Locked Out of the Kingdom: Are You Forfeiting Your Inheritance?

It is the Father's good pleasure to give us the kingdom (Luke 12:32). Do we fully understand what that means and what it requires for us to attain? Many scriptures bear witness to this claim of the Father's will to give us the kingdom as part of our inheritance. Probably the first reference to His will is in Genesis 1:26-28, where He not only purposed to make man in His image and after His likeness, but He also commanded man to have dominion over all that He created. We define kingdom as an area under the control and authority of a king. Therefore, we can assert that kingdom and dominion are synonymous with ruling authority. Jesus Christ is the King of kings, and the Father gave Him authority over all that's been created. We too are called to have dominion with Him. This promise is a part of the Father's plan for regenerated man and our inheritance.

What does the reality of inheriting the Kingdom of God look like? How do we bring forth its actualization, or is it solely the Father's responsibility to bring it to pass? Are there any other requirements beyond salvation which qualify us as inheritors to become recipients of His kingdom, or do we lack understanding regarding how we are to possess this inheritance? Locked Out of the Kingdom-Are You Forfeiting Your Inheritance? focuses on illustrating, from God's perspective, an understanding of covenantal blessings and our inheritance as believers.

Galatians 4:1-6 (ESV) states: "I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba Father " So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God."