
1. GOD HAS PURCHASED HIS PEOPLE FOR AN INHERITANCE.
In Ephesians 1:14 we are told that the Holy Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of His glory. This means that the Person of the Holy Spirit was God's down payment to us for all that we were going to receive.
Ephesians 1:13-14 ESV In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, (14) who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
In Acts 20:28 we read of "the Church of God which He hath purchased with His own blood." God has not only redeemed His people from bondage and death but redeemed a people for Himself as an inheritance. He did not bring us out of Egypt (the world) to die in the wilderness. He brought us out of Egypt to bring us into Canaan.
Acts 20:28 ESV Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
2. GOD COMES AND DWELLS IN THE MIDST OF HIS INHERITANCE.
Psalms 94:14 ESV For the LORD will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;
Psalms 94:14 is proof that these Scriptures are not referring to the nation of Israel after the flesh. Just as God the Father Tabernacled in the midst of the redeemed Hebrews, so He now indwells His church, both collectively and individually.
1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV (19) Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, (20) for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
The passages in Corinthians chapters 3 and 6 reveals that we are God's possessions, God's tabernacle, which He purchased with the price of His Son's death. Therefore we are to bring the Father glory in all that we do.