Resurrection Sunday

Jesus' Resurrection Guarantees our Inheritance



Today, Pastor Rick discussed how important the resurrection power of Jesus Christ is in our lives every day.

The resurrection power of Jesus Christ is alive today. It is an everyday present reality for people in Christ because it works in us. The resurrection power of Jesus Christ should be operating in our lives all of the time.

Unfortunately, Christians struggle with this power because of what is in their minds. We have to let go of traditions, customs and the like to receive the truth so that the truth can manifest in our lives. The resurrection power only happens as we believe and receive. The resurrection power works all the time, but only where faith is present. It flows through us, as Christians, because we believe in the Lord.

Jesus guarantees us an inheritance by his resurrection. One of the purposes for the resurrection is for us to get an inheritance. The resurrection is about use getting our inheritance. Jesus suffered and died to give us our inheritance. The same glory that God gave Jesus, Jesus gave to us. There is no waiting – we live in the inheritance now.

The resurrection is about us getting our inheritance now. Jesus is alive today enforcing His will. He is at the right hand of the Father, interceding on our behalf and enforcing His will. We have to change our minds and free ourselves so that we can receive the inheritance that Jesus died for us to have. No one can do it for us. How we see Jesus, whatever we say about Jesus, determines how He is on our lives.

Jesus did everything for our sake, so our faith must be in Him (Hebrews 2:9-10). All things are for Christ and belong to Him. Everything was made for Him and by Him here on earth. Jesus died, pardoned and paid it all so that He could bring all things for us. Jesus did this so that He could make “many sons to glory.” When we were born into the world, we received the spirit of bondage again to fear. When we received Christ, we received the spirit of adoption and we became legal members of the family of God (Romans 8:15-17).

God chose us – He adopted us – to be a Father to us and to be our Provider. Jesus’ inheritance, and thus our inheritance, is peace, joy, prosperity, healing, forgiveness of all our sins and so much more. Whether we knew we had an inheritance or not, we still have it because Jesus died for us to have it. We are “joint heirs” with Jesus Christ (John 14:12-14; John 16:23-24).

This means that we have the authority to receive the inheritance together with Jesus Christ. If we say we are joint heirs with Jesus Christ, we have to live like Him and pray like Him. Unfortunately, people limit God and try to put Him in a box. We have to get rid of the things in our mind that keep us from receiving our inheritance. We have to let Jesus be who He is and not put Him in a box (John 20:16, 17). Jesus Christ lives in me, He chose me and he adopted me by the Spirit of God to give me all that He is – this is why we have to learn how to pray the way that God always answers.

God has an expectation that we would take His inheritance and look like Jesus Christ. We receive Christ’s power in order to be witnesses to Him throughout the world.
There is no power in tradition but there is power in Jesus Christ. The prayer of faith tells us how to pray like Jesus, which is part of our inheritance.