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I’m very glad that my inheritance in heaven is not based on my inherited weaknesses toward sin.

I’ve been a Christian a long time and still stumble now and then, something that should never happen yet sometimes does.

You know what I’m talking about since the same happens to you.

Even though we all, like sheep, have gone astray, we can savor the Savior’s promise that whoever believes in Him will not perish but will have eternal life.

That is an indestructible promise that Satan would love to blow up, but he can’t.

Oh yes, he tried in a big time way in the Garden of Gethsemane and on a hill called Golgotha.

But he failed miserably in tempting Jesus to fail miserably.

Unable to distract Jesus from His divine mission, Satan seeks to destruct us by distracting us from Christ’s promise of an indestructible life in eternity.

Satan rarely approaches us with the line Job’s wife used — “Curse God and die.” That would be too obvious.

Instead, he tempts us with the idea that we can be good enough — via sinning less or serving more — in order to qualify for salvation and heavenly blessing.

Sometimes he tempts us with the idea that our family’s faith heritage has been so rich that we’ve become as religious royalty and that, of course, we’ve got a preferred place in God’s heart and a special suite waiting for us in heaven just down the hall from God’s throne room.

These temptations are baloney, of course. No individual or family line is good enough to qualify for eternal hope based on personal performance or religious ancestry.

Our only hope is that indestructible promise that became real through Christ’s indestructible love and perfection and authority that overcame the worst onslaught the world had ever seen.

Jesus became our Priest forever not because of family bloodlines but instead because of a faith without bounds, according to Hebrews 7:16…

“…One who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to His ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life.”

Never forget that our eternal hope is not based on our fleshly ties to sinful ancestors, no matter how active those relatives were in the church.

Instead, our hope is based on our trust in the indestructible life — and indestructible promise — of the One who Satan could not distract, detour or defeat.

As always, I love you
Martin

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