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Jesus Wants Us to Treasure Our Heavenly Inheritance ㅡ

 “For our conversation is in heaven; from where also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ:”

 (Philippians 3:20)

 “Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.”

 (Hebrews 12:16)

 Because of his indifference to the divine blessings and requirements, Esau is called in Scripture “a profane person.” Verse 16.

He represents those who lightly value the redemption purchased for them by Christ, and are ready to sacrifice their heirship to heaven for the perishable things of earth.

Multitudes live for the present, with no thought or care for the future.

If one must be relinquished, the gratification of a depraved appetite or the heavenly blessings promised only to the self-denying and God-fearing, the claims of appetite prevail, and God and heaven are virtually despised.

How many, even of professed Christians, cling to indulgences that are injurious to health and that benumb the sensibilities of the soul.

Multitudes are selling their birthright for sensual indulgence.

Health is sacrificed, the mental faculties are enfeebled, and heaven is forfeited; and all for a mere temporary pleasure—an indulgence at once both weakening and debasing in its character.

As Esau awoke to see the folly of his rash exchange when it was too late to recover his loss, so it will be in the day of God with those who have bartered their heirship to heaven for selfish gratifications.

 (Patriarchs and Prophets 181, 182)

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