Our Heritage

HERITAGE is inherited property handed down from ancestors.

Romans 8:17: "And if children (sons - male & female), then heirs; heirs of God (our creator, the Supreme Divinity) and joint-heirs with Christ”! So God is our Father, and Jesus our Big Brother, “the firstborn of many brethren” (Romans 8:29)! Therefore, what belongs to God belongs to Jesus, and what belongs to Jesus has been given to us! Hallelujah!

1 Peter 1:3-4 says, "Blessed be the God (Eloheem, our Creator) and Father (our protector and provider), of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead; to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you"!

QUESTION: What Heritage has been handed down to us?

ANSWER: THE "KINGDOM!" That which Adam (male & female) had in the beginning but lost! It (the Kingdom) has now been restored back to us through Jesus, The Christ, who is that Kingdom!!

What is Kingdom? Kingdom is power (dunamis - force, strength, mighty works, miracles); that which made it possible for Jesus to do what he did, and also that which makes possible for us to do what we do for God's glory!

"For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power"! (1 Corinthians 4:20)

"For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost”! (Romans 14:17).

The RIGHTEOUSNESS is us being upright in God; having right standing with and in God! The PEACE is us being at rest and oneness with our Father! The JOY is us being happy, delightful, and rejoicing in the Holy Ghost, knowing that we don't just have the victory in Jesus, but that we are the victory because of him!

In the Kingdom is every thing we need! In Christ is every thing we need! The Kingdom is Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is the Kingdom!!

In Him we have redemption through his blood! We have forgiveness of sins! We've been adopted or put in position as sons! We are “holy and without blame before him in love”! (Ephesians 1:4-7). Verse eleven (11) tells us we “have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated” according to God's own will!! Verse three (3) lets us know that God the Father “hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ”!! Are you IN him? Or is it only that he is in you? We need him IN us and we need to be IN HIM!

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature [creation]; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new"! (2 Corinthians 5:17)

This is our HERITAGE! We have it ALL available to us NOW!! We can have divine health! (Isaiah 53:5) “With his stripes we are healed”! (1 Peter 2:24) With whose stripes we WERE healed!

We HAVE eternal life! (St. John 3:16)!

"For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality! So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory”!! (1 Corinthians 15:53-54)

Paul asks, "who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" (Romans 7:24) JESUS has done it!!!!! He conquered "sin and death" in that flesh body, and his body didn't see corruption so that we could overcome and not see corruption!

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of SIN and DEATH! For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh! (Romans 8:2-3). GLORY TO GOD!! There is so much I could say about this, but it's too much to put into this one lesson! But this is our HERITAGE, people of God!

Paul wrote, "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge (recognition; full discernment; acknowledgment) of him. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; (vision of the mind made plain or clear): that ye may know what is the hope (confidence; expectation) of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints”!! (Ephesians 1:17-18).

People of God, ALL of this is contained in Christ. He is in us so our HERITAGE is in us! “Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.” (1 John 4:4). Who is it that's in you? Jesus is In you, so the KINGDOM is in you, because he is the KINGDOM! Take a look at St. Mark 11:9-10: “And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest!!" Jesus is the KINGDOM, and the KINGDOM is IN you!! "The kingdom of God is within you!" (Luke 17:21)! JESUS THE CHRIST IS OUR HERITAGE!!

QUESTION: What good is your heritage (inheritance) going to do you "up yonder beyond the blue in the heaven that religious order has told you about?"
ANSWER: Right here is where we need the heritage (the KINGDOM - power, authority, dominion, might, wisdom, understanding, knowledge, joy, peace, righteousness and more)! All this has been made available to us now so we can rule over the works of the devil here and now! That's kingdom - when we overcome and rule and reign over the enemy here and now!! Hallelujah!!

In order for one to INHERIT another's possession, the heir must be alive!! Our testator has died and is resurrected, and NOW ALL the blessings the Father put in place for us are ours RIGHT NOW!!

We do not have to die and sail off up yonder to "heaven" to have it. It's ours NOW, IN CHRIST! In the last part of 1 Peter 1:4, he states our inheritance is "reserved in heaven for you!" Heaven is the abode of God. An abode is a dwelling place! “God was IN CHRIST reconciling the world unto himself”! (2 Corinthians 5:19)! Keep in mind Ephesians 1:3 which states that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, “hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ”! So if we are IN Christ, and we are, then we are IN HEAVEN (higher places of spiritual elevation; happiness; eternity; the Gospel of Jesus Christ - not religion)! For he “hath raised us up together, and made us sit (established) together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus”!! (Ephesians 2:6) Glory Hallelujah!!

- Apostle Gracie Perry