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When we receive the new birth, we immediately are co-heirs with Christ in everything.  We are yoked with Him by Holy Spirit and share in His life and He shares in ours as a child with a parent.

The term heirs of God emphasizes our relationship to God the Father. As His children, we have “an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade . . .kept in heaven” (1 Peter 1:4). The Greek term translated “heirs” in Romans 8:17 refers to “those who receive their allotted possession by right of sonship.” In other words, because God has made us His children as we see in John 1:12, we have full rights to receive His inheritance. We are His beneficiaries   (see Matthew 25:34; Galatians 3:29; Colossians 1:12; 3:24).

Jesus, the only begotten Son of God, is the natural “heir” of the Father. God said to him, ‘You are my Son; today I have begotten you, to identify with humanity, becoming your Father where all may identify with you and become my children.   (Hebrews 5:5; cf. Psalm 2:7). Christ’s inheritance is the whole universe, all that is in existence: Hebrews 1:2 says that the Son has been “appointed heir of all things.” Being a co-heir with Christ means that we, as God’s adopted children, will share in the inheritance of Jesus. What belongs to Jesus will also belong to us. Christ gives us His glory (John 17:22), His riches (2 Corinthians 8:9), and all things (Hebrews 1:2). We are as welcome in God’s family as Jesus is; we are “accepted in the Beloved” (Ephesians 1:6,). All that belongs to Jesus Christ will belong to us, the co-heirs, as well.

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