Eternal Inheritance - Session 5

This is the fifth of five messages Doug gave in his interviews with GeorgeAnn Hughes in her podcast, The ByteShow, in 2010.
Here are my notes:
o Doug continues to use scriptures to illustrate the concept that God’s redemption of His people is not an end in itself, but is the beginning of a warfare of conquest and dispossessing of the enemy in order to take possession of the promise of the inheritance. This requires our obedience to follow the Lord fully. “Possession requires strength; but that strength that the Lord provides will not be there unless there’s obedience.”
o “No individual can possess their full inheritance in Christ by themselves; we must be related.”
o Doug reminds us of how we Christians can be drawn into idolatry – and how that jeopardizes our ability to obtain the inheritance God wants us to possess. It’s not about losing our salvation – it’s about losing full reward. It’s not about trying to keep saved. It’s about obtaining our inheritance in Christ.
o Doug quoted Ernie Hile from the conference he went to, “The new covenant is only given to the new man.” He added, “The law is given to the old man.”
o “This is not a sermonettes for Christianettes… just sit there and twiddle our thumbs as we hear somebody try to put the word of God into a straightjacket of a homiletic outline of three points, a poem and a prayer… My responsibility as a pastor ever since the beginning is to give the people the word of God.”
o “Holiness is becoming a partaker of the divine nature which qualifies us to rule and reign” with Christ.
o “There’s a final eschatological shaking that will come upon the entire church. Why? Because God will narrow everything down and gain His whole possession in His church… There’s going to be that narrowing down process as we approach the end, so that only a remnant, ‘those who are alive and survive’ (1 Thess. 4:15, 17); that surviving remnant (περιλείπομαι – perileipomai) ‘shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air.’”
o “In the days ahead, that which we call ‘church’, if it’s not on the ground of Christ… if it’s on sand and not on the solid rock, it’s going to be leveled to the ground. And much of what we see as ‘church’ in the West today is going to be levelled by the great shaking. Only that which is on the foundation of Christ, and the super-structure Christ, is going to remain.”
o Doug reminds us: “Salvation is a grace gift; but the inheritance – full reward – is earned.”
Note: Here is a link to a song I composed during the time Doug first taught us Deuteronomy ‘back in the day’ – 1980’s (or early 90’s) inspired by Moses’ song from Exodus 15: Man of War https://bookministry1.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/Man+of+War.pdf
Resources mentioned and/or recommended:
T. Austin-Sparks: Partnership with Christ - https://www.austin-sparks.net/english/books/partnership_with_christ.html
T. Austin-Sparks: Pioneers of the Heavenly Way – https://www.austin-sparks.net/english/books/pioneers_of_the_heavenly_way.html
Doug’s series: Prerequisites for the Lord’s Return - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtE2EQ9mIvN_Zdr9lQUf15rM3Hj2gWMoq
Erich Sauer: In the Arena of Faith - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtE2EQ9mIvN_Zdr9lQUf15rM3Hj2gWMoq

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