Your REWARD

Posted : 30 Sep, 2011 07:40 AM

"Of course, everyone wants first place. Everyone wants to win the gold medal. That's where the prestige and popularity are. That's where you get all the strokes and the "atta-boys."



But let me tell you this. I am running this race of life, and the Bible tells me that one day in heaven there will be a reward waiting for me. It won't be based on how much I have done or how much recognition I have gained in the course of my life. It will be based on how faithful I was to what God called me to do. The same is true for you. Your reward will be based on how faithful you have been to the calling you have received from God."



What did God call you to do?

1. To be faithful

2. To live a holy life

3. To know God and to make Him known

4. To testify to the dying world about God and proclaim the Gospel/the Good News of salvation for every man and woman.



Do you do that? Are you going to do that?

Are you alive or lukewarm?



Revelation 3

The Dead Church

1 �And to the angel of the church in Sardis write,

�These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: �I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. 2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God.[a] 3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. 4 You[b] have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. 5 He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.

6 �He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.��



�These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: 15 �I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. 16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot,[g] I will vomit you out of My mouth. 17 Because you say, �I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing��and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked� 18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.

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