Inheritance in Christ

The point: Understand that a non-doctrinal Christianity cannot produce true worship, and a non-worshipping adherence to doctrine is not true Christianity.

Paul's amazement at salvation is compared to a child overwhelmed by a room full of gifts, illustrating the devotional mood of the passage.

Warmly devotional in its mood. Here is a man who's not sitting down and just calculating the various facets of salvation. Rather, he's like a child who's been brought into a room full of torment. Full of worries and gifts that are all said to be his.

7:22 - 7:40 Read in full sermon

Driving home: The inheritance is the kingdom of God and all of its blessings both now and forever. The inheritance is the kingdom of God and all its blessings both present and future. Now and forever.

A father's will granting a son immediate partial inheritance and future full possession illustrates how believers receive the inheritance of the Kingdom of God: a down payment now, with the fullness to come.

Here's a man who has a son. This man has been told that he has a terminal disease and that he shall die within a year, perhaps five years at the most. Through the years he's saved up $50,000. Now when he makes out his will, he makes out his will in such a way that his son is to be given immediately upon his death and as soon as the will is cleared in the proper courts, the son is to be given $5,000 to do whatever he wants with it.

24:04 - 24:36 Read in full sermon

The point: Do not be bullied into stripping away the rich biblical concept of an inheritance reserved in heaven, even if the world or professing Christendom assails it.

The characters Passion and Patience from Bunyan's work are used to contrast the desire for immediate blessings ('now Christianity') with the willingness to wait for future, better things.

We're the now generation. Give us all our blessings now. Oh John Bunyan encountered that. Remember he had those two little characters passion and love.

27:00 - 27:08 Read in full sermon

The point: Make God's glory your goal in the enjoyment of your salvation, so that 'whether ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do do all to the glory of God'.

Illustrates how former Roman Catholics, now glorying in Christ, become a display of God's grace to unseen spiritual beings.

should be to the praise not that we should praise but that we should be to the praise of his glory now that can have two possible meanings it could mean that simply what we become by grace in our total person will be such a reflection of the glory of grace that just being that will be an occasion of praise being rendered to God he deals with that in the third chapter in verse 10 in verse 11 that now unto the principalities and powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the man of all wisdom of God listen we do not meet in one another's presence alone this morning we d...

45:31 - 47:00 Read in full sermon

The point: Make God's glory your goal in the enjoyment of your salvation, so that 'whether ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do do all to the glory of God'.

Illustrates how Jewish people confessing Jesus as Messiah become a display of God's grace to unseen spiritual beings.

the glories of Christ and his salvation the wonder of wonders dubbed it and our blind eyes were opened and our rebel wills were subdued and we've been sitting here this morning from the heart some of us singing hallelujah praise Jehovah oh Jehovah praise and what's happened by just being these new creatures we have been to the praise of the glory of his grace and those principalities and powers in the heavenly places have had to take note of what God has done in us they've seen some of you blind self-righteous Roman Catholics for years going through your mumbo jumbo tending to the blasphemy of...

47:00 - 48:29 Read in full sermon

The point: Make God's glory your goal in the enjoyment of your salvation, so that 'whether ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do do all to the glory of God'.

An exotic flower displaying God's wisdom and care by its mere existence is used to explain how believers, by simply being new creatures in Christ, are 'to the praise of the glory of his grace'.

you are in your person to the praise of the glory of his grace that may be the meaning just as a little just as some exotic flower in some place where no man ever sees it just by being there is a display of the wisdom and care of God just by being what you are in Christ you are to the praise of the glory of grace but then the second thing could be maybe the two shouldn't be divided it could mean that you are to the praise of the glory of his grace as you as Peter says show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness as you speak forth as you seek by grace to live in obedience ...

48:29 - 49:58 Read in full sermon