335. Promise of Eternal Inheritance
Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is he mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Those who are called receive the promise of eternal inheritance. “Those who are called” are the believers in Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit calls us through the Gospel and He Himself causes the response of faith. Faith receives the promise when the individual is called. The believer receives the promise.
The promise of eternal inheritance was created and given to people in the Garden of Eden. Paradise was our inheritance. We lost it through sin. Then God promised to defeat the Stealer through the Seed of the woman. Then God further developed that promise of Paradise Restored with the promise of Land, Offspring and Blessing to Abraham. The promise of eternal inheritance works out through Moses and Joshua and the Land Flowing with Milk and Honey. Then the Promised Land becomes a Kingdom through David and Solomon, through whom the Seed would come, who would be the King of the Eternal Kingdom. The Garden, the Land, the Kingdom is the Inheritance earned for us by Jesus Christ and granted to us through the Gospel. All the promises of eternal inheritance emerge in the person of Jesus Christ. He is the inheritance and He gives the eternal inheritance to us.
The Story began in a Garden and it ends in a City; it begins and ends in Paradise. This Paradise was created to be eternal and it will be eternal for us. God created us for this eternal inheritance and He will see it through. No one can say they don’t know where we came from and we don’t know where we are going. We do know the origin and the destiny; it is all according to God’s purpose. It is done. Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the All in All. And we have received Him. Being an heir of all the riches of God makes me pretty special.