Romans 8:17

Romans 8:17. And if children, then heirs: heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;

Oh that if - "if children." There are some that get over all that. They believe in a universal fatherhood, which is not worth the words in which they describe it. This is a different fatherhood altogether.

Romans 8:17. If so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

Oh! this blessed co-partnership - this fellowship: joint-heirs with Christ: taking part in the whole heritage - as well the heritage of suffering as the heritage of glory. "It shall bruise thy heel, but thou shalt bruise his head." There is to be the heel-bruising for the Christ, as well as for us; but there is to be the head-crushing of sin and Satan for him and for us, too.