Children and Heirs

Pt V

Contiuation of Ransomed from Darkness into Light

 

So, what does this mean for us? First of all, it means that now that we are in the Kingdom of God, we are his adopted children and heirs.

We have full access to the Father as his children whom He deeply loves. We aren’t created to live at the edge of the kingdom as slaves. We were created to be with Him in the palace. In Genesis 1 God tells Adam and Eve to rule over the earth. That didn’t change at the Fall. More than that, the Father seated us with Christ in heavenly places (Eph 2:6).

We are made in His image and are his children so we should reflect Him to the world. We represent Him here on Earth. We are spies in the enemy camp showing and displaying the goodness of God and turning people. We create a hunger for God through our actions. We become sheep among wolves, a tasty treat so others can taste AND see that God is good. When others see the goodness of God is us, they are attracted to that, not our eloquently prepared arguments and speeches. It is heaven in us that draws people.

Our old self was crucified with Christ so we could be free from the dominion of death and sin. We are no longer slaves but sons. We don’t need to keep going back to the old kingdom, the kingdom of death. We are not the old man anymore. We are a new creation; we are made in the likeness of our Father. No longer are we dominated by sin. We dominate sin. We no longer have a sin nature, though we may have a sin habit. We’ve been born into a new kingdom where we rule. We are co-heirs with Christ and seated in heavenly places with Him (Eph 2:6).

If we go back to the old kingdom and its way of thinking, we step down from our place of authority and go from ruling to being ruled, from sons and heirs to slaves. No wonder the devil wants to deceive us into believing we are still subjects in his kingdom.

We fight from a place of victory knowing Jesus has already overcome the world (Jn 16:33). We fight from a place of rest and love knowing our identity is secure in Him. We cannot earn our identity nor can we work enough to keep it or increase/decrease it.