We believers in Christ are becoming heirs of God according to the hope of eternal life, having been justified by His grace, so that we may enjoy all the riches of God’s life for eternity; today we’re in the process of growing in life unto maturity until we become heirs of God to enjoy all His riches for eternity.
Lord Jesus, thank You for justifying us by Your grace so that You may make us heirs of God! Praise the Lord, having been justified by His grace, we are becoming heirs according to the hope of eternal life! Thank You, Lord, for not only regenerating us with Your life for us to be children of God but even more, for growing in us unto maturity until we become heirs of God! Amen, Lord, grow in us more today. Bring us into the full enjoyment of the riches of God’s eternal life today, in the next age, and for eternity! Amen!
This week we come to a very precious matter related to us being believers in Christ: Heirs of God. How good it is to read the Word of God and gain a further and deeper appreciation of what we are as believers in Christ!
There are so many rich aspects in the New Testament concerning the believers, and we need to see these aspects and cooperate with the Lord to become such ones.
We need to realise that we have been given God’s life, the eternal life, and now we need to grow unto maturity in this life. Being an heir is related to maturity in life.
We are children of God who grow in life to be sons of God, even to be heirs of God – heirs through God to enjoy all that God is (Gal. 4:7).
May the eyes of our heart be enlightened for us to know what is the hope of God’s calling and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.
On the one hand, we are heirs of God, enjoying all that God is as our inheritance for eternity. On the other hand, we are God’s inheritance for God to enjoy. How wonderful!
As believers in Christ, we have been born of God to be children of God; our relationship with God is in life, for He is our Father and we are His children.
We have received eternal life through regeneration. We now have another life in addition to our human life, and this life needs to grow in us, develop in us, and mature in us so that we may become heirs of God to inherit all that God in Christ is to us.
Further growth in life is needed for us to become heirs of God. In human society, a father makes a will and a testament that, when his son becomes mature, he receives the inheritance.
Spiritually speaking, God entrusts us with all that He is, the full enjoyment of eternal life, when we grow in life unto maturity and become mature sons of God.
Having Been Justified by His Grace, we Become Heirs of God According to the Hope of Eternal Life
What is an heir? According to its definition, an heir is a person legally entitled to inherit the property, assets, or title of another person upon his death.
The literal meaning of heir is someone who has been appointed to receive an inheritance.
We all know that, in the human realm, it is possible for a rich father to assign someone who is not his child to receive his inheritance; however, in God’s economy, according to the Bible, God’s inheritance goes to His children.
Praise the Lord, we are children of God, and we will become heirs of God to inherit what God is in full! May we never undervalue the fact that we are children of God. The believers in Christ become heirs of God.
Since we are renewed through regeneration to receive the divine essence, we are also made heirs of God, who are qualified to inherit the estate of God the Father (Rom. 4:14; 8:17; Gal. 3:29; 4:7), according to the hope of eternal life (Titus 3:7).
In Romans 8:17 we are told that, if children, heirs also; on the one hand, heirs of God, on the other, joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him.
On the one hand, we are children of God, and there’s no condition related to this; we simply believe into the Lord and are regenerated to be children of God.
But to be heirs of God, we need to suffer together with Christ. Suffering is not the goal; the goal is to grow unto maturity to become heirs of God.
People today dream of having a comfortable and peaceful life; sooner or later, everyone has suffering. Each one of us is facing something; it may be something related to our health, our job, our family, our home, or society; we all suffer.
Suffering, however, is the incarnation of grace. Suffering is for us to be helped to enjoy Christ and gain more of Christ as grace.
Just as a seed seems to suffer very much when it is put into the ground, for it dies, yet it grows and bears fruit through much suffering and pain, so we go through much suffering and pain to become heirs of God who enjoy God and express God.
We cannot grow without suffering, and we cannot reach maturity without trials and tribulations.
The shining of the sun is normal and even needed for a plant to grow unto maturity and bear fruit; suffering is normal and even needed for us to be brought to maturity and become heirs of God. May we grow normally day by day, little by little.
Titus 3:7 is such an encouraging verse related to becoming heirs of God, for it tells that, in order that, having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
We believers in Christ are not only sons but also heirs who are qualified to inherit our Father’s estate (Rom. 4:14; 8:17; Gal. 3:29). First, we are born of God with His eternal life to become children of God (John 1:12-13; 3:6).
This eternal life is not only for us to live and enjoy God in this age but also to inherit all the riches of what God is in the next age and in eternity. This eternal life also implies hope, for it is forever and it can never be terminated.
God’s eternal life is our enjoyment today and our hope tomorrow. Eternal life is the uncreated life of God, the divine life; it is everlasting with respect to time, and in its nature it is eternal and divine.
All believers in Christ have received eternal life (1 Tim. 1:16), and it is the main element of the divine grace given to us (Rom. 5:17, 21). This life has conquered death and will even swallow up death (Acts 2:24; 2 Cor. 5:4).
Through the preaching of the gospel, eternal life and incorruptibility have been brought to light and made visible to men (2 Tim. 1:10). We enjoy this life today and we inherit it in its full extent for eternity (Matt. 19:29).
What we enjoy today is a foretaste; the full taste is in the coming age and in eternity. This is the hope of eternal life, the blessed hope revealed in Titus 2:13!
The blessed hope is composed of the freedom of the glory of full sonship, the redemption of our body (Rom. 8:21-25), the salvation to be received in the last time (1 Pet. 1:5), and the living hope of the incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading inheritance reserved in heaven (vv. 3-4).
This is the full, spiritual, divine, and heavenly blessing and enjoyment of eternal life, both in the millennium and in the new heaven and new earth (2 Pet. 1:11; 3:13; Rev. 21:5-6) referred to in 1 Timothy 4:8.
According to the hope of eternal life, we become heirs of God to inherit all His riches for eternity. Praise the Lord!
We can open to the Lord in this respect to cooperate with Him to grow in life unto maturity to become heirs of God according to the hope of eternal life.
Lord Jesus, thank You for regenerating us with Your life to make us children of God! Hallelujah, we believers in Christ have eternal life to enjoy God as life, live by God’s life, and inherit eternal life! Amen, Lord, grow in us today. Grow in us unto maturity until we become heirs of God according to the hope of eternal life. May we partake of eternal life, live by the eternal life, and enjoy eternal life today in our daily living. Praise the Lord, the eternal life is not only for us to live and enjoy God in this age but also for us to inherit all the riches of what God is to us in the coming age and in eternity! Praise the Lord for the hope of eternal life! Amen, Lord, we believe Your word and we say Amen to Your word! Hallelujah, we will become heirs of God to inherit all His riches for eternity! Wow, we human beings can become heirs of God by growing in life and partaking of the riches of eternal life today! Praise the Lord for such a glorious hope! Amen!
We Believers are Born into God’s Family to be Co-Heirs with Christ Inheriting All God’s Riches for Eternity
In the Bible, an heir is one who rightfully receives the property given to him by a will or a testament. An heir of God is a recipient of a promise or inheritance from God, born into His family through faith in Christ.
We are becoming heirs of God. Heirs of God signifies inheriting eternal life, the kingdom of God, and spiritual blessings; heirs of God are often described as being co-heirs with Christ. We are co-heirs with Christ.
In the Bible, an heir is one who receives an inheritance, typically a son or a designated relative who takes possession of a father’s estate, rights, and responsibilities.
Spiritually speaking, heirs of God refer to believers born into God’s family who, as co-heirs with Christ, receive the promises of salvation, eternal life, and the kingdom of God.
We are becoming heirs of God; today we need to be good receivers and enjoyers of eternal life so that we may partake of the riches of God’s life today, in the next age, and for eternity.
We believers in Christ are heirs of God through justification by the grace of Christ (Titus 3:7). To be justified is to be approved by God according to His standard of righteousness (Rom. 3:24; Gal. 2:16).
God can approve us in this way because justification is based on the redemption of Christ. Hallelujah, when Christ’s redemption is applied to us, we are justified.
We do not receive only God’s unmerited favour, as some consider grace to be; we actually receive Christ Himself as life and everything dispensed into us for our enjoyment.
Hallelujah, we are continually receiving the transmission of the incarnated, crucified, resurrected, and ascended Christ into us – this is grace!
When we received the grace of Christ, we were justified to become heirs of God.
On the one hand, we receive eternal life and live by this life; on the other hand, we leave many things in this age, forsaking them for the Lord’s sake and for the sake of the gospel, and we will receive much more in this age and inherit eternal life in the next age.
We not only enjoy eternal life in this age, but we will also inherit it in the next age and for eternity.
If we today remain in the proper pathway of growth in life, we enjoy a portion of the divine life today, and for eternity we will inherit eternal life; we become heirs of God according to the hope of eternal life.
Praise the Lord, we have eternal life and we are eternally saved! We can never lose our salvation, and even more, we want to enjoy the Lord to the fullest in this age, even suffer with Him, so that when the next age and eternity come, we will inherit eternal life.
We can testify that today in the church life we enjoy Christ as life both personally and corporately. When we spend time with the Lord, He is so rich and wonderful to us. And when we come together, it is so enjoyable to be with the saints and enjoy His riches corporately.
If today we have such a rich enjoyment of Christ, how much more will be the fullest enjoyment of the eternal life in eternity, when we are heirs of God, inheriting eternal life in full!
We want to get to the full taste, joy unspeakable and full of glory, and the half has never yet been told.
May we remain in the enjoyment of the foretaste of eternal life today, growing in life unto maturity, so that we may be sons of full age, heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, inheriting eternal life for eternity.
Lord Jesus, grow in us today. Keep us enjoying eternal life and living by this life until we grow in life unto maturity! Amen, Lord, how rich You are to us in Your word as we read and pray over Your word! How much we enjoy You when we come together with the saints! Thank You for being such a rich portion to all the saints in one accord. Thank You for bringing us in the family of God to become co-heirs with Christ who receive the promises of salvation, eternal life, and the kingdom of God! Hallelujah, we have a blessed hope that, for eternity, we will inherit eternal life in full together with Christ and with all the saints! Amen, Lord, we pray for more growth unto maturity today! We open to You and we want to cooperate with You so that You may grow in us and bring us to maturity. We want to remain in the foretaste of eternal life today until we enter into the full taste of eternal life in eternity! Praise the Lord!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ricky Acosta on this topic, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 101, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Believers (1) (2026 July Semi-Annual Training), week 4, “Heirs of God” – day 1.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Our Brother’s inherited all / God made Him to rule His affairs / Appointed—this office He fills / And shares it with us, His joint-heirs. / Elected before earth was formed, / We’ve found that we are qualified / To share all His glory and worth. / How could men but for Christ decide? (Hymns #1292 stanza 2)
– Why should I complain / Of want or distress, / Temptation or pain? / He told me no less; / The heirs of salvation, / I know from His Word, / Through much tribulation / Must follow their Lord. (Hymns #716 stanza 4)
– To the freedom of this glory, / All creation will be freed; / With the kid shall lie the leopard, / And the cow with bear shall feed. / Heirs with Christ in our full sonship, / We’ll His heritage possess, / Glorified with Him as brethren, / God’s full glory we’ll express. (Hymns #970 stanzas 6-7)
