Joint Heirs with Jesus (Part 1)

Everthing in the bible is true, but not everthing in the bible is true for every person. If we are not willing to suffer with Christ, walk obediently to Him, look after the destitute, love Him as God alone, keep His temple undefiled, etc. then we will not be able to access a lot of the good things in His word.

In the kingdom of God, we all start from the same point where we are broken before God, asking His forgiveness for our sins and accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour. This is probably except we had given our lives to Him while being still a young child, unsinful and unblemished or if we believe that God exists, have professed Him all our life but have never given our hearts to Him.

So we would start at 1Peter2:2 and graduate to Hebrews 5:12-14. If we feed a baby milk from a bottle all it’s life, then food for it would always be a bottle of milk. Christians therefore who have not been given any hard food or strong meat (in the word) all their lives will remain as babes.

If we really love God we will at least make an attempt to do whatever He has asked us to do, no matter how inadequate, uncomfortable or ashamed we might feel. At some point it might be a worthwhile test of persons in leadership of churches, if they are asked to do things that they would not normally want to do, like cleaning the church (including the toilets). This would give us an idea of how much they love God or if they are saved.

In St.John 14 Jesus promised that whatever works He did on earth, we could do likewise and even greater works. Any person can speak the word of God, but nothing will happen unless we truly believe or unless the gifts are given by God and we operate with his authority.

So everyone quotes Isaiah 54:17, no weapons that is formed against thee…., but do we qualify? God was/is speaking to a favoured woman, His people, the church. God shows us one of the ways to qualify with the Isaiah 58 fast, when in verse 9 He says that having done His will, when we call unto Him, He will say here I am.