I want to invite your attention to the book of First Peter
chapter 1, and we want to begin reading there in verse 3.
First Peter chapter 1 beginning in verse 3.
Blessed. Be the God and father of our
Lord, Jesus Christ. Who according to His, abundant
Mercy, has begotten us again to a Living Hope through the
resurrection of Jesus Christ. From the dead to an inheritance
Incorruptible and undefiled. And that does not fade away
reserved in heaven for you who are kept by the power of God,
through faith for salvation, ready to be revealed in the last
time. For a little while.
Today, I want to talk on the subject of Heaven as our
inheritance last Lord's day. We talked about heaven as a
place. We talked about the idea or we
asked ourselves. The question, what will Heaven
be like? And John the Revelator divinely
inspired by the Holy Spirit. Gave us a beautiful picture of
this heavenly Jerusalem, this, holy city in heaven one day.
But I want to talk about one of the greatest promises and all
the Bible and that is that that place is being reserved for us.
If we're faithful unto death, I want to talk about the Heavenly
place as our inheritance before. We do though, at this time let
us pray. Last Lord's Day, John gave us a
beautiful description from the Revelation letter of what heaven
is going to be like and just as a reviewed, remember some of the
things he talked about about At this Grand Place, you remember
that? He said as he pictured, as he
saw as he pictured Heaven. He said the foundations of the
walls were massive. In fact, he said that 12
foundations are 12 names of the Apostles of the Lamb were on the
twelve foundations in heaven. Then he said that there was
Gates and he said that those Gates were identical and I think
there's a picture there. There is a symbol there that
everyone must meet the same exact Acquirements in order to
get in. You know, I realize people today
have all manner of ideas are all manner of things that they think
that will get them to heaven or whatever kind of life that they
live. It doesn't really matter because
all roads lead to heaven, but John the Revelator picture that
they were identical Gates, the symbolism.
Their Scholars. Tell us is everyone has to enter
in identically all the same, but then there was an angel.
And the angel, stood at each gate showing that That you can't
do it your own way. You can't get in your own way,
and then John said that the gates were made of pearl.
You know, there was a beautiful symbolism there.
That one scholar said it really pictures all of those that enter
into heaven. After they've had terrible
trials in life. And the reason for that is a
pearl is the result of the oysters response to suffering.
That a beautiful picture, it doesn't make any difference.
If you have trials in your life, if you've had difficulties in
your life because when you get to heaven, it will be worth it
all, it'll be the greatest and grandest place ever imagined.
It was a city Foursquare. And that meaning that the
length, the breadth and the height are all equal and John
said that, each one of those measurements, each one of those
distances measured twelve thousand furlongs and you Member
that a furlong is 1/8 of a mile. So, twelve thousand furlongs is
1,500 miles. Do you see the picture?
It's like going from Dallas to New York City from New York
City, to Bismarck, North Dakota from Bismarck North Dakota to
San Francisco, and San Francisco back to Dallas.
But because it's a city Foursquare, you got to go up,
straight up, 1,500 miles and do it all over again.
You want to know how big Heavens going to be.
It's going to be big enough. I guarantee you that in fact
that is 500 quintillion cubic feet.
That's 500 with 18 zeros, that's how big heaven will be.
John said that there was a wall and the wall was forty-four
cubits or 218 feet. The width of the wall is not
does not matter in his, it is not measured, it is not
mentioned because no one will have to be.
The enemy will never be able to get to us ever again.
John said it was a city of pure gold like transparent glass.
He said it was a wall of Jasper and Gates of Pearl and a street
of gold. I can't imagine how beautiful
Heaven Must Be. But folks, the question is this
the question is what do we need to do to get there and who's
going to get in? That's really the question
before we pick up our lesson and verse 3 about this inheritance,
please turn in your Bibles to First Peter chapter 1, we got to
read verses 1 and 2 to understand who the promises made
to. Because that's what he's saying
in verses 3 on, he's talking about An inheritance that is
reserved and it says in heaven for you.
The question is, who are the you beginning in verse 1.
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ to the pilgrims of the
dispersion in pontus, galatia Cappadocia, Asia and bithynia
now. Who are they?
He said, they're elect according to the foreknowledge of God the
father in sanctification of the spirit for obedience.
It's and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.
He says, grace to you, and peace, be multiplied, that's who
he's talking about. What is he talking about?
He's talking about being elect of God, he's talking about
Divine election. Now, let me just say this, this
is the easiest way that I can describe to you about Divine
election. Number one.
Peter says, we are elect the saved.
We are elect according to the foreknowledge of God.
And the Bible also talks about the idea of being predestined or
predetermined for salvation. Let me clarify that the Bible
does not mean this. When it says that God,
predetermined by his foreknowledge, who was going to
heaven, he didn't mean that it was this guy's in, and this
guy's out. He's in and she's out, it was
talking about a specific kind of people.
And those people are obedient Christians by his foreknowledge.
Those that are obedient Christians, are the elect of
God. But let's go further because
Peter says more, he said that our election is through the
sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit, the holy spirit, this is
how it works by revealing to us. Us through the word of God.
What we need to do, it brings us along to our obedience to the
gospel. Now, watch this because you
can't have summation without this.
The Holy Spirit through the word of God, brings us to the
sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.
And that folks is the cleansing from sin, and that happens at
baptism. Who are the elect of God?
Peter says, I'm going to give you some real encouraging stuff
here about your inheritance. Who's it going to the elect of
God? Who are the elect of God?
Obedient Christians who are obedient Christians, those that
were baptized for the remission of sins and live Faithfully unto
death. But will go further than that.
All three that are in the godhead are working together for
our salvation. All three.
You know, the Bible says that there are three that bear record
In Heaven, There is God, the Father, there is God, the son
and there's God the Holy Spirit. And when the Bible says, and
these three are one, it doesn't mean one person, it means three
personage is all working together.
They are the same purpose and in reference to your salvation in
mind. There are all working together
in the godhead like this. Number one, God provides the set
purpose or the point. That that's what he said, it
says elect. According to the purpose,
according to the foreknowledge of God, he set the purpose, he
made the plan, and that's why Jesus, when he was hanging on
the cross. After about six hours, and after
the Bible says, knowing all things, must be fulfilled.
He said, I thirst, they put the sour vinegar into his lips, then
what did he say? It is finished.
That's the purpose. That's the plan.
That's God's part. It is finished.
And then he says, father into your hands, I commit my spirit.
So, all three in the godhead are working for our Salvation.
How God sets the purpose? What else?
The holy spirit separates the sinner from the sphere, where he
dwelt in his sins, to the sphere.
Where the elected ones are now? How is that possible?
Not Oculus Li not directly. Romans 1:16 says for I am not
ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto
salvation to everyone that believeth to the Jew first and
also to the Greek. See the point God, provided the
plan. The Holy Spirit leading us
through the word of God. Brings us to the place starting
where we are in sin and bringing us, to our obedience to the
gospel. And then Jesus Christ provides
the cleansing for man, through his own precious blood.
Now, All of this is the Divine part.
And, you know, a lot of people in the world they don't deny the
Divine Park. A lot of people say, yeah, I got
get all that. I know God did all that.
I know Jesus did that, and I know the Holy Spirit through the
word reveals to us what we got to do.
I know all that. The question is, what is your
part? What is the human part?
The human part is obedience obedience to the gospel.
Now, our Heavenly inheritance is for us prepared.
And it says those that are begotten of God.
So in other words, we talked about the elect who are the
elect those that are begotten of God.
Now the word begotten. According mr.
Thayer means to produce again begat again or be get a new.
In fact, they are further said, this it is a metaphor.
What's a metaphor? The word?
Begotten, it's a metaphor. Meaning to thoroughly change the
mind of one. So that he lives a new life and
one that's conformed to the will of God.
Now, does that sound like to you that you can do anything you
want to do? And be the begotten of God?
That tells me according to Thayer that, if I am begotten of
God, everything about my life is changed.
All of it. Every bit of it.
Every single bit of it. Now.
How are you? Begotten, in John chapter 3.
Remember when Jesus was having a conversation with Nicodemus. and
he tells Nicodemus, Except you be born again.
You cannot enter the kingdom of God.
You cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.
Nicodemus says, how is that possible?
How can a man when he is old be born again?
Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?
And Jesus says, you have to be born again and it's a matter of
being born of water and the spirit.
So who are those that are begotten, they are the ones that
are born again. And Jesus says, the born-again
ones are the ones that have been born of water and the spirit,
but let's go further. In Matthew chapter 18, the
disciples come to Jesus. And they said tell us master who
is going to be the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven in that
kind of like, man. In other words, when the kingdom
is established, and Jesus is with the, with his disciples,
that's kind of like it's kind of a human tendency isn't it?
Who's going to get to be greatest?
What's the pecking order? Who's number one?
But Jesus said he took a little child.
He placed a little child in the midst of them, and he says,
except ye be converted and become as little children, you
cannot see the kingdom of God. He said Born Again.
In John 3, he said little children in Matthew 18.
Now, he said, in John 3, that being born again is being born
of water and the spirit. So all I got to do is find out
what it's like, or how you are born of water and the spirit,
and I know exactly who Peter was talking about when he said,
begotten. In Romans, chapter 6, beginning
in verse 3, the Apostle Paul said know ye not that.
So many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized
into his death. Therefore we are buried with him
by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised from the
dead by the glory of the father. Here it is.
So we also should walk in newness of life.
Now, don't you see that the similarities between those three
terms there? Born Again, little children, New
Life. If you've done that, you're born
of water and the spirit, that's when you're baptized into Jesus
Christ, for the remission of sins.
You are begotten of God. Now, if you are begotten of God,
then you have a wonderful wonderful.
Wonderful blessing in verse 3. Let's go to our text now.
Let's go to verse three of our text.
Peter says, blessed be the God and father of our Lord.
Jesus Christ who according to His, abundant Mercy, has
begotten us again to a living hope.
Now the words, blessed be there. It's a eulogy.
You know, to eulogy is somebody dies.
Somebody dies and somebody gets up and eulogizes their life.
So he begins, he's going to talk about this great promise of an
inheritance in heaven, and he begins by praising God, in a
eulogy Blessed. Be he Praises.
God and gives him the praise and tells God how great he is.
What a wonderful picture there, he said blessed be.
Now there's more, it's not just praising God, it's also marking
a transition and that is this. The transition is very
important. He's going to change the theme
now to that of patients and that of Hope now Patience and hope
are two things that the child of God needs to endure the
hardships of life. I'm going to tell you you
cannot, you cannot go through the trials of life.
Without hope. You can't.
People put on the good face. People have the concept of this
great picture of heaven. People have all manner of things
that they think about. But I'm going to tell you you
cannot continue to live a faithful life through the trials
of life without patience and Hope.
He's going to talk about something that's so great.
It's going to motivate you. The child of God to endure
Affliction to endure the trials and live faithfully and the
death. That's how great Heaven is.
That's how great. This is now.
He says that this is a living. Hope, I want you to get this
picture here. We're begotten of God, and we
now have a living hope not just a hope, but a Living.
Hope Thayer says, that means, it will never die.
That's a promise that will never die will clarify that a little
bit later. So in other words, when we are
born again, We are born again, we are now a living hope.
We now have a Living Hope in our life that helps us.
Now notice none of that would be possible without this, and
you'll remember this from First Corinthians 15 on our Wednesday
night studies. None of this is possible.
Peter says, without the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the day, do you remember all those in First Corinthians
15 that were being discussed in reference about?
Paul says there are some even though there's evidence that
proves that Jesus Christ was had raised from the dead.
What was the evidence? All the people that had seen the
resurrected Christ, you got all this proof And Paul said,
there's still some. It say there's no resurrection
of the Dead. Ron Paul said if there's no
Resurrection we are all men most pitiable or miserable.
You know why? Because if there is no
resurrection of the Dead, there is no hope.
Ever heard the phrase. What if this is as good as it
gets, what if this is it? What if this is it?
Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
So I'm First Corinthians chapter 15, Paul clearly points.
Out that if Jesus Christ is not raised, then we have no hope of
a resurrection for ourself. And if there is no, hope we have
nothing, we have nothing to keep us on the straight and narrow
way. But look at First Peter chapter
1 and verse 40, to talk about the inheritance for a little
while, The Inheritance here. It's Incorruptible, it's
undefiled, it does not fade away, and it's reserved in
heaven. For you.
Those that are begotten. Born Again, baptized Christians
living Faithfully unto death. Those are the ones that have a
place in heaven. Reserved, you know, because of
this great thing. We actually lay claim to The
Inheritance not because we deserve it.
Please don't misunderstand me. We lay claim not to the fact
that we stake our claim in heaven because we've earned it
or deserved it or we even have it coming to us but we lay claim
to what the promise. In other words, the Bible tells
us what we must do to be saved. And if we do that, we lay claim
to the promise. Not because we're worthy because
we are not And that promise, watch it.
It's an inheritance Incorruptible, it's undefiled
and will not fade away and it's reserved in heaven for you.
Now it's upon these promises that they and us can build our
hopes on, you know, Paul ties together.
The idea of children and heirs Let's talk about the inheritance
Park. You know, my kids.
If Tina, and I have anything when we die.
It will go. To The Heirs or the inheritance.
That they will receive from us. And the reason for that is,
there's a connection between children and heirs.
Now notice what Paul says regarding children and heirs in
Romans chapter 8, beginning in verse 16, watch this, the spirit
Bears, witness with not to, and not miraculously, but with our
spirit that we are the children of God.
So that's the point right there. Where the children of God, who
are the children of God, those that are begotten and we talked
about what that means. So, if we are children, then
Paul says, we are heirs. let's continue reading and for and
Romans 8, if children then heirs Heirs of God and Joint heirs
with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may be
glorified Together. Now I got to add a little Point
here. There's a comparison here.
And there's an idea here. That we are Heirs of where the
children of God. but if we stop being a faithful, child of God,
then we don't have the promise of an air anymore.
We don't have the promise of our Eternal inheritance in heaven.
My kids are good kids, not perfect kids, but they're good
kids. But let me just tell you this,
if one day they go off the reservation and decide to live a
life, that is not conducive of a child of God.
And if they, all of a sudden, become bad kids, you know, what,
me and Tina are going to spend their inheritance.
Cut him off. Why not?
But they're not. There, they're faithful
children. They're good kids.
So when me and Tina are gone, what are they?
They're an air of whatever we have.
That's the same spiritual picture.
We have, if you're a faithful child, then you're an heir.
And that helps us to live Faithfully.
What's the nature of the inheritance, though?
He said it's undefiled, interesting word.
Undefiled one scholar defined it as this it is, undefiled is
Immortal, it is undying, it is imperishable.
It is unstained, and it is pure. Now, the word undefiled In this
passage is the exact same word that's found in James chapter 1
and verse 27. When it pictures a pure
religion, Don't you see the difference?
Or don't you see the connection? We have something.
That is undefiled, if our religion is undefiled and here
it is James 1:27, pure and undefiled religion before God.
And the father is this to visit the orphans and widows in their
trouble, and keep oneself unspotted from the world.
So, if I keep myself undefiled, what do I have?
I've got an inheritance that is undefiled to What else?
The word undefiled was used to describe Jesus to it.
Hebrews 7:26 for such a high priest was fitting for us.
Who is Holy harmless undefiled separate from Sinners and has
become higher than the heavens? That's the inheritance that we
have because of Jesus Christ. Now, you know, the Jews,
understood about an Earthly Promised Land an Earthly Canaan,
they understood that, but I think there's, I think there's a
picture here too. They understood about a promised
land. They understood about a literal
place of Canaan on this earth. Now, that was, that faded away
it was gone. You know why?
Because part of the Earth, But the Heavenly inheritance is
different. It will never fade away.
It's the Heavenly Jerusalem in Revelation chapter 21.
Now you know this is a great passage here because In
Revelation, 21 and 27, it talks about those that are going to
get in. Folks please listen to these
words. This is what John the Revelator
said recorded here those that are going to get in But there
shall by no means enter into it, anything that defiles the words
of Lord, by the way, or causes and Abomination.
Oral I get this but only those that are written in the Lamb's
Book of Life. Begun.
Born again. Washed in the blood.
Baptized for the remission of sins.
And name written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
Those get in that inheritance will never fade away.
You know, it's a Peter understood the brevity of man's
life. He talked about man's life as
being grass or flower that Withers.
And that's in contrast to the word of God In This Very
epistle. First Peter, 1 24 25.
It says, all flesh is as grass and all the glory of, man, as
the flower of grass, the grass withers and the flower Falls
away, but the word of the Lord endures forever.
So, in other words, in verse 4, he firmly Establishes that God's
people have something that is infinite and inheritance that
will never pass away. The passing of all the ages of
time. One man said will never change
our inheritance or the beauty of the moment that we receive it.
Have you ever stopped to consider that it will never stop
being as beautiful as it is when we see it for the first time?
You know what else is? Great?
if I make heaven, it will never be taken away. if I get in,
it'll never be taken away. It will never pass away.
Peter says this place. is reserved in heaven for you now,
God is preserving The Inheritance that reservation is
in heaven. Not on this Earth.
You remember, last week, we talked about a Doctrine That
teaches that Jesus Christ is going to come back and it's
going to establish an Earthly Kingdom.
It's going to refurbish the Earth that everybody that's in
heaven is in heaven and nobody else is getting in.
And this is going to be the place where the Lord is going to
establish Earthly Kingdom. All you got to do is find out
what the Bible says, it's Reserve, where it's reserved in
heaven for you. Jesus Christ is not going to set
foot on this Earth ever again, when he comes back, the Bible
says, we will meet him. We're in the air and ever.
So, go to be with the Lord for eternity, we're in heaven.
So it's not a matter of the Lord coming back to be with us.
It's a matter of us. Going to live with him in him.
And it's reserved John 14, 1 and 2.
Jesus said, let not your heart be troubled you believe in God
believe also in me in my father's house are many
mansions. If it were not.
So I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and if I
go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you
to myself that where I am, there you may be also listen Peter,
nor the Lord talked about an Earthly Kingdom or any kind of a
millennium. Peter and Jesus make it clear or
inheritance is in heaven. I want to make a point here.
Have you ever said? I know?
Because I have I have Have you ever said?
I just want to get in any way I can.
And I just want to squeak in. I just want in.
I just want to sneak in squeak in barely make whatever I just
want to I've said that. That's unscriptural.
Because if I get in in the common vernacular, we're going
to blow the doors off. The Bible says, in second Peter
chapter 1 and verse 11. Listen for an entrance will be
supplied to you. How barely know it says
abundantly Abundant entrance. Into the Everlasting Kingdom, it
says. So, if I make Heaven, it's kind
of like this. You're in school.
You have a b, c, d, or F. And I remember in college, some
of the classes are difficult. We would say, well, we got, if
you got a deal, we'd say, well, you got a D4 done.
At least it's done. It's behind it.
You got through it, you got your barely made.
Okay, that's not what heaven's like at all.
It's not a matter of getting a DC or whatever or barely making
it it's past her faith. If you make it in, you made it
in abundantly. But if you didn't make it in,
you don't make it at all. And that's the point.
Because we deserve it. No, because if we're faithful
unto death, we lay claim to the great promise that God made and
it was all possible, only through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ. Verse 5.
First Peter wanted 5. This is also very encouraging to
me because this is something else.
Here we are kept who are kept by the power of God, through faith
for salvation, ready to be revealed.
In the last time that word kept comes from the original, Greek
word. That means this, it's by
watching and guarding to preserve one for the attainment
of something, that's according to Thayer.
Here's the question though. Who are those that are Guided by
are guarded by the mighty power of God, who are those?
Because here's the thing, whoever they are, we're going to
have something great. We're going to have the
inheritance who are they, who are those that are kept by the
power of God. Who are those that have the
benefits of a Living? Hope verse 3, who are those?
That have an inheritance Incorruptible verse 4 and who
are those that are under God's Garden?
Where the NIV says, Is shielding.
That's verse 5. Who is it?
It's got to say it again. Those that are begotten.
Born again. Christian's baptized into
Christ. Now once again, we have to make
it very clear. There is no security that's
imposed on anyone. And security is not a promise
that is separate and apart from Human participation.
In other words, the Divine part of the Divine, part of election,
we talked about that. But I got a part 2.
You've Got A Part 2. We have a part and if we do our
part, guess what? We are kept by the power of God.
Waiting for that inheritance one day.
Now I got to make a point here when we talk about this, it
doesn't mean at all. It does not mean that man can
never fall. I am not saying any kind of a
doctrine of eternal security and I am not preaching a Doctrine as
a tenant of Calvinism of perseverance of the Saints.
I'm not saying that at all. I'm not saying that we have a
promise and a hope regardless of what we do no matter what.
And I'm not saying that a man could not. all because he can
Paul reminds us that it's very possible to attain the knowledge
of the Lord, but turn from the Commandment of god, notice also
in 2nd Peter chapter 2 beginning in verse 20, For if after they
have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge
of the Lord Jesus Christ. They are again, entangled in
them and overcome. The latter end is worse for them
than the beginning. For it would have been better
for them, not to have known the way of righteousness than having
known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them.
But it has happened to them. According to the true proverb, a
dog returns to his own vomit and a sow.
Having washed to her wallowing in the mire.
What does that mean? That means, if I stop being a
faithful child, I don't have the inheritance just like I made
that little crude analogy with my own kids.
Jude verse 21. Here's a responsibility that we
have, keep yourself in the love of God.
Looking for mercy and of our Lord, Jesus Christ, unto eternal
life. So, the sum of the entire matter
is this, there's a Divine factor and there is a human factor
regarding our salvation and the next phrase.
In verse 5, it talks about through faith for Salvation
through faith for salvation or the King James says, through
faith unto salvation. And we talked about the word
faith, a lot. But the word faith in this
passage is found in three other places in this chapter, it's
found here in verse 5. It's found in verse 7 and it's
also found in verse 9. It is defined by mr.
Thayer as follows it is a strong and welcome conviction of belief
that Jesus Is the Messiah through whom we obtain Eternal
salvation in the kingdom of God. Now, Peter is emphasizing the
human Park, the human factor, it's not imposed on us, nor is
it salvation that cannot be affected by the lives that we
live? Rather our Salvation depends on
the faith that we're talking about.
Now, let's go to the words of Jesus. in the same book that
John pictured, heaven Revelation 2 and 10.
Do not fear. Any of those things which you
are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to
throw some of you into prison. and you will be tested and you
will have tribulation how long ten days.
But be faithful unto death. And I will give you a Crown of
Life. I love what Joe hisle said, 20
years ago. I heard him say this, he said
the picture there the figure there of 10 days.
Is one short lifetime. You know, I think we could
pretty much do about anything for 10 days.
I think we can endure just about anything for 10 days.
When you look to where the end is and whatever you're going
through is going to end. You can say yourself, okay, ten
days and 9 days and 8 days, and I'm almost there.
You can do that and you get through it.
Ten days is nothing. Now compared to Eternity.
One short lifetime is also nothing.
There's a condition, all of the things, all that, great promise.
There's a condition, and Jesus said, be faithful unto death,
and I'll give you a Crown of Life.
Finally, in verse 5, it says that all this and we just talked
about is going to be revealed in the last time now.
The word revealed here comes from the word Apocalypto and it
means the Salvation and Glory, that awaits the believer.
According to we Vine, the word is also found in Romans chapter
8, beginning in verse 18. I love this passage for.
I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy
to be compared with the glory that shall be, what revealed in
US. For the for the earnest
expectation of the creation eagerly awaits for what the
revealing of the sons of God. Now it's going to be revealed
when in the last time you know that phrase last time it's the
same phrase that the Bible talks about when it talks about in the
last day. and when Paul said, I fought a good fight.
I finished my course. I've kept the faith.
Henceforth. There is laid up for me a crown
of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge shall
give me at that day. What day?
And not to me, only. But to all those that love his
appearing. How do you demonstrate that?
You love the Lord? Jesus said, if you love me, keep
my Commandments. if you love me, keep my words, folks, if we do
that, if we are begotten of God Baptized into Christ for the
remission of sins. We contact the blood of Jesus.
He supplied that on the cross, for us, our sins are washed
away, where added to the body of Christ and we live a faithful
life under unto death. Guess what?
We're being kept by the power of God and a great, you think
you're alone, you think you feel alone kept by the power of God.
It's reserved appear that heritance in heaven for you.
I don't know about you folks but I want to go.
Now, I understand, you know,
Paul said to live is Christ to die is gain.
What he meant was, it would be game for me to go.
But to live is for Christ, the work that needs to be done.
So we need to work until time shall be no more.
We, our lives are taken from this Earth.
But just to know that in heaven, there's a great place revealed
and will be revealed to us on the last day.
And finally, if we looked at verse 6 of this passage, it even
helps us through the trials of life, it's going to get us
through anything. That comes our way, what the
promise of the inheritance. We thank you for listening to
our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans.
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