Co-heirs with Christ

This week's Preacher's Blog is by Kim Salo, based on his sermon of September 15, "Co-heirs with Christ".

1. What is the most significant thing you have inherited?

2. Read Ephesians 1:13-14, and 2 Cor. 1:21-22. How is the Holy Spirit a "down payment", or a deposit that guarantees our full inheritance from God?

3. Read Romans 8:16-18. Why does Paul add after "heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ", "if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory"? How do we share in Christ's sufferings?

4. Read 1 Peter 1:3-4. What do you imagine is "an inheritance that can never perish, spoil, or fade - kept in heaven for you"?