• What does our nobility look like in Christ? Do we even accept this idea?
• Nobility is to have special honor assigned to you
• Our culture today wants desperately to be special for any reason they can find
• But there’s no gauge to value the way in which a person is special
• Our honor is found in and thru God’s Son, no on ourselves or our works
• We are born again into the home of the King of Kings
• Romans 8
• When man comes into the world he has no meaningful glory. We fall short
• But in Christ, who lives in us, we have God’s glory
• Colossians 1:27
• We await the inheritance from the same Father as Jesus
• Romans 8:15-17
• The text says “since” we are His children. It’s established already
• Adopted children were not inferior to biological children in Paul’s time
• They had all the benefits and inheritance that the bio children had
• An inheritance was more secure than anything you could purchase
• We seek to attain and purchase and achieve glory, but inheritance is far better
• Galatians 3:26-4:7
• 1 Peter 1:3-4
• Our agency as believers is to strive for Christ alone–to claim Him alone
• Colossians 3:24
• What is the reward? Perfection, holiness, completeness, and much more
• Revelation 21:1-7
• Do we live like this–with this truth?
• God freely offers this future and inheritance to all who will receive it
• We will not be put on the same level of authority and deity with Christ, but we will share in much of His inheritance and even responsibilities in the new creation
• Is Jesus jealous or ambivalent about the Father’s plan to lift up us undeserving wretches?
• John 17
• Does this sound like someone who is reluctant, bitter, or indignant? 
• The world says that achievement lifts us out of suffering and into glory
• But God says suffering and obedience and faith is what lifts us to glory–it’s countercultural
• For the apostles and other parts of the world today, this means martyrdom
• We’re not there yet, but working on it and physical danger may not be far off
• Scripture calls us to partner with Christ by our suffering.
• It unites us and confirms our inheritance thru Christ
• Romans 8:18, it’s nothing to compare with what’s coming

QUESTIONS:

1. WHAT SPECIAL HONOR HAVE YOU WRONGLY CLAIMED OUTSIDE OF CHRIST?
2. HOW ARE YOU PREPARING FOR YOUR INHERITANCE AS A CO-HEIR?
3. HOW DO YOU ALLOW YOUR HOPE AND EAGER EXPECTATION OF YOUR INHERITANCE TO TRIUMPH OVER SUFFERING?