The Word of God’s Grace can Build us up & Give us the Triune God as our Inheritance

Thank the Lord that we can be commended to the grace of the Lord by the saints and we can be committed to God and to the word of God’s grace, which is able to build us up and give us the inheritance among all those who have been sanctified. Amen!

Oh, how wonderful it is for us to know, experience, and enjoy the grace of God, for this grace is with our spirit and we can live by grace and do everything by grace! The grace of God is a matter of tremendous significance, for grace is simply God to us for our enjoyment.

Grace is not just what God does for us or gives us; grace is the Triune God Himself dispensed into us as believers in Christ to be experienced by us as our enjoyment.

When Christ came, grace came; grace is Christ, the embodiment of the Triune God to be our experience and enjoyment.

When we enjoy God, that is grace. And this grace is not just Christ Himself but also Christ moving, working, reigning, convincing, subduing, saving, and uplifting.

There are many aspects of grace that the Bible reveals to us, including great grace, visible grace, grace saving us, grace empowering us, grace imparted, the real grace, and commended to the grace of God.

We can have grace to function, grace for timely help, grace reigning and abounding, justified by grace, receive grace, gifts according to grace, sufficient grace, the grace of the Lord Jesus, and grace being with our spirit.

And we as believers in Christ, need to experience the grace of the Lord as revealed in the New Testament.

We have faith and love through His superabounding grace, we obtained access into grace and stand in it, we enjoy eternal comfort and good hope in grace, we come forward to the throne of grace, and we receive God’s abounding supply of grace.

We can constantly enjoy God’s multiplifying grace, we enjoy His greater grace by being humble, we experience His sufficient grace, and we have a stewardship of grace.

We can speak words of grace, we can reign in life by receiving the abundance of grace, and we believers can have grace upon us, even have grace visible. Hallelujah!

In the book of Acts, for example, we see many instances of grace, including the fact that great grace is upon the saints, we continue in the grace of God, we testify to the word of His grace, and we can be commended to the grace of God for the work we are to fulfil.

It is by the grace of the Lord Jesus that we are saved in the same way, all the saints. Truly amazing. Amazing grace. This grace really is everything to us and does everything in us and for us, as we enjoy the Lord as grace.

Being Commended to the Grace of the Lord by the Brothers

Acts 15:40 tells us that Paul chose Silas and went out, having been commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers. This was the start of Paul’s second ministry journey, which ended in 18:22.

The context of this is that Barnabas and Paul just finished their first ministry journey; they had been set aside by the Spirit and sent by the church represented by the brothers, and they went to preach the gospel and raise up churches in particular areas.

This was purely a move of the Lord, begun by the Spirit, for Him to preach the gospel and spread the kingdom of God throughout the areas around them.

After they finished this journey, Paul and Barnabas found out that some came from Jerusalem and taught that Gentile believers need to be circumcised and keep the law to be saved, and they went to Jerusalem to fellowship with the leading brothers about it.

Chapter 15 in Acts presents to us how the leading brothers in Jerusalem had a conference, a gathering, and they fellowshipped about this matter.

It was quite a breakthrough for them to realise and accept that God wants the Gentiles also to be saved, yet not keep the law, for salvation is only by the grace of God.

Just as the Jewish people were saved by the grace of God, so the Gentile believers are saved by grace, not by any works of the law. So Paul and Barnabas brought this fellowship to all the churches, and all the churches were encouraged and strengthened.

Then, Paul and Barnabas wanted to go on another ministry journey, but Barnabas really wanted to take John with them (John was his cousin), yet Paul considered that, since John left them in their previous journey, he was not ready for another one.

There was a sharp contention between the two of them (Acts 15:39), and Barnabas took Mark and sailed away to Cyprus (where he was from), and Paul chose Silas and went out, having been commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers.

This shows that, even in the work of the Lord, there may be sharp contentions due to natural relationships and preferences, and some may even exit the flow of the Lord’s move because of this.

Yet those who remain in the fellowship, in the flow of the divine life, will continue with the Lord and will be commended to the grace of God.

We need to be those who deny ourselves, put aside any natural preferences and natural relationships, and simply remain in the divine stream.

We may have been used by the Lord greatly, even as Barnabas was, and we may even bring in someone who was feared by the saints, yet becomes so useful to the Lord in the work, as Barnabas did with Saul, yet due to the natural relationships and preferences, we may leave the divine stream.

But praise the Lord, we can be like Mark, who was eventually recovered and was very useful to Paul in the ministry, and he was also very much with Peter to the extent that he wrote a gospel, which was Peter’s reflection on the Lord’s ministry on earth.

May we remain open to the Lord and in the fellowship of the Body so that we may be commended to the grace of God by the brothers and go on, one with the Lord, to fulfil the work He assigns us to do for Him. Paul was commended to the grace of the Lord.

The fact that Paul was commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers indicates that he had taken the right way.

We may be in the Lord and in the church life, but we may choose the wrong way.

We want to choose the right way, which is remaining in the enjoyment of Christ in the church life and being commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers.

Lord Jesus, we love You and we open to You. We want to enjoy You and remain in the enjoyment of God as grace. Thank You, Lord, for Your grace. Thank You for Your grace in our spirit and also for the grace in the church. Amen, Lord, may we be those who are commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers. May we choose to take the right way today, not straying from Your way. Oh Lord, save us from any natural preferences, natural relationships, and any expression or emphasis of an aspect of our natural life. Keep us in the divine stream of God’s life and work today. Keep us in the enjoyment of Christ as grace and in the fellowship and coordination with the Body so that we may be commended to the grace of the Lord by the saints. Amen, Lord, may our going on the gospel, visiting the new ones, caring for the saints, and visiting the churches be in the divine stream! Hallelujah for the divine stream, the stream of the divine life and the stream of the Lord’s work!

The Word of God’s Grace Builds us up and Gives us the Inheritance among all those who have been Sanctified

Acts 20:32 says, And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who have been sanctified. What a word!

Paul was in Ephesus, and most likely for three years, he daily spoke the word of God’s grace to the saints.

When he left Ephesus, he committed the saints to God and to the word of His grace.

The word of God’s grace is able to build us up and gives us the inheritance among all those who have been sanctified. Hallelujah! First, the word of God’s grace is able to build us up.

This word is like food to us, causing us to eat the Lord and grow by being nourished with His element so that we may grow in life and be built up.

As we come to the Lord and enjoy the word of God’s grace, we are edified and equipped with the divine knowledge.

In order for the saints to be built up, they need to grow in the divine life; the growth in the divine life needs the nourishment of the divine element and the edification and equipment with the divine knowledge. All these can be afforded only by the word of God’s abundant grace.

This word is the Triune God Himself who went through the processes of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension.

This word has been given to us for our enjoyment. When we enjoy the Lord in His word, when we read and pray the Word of God, we eat the Lord in the Word, and the word of God’s abundant grace is able to build us up.

Furthermore, the word of God’s grace functions to give us, the believers in Christ, the inheritance among all those who have been sanctified. Wow!

When we enjoy the word of God’s grace, we enjoy the inheritance among the saints who have been sanctified. Praise the Lord!

What is this divine inheritance? It is the Triune God Himself with all He has, all He has done, and all He will do for us, His redeemed people.

The Triune God came to be embodied in the Lord Jesus Christ (Col. 2:9), and He became the allotted portion of all the saints to be our inheritance (1:12).

And today we can enjoy this allotted portion as a foretaste, a pledge, and guarantee of our divine inheritance by the Spirit, who is the pledge of our inheritance (Rom. 8:23; Eph. 1:14).

Today we live in the age of grace, the age of God’s New Testament jubilee, and we can share and enjoy a foretaste of the divine inheritance God wants to give us by exercising our spirit to touch and enjoy the Spirit embodied in the word of God’s grace.

For eternity, we will share and enjoy in full the jubilee, the allotted portion of all the saints, the divine inheritance, and for eternity, this will be our portion.

Thank the Lord that the Triune God Himself with all that He has, all that He has done, and all that He will do for His redeemed people, He wants to be our portion for our inheritance today.

He has done everything; He went through a process in order to both accomplish God’s will and to deal with every problem and every negative thing in order for us to enjoy Him as our inheritance.

He has done everything: He created us in a particular way, and though we fell, He came to be a man, dealt with all the problems, and after His death and resurrection, He became a life-giving Spirit to become our inheritance. Hallelujah!

We believers in Christ today have a wonderful and glorious inheritance – the Triune God with all that He has, all that He has done, and all that He will do for us.

Our eternal inheritance is related to the divine life, which we have received through regeneration and which we are experiencing and enjoying throughout our entire Christian life.

We have received the divine life; all those who have the divine life are glorious inheritors of the riches of the Triune God by means of the word of God’s grace.

For us to participate in God’s inheritance, we need to be sanctified; for us to be sanctified, we need the word of God’s grace.

An inheritance is a proper and legal possession; we don’t work for it – we simply receive it and enjoy it.

Praise the Lord, on the day we have been regenerated, we were given the right to share in God as our inheritance!

In this inheritance, we have all the blessings related to eternal life. We have a legal, proper, and legitimate inheritance, for Christ died to purchase it for us; He paid the price of His precious blood.

May we enjoy this divine inheritance among those who have been sanctified. May we be in the word of God’s grace, enjoying God and partaking of HIs riches, and allowing Him to sanctify us by saturating us with what He is.

In John 17:17 the Lord prayed that we would be sanctified in the truth – His word is truth.

To be sanctified is not only to be separated from the world and its usurpation unto God and His purpose, but also to be saturated with His life and nature dispositionally (Eph. 5:26; 1 Thes. 5:23; Matt. 23:17, 19; Rom. 6:19, 22).

May we remain in the word of the Lord’s grace and allow Him to sanctify us and saturate us so that we may enjoy Him as our inheritance.

Lord Jesus, thank You for the word of God’s grace, which is able to build us up and to give us the inheritance, which is God Himself! Amen, Lord, we open to You as we come to Your word. Praise the Lord, the word of God’s abundant grace is able to build us up! Grow in us, Lord, and build us up in You! Keep us enjoying You in the word of God’s grace today so that we may enjoy the inheritance among all those who have been sanctified! Hallelujah, the Triune God has become our portion for our inheritance! Thank You, Father, for qualifying us to receive and enjoy Christ as our portion for our enjoyment! Wow, the Triune God Himself, with all that He has, all that He has done, and all that He will do is now our inheritance for our enjoyment. Wow, our eternal inheritance is God Himself as our portion! Amen, Lord, sanctify us in the word of God’s grace so that we may enjoy You more and inherit all that You are. Separate us from the world, Lord, and saturate us with Your element so that we may be sanctified and enjoy God in Christ as our portion for our inheritance!

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 the brothers, and portions from, Life-study of Acts, pp. 465-467, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, One Accord and Crucial Aspects of the Book of Acts (2025 April ITERO), week 6, Grace in Acts – day 6.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – O Father of glory, now grant unto me / A spirit of wisdom, a spirit to see; / O give unto me the full knowledge of Him, / Enlight’ning the eyes of my heart deep within. / O show me that Christ is the hope of Thy call— / O glorious hope, Christ will fill all in all! / Reveal Him—the riches of glory in us— / As God’s own inheritance. How glorious! (Hymns #1133 stanzas 1-2)
  – Now I’m wholly sanctified, / Selfless, I obey His word; / Nevermore to feel ashamed / When I come before the Lord. / How transcendent is this life! / Grace thru faith He gives to me! / Praise the Lord, He heard my cry / And has made me wholly free. (Hymns #412 stanza 7)
  – Thou canst keep me upward looking, / Ever upward in Thy face; / Thou canst make me stand, upholden / By the greatness of Thy grace; / Every promise of Thy word / Now I claim from Thee, dear Lord. / Oh! what joy to trust Thee, Jesus, / Mighty Victor o’er the grave, / And to learn amid earth’s shadows / Thine unceasing power to save! / Only those who prove Thee know / What the grace Thou dost bestow. (Hymns #571 stanzas 4-5)