Naturally we need to focus on our new inheritance in Christ, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have another inheritance to make peace with. Every newborn Christian has an inheritance from the old man—the person they were before Christ entered in. Depending upon how recklessly, or how extravagantly, we put on the old man, there may be a considerable “inheritance” we will have to deal with coming from the ways of the world, the flesh and the enemy that we embraced.

This is the basis of our “consequence inventory”—things outward and inward that will have to be reckoned with in a faithful way. Fortunately, the Lord is with us to help us deal with all of the consequences due to us (that grace alone does not remove and which honesty and responsibility call us to face).

Jesus will help us:

Live with (in recognition and responsibility leading to acceptance)
Live above (in trust by casting the burden upon Him in our struggles with it)
Live beyond (in finally having the consequences laid to rest—never to appear again)
...all of the consequences that make up our inheritance from our pre-Christ self!!