1192. In Whom We Have an Inheritance–The Future View

In Whom We Have an Inheritance–The Future View

"For our conversation is in Heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ" (Php_3:20).

1. The right to anticipate our inheritance. There are those who delight in decrying the right to consider our inheritance as a motive for faithful service or for faithful suffering.

Such should stop to consider that, in so doing, they are decrying the plain teachings of the Word of God.

We would not lessen the supremacy of love to Christ and to God, as the motive of service and of suffering, but we would hold forth also, the glory of what lies ahead.

A bride should not be unconcerned in her anticipated bridegroom, nor in the inheritance that he will give her.

The son should not be unconcerned in the inheritance and in the plans which his father holds before him.

The truth is that we need to get our eyes riveted upon the things which are to come. We are commanded to look at the things which are not seen; to love the things which are above and to lay up treasure's in Heaven.

The things that cannot be shaken, should be the constant consideration of our hearts. We should count the things about us as dung, while we press toward the things which are before.

The future holds wonderful things for saints. And why should this inheritance not thrill saints?

Was it not the vision of His inheritance, with its riches of glory, that led Christ to come forth from the Father, and to come into the world? It was this vision that led Christ as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep dumb before its shearers.

Christ saw a treasure hid in the field, and He went and sold all He had and bought the field.

Christ saw a pearl of great price, a goodly pearl, and He went and sold all that He had and bought it.

Christ endured the Cross despising the shame, because of the joy that was set before Him.

Christ shall see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied.

Thus if Christ saw the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, may we not see the riches of our inheritance in Him?

2. The inheritance to come.

(1) Our inheritance will include an heirship to all the things of God. We will not only be heirs to what God is, the gracious character of His holy being, we will also be heirs to all that God has, the work of God's fingers.

"And if children then heirs, heirs of God." This includes the New Jerusalem with its golden streets, its jeweled walls and its gates of pearl. It includes the many mansions there, the river and the tree of life.

"I have read of a beautiful City,

Far away in the Kingdom of God;

I have read how its walls are of jasper,

How its streets are all golden and broad;

In the midst of the street is a river,

Clear as crystal and pure to behold;

But not half of that City's bright glory,

To mortals has ever been told."

(2) The inheritance above all else includes the Lord Himself. Which appeals most to our hearts:

We shall see Him?

We shall be like Him? or,

We shall possess Him?

Would our inheritance be complete with the possession of His character, with the possession of His things, unless we also had His own blessed self?

Of old the Prophet wrote, "Thou shalt be unto me * * so shall I be unto thee." What we want is to realize that promise, "The throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and His servants shall serve Him; and they shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads."

Blessed day, when we shall be His people and He will be our God. Blessed day, when "the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God."

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR