Names & Special
Remarks
Given
to
All The People Of GOD
Our heritage, our
destiny, our authority and our identity in GOD’s Family and His Kingdom by
divine Covenant are accentuated in the Names & Remarks He has given to
us.
Joint Heirs with Christ
Co-Heirs with Christ
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.
Romans 8:17 KJV
We are heirs of God and joint heirs (co-heirs) with
Christ.
First, Jesus Christ is God’s Firstborn—born of The
Spirit, and in time, born of a virgin (natural birth), when suddenly a great
company of the heavenly host of angels appeared in the eyes of the shepherds,
praising God and exclaiming,
"Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth peace to men on
whom His favor rests."
Luke 2:13-14 NIV
The Holy Spirit rejoiced when Jesus was born; in the
highest Heaven, He gave Glory to GOD, for the true Light that gives light to
every man was coming into the world.
Because Jesus fulfilled His priestly ministry, and
accomplished His work as our Savior here on earth, He qualified as “Heir” of
God. We, too who have believed in His Name have become “heirs” of the
Righteousness that comes by faith.
Christ is the ‘means’ by whom the Mercy of God is communicated
to the world, to both Jews and Gentiles.
Abraham is presented in Scripture as having all the
world given to him as his inheritance; because ‘in him all nations of the earth
are blessed’ by the enacting of the “Abrahamic covenant”; and now, every person
who has believed and received God’s One and Only Son, has the privilege of
justification through faith. This is made possible by the Blood of The Lamb.
On the Resurrection Morning, we shall be adopted
into the divine, celestial family of God, of which we now, already are
spiritually part of. We are presently God’s inheritance. The Spirit Of God sustains us in the relation
of sons to God, so we shall be treated as such, and admitted to share in His
Favors.
This is an honor infinitely higher than to be heir
to the most princely earthly inheritance; or than to be the adopted son of the
most magnificent earthly monarch.
The Church is of the First-born, for we all who have
come to believe on God’s Son are His heirs and along with Christ, joint heirs. Heaven
is an inheritance that all the saints are heirs to. They do not come to it as
purchasers by any merit or procurement of their own; but as ‘heirs’, purely by
the act of God; for God produces heirs through Christ. But if we are to share in
His Glory, we must also share His suffering.
Christ is by eminence The "Son Of God."
therefore, He is ‘heir’ to the full Honors and Glory of Heaven. All God’s
children are united to Him; they are His brothers; and they are thus represented
as destined to partake with Him of His Glory by adoption. Philippians 2:8-11 is
proof that He is directly the divine “heir” of God; and Hebrews 2:9-12 proofs
that He has qualified us to partake in the Glories of the eternal inheritance
together with Him.
But we see Jesus, Who was made a little lower than the angels,
now crowned with Glory and Honor because He suffered death, so that by the
Grace of God He might taste death for everyone.
In bringing many sons to Glory, it was fitting that God, for
Whom and through Whom everything exists, should make the Author of their
salvation perfect through suffering.
Both the One Who makes men holy and those who are made holy are
of the same family.
So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. He says,
"I will declare your Name to My brothers;
in the presence of the congregation I will sing Your
praises."
Heb 2:9-12 NIV
So, Jesus, “the Captain of our Salvation”, was made
a little lower than the angels; tasted death for us, even as He was perfectly
equipped for His office as High Priest, and was crowned with Glory and Honor; for
it was an act worthy of God and fitting to the divine nature. God did this so
that we may become joint-heirs with the Messiah; this is “unmerited favor”.
The Pioneer of our Salvation was perfected through
sufferings.
Here are some other convincing passages of the
Scriptures which prove our justification and God-given right as His sons:
For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to
the likeness of His Son, that He might be the Firstborn among many brothers.
And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified;
those He justified,
He also glorified.
Rom 8:29-30 NIV
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 is under tutors and
governors until the time appointed of the Father. Even so we, when we were
children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fulness
of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the
law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption
of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son
into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant,
but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Galatians 4:1-7KJV