Weekly Pursuit – Week 2 of June
Verses:
Acts 20:32 “And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.”
Excerpts:
In Acts 20:32 we see the function of the word of God’s grace. First, this word is able to build up the saints. To build up the saints requires the growth in the divine life, and the growth in the divine life needs the nourishment of the divine element and the edification and equipment with the divine knowledge. All of these can be afforded only by the word of God’s abundant grace, which is the Triune God Himself who went through all the processes of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension and who has been given to the saints for their enjoyment.
Second, the word of God’s grace functions to give us “the inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.” The divine inheritance is the Triune God Himself with all He has, all He has done, and all He will do for His redeemed people. The Holy Spirit, who has been given to the saints, is the foretaste, the pledge, and the guarantee of this divine inheritance, which we are sharing and enjoying today as the foretaste in God’s New Testament jubilee, and which we will share and enjoy in full in the coming age and for eternity. On the day we were regenerated, we were given the right to share an inheritance. This inheritance includes all the blessings related to eternal life…This inheritance is legal, proper, and legitimate, for Christ died to purchase it for us, paying the price of His precious blood. Daily we may participate in and enjoy the inheritance that is ours today and for eternity. (Life-study of Acts, msg. 55)
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