Oh that God would give us eyes to see hearts to feel minds to get around this truth that in a very short time in a very short time you will

come into your inheritance and it's everything.

What would be different about our lives right now if we truly believed that we will inherit the world.

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper opens Romans 4, 13 to 15

to show how God's promise of our future inheritance

can make a difference now.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on September 12, 1999. 99.

Galatians 329, if you belong to Christ, so ask yourself right now if that's true,

do you belong to Christ? If you belong to Christ, here are the two consequences. One.

Then you are Abraham's descendants.

Secondly, heirs according to the promise.

We become heirs of the world the same way we become descendants of Abraham,

namely by being grafted into Christ the Messiah, the heir of Abraham. And so faith in Christ is the key to becoming

both a Jew and the inheritor of the world. Now what does it mean? What does it mean? If it's true, if all

the believers in this room right now are heirs of the world.

That someday the world will become yours

by inheritance, the world.

What does that mean?

And what difference did it make today?

The best exposition I know of is Paul's own in 1st Corinthians 3.21.

You can turn there with me if you want, and let's let Paul give a brief exposition of

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