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Romans 8:16-17
Excerpted from: The Eternal Privileges of the Bride

Please turn over to Romans 8, verse 16. When a person becomes a saint, he gains all the privileges and responsibilities of a child in God's Family. The most important privilege is the gift of the Holy Spirit. We may not always feel like we belong to God, but His Spirit is our witness to this truth. His inward presence reminds us who we are and encourages us with His love. And because we are God's children, we inherit great treasures as joint heirs, and God is already giving us His best gifts: His Son, His love, forgiveness, and eternal life.

It does not matter what the world thinks of us, all things are ours. We are joint heirs with Christ.

We have no reason to have anxiety over this because we share Christ's inheritance, His possessions. He puts these things into our hands.

And I will add to that dignity. The foolish man lacks unrivaled allegiance to God since wealth is his god.

So the Kingdom of God itself is compared to an immense treasure that is worth securing at all costs, as Matthew 13:44 tells us.

The rich man has replaced genuine trust in God, and his reward, that is, treasure in heaven, with worldly riches. He thus breaks the first commandment, You shall have no other gods before Me.

This does not mean that every disciple of Christ must sell all he owns. Instead, the heart should be focused on God, and every possession should be yielded to God, with the result that possessions will be handled as a form of stewardship.

Everything is God's and everything we own is God's, and so we are stewards of it. The path to eternal life lies in turning away from reliance on self-achievements and worldly securities, and instead trusting in Jesus Christ, the Bridegroom.

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Our Heavenly Citizenship
Scratching Our Itches
Symbolism and Duality
The Beatitudes, Part 8: Blessed Are the Persecuted
The Israel of God
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The Trinity and the Holy Spirit (Part 2)
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From Dust to Glory
Called Their Name Adam
Ambassadors for Christ
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Hebrews (Part One): The Stage Is Set
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Spiritual Renewal
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Studying the Bible
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