Moment of Meditation: Inherit (Matthew 25:34-36)

Original Broadcast: June 2014

''Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me' (Matthew 25:34-36).''

Jesus speaks the words we want to hear to the sheep on His right. "Come, you who are blessed by My Father." Through faith in Jesus, we have been blessed by God the Father. This blessing comes from the holy Trinity. The Father sent the Son to die for the sins of the world. The Father and the Son send the Holy Spirit so that people can believe in His atonement.

"Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." Being blessed by God the Father, the sheep are able to walk into the kingdom prepared for them. Prepared from the foundation of the world. The kingdom of Eden. Paradise re-established for believers.

The kingdom has been prepared for you. Jesus also says, "In My Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again to take you to Myself, that where I am you may be also" (John 14:2-3). Prepared from the foundation of the world, Jesus comes back to bring us into the Paradise of Eden. Where we were created to live forever. Now we have that eternal life as an inheritance. Because we believe and follow Him. Amen.