A Christmas Inheritance

If you could have anything for Christmas what would it be? Anything for Christmas. What you ask for? Someone like your pastor, like the pastor would say, “a winning power ball ticket”. Someone might want a PS5, a new car, a new house, toys, a job and so on. Somebody just might say a smooth transition from the current white-house occupant. There are some who want more sentimental things. One more Christmas with a beloved family member who has gone to glory. Some would just want to see or hear merry Christmas from a parent who they never knew. But what If I told you that even thought all of those things i said, and all those things you said amen too were great; and all the things you listed silently in you heart are great, things to have and ask for; that there was something better. What if I told you there was something worth more than millions of dollars. There was something more secure than your dream job. That there was somewhere greater than a new house, who was occupied by someone greater than the president. That there was someone more precious than the sweet sound of a deceased loved one. What if i told you could have something greater and that was your God given inheritance as a Child of God that includes but not limited to Eternal life. What a blessing it is to know that if i dont’ have anything waiting for me under the tree on Christmas, that I have a house not made with hands in heaven.

What is the

God’s Plan

God’s gifting and given of an inheritance begins with the idea that those who would be considered children of God are were currently no different from a slave. And so Paul connects his previous illustration to the the time Jesus would come to grant the children their inheritance (Elaborate).

What does fullness of time mean? Why that time? When did Jesus come when He did? -Pax Romana, universal language, Daniel’s say prophetic fulfillment. But, the fullness of time does not mean Jesus came at the best time. It means Jesus came at the right time. He was poor, the height of the Roman empire and occupation, Jews were at their highest of hypocrisy . The fullness of time is not always the best time, but it is always the right time.

So when you are wondering when is God going to act on your behalf, when is God going to fix it. It doesn’ always happen when things are going good.

Born of a Woman?

Under the Law?

God’s Purpose

God sent his Son to redeem.

to redeem those who were under the law. Although we are not Jews and the law was not properly addressed to the gentiles the law was still God’s way of separating his people. But the law was imperfect in that it could not save. In. 18 Paul says that “for if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.” So, all people under the bondage of the law, and all people including Jews must be adopted into God’s family.

Adoption as sons

Our Parentage

God sent the Spirit of His Son, so that the intimate relationship Jesus have with God is the intimacy we can have with God. That the same way God

Abba, Father!

NO longer a slave

A Son, and an heir!