Your Eternal Inheritance

1
Your EternalInheritance

• Galatians 3-27-47 and the
• Blessedness of Being an
• Heir of the Promise

2
The Progression of Galatians

• No Other Gospel (Chapter 1)
• The Authentic Apostle (Chapter 1-2)
• The Christians Crucifixion (Chapter 2)
• Faith and Abrahams Offspring (Chapter 3)
• The Law and its Purpose (Chapter 3)

3
Clothed with Christ

• GAL 327 For all of you who were baptized into
  Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.

4
Putting on the Garments of Fullness

• Equally familiar to Pauls readers would have
  been the custom whereby a Roman youth, nearing
  the end of adolescence, would remove the crimson
  bordered garment of childhood and put on toga
  virilis to mark his entrance into full manhood.
• Timothy George (NAC Galatians)

5
No Outward Distinction

• GAL 328 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is
  neither slave nor free man, there is neither male
  nor female for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
• GAL 329 And if you belong to Christ, then you
  are Abraham's descendants, heirs according to
  promise.

6
Under the Management of the Law

• GAL 41 Now I say, as long as the heir is a
  child, he does not differ at all from a slave
  although he is owner of everything,
• GAL 42 but he is under guardians and managers
  until the date set by the father.
• GAL 43 So also we, while we were children, were
  held in bondage under the elemental things of the
  world.

7
The Ultimate Heir Arrives

• GAL 44 But when the fullness of the time came,
  God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born
  under the Law,
• GAL 45 so that He might redeem those who were
  under the Law, that we might receive the adoption
  as sons.

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Why Does Paul add Born of a Woman, born under
the Law?

• Born of a woman Promised conquer of sin and
  Satan our accuser.
• Born under the law The one who fulfills Gods
  righteous commands on our behalf.

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Becoming an Heir

• GAL 46 Because you are sons, God has sent forth
  the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying,
  "Abba! Father!"
• GAL 47 Therefore you are no longer a slave, but
  a son and if a son, then an heir through God.

10
The Promised Blessing

• GENESIS 2218 "In your seed all the nations of
  the earth shall be blessed, because you have
  obeyed My voice."

11
A Question

• What is included in this
• Blessed Inheritance?

12
The Promises are Yes in Christ

• 2Corinthians 120-22 For as many as are the
  promises of God, in Him they are yes therefore
  also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God
  through us. Now He who establishes us with you in
  Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us
  and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.

13
The Consummation of the Blessing

• REV 217 He who overcomes will inherit these
  things, and I will be his God and he will be My
  son.
• REV 2214 Blessed are those who wash their
  robes, so that they may have the right to the
  tree of life, and may enter by the gates into the
  city.

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Surpassing Riches of His Kindness

• Ephesians 24-7
• But God, being rich in mercy, because of His
  great love with which He loved us, even when we
  were dead in our transgressions, made us alive
  together with Christ (by grace you have been
  saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us
  with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
  so that in the ages to come He might show the
  surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward
  us in Christ Jesus.