1. Inherit Life

2. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. John 10:10(NIV)

3. zóé: life Strongs 2222 Short Definition: life Definition: life, both of physical (present) and of spiritual (particularly future) existence.

4. God’s Life "For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself John 5:26 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. John 10:27-28

5. Eternal, aionios, life [166 (aiṓnios) does not focus on the future per se, but rather on the quality of the age (165 /aiṓn) it relates to. Thus believers live in "eternal (166 /aiṓnios) life" right now, experiencing this quality of God's life now as a present possession. (Note the Gk present tense of having eternal life in Jn 3:36, 5:24, 6:47; cf. Ro 6:23.)] HELPS WORD-STUDY166165166

6. Life in jars of clay 7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that His life may also be revealed in our mortal body. 12 So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. 2 Cor 4:7-12

7. From Life to Life For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. 2 Cor 2: 15-16 (NASB)

8. Reign in LIFE For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ! ( Rom 5:17 NIV )

9. We can know more … I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. (Eph 1:18-19 NASB)

10. Growing in knowledge and understanding For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, Colossians 1:9 NASB I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ. Philemon 1:6 NASB

11. Look to Abraham and Sarah 51 “Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, You who seek the L ORD : Look to the rock from which you were hewn, And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug. 2 Look to Abraham your father, And to Sarah who bore you; For I called him alone, And blessed him and increased him.” 3 For the L ORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the L ORD ; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.(Isaiah 51NIV)

12. What can we learn from Abraham? For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified; Rom 4:13-14 (NASB)

13. Heirs And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise. Gal 3:19NASB

14. What can we learn from Abraham and Sarah? Heirs don’t work – heirs inherit Heirs are sons not slaves

15. Abraham righteous by faith For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? " ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS. ” Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due.…Rom 4:2-4(NASB)

16. Sarah our mother 21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. 23 His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a divine promise. 24 These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. 27

17. Children of the free woman 28 Now you, brothers and sisters, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29 At that time the son born according to the flesh persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. 30 But what does Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.” 31 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

18. Promise of sonship God sent forth His Son, born of a woman born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God. Gal 4:4-7

19. The Ten Commandments are the cornerstone of the Old Covenant So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone. Deu 4:13 NASB It came about at the end of forty days and nights that the LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. Deu 9:11 NASB

20. Why does Paul want us to understand that we are not under the law? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor 15:56-57 But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was, how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? 2 Cor 3:7

21. The Law arouses sinful passions But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; Rom 7:8-9 For when we were in the realm of the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in us, so that we bore fruit for death. Rom 7:5

22. You have married another husband, Christ! Romans 7 Therefore my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you may be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

23. The New Covenant is better than the Old But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second. Hebrews 8:6

24. Circumcised in Christ and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority; and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.… Colossians 2:10-12 NASB

25. When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.…Colossians 2:13-14