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An old man's letter to an evangelist expressed his great confidence in the hope of an incorruptible inheritance.
January 28, 2025 - Investment advisors tell people that they should buy physical gold to protect their assets in these uncertain times. That may be true - but God has established a far surer inheritance, worth far more than gold that will perish, for every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. We have an incorruptible inheritance, because our salvation rests on the incorruptible blood of our incorruptible Savior. In First Peter chapter one we read:
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. (1 Peter 1:3-5)
In the 1940s, evangelist Charles Fuller's live radio broadcast was heard each Sunday afternoon all over the United States. At the end of one program, he announced that the following Sunday he would be speaking on the subject of Heaven. During that week, he received a letter from an old man who was very ill. It said this:
Next Sunday you are going to talk about Heaven. I am interested in that land, because I have held a clear title to some property there for over fifty-five years. I did not buy it. It was given to me without money and without price. But the Donor purchased it for me at tremendous sacrifice. I am not holding it for speculation since the title is not transferable. And it is not a vacant lot.
The great Architect and Builder of the Universe has been building a home for me there which will never need to be remodeled nor repaired. It will suit me perfectly, individually, and it will never grow old.
Termites can never undermine its foundations for they rest on the Rock of Ages. Fire cannot destroy it. Floods cannot wash it away. No locks or bolts will ever be placed upon its doors, for no vicious person can ever enter that land where my dwelling stands, now almost completed and almost ready for me to enter in and abide in peace for eternity, without fear of being evicted.
There is a valley of deep shadow between the place where I live on this earth and that to which I shall journey in a very short time. I cannot reach my home in that City of Gold without passing through this dark valley of shadows. But I am not afraid because Jesus, the best Friend I ever had went through the same valley long, long ago and drove away all its gloom. He has stuck by me through thick and thin, since we first became acquainted fifty-five years ago, and I hold His promise, in printed form, never to forsake me or leave me alone. He will be with me as I walk through the valley of shadows, and I shall not lose my way because He is with me.
Dear friend, do you have that confidence? You can, if you are trusting in the finished work of Christ alone for salvation from sin and wrath. You can have full confidence in your incorruptible inheritance, purchased for you by the incorruptible blood of your incorruptible Savior. Ephesians chapter one tells Christians that
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His graceâ?¦In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. In Him you also trusted, after you heard the Word of truth, the Gospel of your salvationâ?¦you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory. (Ephesians 1:7-14)
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