The Inheritance – Lite
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Sermon Quotes – from Original Version
Inheritance – Introductory Blog
The Inheritance – Sermon Paraphrase
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Sermon Quotes – from Original Version
Inheritance – Introductory Blog
The Inheritance – Sermon Paraphrase
The Inheritance of the Saints is to be One with Them, no separation between us and the origin of our Life. To fail to receive our inheritance is to deprive others of theirs. Not only should we know God as our Life and Light, but be aware beyond our consciousness and imagination that our creator God is always and forever present, transforming us into the live beings that we are!
The sole claim we can demand of Him is Himself, for God is our Inheritance! What I am trying to express is this: That if we understood that everything comes from God, then our inheritance, whatever form it takes, would be seen as Him, for everything is God’s, not just as being in His power, that of course, but as coming from Him, the Light.
The Meaning of Share is not what we can get or keep, but what we can give away. What is mine is that which I have the power to give away. What I cannot share or desire to share with everyone is not fundamentally mine. We can say that whatever is the source of joy or love, whatever is pure and strong and awakens aspiration, lifts us out of selfishness, and is beautiful or admirable is Light!
Heaven is God Himself, not just a place or time in the future, but continuous fellowship and communion with God now and then! It is the movement from Alone, to Together with God, to Others!
However, what boy, willing to be a disciple of Christ and a child of God, would prefer a sermon to his glorious kite. A kite is the most divine of toys, and with God Himself as his playmate, watching it together in the blue wind, tossed hither and thither in the golden sky! He might be willing to part with his kite, the wind, and the golden sun and go down into the grave for his brothers, but surely not to be admitted to an eternal prayer meeting!
For my part, I rejoice to think that there will be neither church nor chapel in the heavenlies. Yes, there will be nothing of religion but its Love and no law but the perfect Law of Liberty.
Heaven will be continuous fellowship with God, in this relationship, in this very sense of being, is Joy! For to experience real Life, there must be actual and conscious contact with its very source. Therefore, this Life is simply goodness, as good as the very Life of God is good, filled with the Joy of our very being!
The Hell of Things is reserved for those who love only things, and for them, the prospect of inheriting Life holds no attraction. If we do not care for relationships, then God’s Heaven will be Hell for us! They can be assured there will be no danger of a requirement of them to accept their inheritance. Many say they believe that God is love, but they cannot quite believe that He is the source of the Love in which we are most like Him, making His love either a mockery or torture.
Light is for repentance and Life, and in it The Only Constant is Change. Relationships are dynamic, not static. They are ever-changing. It is the joy of the true-hearted, of an heir of Light, a child of God, to love and desire an open soul. Sheer joy awaits the one who hates the wrongs he has done and can say, “I was wrong; I am sorry!”
For never have I felt quite at Home, in the middle of the good things of this beautiful world. All that is needed to set the world right for me – and no celestial heaven could be without it – is that I care for God as He cares for me!
What springs from my selfish self is not from God and is evil; it is a perversion of something of God’s. Whatever is not of faith, that is, not trusting and living from the Life of God, is sin! Independence is a stream cut off – a stream that has cut itself off from its source and thinks it runs on without it. But Light is the inheritance through Him whose Life is the Light of men, to awaken in us the Life of our Father in heaven. All love be to Him, Who in Himself generates the Life, which is the Light of men!
See the links below for other articles connected to this summary:
Sermon Quotes – from Original Version
Inheritance – Introductory Blog
The Inheritance – Sermon Paraphrase