Salvation is 100% free gift Reward is 100% earned.
God gives salvation, i.e. forgiveness of all our sins only through FAITH in the God Jesus.
To get this salvation/forgiveness, we need to repent of our sins, confess them to God in a prayer :prayingm:and abandon them and our lovers.
When you will finish this prayer/conversation with the Son of God, then immediately He will write your name in the Book of Life and you will be imputed the righteousness of Jesus. Because He was holy and He took the sin of the world on the cross to make us HOLY.
So, God gives you 100% free gift of salvation from the hell for your sins. He calls you to be HOLY like He is HOLY.
When you will be free of your sins, do not turn to you vomit and lovers like dogs do it and do not lie with them in the dirty pit making sex, but live a HOLY life LOVING God and LOVING people. God will REWARD you for faith, sufferings, love for people, and you will be richly blessed in His Kingdom which will belong to you through FAITH in God. You will be God's inheritance, adopted by God.
All your sufferings and efforts, movement of your heart will be 100% REWARDED.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son:waving: into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. John 3:16-20
Philippians 2:12-13 So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out :bow:your salvation with awe and reverence, 13 for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort�for the sake of his good pleasure�is God.
2 Corinthians 5:9-10 So then whether we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please him. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good :bouncy: or evil:angeldevil:.
1 John 2:28 And now, little children, remain in him:waving:, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back:waving:.
It is significant that among the final words of Revelation, the last book of the Bible, we find these words of the Lord: �Look! I am coming soon:waving:, and my reward is with me to pay each one according to what he has done!� (Rev. 22:12).
Revelation 3:11-12 Jesus said: I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have so that no one can take away your crown.:angel: 12 The one who conquers I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never depart from it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from my God), and my new name as well.
2 Timothy 4:8 Finally the crown of righteousness :angel:is reserved for me. The Lord, the righteous Judge, will award it to me in that day�and not to me only, but also to all who have set their affection on his appearing.
1 Corinthians 4:5 So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light:glow: the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts:devil: :hearts:. Then each will receive recognition from God.
What are these rewards? How are they described in Scripture? What we learn about rewards from Scripture is in terms that are more general than specific. These are:
(1) The promise of crowns. This seems to be used as a symbol of victory, authority and responsibility.
(2) The promise of heavenly treasure. This stresses their eternal value and security.
Matthew 6:20 But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.
1 Peter 1:4 that is, into an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and unfading. It is reserved in heaven for you,
(3) The promise of accolades or commendations. This is seen in those passages where a reward is administered in the form of something like �well done good and faithful servant ��
Matthew 25:21 His master answered, �Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful in a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.�
Luke 19:17 And the king said to him, �Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.�
1 Corinthians 4:5 So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition from God.
(4) The promises to overcomers. These could refer to special blessing of rewards to those believers who overcome special trials and tests rather than a general promise to all believers.
Revelation 2:7 The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will permit him to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.�
Revelation 2:11 The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will in no way be harmed by the second death.�
Revelation 2:17 The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.�
Revelation 2:26 And to the one who conquers and who continues in my deeds until the end, I will give him authority over the nations
(5) The promise of special responsibilities and authority over the Lord�s possessions.
Matthew 19:28 Jesus said to them, �I tell you the truth: In the age when all things are renewed, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Matthew 24:45-47 Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their food at the proper time? 46 Blessed is that slave whom the master finds at work when he comes. 47 I tell you the truth, the master will put him in charge of all his possessions.
Matthew 25:21, 23 His master answered, �Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful in a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.�� His master answered, �Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful with a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.�
Luke 19:17-19 And the king said to him, �Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.� 18 Then the second one came and said, �Sir, your mina has made five minas.� 19 So the king said to him, �And you are to be over five cities.�
Luke 22:29-30 Thus I grant to you a kingdom, just as my Father granted to me, 30 that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Revelation 2:26 And to the one who conquers and who continues in my deeds until the end, I will give him authority over the nations
(4) Our spiritual gifts. Our rewards may be likened to our spiritual gifts. Our rewards seem to be primarily a matter of responsibility and maybe opportunities. They will not be like badges or medals worn in the military. Remember that all of our crowns will be cast at the feet of Christ, for only He is worthy. Also, Matthew 25:21, 23 and Luke 19:17-19 show us our rewards consist of authority over either many things or many cities. They may include galaxies of the universe. All believers will live in the millennium and in eternity with the Lord. Some will reign with Him, but, because of loss of rewards, evidently some will not.
Matthew 25:21-23 His master answered, �Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful in a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.� 22 The one with the two talents also came and said, �Sir, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have gained two more.� 23 His master answered, �Well done, good and faithful slave! You have been faithful with a few things. I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master.�
(5) In Scripture, the church is viewed as the heavenly kingdom and a universal priesthood. This may indicate something of our authority. We may rule over galaxies, celestial bodies, the heavens, and definitely over angels, and the world.
1 Corinthians 6:2-3 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you not competent to settle trivial suits? 3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? Why not ordinary matters!
1 Corinthians 4:8 Already you are satisfied! Already you are rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you had become kings so that we could reign with you!
Daniel 7:18, 22, 27 The holy ones :angel:of the Most High will receive the kingdom and will take possession of the kingdom forever and ever.�� 22 until the Ancient of Days came and judgment was rendered in favor of the holy ones of the Most High. Then the time arrived for the holy ones to take possession of the kingdom�27 Then the kingdom, authority, and greatness of the kingdoms under all of heaven will be delivered to the people of the holy ones of the Most High. His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; all authorities will serve him and obey him.�
Crowns :angel:are given as rewards for faithfulness to appropriate God�s grace and Christ�s victory in the Christian life. They remind us of our responsibility to abide in the vine.
The Crown of Exultation or Rejoicing :yay:
This crown is a reward given for witnessing, follow-up, and ministry to others. In one sense, the Thessalonians will be Paul�s crown, and throughout eternity will be rejoicing or exultation over their presence in heaven.
1 Thessalonians 2:19 For who is our hope or joy or crown to boast of before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not of course you?
Philippians 4:1 So then, my brothers and sisters, dear friends whom I long to see, my joy and crown, stand in the Lord in this way, my dear friends!
The Crown of Life :angel:
This crown is given for enduring testings (trials) and temptation (Jam. 1:12; Rev. 2:10).
James 1:12 Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.
Revelation 2:10 Do not be afraid of the things you are about to suffer. The devil is about to have some of you thrown into prison so you may be tested, and you will experience suffering for ten days. Remain faithful even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown that is life itself.
John 4:10 Jesus answered her, �If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, �Give me some water to drink,� you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.�
Romans 3:24 But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Romans 5:15-17 But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many! 16 And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification. 17 For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!
Romans 6:23 For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;
This crown is a reward given for faithfulness to use our gifts and opportunities in the service of the Lord and for loving His appearing. Note that these two things go together. To love His appearing is to live in the light of it.
2 Timothy 4:8 Finally the crown of righteousness is reserved for me. The Lord, the righteous Judge, will award it to me in that day�and not to me only, but also to all who have set their affection on his appearing.
The Crown of Glory :angel:
The crown of glory is a reward promised to elders for faithfulness in the discharge of their responsibilities in shepherding the people.
1 Peter 5:4 Then when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that never fades away.
The concern is not for the loss of salvation:angel:, which is eternally secure in Christ:waving:, but for failure :angeldevil:to live by faith, sharing daily in His glorious power and life, and doing this always with a view to the eternal rewards of His coming kingdom. :bow:
Many Catholics live as satanic christians....and our churches are full of thorns. Do you remember what Jesus said? They will remain among us until the Judgement Day.
What should we do?
Call them to senses, rebuke, show them their sins and live in righteousness then they will not be able to damage the Community of the True Believers/the Church.
They will whether abandon the Church, or repent.
Those, who will damage us /the false pastors/ will be judged and punished by God. Why? They scatter the believers, do not care about them, do not build them up and kill them deceiving them.
Look what God said about them:
10 � Many rulers:devil: have destroyed My vineyard,
They have trodden My portion underfoot;
They have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
11 They have made it desolate;
Desolate, it mourns to Me;
The whole land is made desolate,
Because no one takes it to heart.
Jeremiah 12
Jeremiah 23
The Branch of Righteousness
1 �Woe to the shepherds :angeldevil:who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!� says the LORD. 2 Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel against the shepherds:devil: who feed My people: �You have scattered My flock, driven them away, and not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your doings,� says the LORD. 3 �But I :hearts:will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase. 4 I will set up shepherds over them who will feed them:hearts:; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, nor shall they be lacking,� says the LORD.
5 � Behold, the days are coming,� says the LORD,
� That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness;
A King:waving: shall reign and prosper,
And execute judgment and righteousness:angel: in the earth.
6 In His days Judah will be saved,
And Israel will dwell safely;:yay:
Now this is His name by which He will be called:
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.:angel:
7 �Therefore, behold, the days are coming,� says the LORD, �that they shall no longer say, �As the LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,� 8 but, �As the LORD lives who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the north country and from all the countries where I had driven them.� And they shall dwell in their own land.�
The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up.
Their course of life is evil,
And their might is not right.
11 � For both prophet :angeldevil:and priest :devil:are profane;
Yes, in My house I have found their wickedness:devil:,� says the LORD.
12 � Therefore their way shall be to them
Like slippery ways;
In the darkness they shall be driven on
And fall in them;
For I will bring disaster on them:MrT:,
The year of their punishment,� says the LORD.
13 � And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria:
They prophesied by Baal
And caused My people Israel to err:devil:.
14 Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
They commit adultery :nicenurse:and walk in lies:nahnah:;
They also strengthen the hands of evildoers:devil:,
So that no one turns back from his wickedness.
All of them are like Sodom:devil: to Me,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah:angeldevil:.
15 �Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets:
� Behold, I will feed them with wormwood,
And make them drink the water of gall;
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
Profaneness has gone out into all the land.��
16 Thus says the LORD of hosts:
� Do not listen to the words of the prophets :angeldevil:who prophesy to you.
They make you worthless;
They speak a vision of their own heart,
Not from the mouth of the LORD.
17 They continually say to those who despise Me,
� The LORD has said, �You shall have peace��;
And to everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say,
� No evil shall come upon you.��
18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD,
And has perceived and heard His word?
Who has marked His word and heard it?
19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury�
A violent whirlwind!
It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD will not turn back
Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart.
In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.
21 � I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in My counsel,
And had caused My people to hear My words,
Then they would have turned them from their evil way
And from the evil of their doings.
23 � Am I a God near at hand,� says the LORD,
� And not a God afar off?
24 Can anyone hide himself in secret places,
So I shall not see him:glow:?� says the LORD;
� Do I not fill heaven and earth?� says the LORD.
25 �I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies:angeldevil: in My name, saying, �I have dreamed, I have dreamed!� 26 How long will this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies? Indeed they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart:devil:, 27 who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.
28 � The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream;
And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.
What is the chaff to the wheat?� says the LORD.
29 � Is not My word like a fire?� says the LORD,
� And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30 �Therefore behold, I am against the prophets:glow:,� says the LORD, �who steal My words every one from his neighbor. 31 Behold, I am against the prophets,� says the LORD, �who use their tongues and say, �He says.� 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams:angeldevil:,� says the LORD, �and tell them, and cause My people to err:angeldevil: by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all,� says the LORD.
33 �So when these people or the prophet or the priest ask you, saying, �What is the oracle of the LORD?� you shall then say to them, �What oracle?�[b] I will even forsake you,� says the LORD. 34 �And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, �The oracle of the LORD!� I will even punish that man and his house. 35 Thus every one of you shall say to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, �What has the LORD answered?� and, �What has the LORD spoken?� 36 And the oracle of the LORD you shall mention no more. For every man�s word will be his oracle, for you have perverted the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God. 37 Thus you shall say to the prophet, �What has the LORD answered you?� and, �What has the LORD spoken?� 38 But since you say, �The oracle of the LORD!� therefore thus says the LORD: �Because you say this word, �The oracle of the LORD!� and I have sent to you, saying, �Do not say, �The oracle of the LORD!�� 39 therefore behold, I, even I, will utterly forget you and forsake you, and the city that I gave you and your fathers, and will cast you out of My presence. 40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.��
"So Jesus again said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before Me are thieves and robbers:devil:; but the sheep did not heed them. I am the door; if any one enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly."
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep:hearts:. He who is a hireling and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. He flees because he is a hireling and cares nothing for the sheep."
"I am the good shepherd:waving:; I know My own and My own know Me, as The Father knows Me and I know The Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. And I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed My voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd. For this reason The Father loves Me, because I lay down My life, that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again; this charge I have received from My Father."
Brothers, if God lives in us, He transforms us and our lives.
If God lives in us, we should be TRANSFORMED, i.e. we should cooperate with God and REPENT, ABANDON our sins and lovers, OBEYING and IMPLEMENTING what God says.
If you do not want to abandon your sins and live a holy life then God does NOT live in you.
Did you know that?
I Never Knew You
Jesus said:
�Not everyone who says to Me, �Lord, Lord,� shall enter the kingdom of heaven:angel:, but he who does the will:bow: of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, �Lord, Lord, have we:angeldevil: not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons:devil: in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?� And then I will declare to them, �I never knew you:angeldevil:; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness:angeldevil:!� Matthew 7:21-23
