# Synodical Conference Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1910_S21
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of the Ev. Luth. Synodical Conference of North America. 1910. 21

If we have the same Father as Christ, we also have the
same inheritance with him. "Joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that
we may be also glorified together," Rom. 8:17; cf.
Gal. 4:7.

Wherein does the inheritance consist? "No weapon that is formed against
thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise
against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the
servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord,"
Isa. 54:17. Even for this life we know that to them that
love God all things work together for good. And if God be for us, who can be
against us? And on the day of judgment we say: "Who shall
lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Who is he that condemneth?" Rom. 8:28, 31, 33.

And it is an incorruptible inheritance, 1 Pet. 1:4. In this
world fire and water, storm and plague and earthquake, war
and robbers can destroy all our possessions, as has often happened.
But our heavenly inheritance is far removed from all such dangers.
It is well insured.

The inheritance is undefiled. It is not contaminated. It is not
mixed. It is genuine. It is incontestable.

The inheritance fadeth not away. It loses nothing of its freshness,
of its splendor, of its value. Earthly securities can
rise and fall; indeed they can become wholly worthless. Not so
our heavenly inheritance. It does not need to be set in order again and again.
It remains of itself in a fresh condition.

The inheritance is reserved for us in heaven. Many an heir
who wished to enter upon his property has found it in the possession of a pretender;
and it was not possible for him to drive out the impostor.
Not so with our inheritance. When we are ready to enter upon it,
we shall find it well preserved. Christ says: "I go to
prepare a place for you": and he keeps it also for us.

We are heirs through Christ. "And if children,
then heirs of God through Christ," Gal. 4:7. "In
whom (Christ) also we have obtained an inheritance," Eph. 1:11.
As it is God's work, not ours, that we are God's children, so
it is God's grace, not our merit, that we are heirs. It
lies in the nature of the matter that one does not work for an inheritance, nor
earn it, nor buy it. An inheritance is something that another has acquired
and left to us. Christ has acquired our heavenly inheritance
and hands it over to us as a free gift. He led a
holy life, so holy that no one could accuse him of a sin,
so holy that even the holy God was well pleased with him.
Then Christ suffered for our sin, the innocent
for the guilty. He was wounded for our transgression and
bruised for our iniquity. By his stripes we are