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An asset is
something a person owns that has value. Billions of years ago,
God, from His sovereignty, love, and omniscience, created for us
the best assets ever! They are invisible. We just have to know
what they are and how to use them. The Bible gives us all of the
necessary information to know our invisible assets. It’s like they
are in a portfolio, or suitcase, just waiting to be used. They are
no good just sitting in our invisible portfolio, or suitcase! God
gave them to us to use on our trip to heaven! They are to make our
journey easier and worthwhile! They are part of our equal
privilege and equal opportunity. Our assets are very valuable!
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Timothy 6:17 Instruct those who are rich in this present world not
to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches,
but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.
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Before we talk more about our spiritual assets, let’s talk about
the Source of our assets, God. First, we’ll talk about God’s
sovereignty. This means that God is in charge of everything! He is
the Top Ruler! God, being in charge of everything, rules with an
unlimited and perfect will. He can do all things, and He can do
all things perfectly! God desires for us, and gives us, the best
choices in life. Awesome! It is His will that we live in His plan
for our lives. However, God gives us free will to choose His plan,
or our plan. Since God is superior to all creation, His plan is
superior to our plan. Therefore, it would be wise to choose His
plan. It would be wise to use the assets He gives us through His
sovereignty or rulership!
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Ephesians 1:11 In Whom also we have received an allotment
[escrow blessings], having been predestined for a predetermined
plan from Him.
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Another way that
our invisible assets come to us is through God’s love. God loves
because of Who He is. He doesn’t need someone to start His love.
He is love! His love is perfect. It always was and always will be.
Since God has perfect justice and righteousness, or goodness, He
has perfect love. What can we say? GOD IS PERFECT! When we believe
in Jesus Christ as our Savior, God gives us His righteousness.
Now, in His eyes, our new nature is perfect! How encouraging is
that? God loves us the same way He loves His Son! It doesn’t
matter if we are pretty or ugly, rich or poor, king or slave. What
matters is if we have accepted Jesus Christ as our Savior! Having
+R, God’s righteousness, we have God’s personal love!
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Job
34:19 God shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich
above the poor, for they all are the work of His hands.
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God’s invisible assets also come
to us through His omniscience. Omniscience means that God knows
perfectly, always and forever, and at the same time, all that is
knowable, whether it is actual or possible. This makes my mind
swirl! God’s mind never swirls! It is in control at all times. Not
only that, He knows everything there is to know, and it is all the
truth. He doesn’t have any wrong information! He knows all about
each one of us. Therefore, God knows what is best for each one of
us. In His omniscience, He provided invisible assets specially
designed for every believer! That takes a lot of knowledge, a
lot of omniscience!
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Job 21:22 Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges even
the highest?
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The primary assets, the first assets, are
election and predestination. This means that before anything was
created, God called all of us believers to fantastic privileges and
opportunities and made plans for our lives. He created assets, or
blessings, for us. To use these assets, we have to use our
volition and become believers; we have to believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ as our Savior. Then we will be baptized by the Holy
Spirit. This means that we will be put in union with Jesus Christ.
We are identified with Him. Then we can answer God’s calling to
equal privileges and equal opportunities. We can use God’s predesigned plan for our lives. By learning Bible doctrine, we can
know what the plan of God is for our lives. We can learn more
about who God is. We can learn what our invisible assets are. The
assets are already in our spiritual suitcases, but we have to know
about them before we can use them. We all have the same privileges
and opportunities to know and use our spiritual assets, our
valuable grace gifts from God.
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Galatians 3:26-28 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ
Jesus, for all of you who were baptized [baptism of the Holy
Spirit] into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is
neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you
are all one in Christ Jesus.
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After Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of
Eden, mankind needed a Savior. God prophesied that He would send
His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to be our Savior. God gave us a
magnificent asset! We were never judged for our sins. Jesus was
judged for everyone’s sins. Since He is 100% God and 100%man, He
could pay the price to God the Father for
everyone’s sins. God the
Father accepted the work of Jesus Christ on the cross as payment
for everyone’s sins. We have a Redeemer! Once we believe in Jesus
as our Savior, we are redeemed, saved, and we will
never loose our salvation!
God never let’s go of us! What an awesome God we have!
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Colossians 1:13-14 For He has rescued us from the dominion of
darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in
Whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
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Jesus Christ not only saved us, but He stays in
our body! He motivates us to keep going on in God’s plan. He paid
such a big price for us, and He wants us to feel safe and to learn
about God’s plan for us. He is a sign of the security of our
salvation. He even prays for us! When we want to give up, we can
think of Him and that we are on a journey to heaven to be with God
forever. Jesus is going on that journey with us! He never condemns
us, but He encourages us! He wants us to grow in knowledge and
grace. God promises that we will be with Him in heaven. At that
time, we will see the Lord Jesus Christ face to face. What
valuable assets we have!
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John 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears My word and
believes Him Who sent Me, has eternal life and will not be
condemned; he has passed out of death [spiritual death] to
[eternal] life.
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Another asset that God has given us is the
thinking of Jesus Christ in the Bible. The Bible has an answer for
every problem we will ever face in life. God supplies each one of
us with a pastor-teacher to teach us the lessons in the Bible. Our
pastor-teacher spends many hours studying the Word of God in the
original languages used to write the Bible. He has the gift of
pastor-teacher, and therefore, the authority from God to teach us.
We are to respect his authority and support him by coming to
class; this might be learning in the prep school, or listening to
the teaching of our pastor-teacher. The Bible, the thinking of
Jesus Christ,
and the teaching of our pastor-teacher are two very special assets
from God. We must not let them sit in our spiritual suitcase. We
must let them help us on our journey to heaven!
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2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is profitable for
teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in
righteousness;
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In the Church Age, God gave us the
invisible asset of being our own priests. All believers have this
equal privilege! We have been chosen to be priests and to pray for
ourselves and others. What great value that is to us! We can pray
directly to God the Father! The more we know about God, the more
we will know what to ask of Him. We’ll get to the point where we
don’t ask for ridiculous things. God won’t give us ridiculous
things. God the Father knew billions of years ago what we would
ask in prayers. He already has answered prayers sitting in our
invisible suitcase. All we need to do is to pray to God the Father
to get the answered prayers. We need to go into our suitcases of
invisible assets. It is amazing what God our Father has done for
us!
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Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the
virtues of Him Who called you out of darkness into His wonderful
light.
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Believers in the Church Age have
equal opportunity. This means that God gives us logistical grace
support and blessings. He gives us many ways to learn about them.
The more we hear, believe, and use Bible doctrine, the more we
will learn about logistical grace support and blessings. We will
see the love God has for us, and we will learn to know and love
God. God is so loveable! Also, we will discover and use more
assets. The more assets we use, the more blessings God will give
us. When we are faithful to His Word, He rewards us here on earth
and when we get to heaven! He just keeps giving to those who love
Him! Glory be to God!!
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Psalm 115:1 Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Thy name give
glory because of Thy grace, because of Thy doctrine.
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God has given each of us a certain
amount of time for our journey to heaven. He has given us
EVERYTHING that we need in
life for the trip to become mature believers and to receive the
best that He has for us. We just have to open our suitcases
everyday and take out the valuable gifts God has given us. We
don’t want to get to heaven, the end of our journey, and look into
our suitcases and see many valuable assets that we never used! We
can’t use them in heaven! They are only for our trip to heaven!
So, let’s make sure that we learn, believe, and use Bible
doctrine. Then we’ll be using God’s valuable gifts, or assets, and
we’ll have capacity for God’s blessings. We can become mature
believers! We can be invisible heroes! When we finish our journey
on earth and reach heaven, we’ll receive more treasures that God
has ready for us!!! How awesome is that?? What’s holding us back??
Let’s make good use of our time!
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Matthew
6:19-21 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where
moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But
store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust
do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For
where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
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The Best Assets We Will Ever Have - Book 1
References used:
Robert R.McLaughlin Bible Ministries
www.gbible.org
Lessons: 9-6-06, 9-8-06,
9-14-06, 9-17-06, 9-20-06, 9-21-06,
9-22-06, 9-24-06,
9-27-06, 9-28-06, 10-1-06
Tree of Life, 9-24-06
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