'' This Post,discusses what the Bible declares to be our "inheritance" as Christian believers. It is important to understand this inheritance. Otherwise, we will lose it, and miss out on God's purpose for our lives..
To understand our inheritance, we must first realize that all of us, as believers in Christ, are priests of God:
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." (1 Peter 2:9-10)
Notice how the passage above declares that we are priests on account that we are God's people now. The Church has grown accustomed to the idea that the only "ministers" or "priests" are those who came out of seminary and hold a full-time position in some well-recognized congregation. This idea, however, grows out of man's carnal desire to create castes among people, but the Lord sees us as One Body, whose members have all been baptized into the same Spirit and into the same Anointing:
"For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit." (1 Corinthians 12:12-13)
"But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." (1 John 2:20)
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