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Receiving your Inheritance now

Receiving your Inheritance now.

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Receiving your Inheritance now

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  1. Receiving your Inheritance now And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as towalk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

  2. Receiving your Inheritance now May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.

  3. Receiving your Inheritance now He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

  4. Receiving your Inheritance now A prayer “that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will” in all spiritual wisdom and understanding

  5. Receiving your Inheritance now so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.

  6. Receiving your Inheritance now • Discussion: • What do you imagine it is like to be filled with the knowledge of God’s will? • What might interfere with our being filled?

  7. Receiving your Inheritance now • Discussion: • How would you define spiritual wisdom and understanding? How would you know if you were growing in spiritual wisdom and understanding? What would be the signs of such growth?

  8. Receiving your Inheritance now • Discussion: • What does it mean to “walk in a manner worthy of the Lord?” • How would you assess your life to see if you were “increasing in the knowledge of God?

  9. Receiving your Inheritance now May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy,

  10. Receiving your Inheritance now • Discussion: • How does God’s power strengthen you? • Why is joy linked with endurance and patience here? Does that seem fitting?

  11. Receiving your Inheritance now giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,

  12. Receiving your Inheritance now in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

  13. Receiving your Inheritance now • Discussion: • Do you feel qualified for the inheritance of the saints? How did God qualify you for this? • What is the inheritance of the saints in light?

  14. Receiving your Inheritance now • Discussion: • How do you define the “domain of darkness?” • When were you delivered from the “domain of darkness and transferred into the kingdom of his beloved Son?” How did God do this?

  15. Receiving your Inheritance now • Discussion: • When Paul says “in whom we have redemption” grammar suggests that it is in a person rather than a kingdom that we have this; what does this suggest about how forgiveness is received?

  16. Receiving your Inheritance now Response: What is your part in receiving and living out the blessings God has for you? What remains for you to do in response to God’s outpouring of love and grace for you?

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