Rewards

The way I understand rewards is that we are rewarded for our good works. We can receive crowns of righteousness. When we go to heaven, we will lay these crowns at the feet of Jesus. What we do on earth that is good, is our gift to our Savior when we meet Him.

Right now I'm too lazy to look up scripture though. :tongue3:

 

http://bible.org/seriespage/assurance-eternal-rewards

The article above is quite lengthy and makes a sound argument for biblical rewards. Another article on it:
http://bible.org/seriespage/rewards

The rewards are not automatic; they are conditional. This has nothing to do with salvation.

Many do not believe there are rewards but investigation will show that the Bible does teach this.

 

Along these lines, this is a verse that has humbled me greatly.

"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them." Eph 2:10

It is humbling to realize that God has set before us good works that were "prepared beforehand". Kind of a path, if you will, that if we lived our lives according to His will we would be following and doing the good works which we were created for. I have wondered how many of those I failed to do? Missed opportunities to do what God had set before me. I try and read this verse often and live my life in a way that I am sensitive to what God has for prepared for me.

 

Hi saved by grace

Here is one of the main passage about rewards........

1 Corinthians 3:11-15
V.11 ¶ For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. v
V.12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
V.13 Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
V.14 If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
V.15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
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For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

This foundation, is our salvation:
(The moment we are saved, Christ becomes the foundation of our life.)
-That everything else is built upon.-
And a Spiritual foundation is laid up in heaven for us.
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Now if any man build upon this foundation

As we live our life we build upon this foundation, both here and in heaven:
(Here by drawing closer to the Lord, and there by the rewards for doing that.)
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gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

Here are the six kinds of building material we can use to build our heavenly building:
The first three, are a result of differing digrees of sincerity and faithfulness.
And the last three, are a result of phoniness and unfaithfulness.
E.G. (If in our Christian life, we don’t really commit to the Lord.)
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Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire;

This a referance to 2Cor.5:10: Where every Christian’s life will be Judged:
(Not for sin, but for what he has done with it (Was it good or bad.)
-Having NOTHING AT ALL to do with Salvation, but just rewards.-
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and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

The way the Lord describes the Judgement seat of ChristFor Christians
Our life(building), will be tried by fire.

The Lord will put a blow torch to it, to see what it is made of.
And everything that is flammable(wood hay & stubble), will burn away.
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If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

We shall be rewarded for what ever is left, standing upon the foundation:
(Remember, the foundation is not a reward, it is a gift The gift of salvation.
But everything built upon it, that does not burn, will be rewards.
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If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss:

An interesting thing about this judgement: There will be no punishment, at all:
(Only receiving rewards or missing out on rewards.)
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but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

Now for many Christians, they will be saved, but receive -0- no rewards at all.
(They got saved, and may have done some good things, but before their life was over, they turned from the right path, and lost their rewards.)
Ezekiel 3:20
“Again, When a righteous [man] doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.”

 

I like that, I might have to borrow it if you don't mind.

 

No, I seriously doubt that! :laugh: Not sure what they mean by that. My pastor has said that we don't know for sure what the rewards are. I think some of the ideas in those articles are what the author(s) think it may be.

Not sure. I just gave the links as info for you. I skimmed them and they're from what I consider a pretty sound site but that doesn't mean I understand or agree with everything.

I think if you get the reward for this, this is not something you would want to do. You will want to glorify God.

That does not mean saved again.

Some believe this means suffering a loss of rewards.

Much of this is speculation. The best thing to do is to read the passages and think about it over a period of time. I don't think any of us knows for sure what these rewards actually mean as our understanding is limited on this.