Romans 8:15 says “For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, ‘Abba Father’.”
The Greek meaning of Abba Father is “adopted father.” Adoption was common with the Greeks and the Romans, and it was common practice to give the adopted child all of the privileges of the original children, including inheritance rights.
Ephesians 2:8-9 describes how we come into this inheritance by God’s Grace only when we have faith in Him. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast.”
The exciting part about this is that just like the adopted Greek and the Roman children we are given all privileges and inheritances along with Jesus. Jesus is God’s natural son, and just like He inherited all of God’s power, blessing, and gifts of the Kingdom of God, so do we as his adopted children. That is why Jesus said in John 14:12-13 “I tell you the truth, whoever has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the son may bring glory to the Father.”
Those are powerful words that Jesus spoke about you and I and what God has in store for us the moment we put our faith in Him.
Proverbs 13:22 "A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children..."
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