Stewarding for Eternity: Rewards at Christ’s Judgment Seat

There will be people, Christians, who love God, but they built their life around their own desires, their own motives, their own profit, and man's praise. It all be burned up. You'll be saved. You'll make it to heaven. You have nothing left to show. Others will stand before the bema judgment seat of Christ, and they will receive a crown of righteousness, the victor's crown, the crown of life, a white robe, recognition, and riches. We're talking about forever, people. [01:24:19] (50 seconds)  #EternalCrowns

And on judgment day, the judgment seat, the bema of Christ, we will be rewarded or not rewarded. The fire or the testing or the judgment will reveal our motives and will reveal our works before the Lord. Some will get different levels of reward. Some will get no reward, and it would be like they just jumped through a wall of fire and saved themselves. [01:23:01] (28 seconds)  #BemaRewards

We're not talking about salvation here. We're talking about sanctification. Sanctification is the process that God works through us of convicting us. We become obedient in that. We change this, and then God starts saying, hey. And I want you to stop thinking about yourself and start thinking about others. And sanctification is all about discipling others, winning people for Jesus. It's all about doing good, helping the poor. All that kind of stuff is a part of the sanctification. [01:22:33] (28 seconds)  #LiveToServe

God owns it all, and we're accountable to it all. He's given us our body. He's given us our time. He's given us our resources, our money, our relationships, our calling. He's given us all kingdom assignments, things that we're supposed to do. He's like, I want you to do this. Have you been a good steward with that? And so we we've been talking about our foundational passage has been in Matthew on the parable of the talents. [00:47:49] (25 seconds)  #StewardshipMatters

Rewards on this earth, money, bonuses, influence, pats on the back, recognize. Do you understand that's temporal? Nobody will remember you when you die. I hate to say that, but it's the truth. But the rewards you get in heaven, Eternity never runs out. See, the problem is we we're we just we we see heaven is so like, yeah. Okay. Someday. Someday. Someday. But the Bible actually tells us a lot of things about it. [01:29:17] (60 seconds)  #EternalOverTemporal

That's why we can't compare ourselves to anybody else because God's given somebody more, somebody less. He knows who's who can handle more, who can steward more, who can steward less. And doesn't make us any different in the kingdom. It's just, hey. This is how he made us. He expects a return on that investment, and he rewards those who are found faithful. First Corinthians says, moreover, it's required of stewards. They be found faithful. [00:48:22] (31 seconds)  #FaithfulStewardship

So when we die, you like that this morning, you feeling good, Our fate is done. It's eternal. God judges us at that point whether we have accepted Christ as our Lord and savior. We've asked his blood to cover us, to to cleanse us of all unrighteousness, to give us eternal life. And let me just say here, there are no take backs. There are no do overs. It's final. [01:02:13] (34 seconds)  #SalvationIsFinal

Not everyone will be equal in the kingdom of God. We will all have salvation, but there will be some people that have received more rewards, more influence, more authority than others. And next week, we're gonna get into those rewards. We're gonna talk about all the different places the Bible tells us if you do this, you will get a reward, and then we're gonna talk about there's five different crowns that we will receive [01:19:53] (29 seconds)  #CrownsOfHeaven