We Will Be Required to Fight
We Will Be Required to Fight If We Are to Enter the Future Salvation.
For hundreds of years Canaan, the land of promise, has been viewed as a type, or symbol, of Heaven. We have thought that to go across Jordan was to die physically and Heaven was the land of promise. Hymns have been composed with this in mind.
However, Canaan is not a type of Heaven but of the rest of God, that is, of our inheritance in the Lord. Our inheritance includes rest in the Father's will, fellowship with God and Christ, and the nations and farthest reaches of the earth. All these are the inheritance of Christ and His coheirs.
Unfortunately our land of promise, our own personality and the earth and its peoples, are bound by Satan.
We are going to have to fight our way into the land just as Israel did.
God did all the fighting when Israel left Egypt. God did not do all the fighting (although He helped) when Israel entered Canaan.
Jesus Christ did all the fighting on the cross of Calvary to redeem us from the guilt of sin. But we, as the Lord leads us, are going to have to fight every inch of the way in order to possess our land of promise.
Our enemy is formidable, an experienced warrior, wise, and utterly determined not to be dispossessed.
If you think you are going to flop into your inheritance by claiming "grace" you do not understand the Kingdom of God. You are going to have to fight your way in. The Kingdom cannot be taken by the fearful, disobedient, and unbelieving.
Christ will divide the spoil with the strong.