Heaven An Inheritance

"The inheritance of the saints" So then heaven, with all it's glories is an inheritance. Now an inheritance is not a thing that can be bought with money, earned by labour, or won by conquest. If any man hath an inheritance, in the proper sense of that term, it came to him by birth. And thus it is with heaven. The man who shall recieve this glorious heritage will not obtain it by the works of the law nor by the efforts of the flesh, it will be given to him as a matter of gracious right because he has been "begotten...again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus christ from the dead," and has thus become an heir of heaven by blood and birth. They who come unto glory are sons, for is it not written, "The Captain of (our) salvation" bringeth "many sons unto glory?" They came there not as servants, no servant has any right to the inheritance of his master. Be he ever so faithful, yet he is not his master's heir. But because you are sons-made so by The Spirit's regeneration-sons by The Father's adoption- because by supernatural energy you have been born again, you become inheritors of eternal life and may enter into the many mansions of our Father's house above. Let us always understand then, when we think of heaven, that it is to be ours and a state which we are to enjoy as a result of birth- not as a reward for work. "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" That kingdom being an "inheritance," until you have the new birth you can have no claim to enter it.