAST WILL & TESTAMENT!
Jesus died to leave you and I an inheritance. Not just one in
heaven... but one that is assumed and possessed HERE / NOW in the earth!
God riveted the Old Testament with the fact that a person's inheritance if lost COULD NOT BE A PERMANENT LOSS! See Leviticus 25:23-28, 39-43 to read how God established the law of the KINSMAN REDEEMER!
Any allotted inheritance that was lost (by any reason) had the possibility of being REDEEMED by someone KIN to the person experiencing the loss. Even if no one kin to the person experiencing loss stepped up to the plate God made a provision called the "YEAR OF JUBILEE" -- a period of 50 year intervals in which all debt was cancelled, all liens were cancelled and all goods, lands, and freedom were restored to the rightful INHERITORS! God was showing us that what Adam lost... the earth and all of God's blessings to him... would not be a permanent loss. It is our INHERITANCE!!!
Beloved, Jesus (the Last Adam) came as your KINSMAN REDEEMER and paid the price ONCE AND FOR ALL on the cross to REDEEM YOU and RESTORE EVERYTHING God intended you to have before the foundations of the world were laid.
The Kingdom of God is NOT hung up in some diabolical probate court!
Beloved read the Word of God and find that every promise is given to
YOU through CHRIST (2 Corinthians 1:20).
Luke 12:32 plainly states, "Fear not little flock, for it is your
Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom!"
Jesus is alive and is ready to ENFORCE HIS LAST WILL & TESTAMENT! Chew on this for a while!
(Tim Hodge is senior pastor of Restoration Ministries, Charleston, S.C.)
You may visit R.M.’s web site at: www.putback.org
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