The Riches of His Glorious Inheritance in the Saints!

[Vine Abider]

This is a wonderful thought from a devotional I read today, showing a grand purpose God has in store for us in Christ! Oh that we would comprend the Riches of the glory of His Inheritance in the Saints! 

I pray... that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints. (Ephesians 1:18 NIV)

What is Christ’s inheritance in the saints? What are the riches of the glory of Christ’s inheritance in the saints? It is that the saints are to provide Him with the means of the universal manifestation of Himself as God has purposed Him to be. It is a part of the arrangement in those counsels of the Godhead, that He shall be the central fullness, but that the fullness should not be manifested, displayed in an isolated way. There would be no purpose in that, because He could have done that in Deity without incarnation, He could have possessed the fullness in that way, and that is what the letter to the Philippians says. He was equal with God, and had all the fullness, but He emptied Himself. Why? In order that others might be brought into the fullness, that He might not hold it all for Himself. That is what Satan wants to do.

The Lord Jesus let go in order to bring others in. The apostle says, “Let this mind be in you.” If any of you are inclined to stand for your own rights, on your own ground, to hold things for yourself, you are violating the very spirit of Christ who let go His own rights in order that others might come into them and get the benefit. So the inheritance of Christ is this: that He is made heir of all things, but He can have all things only as He has the saints, and He gets those “all things” through and in the saints. It is a part of the arrangement, the agreement. It is not as one isolated unit in God’s universe, that He is to have everything, but by appointment man-wise, in a corporate sense, and not only in a personal sense.... The Lord is not satisfied with His people just being saved, and the Lord is not satisfied that people should just remain saved. The Lord has fixed this as His goal: the full knowledge of Him. It is indispensable to the Lord. His inheritance is bound up with it. The need today is that the Lord’s own people should come into a knowledge of Himself which they do not possess, into a position in relation to Himself which they do not occupy; in a word: into the full knowledge of Him.

By T. Austin-Sparks from: The Church of the Firstborn - Chapter 3

[Mr. M]

22 minutes ago, Vine Abider said:

It is that the saints are to provide Him with the means of the universal manifestation of Himself as God has purposed Him to be.

Which is the giving of thanks, even as they are partakers of His sufferings.

1 Peter 4:

12 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you,

as though some strange thing happened to you; 

13 but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings,

that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 

14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, 

for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. 

On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.

Romans 8:

16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 

17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, 

if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be

compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 

1 Chronicles 16:

34 Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.
35 And say, “Save us, O God of our salvation;
Gather us together, and deliver us from the Gentiles,
To give thanks to Your holy name,
To triumph in Your praise.”

36 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
From everlasting to everlasting!

And all the people said, “Amen!” and praised the Lord.

1 Co 4:15 For all things are for your sake, that grace, having spread

through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

Colossians 2:7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith,

as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

 

On earth, as it is in heaven, by the voices of the Saints in Light!

Revelation 7:

11 All the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures,

and fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

12 saying:

“Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom,
Thanksgiving and honor and power and might,
Be to our God forever and ever.
Amen.”

[TheBlade]

So many of us will find out in heaven all we would have "had" .. or just not speaking believing all His promises. Something I had them read ALL when we got married. I just love it.. and 40+ years later all praise GLORY TO GOD! We only because of HIM are still going strong. As Isaac was we are the Children of promise. 

So amen my brother