 All right, the recording started we're going to write together and then we will get our class going and Could I just request somebody to pray with all of us? Please anyone could unmute your mic and Pray with the class so we can get started. I would like to do that Okay, Anita. Would you like to pray with a class please and we'll get started Thank you for the build-up of our father as well as our class father. I'd like to bless Love to bless it. Tell you to bless each one of us father. Thank you for this presence father I would like to tell you that please help us to understand all these all the classes that we're going to listen father today and Help pastor to teachers father and Holy Spirit guide us to understand the whole class father and be with us father We worship you and we glorify your holy name father Thank you. All right once again Welcome I'm sorry about last Friday. I missed class last Friday. Just need to Take time to do something else. So I Had to be absent couldn't be there in the class or all of you But we will make up Today we are continuing our study on our identity in Christ We're going to move into Lesson number 10. I think that is yes section 10 Which I put these PDF notes of them actually put it there last week We are going to talk about The fact that we are we are blessed in Christ. So last week we talked about the fact that we had children and joined us so We have been glorified together with Christ and God has given us this place of honor as Heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus And so we also said last week that because we are sons we are as joint as and that means We have been given in an inheritance We are sons of God sons and daughters of God so What we want to do today in this section and I will share the PDF in a few moments is Go through You know, what is in our inheritance and so in this section section 10 Just try to itemize or just list just list Different things that are part of our inheritance spiritual inheritance in Christ And this is not necessarily a complete list because some of these some other things that we have already seen I have not necessarily included here So for example when we began this study, we talked about the fact that we one of the first things we talked about is We were we have been justified and made righteous You know, that's a very powerful truth For us to receive as part of our inheritance we talked about being sanctified and made holy We talked about The fact that we are redeemed we talked about we are identified with Christ We are free in Christ and so on so those things which we have looked at in separate sections I have not included in this Itemized list because we've already studied each of those in detail But what I've tried to do in this section is I just try to put a put a list out all the other things that we need You know is part of our inheritance meaning God has already made it available for you and me and therefore The key is for us as sons and daughters of God to live out of this Right to live out of our identity and out of our inheritance. That's the key That's what you know, we should seek to achieve and before we close this This whole Course towards the end of the course we will keep some lectures just to talk about How do we live out of our? Inheritance in Christ How do we live out of our identity in Christ? Right, so what we are doing is we are establishing our identity and our inheritance It means we need to understand What God has done for us and what God has given to us in Christ and then we need to also learn How to live out of that how do we walk in our identity and in our inheritance? So we will touch on that. What's the end of this course so today? We will talk about our Inheritance in Christ and this is in section 10. The PDF is available So I've just called it blessed in Christ and here what we're doing is we're just going to list out, you know, all the additional Blessings and things that are part of our inheritance. That's what we want to do and as we go along We'll also mention, you know, so how does that impact our life here on earth and our day-to-day lives? Because God has given that or provision for us. How does it affect us? So let's begin by just revisiting a scriptive that we have already seen in Ephesians 1 Verses 11 and 12 could somebody please read that out loud for us Ephesians 1 11 and 12 please In him also we have obtained an inheritance Being predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the Council of his will that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of his glory Man, thank you. So it says in him. That's in Christ We have obtained we have received an inheritance So This is something God has given to you and me in Christ. So in Christ God's keeping you an inheritance you see and This inheritance belongs or is available to every one of his children and We have said earlier that you know an inheritance is of no use if you don't know what is in it and if you don't know how to You know receive that inheritance take advantage of that inheritance and enjoy that but What you must understand is God has given to us an inheritance we have obtained an inheritance and You know and us walking in the inheritance Will be for the praise of his glory, you know, ultimately it's going to bring praise and honor To the Lord when we walk in our inheritance and when we walk You know according to the Council of his will And you see several scriptures other script to the talk about this. I'm just referenced some here acts when he's 618 Paul the Lord the Lord speaks to Paul he says, you know He wants he's going to use Paul to open the eyes of the people Turned them from darkness to light from the power of Satan to God that they may receive forgiveness of sins and and inheritance Right, so here again Another scripture to telling us that when we turn to the living God He brings out of from darkness to light from the power of Satan to God We receive forgiveness of sins. We are also granted inheritance Among all those who are sanctified by faith in Jesus. So there's an inheritance given to all those Who are set apart by faith in Jesus? We also saw the scripture from Romans 8 17 that if we are children Then we are heirs and heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. So we are children. We are also heirs heirs of God to be an air simply means You're you're the one who's going to receive the inhabitants and the Bible says we heirs of God and be a joint as we co heirs With Christ so we share in the same blessings It was given to Christ as as he walked on the earth as the Son of God everything that he walked in is Available to you and me as sons and daughters of God So what we're going to do today just kind of go through some of these things that are our other Inheritance and you know talk about how they impact our lives but To at the very beginning we need to establish the fact that we are qualified to enjoy the inheritance That means God doesn't say look I've given you an inheritance, but you know You're not qualified to enjoy it only, you know, certain people can walk in the inheritance I've given them. That's not the way God does He has given an inheritance to every one of his everyone who believes in him and we are all equally qualified to enjoy that inheritance okay, so Could somebody read collusion sub the one and verse 12 for us, please Collisions one 12 Given thanks to the father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance The sense in the light Thank you So it says give thanks to the father Who has qualified us that means he's made us fit He has made us fit capable worthy To partake that is to enjoy our share of The inheritance of the saints that means the inheritance that belongs to the saints in light So you need to you know understand this truth about yourself as a believer That God has already qualified you. He said look you're fit. You're worthy To enjoy your share of the Inheritance that I've given to the saints to all the saints to all the believers Right, so don't ever let the devil tell you or anybody else tell you That you're not worthy Oh you know That person some you know, you might think okay that person is very prayerful they pray a lot that person is very you know, he He or she is very Committed to the word of God or something You know and so we tend to look at other people and say you know like they had they're really good people and they are probably qualified To enjoy their spiritual inheritance, but look at me, you know I don't pray enough or I don't read my bible enough or I'm not good enough. Whatever We tend to discredit ourselves. We tend to disqualify Ourselves by the way we think But I want us to learn to think in line with the word of God and the word of God says that God has qualified us to be partakers Of the inheritance. He's qualified you to share In the inheritance to enjoy the inheritance that he's given to all of his saints In the light those who belong to him, right? So we are qualified Now of course before we can Begin to enjoy the inheritance We need to know What that inheritance is And we are going to get to know that through the word of God It's through the word as the Holy Spirit opens our eyes to what's in in the word We are going to get to know our inheritance And then we'll be able to partake of a share of it. So the only requirement at this point is Hey, you and I need to know what that is. What our inheritance is and then we receive it by faith We walk in it by faith believing God, right? So Acts 20 and we're studied you could somebody read that for us. Please So now brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace Which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified Amen So the apostle paul Is here in acts 2032. He's actually speaking to the leaders Yeah, of the church in a fissures and he says, you know brethren I'm commending you to God and do the word of his grace So come into God And to the word Right, that means You know, it's like this is his final message. He's closing up his message to the effusion leaders He says brethren This is what I want you to do. I want you to be committed to God And to the word I'm because I'm commending you to God and to the word Right, or I am recommending you. I'm commending you To God to the word of his grace Why because that word Will build you up and Give you an inheritance or enable you to enjoy your share of the inheritance That God has for all those who have been sanctified. So the key here is this The word Because it's the word that's going to build us up It's the word that's going to give us revelation and understanding and show us how to walk In that inheritance how to make that inheritance ours Right, so we need To spend time in the word We need to let you know get revelation of the word We need to learn from the word What is our inheritance and how do we receive it? So the word is able to build us up And give us an inheritance, right so The word of God's important now combined with that, of course is the eyes of our understanding need to be enlightened So when paul prayed for the effusions he prayed here in effusions 118 He said the eyes are praying that the eyes of your understanding That's of course he's referring to spiritual understanding the eyes of your spiritual understanding being enlightened that you may know What is the hope of his calling that is what has he called you to what is the future he's called you to and What are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints? right, so As believers we need to have our eyes opened The eyes of our understanding being enlightened, right and I put it in simple english It's like our eyes need to be opened or we need to receive a revelation of what Of the hope of our calling that is what is God called us to the future. He's called us to and also The riches of the glory of his inheritance right that means this this You know this inheritance that god has for his saints his people It's rich. It's overflowing. It's abundant But then we need to have our eyes opened The eyes of your understanding being enlightened So that you may know that you may know right That's very important for us as believers the eyes of our understanding Need to be enlightened with the holy spirit He needs to open our eyes so we know okay. That's what god has given to me and i'm going to walk in it Now let's think about this If we don't know What is in our inheritance We can't receive it Because we don't know it's there obviously we'll not make an effort to Make it ours and if you don't make it ours What'll happen? We're going to live at a level that's far below what we could be living at because we are for feeling we are missing out on our own inheritance Now that's not god's fault because god has given inheritance to all his children And he's already said look all my children all of god's children Are qualified. They are fit. They are worthy to partake of this inheritance And He is also given to all his children the word of god the word of grace And the holy spirit To open our eyes so that we can know The rich inheritance he's given to the saints So from god's side He's he's done everything He's given the inheritance He's given the word He's given the holy spirit to whom to all of us as children So all all of god's children are equally blessed Same inheritance same word same holy spirit But now It's our responsibility To go to the word of god You know like paul said i commend you to the word of god go to the word of god Because this word is going to bring you to that place where you can enjoy your inheritance So it's our responsibility to go to the word And with the elimination of the holy spirit We receive revelation. We receive understanding. Okay. This is in the word This is what god has given to me As an inheritance as a blessing As he gave to all his children And I must make a choice That i'm going to walk in it I want to receive what's mine Every aspect of it And i'm going to walk in it because God has given it to me and this is spiritual reality. This is truth It's not uh, you know, uh Fiction that we're talking about is not some imaginary thing. This is god Having blessed you with an inheritance so It's important for all of us To get to know What it is and how to walk in it, right? So all that we've covered in this course so far Has been an unveiling of our identity and our inheritance little by little. We've uncovered And now if you're coming into this chapter We're going to itemize some of these things some of these things may be a repeat Uh, I just felt it's good to highlight Maybe a couple and the rest will be things we haven't touched on Up until this time. Okay Uh, let me pause here. See I see if there are any questions before I move forward Is everyone with me any questions so far? All good Okay If it's quiet then I Assume that uh, all of you are following me and no questions Okay So let's move forward Okay, great. Thank you. I see your comments in the chat All right. So the you know the first one on this list that I put is In life Now we have seen this scripture earlier But I put it again here just to highlight this truth. You're just part of our inheritance Okay, so could somebody please read roman chapter 5 and verse 17 for us, please Romans 5 17 Sorry five 17 for if by the one month's For if by the one man's offense death rain through the one Much more those who receive Abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness Will reign in life through the one jesus christ Man, thank you so Romans 5 we're 17 What is Paul saying look If by one man's offense obviously he's referring to Adam You know one man's offense Adam sinned What happened death rain death ruled so Death ruled Adam sinned death ruled That came into dominion place of dominion through the one because of that one man Then he says much more Those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness, so this is you and me We have received Abundance of grace God's abundant grace And you you and I have received the gift of righteousness What will happen we who have received those who receive abundance of grace and gift of righteousness will Rain in life Through the one jesus christ So We contrasted this Here when we looked at Romans 5 One man adam He sinned He put us all in subjection to death to sin Satan sickness and death everything between sin and death Me came in subjection to through one man but Through the one Jesus christ So there's someone else through the one jesus christ what happened Abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness was poured out on us Through adam Came sin condemnation judgment Satan's dominion sickness death And he became subjection in subjection to all that but Through the one jesus christ God poured out abundant grace and gift of righteousness all of us Resulting in what This abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness when we receive it We rain in life death rained Now we rain What does death represent everything between sin and death sickness disease satan everything That dominated us but now We reign In life we dominate sin Everything between sin and death we dominate We dominate everything So we have authority and dominion over whatever adam put us in subjection to Jesus put us over So That's what we have in christ We have dominion and mastery That means we're going to rain we rain in life Over everything that's between sickness and death sin and death All of that everything that adam put us in subjection to you and i are going to rain over So That's how we're supposed to live So while we're in this earth While we're in this world People face all these things because we are still in this fallen world We are going to face everything between sin and death sin sickness disease Satan Everything between sin and death. We are going to face on this earth Because that came in through one man adam We're going to face it but Because you and i have received abundance of grace and gift of righteousness through jesus christ We are going to rain over these things We're going to have mastery over we're going to have dominion over these things So we Learn to live that way So when you face things in this world We will face it When you face any everything that's wicked and that's because of sin and How should you and i respond sin i have dominion over this I will take authority over this In the name of jesus I take authority over the sickness over the disease over sin over satan I take authority for authority for all these things and i choose to rain over them I choose to exercise dominion or mastery over these things Because that's part of our inheritance now There are a lot of believers who don't know this Or they may have read roman's fire 17 and just read it But not embrace the revelation of the truth that is bringing it to us and so They may not You know live out of it. They may not make the effort to say hey i've got to dominate this i can't let this control me But i've got to rise up above it And tell it to go in subjection because I am supposed to rain in life through jesus christ So that's how you and i must do Where we must rule and reign over these things Right and how do you exercise authority by the words you speak? You know, how does a leader exercise authority through the words they speak to the decrease the issue So you speak into your world And you command these things when these things rise up You command them to be in Subjection because this is your inheritance This is your provision That you will reign in life through the one Jesus christ secondly Ephesians one verse three We are blessed With every spiritual blessing in christ we are blessed right Somebody could read Ephesians one three. I know this is scripture. We all know but let's read it again Ephesians one and verse three, please Ephesians Blessed be the god and father of our lord Jesus christ Who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in christ Emma, thank you so in christ We're talking about in christ What blessed be the god and father for lord jesus christ. What has he done? He has blessed us He has blessed us in christ You have been blessed So god's already blessed you Right now. I know We pray and say god Bless so and so or bless me Which is Fine in one sense. You are receiving what god has given to you But the fact is He's already blessed you. He's already pronounced you blessed. He's already blessed you and me with what? with every spiritual blessing Every spiritual blessing. What does that mean? It means every blessing that comes from god who is spirit Every spiritual blessing So it's a spiritual blessing because it comes from god and god is spirit so But every blessing that comes from god He has already blessed you and me with So you and I are not trying to convince god to bless us Or give something to us. He's already given every blessing that he can give He's blessed you and me with healing freedom provision victory Every blessing that comes from god. He's just our blessed you with but It is in the heavenly Places that means it's this this phrase Is another phrase another way to say it's in the spiritual world in the heavenly places It's in the unseen realm. It's in the spiritual realm now you and I Are living in two realms. We are in this natural realm that the world in which we live But because we are spiritual beings, we're also living in the unseen realm We are also living in the spiritual realm and in that unseen realm in the spiritual realm You and I are in christ and there god has already blessed you and me with every spiritual blessing This is look i've given all of this to you It's your blessing. It's it's for you So what we have to do is Learn how to take the blessing from those heavenly places or from the spiritual realms And bring it into the realm in which we live naturally that is in the natural world Right, so that's our responsibility is giving it to you but We got to start with believing this Start with recognizing this truth Start with saying look i've been blessed With every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places of them. It's in the spiritual realm Everything that comes from god is upon my life. It's been granted to me It is mine Everything god can give It's mine in the spiritual realm. So in the spiritual realm God Has made this available. So you and i are truly blessed We are blessed people So now we say okay If that is true in the spiritual realm Then i'm going to take that Into the natural bring it into the natural and The key here is faith, right and we are learning about faith On fridays our faith Is what moves these blessings Around the spiritual realm into the natural. That's why faith is so important So we learn how to have faith in god And by faith we move these blessings from the spiritual realm Into the natural realm Right And while we do that while we go about doing that exercising faith in god You know, we must also have a good attitude have an attitude of blessedness That means You know In every situation as i've written here In every situation you see yourself as a blessed person So in life we will face all kinds of situations There will be difficult situations. There'll be troublesome situations So what do you do in those situations? See yourself As a person who's blessed. So how can I do that? You know, how can I see myself as a blessed person in in difficult situations? Well, because in the spiritual realm That's who you are You are a blessed person because god has blessed you with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places Now in the natural In the natural world, you may be facing hardships. You may be facing difficulties We're not denying those hardships or those difficulties, but what we are saying is That very moment when you're facing difficulties here in the natural In the spiritual you are blessed with every blessing that comes from god And Everything in the natural can change So you by faith can bring those blessings out of the spiritual into the natural And cause the natural situations to change Right, uh, just just here are some other scriptures In relation to this, you know, james 117 says every good and every perfect gift Is from above So god has blessed you and me with every good and every perfect gift It's from about from the father. He's made it available to you and me Some 103, you know, just lists some of his benefits, you know, it says forget not all his benefits What are his benefits? Well, he forgives all our inequities He also heals all our diseases Every affliction he heals all our diseases. He redeems our life from disruption. That means he Now brings us out of troubles and problems and lifts us up. He redeems us He crowns us With loving kindness and tender mercies that means he pours out his loving kindness tender mercies Over our lives He satisfies our lives with good things That means he brings good things into our lives So that our youth is renewed our youth is renewed And see when our health strength and vitality is affected so that Our youth is renewed like the eagles the lord even executes righteousness and justice For those who are oppressed and and some 103 goes on, right? But we're just highlighting. Look, these are the benefits So these are the blessings god gives to his people and god is saying I have already blessed you With every blessing that comes from me He's already made all of these things available to you right Paul writes in roman's 832, you know if god didn't spare his own son But delivered him up for us all Won't he you know also give us freely all things? I mean if if god gave The greatest gift which is his own son freely Then what is it for god to give us anything else? healing provision Blessing in our lives Now, what is it those things are smaller compared to god giving us his own son So that's what paul is saying. Hey god didn't spare his own son But if he gave up his own son for all of us, then you know, what about all the other things? He'll freely give us all things that means god is A very gracious god in giving us all things And one last was here In luke 1232 jesus says do not feel a little flock It is your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom That means he if the father is happy To give you what's in the kingdom right? It's the father's good pleasure I mean the father's good pleasure your father is really happy about doing this Giving you what is in his kingdom Okay, any questions so far we've covered A couple of more things everyone is with me Any questions? Please let me know if you have any questions All right Let's move on The next one is this that we are Enriched in everything by him Enriched in everything By christ Let's look at that in first Corinthians chapter one Verses five through seven could somebody read this please first Corinthians one five through seven First Corinthians chapter one verse five to seven That you were enriched in everything by him in all utterance and all knowledge Even as a testimony of christ was confirmed in you So that you come short in no gift eagerly waiting for the revelation of our lord jesus christ So paul is writing to the believers in current and he's letting them know what what has happened to them spiritually he says You were enriched in everything by him means You know The Corinthians came from very difficult backgrounds. You know, we have read First Corinthians six where paul says, you know Such were some of you and he mentions, you know all all kinds of things that we wouldn't consider part of You know a good upbringing things like you know All kinds of things evil things And he says, you know So these are the people they've come to jesus But he says look something has happened to you You were enriched Enriched simply it means to be made richer Right, you were enriched that means Maybe you had a little bit of it But now you have a plant you have plenty you have more than enough of it So you were enriched In what? In everything In every way by christ including In all utterance and all knowledge In all utterance all utterance means all speech things that you would speak And all knowledge is Things that you would know You were enriched by jesus in everything In all utterance and all knowledge including these things Even as a test i'll explain what that means even as a testimony of christ was confirmed in you So that you come short In no gift you come short. You're not lacking in any gift So obviously this utterance and knowledge Is connected to this thing on gift right Even as a testimony of christ and it's christ working in and through you the testimony of christ Was very evident was where he was confirmed So If you piece what he's saying together was five six and seven what the porters paul's saying you saying, you know Corinthians When you came into christ He just blessed you he enriched you in every way I'm paraphrasing these verses. Okay, just to help us understand what paul is saying He's saying corinthians when you came to christ You were enriched by jesus In everything your whole life Was made So much better You were enriched by him in everything Including the gifts the utterance And revelation knowledge gifts the utterance that is the spoken gifts the expressions of the gifts Vocal gifts, you know interpretation of tongues prophecy And all knowledge word of knowledge word of wisdom discerning of spirits Right, he says you were enriched by jesus and everything even in all these utterance and all the knowledge gifts Why do we say that because you know, it's one sentence It's broken down as five six and seven, but he's writing one sentence So you look at it as one sentence You were enriched in everything by him and all utterance and knowledge even as a testimony to christ Was confirmed in you that miss christ working in you was very evident the testimony of christ was confirmed in you So that you come short in no gift the word gift charisma Charisma Sorry charisma The gift which later on in first going it's 12. He talks about the gifts right so These new believers were enriched by jesus and everything And jesus was working in them so powerfully They didn't lack any of the spiritual gifts utterance including utterance and knowledge that is The vocal gifts things that you speak and utter The knowledge gifts or revelation gifts gifts by which you know Right, so he says you didn't lack any of these things so how does that Applied to you and me as believers. You see What god would do for them and what paul has written to the current obviously applies to all of us It's not just them that they when they came to christ, they were enriched as all of us as believers So what does it mean? it means That when we came to christ Our lives Were enriched in everything by jesus So when you think of yourself you need to think of yourself as somebody who's been enriched in everything by jesus by him you know so um Don't ever think that oh, you know, I can't I'm not fit. I'm not worthy. I can't do what gods call me to do Um, I can't accomplish the purposes of god for my life I'm so insignificant. I'm so uh, I'm nothing look We are all just ordinary people But when we come into christ, what happens he enriches us in everything He's made your life rich full overflowing and You don't have to lack in the expression of the gifts of the spirit so Even here when it comes to spiritual gifts In christ you Have been blessed You have access to All the gifts of the spirit all utterance all knowledge You have access to all the gifts of the spirit so that the working of christ can be made manifest in you Right, so don't think that in the in the area of gifts You're coming short. No You're enriched by him in everything including all the gifts The vocal gifts the revelation gifts the power gifts. These are all yours. It's been given to you and you don't lack anything Right and as we all eagerly wait for the revelation of our lord jesus christ Okay I'm going to pause here And we'll come back and I'll take some more time to explain this You know some things that are related to this so we'll just pause here and pick up from here right after our break Okay, and I trust all of you are following me I'll come back after this break quick 10 minute break. We'll continue from where we paused And please feel free To ask any questions as we go along Okay, all right, so we'll see you in a bit just 10 minutes to have a quick break and we will be back Thank you