In our status as heirs of God, we believers in Christ enjoy our divine inheritance with all the saints in the light, partaking of the Triune God embodied in Christ as our portion; furthermore, we as heirs of God will be glorified with Christ, for He as glory is growing in us until one day He will come out of us as glory to transfigure us.
Lord Jesus, thank You for delivering us out of the authority of darkness and transferring us into Your kingdom so that we may enjoy You as our inheritance! Praise the Lord, we are delivered from Satan and brought into Christ to enjoy all the riches of the Triune God as our inheritance with the saints! Amen, Lord, may we enjoy You more today. Grow in us today. Spread in our inner being. Swallow us up in You and increase the amount of glory in us until You fully glorify us! Amen!
Thank the Lord for unveiling us to see something concerning what we are as heirs of God. God is very rich; He is immensely rich, even all-inclusive, and He is embodied in Christ and realised as the Spirit to give Himself to us.
He wants us to enjoy all that He is; the real riches are the divine and spiritual riches of what God is. We believers in Christ are born of God with His life and nature to be children of God, and now we are learning to live by the divine life and partake of the divine nature.
We are daily growing in life until we become sons of God, those who are led by the Spirit of God.
We are being brought to maturity until one day we become heirs of God, being glorified with Christ to partake of all that God in Christ is to us. We have been justified by His grace to become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
There is some hope in our human life, for we are alive and well, for now at least, but there’s so much hope in the divine life.
The divine life in our spirit has an eternal hope; our hope is not only that we will live eternally but even more, that we will enjoy the Triune God in Christ as the Spirit as our inheritance for eternity together with all of God’s redeemed.
As we go on with the Lord day by day, we enjoy Him more and more, we experience Him in our daily life, and we partake of His riches both personally and with the saints.
On the negative side, our outer man is decaying and is being consumed; on the positive side, our inner man is being renewed day by day. May we remain in this process of growth in life today, even grow faster unto maturity! Amen!
As Heirs of God, we Share with All the Saints in the Light the Triune God Embodied in Christ as our Portion of Inheritance
One wonderful verse speaking of our inheritance as heirs of God is Acts 26:18. In this verse we see that the Lord opens our eyes, turns us from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God so that we may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Christ.
Many times when we think of being heirs of God we apply this to the personal side, for we personally inherit the riches of Christ and no one else can do it for us.
However, our view concerning this needs to be uplifted to realise that we all as believers in Christ share in the Triune God as our portion of inheritance.
On the one hand, we have received forgiveness of sins, and on the other hand, each one of us was given an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Christ.
This divine inheritance is not a piece of land or a country; it is the Triune God with all that He is, all He has done, and all He will do for us, His redeemed people.
The Triune God is embodied in the all-inclusive Christ (Col. 2:9) to be our portion, even our allotted portion for our inheritance (1:12).
In the Old Testament we see that it was not just one or two in the people of Israel who received a portion of the good land for their inheritance but everyone in the people of Israel did. The land was divided and allotted to the people of Israel.
Similarly, we as believers in Christ have been allotted a portion of inheritance together with and among the saints.
Thank the Lord for forgiving our sins and transferring us out of Satan’s kingdom into God’s kingdom, even bringing us into light and love; now we enjoy the Triune God embodied in Christ as our portion of inheritance with all the saints.
We are heirs of God. We can sense this when we come together with the saints in the church meetings and the saints function, each in his measure, to speak for the Lord and speak the Lord forth.
Each one of us has their portion of Christ, their portion of the good land that they enjoy and labour on. All the saints are being sanctified by faith in Christ, and when we come together, each one has a portion of Christ.
We enjoy the Spirit as the pledge, the guarantee of this divine inheritance, which we today enjoy as a foretaste and will share and enjoy in full in the coming age and for eternity.
What we enjoy as our portion of inheritance is not a heavenly mansion; there is a prevailing teaching in Christianity today that Christ is building heavenly mansions for His believers, and one day we will go into the mansion on the hill to enjoy God’s presence forever.
What God gives us as our portion of inheritance with the saints in the light is simply Christ, who is the embodiment of the Triune God.
It is not a place or a thing but a person that we enjoy, this is our inheritance. We have heard the word of the truth, the gospel of our salvation, and we believed into the Lord Jesus (Eph. 1:13-14).
We were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the pledge of our inheritance. God wants to make sure we enjoy Him and that we’re incentivised to enjoy Him more, so He gave us a sample of what we will enjoy for eternity.
In the old days, when someone was selling a piece of land, he would give the prospective buyers a pledge, a sample of the soil that they would get if they purchased the land.
The Spirit is the pledge of our inheritance. What we enjoy today is Christ as the embodiment of the processed and consummated Triune God.
We have a lot that was allotted to us; just as Joshua allotted the good land to the children of Israel (Josh. 14:1), so we have a portion of Christ, a portion of inheritance, that is allotted to us together with all the saints.
We share in this wonderful, all-inclusive Christ together with all the saints in the light. Hallelujah!
Lord Jesus, thank You for being our portion of inheritance today and for eternity! Hallelujah, the Lord opened our eyes, turned us from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, so that we may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance! Amen, Lord, thank You for forgiving our sins and for allotting us a portion of inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Christ. Wow, each believer in Christ has been allotted a portion of Christ together with and among the saints! Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit to enjoy You as our portion today. May we see that we are heirs of God, those who will one day inherit all that the Triune God is and has, all that He has done and will do! Amen, Lord, we give ourselves to You to just enjoy You today! We give ourselves to enjoy our portion of inheritance together with all the saints! Hallelujah, Christ as the embodiment of the processed Triune God is our inheritance for us to share with all the saints in the light! Amen!
As Heirs of God, we Believers will be Glorified with Christ – He will Glorify us from Within!
When we read concerning us being heirs of God, we may look at our condition, our situation, and our problems, and we may wonder when and how this will happen.
Especially as we hear that we will inherit the Triune God in Christ as our portion of inheritance, it is easy to become subjective and think that maybe others will do this but we are far away from such a goal.
However, we need to believe not our present situation but the word of God. We should not trust in ourselves that we will make it but trust in the Lord and believe His word. We believers in Christ read the Bible and pray it to the Lord, believing that, what God says in His word, He will also do it.
In Romans 8:17 we are clearly told that we will be glorified with Christ. As heirs of God, the believers will be glorified with Christ. Right now, Christ is in glory; He passed through a process, reached the consummation of this process, and is now sitting at the right hand of God in glory.
Eventually, we all as believers in Christ will be brought into glory and we will be glorified with Christ. This means that the body of our humiliation will be transfigured into a glorious body to match the body of His glory (Phil. 3:21).
We say Amen to God’s word. We believe God’s word. We believe that, at the time of the transfiguration of our body, we shall completely and absolutely be brought into God Himself as our glory, and we shall appear with Christ in glory (Col. 3:4).
Christ is now our life, and He is also the glory within us. One day He will glorify us and we will be glorified with Christ.
Regarding the matter of glorification, however, we may hold a wrong concept, thinking that one day, suddenly, when Christ comes, we will be glorified in an instant, and that’s it.
This is what most believers believe; they think that the glorification of the believers will take place instantaneously at the coming of the Lord Jesus.
However, although our glorification may appear to be a sudden occurrence, it will actually be the consummation of a process of gradual growth and development in life.
The life we have within us as a seed is the life of glory; this is Christ in us, the hope of glory. Christ is in us, and He is the hope of glory; He grows in us, spreads in us, and increases in us.
Just as a seed grows, lengthens, and blossoms to be glorified, so Christ as the seed of glory in us grows, lengthens, spreads, and will eventually blossom to glorify us; we will be glorified with Christ. It is similar to the glorification of the Lord Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration (Matt. 17:1-2).
He was glorified before His disciples not by God giving Him glory but by glory coming from within Him; He was unveiled before them to be glorious. Wow!
It was not that the shekinah glory suddenly came upon Christ from the heavens but it was the divine glory shining from within Him.
It is the same with us; we are in the process of growth in life unto maturity, the process of the development of the divine life in us, and one day this life will saturate us and come out of us to glorify us! Amen!
When we have been permeated and saturated with the element of glory, that glory will come out of us; this is what it means for us, the heirs of God, to be glorified with Christ.
On His side, yes, God will glorify us with Christ, but on our side, because we have been cooperating with the Lord for Him to grow in us and develop within us, He will come out of us from within us as glory!
Christ is leading many sons into glory (Heb. 2:10-11); this is not some objective glory in the heavens but the very glory that has been sown into us as a seed. It all depends upon our cooperation with the Lord day by day in our daily living.
We need to let Him grow in us and spread in us. As He speaks to us, mainly saying No, don’t do this, and, No, don’t react in this way, we heed His speaking, deny the self, and let the Lord live in us. We mainly fail, however, and we become more and more desperate to let Christ live in us.
He wants to grow in us, saturate our mind, emotion, and will, and flow out of us, even saturate us fully for us to be glorified with Christ.
When He comes, He will be glorified in His saints and will be marvelled at in all those who have believed (2 Thes. 1:10). He will come out of the saints to glorify them, and others will be amazed!
Our daily life should be a life of beholding and reflecting the Lord like a mirror until we are transformed into the same image, from glory to glory (2 Cor. 3:18).
May we remain before the Lord, beholding Him daily and reflecting Him as glory. May our daily life be from glory to glory. May our meeting life be from glory to glory.
As we live at home with our dear family, may we be from one stage of glory to another stage of glory! As we do things with our children, from glory to glory!
As we remain open to the Lord in this way, we will be glorified with Christ to be heirs of God! Amen!
Lord Jesus, we say Amen to Your word. We believe that You will one day glorify us, as You promised in Your word. Hallelujah, Christ is in us as the hope of glory! Amen, Lord, may You as the seed of glory in us grow day by day until one day we are glorified with Christ! Praise the Lord, as heirs of God, we believers in Christ will be glorified with Christ! Amen, Lord, may today be a day of enjoying Christ and allowing Christ to live in us! Bring us on to glory little by little, day by day. Grow in us today. We say Amen to Your word and we want to follow Your inner leading. Amen, Lord, speak to us daily and grant us the grace to obey Your inner speaking. Praise the Lord, the life that we have within us as a seed is a life of glory, for Christ is in us as the hope of glory! Grow in us, Lord, saturate us, and permeate us with the element of glory! Saturate us a little more today. Permeate us to the extent that glory will come out of us and we are glorified with Christ! Amen, may the Lord soon come and be glorified in His saints to be marvelled at by others! Praise the Lord, we as believers in Christ are heirs of God who will one day be glorified with Christ! Amen!
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 5.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Thou art our eternal portion, / Here we take a sweet foretaste; / We are waiting for Thy kingdom, / And Thy coming now we haste. / At Thy coming, in Thy kingdom, / With all saints that overcome, / We anew will feast upon Thee / And Thy loving Bride become. (Hymns #221 stanza 4)
– Christ is the hope of glory, my very life is He, / He has regenerated and saturated me; / He comes to change my body by His subduing might / Like to His glorious body in glory bright! / He comes, He comes, Christ comes to glorify me! / My body He’ll transfigure, like His own it then will be. / He comes, He comes, redemption to apply! / As Hope of glory He will come, His saints to glorify. (Hymns #949 stanza 1 and chorus)
– God will bring us into glory, / We will then be glorified; / Fully saturated with Him, / We’ll be wholly sanctified. / 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 5-7)
