a person legally entitled to the property or rank of another on that person’s death.
The Apostle Paul writing to the Hebrews reminded the Jewish believers of their position with God.
First the Lord Jesus is appointed heir of all that he had created
Hebrews 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Then he reminds them that they are heirs ministered to be angles.
Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
God guarantees his promise to his heirs confirming it by an oath.
Hebrews 6:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
In the “Hall of Faith” Paul speaks of the Old Testament HEIRS. (read all Hebrews 11)
Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Hebrews 11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Paul reminds the Roman believers that being an Heir is not by works but by Faith.
Romans 4:13-14 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:
And when saved we become children of God and also heirs.
Romans 8:17 And 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.
And to the Galatians, who were being dragged back under the Law, he reminds them they became heirs through FAITH.
Galatians 3:29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.
As long as an heir is a child, he’s like a servant…
Galatians 4:1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
But as he grows he is a son and an Heir.
Galatians 4:7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
But LAW and Grace cannot be mixed.
Galatians 4:30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
Only by His Grace is the believers faith justified.
Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Think what being a joint heir with the Lord means. Access to eternity.
1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
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