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Today is Thursday March 18, 2010 and we are reading through the Bible in a year. Today's message comes from the reading of the Book of Joshua, chapters 14-16. If you would like to read the chapters along with us here online you can Click Here to read them or copy & paste this URL onto your browser: http://www.readytofollow.com/bible-march-18
Title: Bible Study: Heirs With God
It is amazing to think that with all the crazy things going on in the world today that God is still in control of it all. People whine and complain and even blame God, wondering why He allows so much pain and suffering in the world, but they fail to realize that He is not the one causing the problem, we are. How can God make a change when even we as Christians do not want to do anything in the will of God? He is going to continue to allow pain and suffering until we all realize that God is in control, and no matter how many people try to pretend that they do not need God or are in control nothing will change that.
The Israelites were now receiving their inheritance, the land of Canaan was divided up precisely by the amount of people in each tribe, nine and one half of the tribes received a part of the land. Some did do as God commanded and removed all the inhabitants there before moving in, but others allowed them to dwell with them. “And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them. By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.” - Joshua 14:1-3. There were three people remaining out of the first generation of Israelites that were able to enter the promised land, Joshua, Eleazar, the priest, and Caleb. Before receiving their inheritance, at the age of eighty-five, Caleb, who was of the tribe of Judah, went before Joshua and requested a certain part of the land. “Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea. Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart. Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God. And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God. And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.” - Joshua 14:6-10. God allowed the request and gave Caleb the land he asked for because of his faith in God, it took him forty-five years to be able to receive his inheritance, but he never gave up on the promise that God made.
It may seem insignificant to read of the division of the land and where exactly each tribe dwells, but it is very important. This is the land that God had given His chosen people to dwell in and still today they dwell there, even some of us today come from one of those tribes. Yet nations are turning their backs on it and trying to divide the nation and take it away from them. The day we turn our backs on Israel is the day God places judgment upon any nation who tries to take the promised land from His people. Think about all that is going on in America right now, they have cut support to Israel and are even trying to get them to divide the nation. And we wonder why the economy is getting worse and why there is so many natural disasters and wars going on in the world? God is in control and until we get that in our heads He is going to keep allowing people to suffer. “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” - Romans 8:16-18.
As Christians, we inherit a part of the Kingdom of God by our faith in Jesus Christ. The word inherit means that we receive or possess something as an heir to a family member. In other words, the day we accept Jesus Christ into our hearts and ask Him to save us from hell we become an heir, a family member of God, and will receive our inheritance in the Kingdom of God. “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” - Galatians 5:19-25. Praise God that we are heirs of God and no matter what suffering and judgment is placed upon the world, we know where we are going, to our mansion in the Kingdom of God. Praise God!
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God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina
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