We have not worked for this inheritance. Like many earthly heirs, it came to us through the death of Someone else. Who was this?
The Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour, who loved us and gave Himself for us, as we have already seen.
In the Acts of the Apostles, God sent St. Paul to the Gentiles "to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they might receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith."
You very often go up steps to a hall door, don't you? There are four steps leading up to the golden door of our inheritance.
1st. Our eyes must be opened to see we are sinners.
2nd. We must be willing to leave the darkness of sin and choose the light of goodness.
3rd. We must be delivered out of the power of the Devil, and come to the Lord Jesus.
4th. We must receive forgiveness of our sins.
Can we do this ourselves? No, we can't take one of those steps in our own strength.
God will do it all if we ask Him.
And then we shall be at the top of the steps waiting to be let through that golden door into our glorious and beautiful inheritance.
THERE is a city bright;
Closed are its gates to sin;
Nought that defileth,
Nought that defileth
Can ever enter in.
Saviour, I come to Thee;
O Lamb of God, I pray,
Cleanse me and save me,
Cleanse me and save me,
Wash all my sins away.
Lord, make me, from this hour,
Thy loving child to be,
Kept by Thy power,
Kept by Thy power
From all that grieveth Thee,—
Till in the snow-white dress
Of Thy redeemed I stand,
Faultless and stainless,
Faultless and stainless,
Safe in that happy land.