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Jesus: The Believer’s Inheritance

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  It is fascinating to observe when people talk about inheritance, ones mind would immediately cater properties, wills, houses, jewelries, and other material things. All of which are centered on material temporal things.   In 1 Peter 1:4 , although The Apostle Peter used the term “inheritance” once in his letter, Apostle Paul on the other hand, mentioned this term in his letters several times. ( Eph_1:14 , Eph_1:18 , Eph_5:5 , Col_3:24 ,) But what is so significant about this particular emphasis of Peter? After all, he made a brief description of the inheritance (verse 4-5) a believer will obtain now that he is part of God’s family.   The term “inheritance” is not something new among Jewish ears. Going back to the OT, when God divided the promised land among the 12 tribes of Israel, every tribe received a portion of the land as their inheritance, except for the tribe of Levi…”the priestly tribe”. They were the only tribe that didn’t get one. God’s reason for doing so is interesting. Th
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Listen to "God Makes All Things New" (Part 6)!

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Principles to Learn Principles from Revelation 22:1-5    A. Believers are to persevere    B. Believers are to worship and serve God    C. Believers are to live a life that looksforward for the coming consummation       Chronicles of Narnia: “The Last Battle” (CS Lewis)        “And as He spoke, He no longer looked to themlike a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great andbeautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this the end of all the stories,and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for themit was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world andall their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: nowat last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one onearth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better thanthe one before.”
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