Inheritance of the saints

John {13:1} Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

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Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father

Having loved his own which were in the world he loved them unto the end.


Jesus knew that He was leaving this world. His father wasn't in this world. He didn't find *His Father* on earth. He didn't try to find Him on earth. He didn't try to bring Him to earth. Jesus didn't try to remake the world into a world for His Father. Jesus knew that the world as it was could not be the world of His Father. He knew that the world was too corrupt. He knew that He came to save people from this world, and there were people in this world (that wasn't His Father's world) that He loved.

We can argue that God made the world, of course it's His. I won't say no. God did make the world and the world as He created it was meant to be sinless.

It's like making a beautiful sculpture gorgeous and absolutely amazing, only to have time pass and the sculpture is suddenly covered in an unsightly fungus. That sculpture wasn't created to be covered in fungus and yet there it is, filled with the stuff. The fungus has taken over. Sure you can try to get rid of the fungus by washing the sculpture and it even appears clean for awhile but then the fungus quickly returns and once more the sculpture is corrupted. Maybe there is some way to get rid of the fungus once and for all, but it'll take eradicating all the fungus from existence because as long as it exists it will find a way to cover that sculpture.

God didn't create the world to be filled with sin, nonetheless sin filled the world and was corrupted, no longer a world where God could dwell fully, no longer a world He ruled. Having made a contingency plan to save the world should sin take it over the plan was put into action, and because He didn't want all the sin-filled people simply eradicated, He made a way for them to escape their sin problem.

Just as a sculptor might argue that the sculpture is no longer his because it was changed in a way he never intended, this sin-filled world the way it is, is not God's, not until the sin is gone and it is once more the way He created it to be. Just as a scupltor making his sculpture once more pure and the way he created it, the claim that *this is* the scuplture he made would be wholly true. Do you see? It happens all the time in the world. Someone creates something and another person corrupts it, the corruption changes it from being what was intended.

Our sin-filled world is no longer a world of God's dwelling, rather than destroy the entire thing He made an escape route for all that see the world as He does. For all that see the sin-filled world isn't how things were meant to be, it isn't how things were intended. Those who choose NOT to be a part of this world are promised a much better world, a sinless world the way God intended it to be.

An escape route!

Freedom!

If people are looking for instantaneous escape however they won't find it because the way to escape from the slavery of this sin-filled world is to have faith in Jesus and His promises of the world to come. There is no instant change comparable to a person enslaved by another person finding themselves free. Being freed from a sin-filled world is a *hope* we have, and one we have to have faith in as we endure the life we are given in this sin-filled world. Perhaps we are to help others, maybe just a single other person, find the way to escape, or maybe we're called to help thousands, who knows. Once we accept the truth that this isn't the world we belong to, but a foreign world invaded by sin, and that we have a way to the world we do belong to, we will be guided by the Holy Spirit who will keep us safe as we live in this sin-filled world until we are either called to our rest, or until Jesus returns to take us to heaven with Him.

Jesus didn't claim the sin-filled world as His Father's, though He did claim that there were those in the world that could be His Father's.

There were those Jesus loved in the world...

John {13:1} Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

He loved His *own*... he loved them unto the end.

Is this world your world?

It's not my world.

I want to be one of *Jesus's own* in this world. I don't want to be one of this world's.


John {14:6} Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me

John {14:28} Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come [again] unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

John {16:16} A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father

John {16:28} I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.

Eph. {2:18} For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

Eph. {3:13} Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
{3:14} For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
{3:15} Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
{3:16} That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
{3:17} That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love

Col. {1:12} Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

My world is with the Father through Jesus Christ my Lord and my Savior now and forever. Praise, glory, honor, and thanks to the Father who has made it possible for us to be partakers of the world to come, the world He intended, the world we long for.

All Glory to God in the Highest!

Amen.