I reckon

Jordan says in old tape: "Walk consistent with your position in Christ. We have this wonderful position of adoption. Guidance is the mark of sons. Adoption is the privileges, the rights, the position of sons.

"You have witness of the spirit. That’s the spirit’s acknowledgement of us as sons. We are joint-heirs with Christ. That’s the inheritance of sons. These are spiritual blessings in Christ; Paul says these things are ours in order to motivate us to a
worthy walk. We should live consistent with our position and with our privileges.

"Paul says, ‘I reckon that the sufferings of this present time aren’t worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.’

"Paul is saying the knowledge that we have of our inheritance and the glories of our inheritance is a motivation to cause us to endure the pressure of this present time and that the sufferings of this present time—the trouble, the pressure that comes upon us—in this world isn’t worthy to be compared. In other words, it isn’t even worthy of being considered. It isn’t even worthy of equal time with the glories that are ours in Christ. None of these sufferings ought to stop you.

"If you understand your Sonship position in Christ, and the fact that you’ve been made, verse 17 says, ‘an heir of God,’ but not just that, ‘a joint-heir with Christ.’ If you’ve been baptized into His body then you were baptized into His resurrection. Everything that belonged to Him belongs to you.

"We’re not just heirs of God; we’re also joint heirs with Christ. That means that we get everything He gets. We get an equal part to His. That’s what’s called ‘co-parsony’ in legal jargon. That is, it’s not simply joint tennis, it’s not just simply being an heir, it’s to have equal shares. It’s as much mine as it was His.
Everything that Jesus Christ inherited from God the Father we inherited. Now, ‘Wheee, doggy!’ that’s a real BIG inheritance!

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"Do you remember when we were studying Romans 4 how we went over there in Hebrews 1 and we saw the inheritance that God the Father gave to the Lord Jesus Christ? That just gives you some little idea and that’s an inheritance just in the prophetic program! It isn’t even clearly identified in that passage all the things that are involved in the mystery program! A wonderful array of categories of inheritance. Everything belongs to Him belongs to us.

"Listen, God Almighty expects you and me to live in light of who we are. And Paul says when you begin to realize just who you are, he said ‘I reckon,’ that’s a mental-attitude dynamic. He said, ‘Man, I understand some things about my inheritance. I understand some things about who God has made me in Christ.’

"Paul says endure hardness. Tough times, folks. He didn’t say it was all just going to be lace pants and sunshine. He said in order to get the job done that I put you there for in that body of Christ, be TOUGH! Endure hardness as a good soldier for Jesus Christ.

"We know how to endure. Why? ‘We sorrow but not as those that have no hope.’ We know that the worst thing that happened to us down here, in the end it’s just glory, brother. Talk is cheap, gentlemen. Talk’s cheap. Easy to say that; ain’t so easy to do it and live it and walk in it, unless you’re strong in the grace that’s in Christ Jesus."