We have been talking about changing things; before we change our life and the things in it we must change our image of it. Before we can change the image, we must have something to change it to; this is why we must know we have been given an inheritance.

Let me point out it’s an inheritance for us to do something with. Not an inheritance that we just sit down with on these nice padded pews, no matter how nice the pews are. You might even feel pretty comfortable sitting there. This inheritance isn’t for us to do that. It wasn’t His intention for us to take this inheritance and just sit (If you don’t mind me saying this) to just sit on our inheritance. He wants us to get off our inheritance and do something with it. Begin to use it in the body of Christ. It’s called increasing the kingdom of God. 

Eph 1:11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 

First, most people need to know that they have an inheritance. A lot of people in the body of Christ still haven’t realized that they have an inheritance that God gave them freely. It’s nothing they can earn. It’s there for us to receive and have manifested in our lives. 

Eph 1:17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 

We need to ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to us the inheritance that has been given. Reveal to us everything that God has given us. Many acknowledge their inheritance of salvation, but when it comes to other things in the Word of God, they excuse it away, saying that it passed away and God doesn’t do that anymore. Some might have a revelation about their inheritance in the part about healing. Others may have the revelation about prosperity, peace, or that He’s a life changing God. While somebody else may not have that particular revelation. Whatever it is that we are short in; the Holy Spirit will hold nothing back. 

Yes we have prosperity as a part of our inheritance, and guess what? It’s free we don’t have to pay for it with our tithes and offerings, Jesus paid the price for prosperity also. I get tickled sometimes with some friends of mine that say they are called as business men in the body of Christ, called to make money. There is that calling, that gift of giving (Romans 12:8). Yes, that is the actual calling, the gift of giving, not just to make the money for their own pleasure. I get tickled because they act as if God has given them some big “secret” to make money. God never intended to withhold anything from anybody. If He reveals something to somebody for them to make money with, He expects them to share that. To reproduce themselves, to multiply. 

You see, God is a God of reproduction. He wants them to take that revelation that they have in the Word of God and begin to reproduce others that can go out and make money for the kingdom of God. There has to be a right motive somewhere along the line. We have to correct our motives, if they’re out of line. He expects them to reproduce. Actually, we’re only cutting our own supply line off if we don’t reproduce. When we begin helping other people, that’s when the blessings begin to flow. Whenever our motive is that we want to help others in the body of Christ, we have touched God’s heart. 

My wife and I don’t worry about any need, or anything, because we know that God is going to supply it. We make sure that in our hearts we keep that motive right of “Why are we in the ministry?” Well, He showed me a long time ago that He is a life changing God. So I’m supposed to be out there, for Him to flow through. To change other people’s lives, that’s helping other people. Changing their lives from where they’re at now, to another place. It doesn’t matter what your call is, your motive has to be right. The motive is helping other people. 

Those that are lost and those that are in the body of Christ that don’t have that revelation, we are to help them. It’s to overflow out of us and into them. That opens up the blessing of God in our life. But first, we’ve got to realize that the Holy Spirit is the one who will reveal. He’s the only one that can reveal our natural mind, our natural eye, and the natural things of man. We can’t find out the things that have been freely given to us. It’s only by the Holy Spirit. He’s the one that will reveal these things to us. “Would you prove that to me?” Yes. 

1 Cor 2:10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.

Now having the spirit of this world, is being a child of the devil. That’s basically what that is. If we are of the world, then we are a child of the devil. We have to either be a child of God, or a child of the devil. There is no in-between here. We are either/or. Before we were born again, we were a child of the devil. A child of the spirit of death, instead of the Spirit of Life. 

But the spirit of life which is from God.” 

Now he’s talking about our born again spirit. He’s not even talking about the Holy Spirit. First he said, “Not the spirit of the world.” That’s an unborn again spirit. That’s a spirit that is unable to receive the things of God, or understand the things of God. Then he says, “But the spirit who is from God.” That’s our born again spirit. At that point, when we were born again, we received the capacity to understand and receive things from God. Before that, we were not able to. 

I remember before I was born again, when I would open a Bible in one of those motel rooms, or something, I couldn’t understand one word of the Bible. I knew about all the Bible stories, but as far as taking the Bible, opening it up, and trying to read it, I couldn’t. I mean I couldn’t even focus on it more than two minutes, and I certainly didn’t understand what the Word of God said. But when I got born again and I received the Holy Spirit, I may not have understood very much at a time, but I did begin to understand. I received the capacity to understand the Word of God, and the things that God had for me, and was able then to begin to understand Him. Before that, I couldn’t even understand Him.

One of the biggest problems that we have getting people filled with the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues is the more education they have, the more they think with their mind, the more trouble getting them filled with the Holy Spirit. It’s because their mind is always trying to analyze and figure it out. How do you figure out praying in other tongues? The natural mind is not going to understand the things of God. That certainly explains it right there.

Continuing on he says in 1 Cor 2:12, “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.” 

Once again He’s talking about, what we just said. Our inheritance that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. Here on this earth as well as in heaven. 

Verse 13, “These things we also speak, not in words which mans wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things, with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” He told the people there at Corinth, “Look, you’re a bunch of babies, and this is how I can tell. All you do is fight and fuss and have divisions among yourselves, so therefore you’re babes. I want to give you more and you have been given the greatest teacher in existence to compare things to the Word of God but you’re more interested in the color of the carpet and who is sitting in your seat. I can’t even explain some of this to you, because you’re carnal. You’re babies in Christ; I can’t even get past the milk.” 

The more this Born Again spirit can come forth by turning ourselves over to the transformation and illumination of the Holy Spirit, the more we will begin to see ourselves as God’s see’s us. Which is His Image projected in us and thru us. Its called conforming to His Image and walking into how He sees us which is an overcomer. Walking into the inheritance we have been given. "Be blessed as a son and daughter of God."

1 Cor 3:9-10, “For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. According to the grace of God which was given to me as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it.” 

Paul is talking here basically about false doctrine, wrong teaching, men’s traditions, religion, and things like that. He goes on to say in verse 11, “For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” You must be born again. There is no other way. You must accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. That is the foundation. That is your way to Heaven. He said not only that, but Paul also said to be careful about how we lay upon this foundation. Be careful about how we use this inheritance that has been delivered to us. Be careful about how we use these things from God that He has given to us. Paul said, “Be considerate of how you use these things that the Father passed on to us and what we do with the things of God and make sure we go all the way with the things of God.”

Paul goes on to say, 1 Cor 3:12-14 “Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward.” Do you know that it doesn’t just stop here? It doesn’t stop with salvation, it doesn’t stop with getting filled with the Holy Spirit and having that speaking in tongues experience. 

The evidence of speaking in other tongues is not even the issue in the Word of God. The issue in the Word of God is whether we want the Holy Spirit praying on our behalf or not. Whether we want Him involved in our life teaching us, and praying for us, and standing in the gap on our behalf. The issue is whether we want the Holy Spirit in on our life, bringing our inheritance to fruit, and keeping us until the day of redemption. That is the issue!!!! The Holy Spirit is the One who keeps us until that day that Jesus returns. He will teach us, and keep us on the foundation, and show us how to build carefully on it. 

What Paul is saying is, here’s the foundation, the Lord Jesus Christ, but Jesus sent the Holy Spirit that you could understand and have the capacity to receive the things from God that has been given to you freely, your inheritance. The Holy Spirit will keep us going in the right direction, building upon the foundation with correct doctrine, that whenever we stand before the Lord Jesus Christ, it doesn’t go up in smoke. The work that we do here on earth is going to be tested by fire, and that which stands the test of fire, will receive a reward. That which doesn’t stand the test of fire will be burned up like a pile of straw. 

I told a bunch of people the other day, “You know you don’t want to end up in India in some ghetto doing good works just because you wanted to do good works. You want to be where God wants you to be, doing those good works. You need to take time with the Holy Spirit and find out exactly where you are supposed to be and what you are supposed to be doing”. 

All I am talking about is that we don’t want to be in the wrong place spending our entire life thinking that we are doing something good and we didn’t even ask Jesus where we were supposed to be. Not even taking time to find out from the Holy Spirit, who knows every part of the plan of God for our life. If we don’t take time out it is our own fault because everything in our inheritance was supplied for us to find out exactly where we are supposed to be. 

“If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved.” Paul goes on and talks about that if anyone defiles this temple of God, God will destroy them. He’s talking about false doctrine. You know, we think sometimes as Believers that it’s the “smoking and drinking” that he’s talking about. You know smoking is not good for your health. It will destroy your health. Alcohol will destroy your health. But, what He’s talking about here is doctrine. He’s saying be careful about how we build on our foundation, and what direction we’re going. Be careful and make sure that you get the Holy Spirit involved in your doctrine. 

Eph 1:13 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory. The Holy Spirit is part of our inheritance. He is our earnest. Our deposit. Our seal toward the day of redemption. He will set up housekeeping in us. Purge out false doctrine. Purge out the things that are not of God. Wrong thinking, doubt, and unbelief. We cannot afford not to pray in other tongues, allow the Holy Spirit freedom in our life. Illuminating the Word of God which contains our inheritance causing it to come alive in our life so we can begin an image change.
 

I pray and believe this teaching has been a blessing for those that read it and do it. Feel free to make copies and pass it on to others.

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