"For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.”
Ephesians 5:5 (NIV)
Are we anticipating an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God?
Do we believe there is a house waiting for us in heaven?
Do we believe that there are friends and family waiting for us in heaven?
If you asked people around you - family, neighbours, friends, classmates and workmates, you will find that most people will express a belief in heaven and express that they hope they have an inheritance there.
God wants us to know something for sure- He wants there to be complete assurance in our hearts of this inheritance in heaven and so He cautions us through Paul about the great web of deception that most of the people who live around us are caught up in.
At the heart of this deception is the idea that you can live in this world without submitting all of your self to Christ, and still be accepted into the place where only God’s will is done.
Don’t be deceived by empty words - for the truth is that only those who bow to the rule of Christ now, will have any inheritance in His kingdom.
Only those who live as children of the kingdom of light will enter that kingdom of light when their life on earth is over.
Only those who long for the kingdom to come to them, who seek to have God’s will done in their lives on earth, only those have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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