While I was doing my research of what people thought being a
joint-heir with Christ was, I ran across this article. It was written by Dr. Jack Arnold in March
2000. He explained it like this:
“’And joint-heirs with
Christ’ The Christian is a joint heir of the Father with the person of Jesus Christ. Christ
is the Father’s Son, and to Christ God has bequeathed everything because Christ is the only rightful
heir to the Father’s estate. But the Christian is in spiritual union with
Christ because of the new
birth and is therefore a joint-heir to the inheritance.If two brothers
inherited an estate as equal heirs, then the estate would be divided into two equal parts and each
would be given the same amount. But if the two are made joint-heirs, then both of them have equal
rights to the total inheritance. They both look at the total inheritance as
theirs. As joint-heirs with
Christ, the total inheritance of Christ is the inheritance of every believer”.
I think this explains it pretty well. It shows that Christ is the rightful heir. However,
because Christ died for us, we are new creations and are now joint with
Him. Christ is King and if we accept Him
into our lives we can become His heirs.
StarrrGirly
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