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8-30-2020 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 91:1-16

Text: Ephesians 1:13-23

Title of the Word: Hope and inheritance given to the church of God

        The church of God entered into the kingdom of God. Apostle Paul testified of the hope and inheritance for the church of God. He testified of the hope:

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.”(Titus 2:13)

       He testified of the sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise saying,  “they might praise his glory as a guarantee of inheritance to be given (Ephesians 1:13-13). The inheritance to have in the present world shall be disappear when the world and the lust pass by. But the inheritance for the children of God in the church of God is eternal one.

         Apostle Paul testified of this hope and abundant inheritance for the children of God cannot to be understood, unless the eyes of understanding is opened through the spirit of wisdom and revelation.

        The first eternal inheritance for the children of God is the reigning power with Christ on the earth in the Millennium Kingdom after he judge the world and restore the earth. the second one id the inheritance shall be given for them in heaven when Christ fills all things in all. Apostle Peter testified of it, saying,  ” To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, ” (1 Peter 1:4).

         Apostle Paul testified to the saints suffering in Rome that the inheritance of the children of God is the inheritance as heirs of God:

” The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

17And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. ” (Romans 8:16-17). 

          King David prophesied of the inheritance that Christ will receive when he is  coming King of Kings and Lord of Lords:

“Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. 5Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

6Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

7I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

8Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. 9Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

10Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. 11Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. 12Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him..” (Psalm 2:1-12)

          God sent his only-begotten Son, Jesus, as the King of the Jews two thousand years ago, but they were against His kingdom with violence by rejecting Him and crucifying Him who was innocent. Since then, for the past two thousand years, God has been waiting for the kings and judges of the world to repent, but all the nations have formed the United Nations and united with Satan to rebel against Jesus, who will come, as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. They are determined to gather together at Armageddon to fight against Chris..

          However, God in heaven made a decree to set Jesus Christ as the only king on the earth  and to impeach all the kings and judges of all the nations of the world, and he will fire all of them in the courts of heaven when the Lord Jesus Christ comes as the  Lord of judgment,   At the same time, the Lord Jesus Christ will occupy all the ends of the earth, and will reign as  King of Kings and Lord of  Lords. At this time, the  translated saints  shall come down to the earth with him as the joint heirs with him and rule over the whole earth together.

          Jesus spoke unto his disciples a parable. When he comes back to the earth as the king of the whole world, he will give reigning power to his servants according to their works:     

“ A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

13And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.

14But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.

15And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading. 16Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds. 17And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities. 18And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds. 19And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities. 20And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin: 21For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow. 22And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: 23Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury? 24And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds.

25(And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds.)

26For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him. 27But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me..'” (Luke 19:12-27)

In Jesus’ parable, we are able to find out some of important truth.. Even if we are the children of God, the inheritance shall be given as much as we have done for him on the earth. Jesus has already given each of us one pound asking us to occupy with it.  Assuming that the Bible is the one pound given to each of the children of God, to occupy with it may mean to preach the gospel to occupy the earth occupied with the devil. Apostle Paul testified that they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham (Gal. 3:9). Abraham received the land as much as he walked horizontally and vertically. When Jesus was on the earth, He also preached the Gospel by traveling without ceasing. Jesus commanded unto his disciples saying, “ All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,“(Matt. 28:18-19a)   

Jesus asked them to teach all nation of himself that has all  power of heaven and earth.That’s right! The children of God who have become members of the Church of God shall receive the reigning power in his kingdom as much they preach the gospel walking with him . In this regard, Apostle Paul testified of the children of God as the joint-heirs of Christ.  He also testified that Christ became the last Adam to be the quickening Spirit (1 Corinthians 15:45). Therefore  the church of God, the body of Christ, became the last Eve as the bride of Christ as helping hand for Christ to fill all things in all in heaven forever.(Ephesians 5:32). Apostle Paul called this as a mystery.

          Apostle Paul testified of the great power given to the children of God in the Holy Spirit within them that is the resurrection power that raised Christ from the dead. He also testified that God gave the head of all things that is Christ to his church.  testifying that his  church shall  become his helping spouse in filling the whole universe forever and ever.

Apostle Paul testified of this as a great mystery:

” And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. ” (Ephesians 1:22-23).

          Apostle Paul testified that there is something necessary to understand all these mysterious truths. He also said that he prays for the saints for this:

” 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 of him: 18The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

19And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, ” (Ephesians 1:17-19).

Jesus had  taught the words of God his disciples for three and a half years, but they could not understand the truth. But when Jesus after resurrection opened their understanding, they finally realized and understood the meaning of the Lord’s death and resurrection, so that they were able to preach the gospel of  Christ of the salvation through repentance and forgiveness of sins to the whole world:
“These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. 45Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48And ye are witnesses of these things.” (Luke24:44-48).
Amen! Hallelujah!