Let's open our Bibles to Romans 8:17.

The Lesser Inheritance
A heavenly home
John 14:1-3 A place prepared especially for all believers
A heavenly banquet
The banquet stories present our inheritance as joy and secure fellowship
Rule with Christ
2 Tim. 2:12 If we endure, we will also reign with him
Likeness to Christ
1 John 3:1-2 We shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is
The Greater Inheritance - God is Our Inheritance
This is taught in the Old Testament
Psa. 73:25-26 God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever
Num. 18:20 I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel
Josh. 13:33 But to the tribe of Levi, Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, just as he said to them
We are "co-heirs with Christ"
The only thing that can properly be said to be Jesus' inheritance is the Father's glory
John 17:4-5 Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began
Christ's inheritance is the glory of God
The Holy Spirit is given to us as the "earnest" or "deposit"
An earnest is a pledge of something greater and a part of what is actually to come
If the earnest of our inheritance is the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is God, then the full inheritance must be God himself
The heroes of the faith in Hebrews 11 did not receive the promises while they were here on earth
They have gone before us to take possession of the inheritance prepared in heaven for God's saints