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SERMON TWENTY-ONE
SONS AND HEIRS
Tf children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.
—ROMANS 8:17
THERE is a sublime and wonderful mutual possession of which Scripture speaks much wherein the Lord is the inheritance of Israel, and Israel is the inheritance of the Lord. This being clearly understood at the outset, we shall.be prepared to follow the apostle's course of thought while he points out the conditions upon which the possession of that inheritance depends. It is children of God who are heirs of God.
I. NO INHERITANCE WITHOUT SONSHIP.
A. Natural Blessings Require a Natural Capacity to Receive Them.
1. Only the eye perceives the light. Always and necessarily the capacity or organ of reception precedes and determines the bestowment of blessings. The light falls everywhere, but only the eye drinks it in.
2. Lower orders of creatures do not participate in the gifts belonging to higher forms of life. Man has higher gifts simply because he has higher ca-
-pacities. All creatures are plunged in the same boundless ocean of Divine beneficence and bestowment, and into each there flows just that, and no more, which each, by the make and constitution that God has given him, is capable of receiving.