When the time is full
comes a child.
When the time is full,
comes a man.
When the time is full,
comes a death.
When the time is full,
comes redemption.
With redemption
comes adoption.
With adoption
comes inheritance.
With inheritance
come the indwelling
of the spirit
into our hearts.
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The heir will inherit
the family estate, but
consider that one word: will.
The heir is wealthy,
but not yet.
The heir controls much,
But not yet.
Inheritance is a future
thing. In the meantime,
the heir is managed
by parents, guardians,
overseers, until the time
is full.
But (another critical word),
when the time is full,
when the time has come,
the heir is set free,
receives the inheritance,
assumes the power
promised.
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It is faith
that makes you
sons, heirs,
Abraham’s heirs,
and it’s clear
all nations
will be blessed
by the faith
of Abraham,
the word knowing,
anticipating,
understanding
what was to come,
that all nations,
not only one,
would be blessed
by the faith
of one man.
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The inheritance is handed
down from Abraham, a man
whose faith, whose faithfulness,
was credited to him as
righteousness. It began with
him, the man who believed
(not the man who did or
the man who accomplished).
It is this faith which defines
who the sons, the heirs, are.
Nothing else. It is not
obedience to law, it is not
performance, it was nothing
Abraham did, it is nothing
we do. Or can do. We become
the sons of Abraham
by believing, not doing.
Faith first, then all else
follows.
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It’s an ongoing reading
of the will, a daily event
to which all are invited.
The will is read, announcing
the inheritance for the heirs.
It is a will like no other,
read aloud, the words
themselves taking form,
taking life, leaping from
the page to the heart.
The heirs learn what it is
they’re receiving, that
it is not based on what
they did, their deeds and
accomplishments (also
known as the way
of the world, at least
on a good day). Instead,
the inheritance comes
from what they believe.
It is about who they are,
not what they did.
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