The meek or the humble, they will yarash
the world or, or the land. They will yarash. Say yarash.
Yarash is the word, yarash in Hebrew, yarash which means to inherit.
That's where you get it all. The meek shall inherit. Inherit.
They shall be heirs. Now I want to focus the most
of this message on what it means, what it means for you
to be an heir of God and what it means to live as
an heir. Look at what the Bible says about this.
I'll give you an example. Galatians 3:29. If you belong to Messiah
then you are Abraham's children. You are heirs
according to the promise. What is that saying?
Stop right there. If you are Messiah's per, if you are born again, if you're
a true born-again believer you are Abraham's child. Abraham's child!
That's radical. You are, the Bible is saying you are actually a child of Abraham.
Not just figuratively. You are actually a child
of Abraham in the spirit. The scripture, it links up with
a scripture that says once you ... say you were born,
you're Italian, you're, you're Asian you're whatever you are.
You weren't born Jewish. The Bible says, in another scripture it says once you
were separated from the commonwealth of Israel but now you are
a fellow citizen. Of what? Of Israel. Hooks up with the other scripture.
You were a wild olive branch. Now you are grafted in. So you've got all
those three things. Now you are grafted into the olive tree,
to Israel. Number two. You are a child of Abraham.
And number three, you are a citizen of Israel.
That means that more than you are anything else,
more than you are Italian or Irish or Swedish or,
or, or from Latin America or from Africa or from Asia,
you are first a child of Abraham. You are
a, a spiritual child of Israel. Your citizenship is Israel. In fact Paul
says you were born of Jerusalem. You're a child of Abraham.
What does that mean? That means a lot. If you're a child
of Abraham it says you are an heir, just like Isaac was. Isaac was
the child of Abraham and look what he inherited.
Jacob and Esau were children, but Esau kind of rejected the inheritance and
Jacob strived for the inheritance. And look
what it meant. It changed the whole world. When you're a child of Abraham ...
you're an heir to the promise. Now it says in Colossians,
it says, giving thanks to the Father who has
qualified us to share. In what? The inheritance. We are to share
in the inheritance of the saints in light. Who has qualified us.
Titus 3 says this. So that being
justified by his grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
We would become heirs of eternal life. So what is it saying?
We are heirs of the promise. We are heirs of light.
We are heirs of eternal life. We are heirs of Abraham. That means what?
The blessings that were given to Abraham in some way relate to all of us. Not that
you are given the land. Some people take this the wrong way.
But spiritually the blessings of Abraham are to you.
If you're ... if you're his child and you're an heir.
We are heirs of something that is greater than this world.
It's better than ... What's an heir?
An heir is one who is appointed to receive an inheritance, a blessing,
an estate, money, possessions, a position. Something. You know ...
many of, most of us will know what that is in some little
way when, if our parents pass on. That is, you are inheriting something.
You are an heir. What does an heir mean? It means
you're appointed to receive something. Something you don't have now.
You're an heir to something. Someone who is, like for
someone who is not on the throne but is in line is called
an heir to the throne. They don't have it yet, but they are going to get it.
An heir is one who's appointed to receive a blessing.
Now you are appointed to receive a blessing that is greater than that.
I remember watching, growing up seeing
the, the Honeymooners and Ralph Kramden, bus driver
helps a rich lady. She dies and leaves him in her will.
Leaves him her fortune. And he gets all excited.
He's going to be a millionaire. All excited. He goes to the will,
goes to the reading. And Fortune is the name of her pet bird.
Fortune. But you, the Bible says are appointed to receive
something better than a fortune, better than a treasure.
See there are heirs in this world. There are children of rich people. They call
them heirs. You know, an heiress, an heir
to a throne, an heir to a, to a fortune, to an oil fortune
to a business fortune. They don't have to do anything their
whole life. All they do is receive money. And some of them get really messed up.
Because they don't have to do anything. You know, they just receive. But you are
an heir the Bible says and your inheritance that you have is so
much greater than any oil heiress or any heir to any fortune
in this world. You have something. You've got to believe that.
Because that's what the Bible says. It's far better, far
greater. The Bible says. So what if you were an heir to a billion dollars?
You might be happy about that for a while. But you are an heir to something greater
than that. And you've got to get that in your spirit.
The Bible says you're an heir. What does that mean? You can't be an heir
without a will. In order to be an heir you have to have a will.
The inheritance comes in the will. Now technically if somebody's an heir
they don't know the will and they don't claim what's in the will
and, or they don't accept the will, or they're never brought to the will.
They, maybe they're a lost relative. They don't receive the will. They don't apply
the will. They're not going to get blessed with the inheritance. So you as a child
of God are an heir. But to the, the heir, to be
an heir there has to be a will. What is the will
to your inheritance? The will to your inheritance is this.
This is the will. This is the reading This is the will.
This is filled with your inheritance. So the first key,
as an heir to God, and heir of the kingdom
and of Abraham is that your inheritance comes through the will.
your blessings, every blessing comes down to you through the will of God. Now you might think well that's kind of
using the same word. It's two different things. No it's not two different things.
... when you say when somebody makes a will
what's it, why is it called a will? Because it's their will
to give this to somebody when they're gone. It's their will
to bless somebody. Well it's simply a will means a will.
God's will is to bless you. God's will is, just as you have to be in the will
to get the inheritance. Your life has to be in the will of God
to get the inheritance and blessing of God.
It means as much as you're not in the will of God, you're not
in the will of God, you won't inherit. You won't know the blessings. And as
much as you get your life more and more in the will of God you'll be in the will
of the inheritance of God. To find out how you can receive
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