Let's imagine that you had a relative generations before you who made a fortune big enough to pass down billions of dollars to each following generation. But suppose this inheritance came with stipulations or regulations and that if you broke any of them you lost your inheritance and it was passed on to the next person in line. What if it was a billion dollars and all you had to do to keep it was follow 10 rules?? You could not get drunk. You could not gamble. You could not cheat on your spouse if you were to have one. You had to vow to care for your parents and not put them in nursing homes. You had to vow not to lie. Not to murder. You could not use curse words. You had to donate to charity once a year minimum. You could not become haughty and boastful. And lastly you had to find a way to honor the ancestor who left you that inheritance in some significant way during your life span. Would you be willing to carefully follow those rules in order to gain your billion dollars? Or would you give it all up because there were too many rules and you would be missing out on fun?!?!? How would you conduct yourself knowing that with every choice and every temptation your whole inheritance was on the line? If 2 drinks would get you drunk would it be sensible to walk away after 1? The word says, 1Co 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
It speaks of inheritances in Num 26:54 To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.
So what it boils down to is are you willing to live an upright and righteous life on this Earth in order to gain an ETERNAL inheritance in the Kingdom of Heaven???
Psa 37:18 The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
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