passages, twofold. Believers constituting the
church have an inheritance and we are His inheritance. The inheritance
we have, our inheritance, is nothing less than the inheritance of the
Christ. He made Him Heir of all things. He is the Heir of God. The
same is said of us as believers. We are heirs of God and joint heirs
with the Lord Jesus Christ. God has put us, according to the good
pleasure of His will in Christ, in the place of sons and because He has
made us sons He has made us heirs. The inheritance of the first
begotten from the dead is the inheritance of all who are by Grace
constituted sons in Him. And what is His inheritance which we shall
share in all eternity? We find in it the preceding verses, "having
made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good
pleasure which He purposed in Himself for the administration of the
fulness of times; to head up all things in the Christ, the things in
the heavens and the things upon the earth." In other words, He is the
heir of all things and these include both the heavens and the earth.
All is put under His feet. And this glorious inheritance belongs to
us; we shall share it with Him in all eternity. What mind and heart
can grasp it! It is unspeakable and unfathomable. Our inheritance is
often lowered in that people speak about the earth as being the
inheritance. Certain passages from the Old Testament are quoted in
support of this. "The meek shall inherit the earth," "the earth has He
given to the children of men." But this does not at all refer to our
inheritance, but rather to the inheritance of an earthly people in the
millennium. Our inheritance assuredly includes the earth, but the
heavens are the supreme place for the church. As He is now far above
all principalities and power and might and dominion, in the heavenlies,
so will the church occupy the heavenlies with Him, the glorified Head,
and in the ages to come God will show in this very position and
possession He has given to us His exceeding riches of His Grace.

But here we read not only of an inheritance, which belongs to us, but
it speaks of "the purchased possession." There is no difference at all
between these two terms "our inheritance" and "the purchased
possession;" they are one and the same thing. The inheritance, the
possession of the heavenlies and of the earth is acquired or purchased
and the purchase price is the blood of the Son of God. The precious
blood of