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The Heir of the World
Episode 1
Sunday, 12 April, 2026
“The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.”Psalm 24:1“For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.”Psalm 50:10“For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.”Romans 4:13 THE CONTROLLING IDEA Most believers are living as tenants in an estate they legally own as heirs. Today we are going to read the title deed, audit the inventory, and start administering accordingly. INTRO. The Tenant and the HeirThere are two ways to inhabit a property. You can live there as a tenant — paying rent, asking permission, operating within the boundaries set by the landlord, negotiating for what you need, always aware that ultimately this is someone else’s house and you are here on agreed terms. Or you can live there as the heir — the one who has legal title to the estate, who administers it on behalf of the Owner, whose entitlement is not bounded by a designated allocation but by the total value of what the estate contains.Most of the Church is living in the world as tenants. Asking for what they need. Hoping the landlord will provide. Bracing for shortage. Negotiating from a position of dependence. And the tragedy is not that they are outside the covenant. The tragedy is that they are heirs who do not know they are heirs — living on an estate they own, paying rent they do not owe, for resources that already belong to themThree texts. One message. By the time we are finished today, I want you to know three things with operational precision: who owns the estate, what the estate contains, and why you are the heir of it.How many of you have ever prayed for something and wondered whether God had budgeted for it? Whether the request was too large? Whether this specific need was in the designated allocation or outside it?That is the tenant question. Today I want to give you the heir’s answer.
