Rewards in Heaven for Christians

Rewards for Christians - When Do We Receive Them

The city of Corinth was renowned for the Isthmian Games, a celebration of athletic challenges and occasions like the Olympic games. Toward the finish of each challenge or occasion, the competitors would show up before an enormous, lavishly embellished platform call the bema. On this platform, the sovereign sat on the judgment seat and gave out rewards to the successful competitors for their long stretches of devoted and disciplined training and their persistence and perseverance in the warmth of rivalry and fight. Rewards (see Rev. 22:12).

(In 2 Corinthians 5:10), Paul gives the Corinthians a comparative picture of the bema in connection to the future judgment of Christians when he states, "For we should all show up before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, regardless of whether it be positive or negative." Paul is saying that all Christians will remain before the (bema seat; (see Article), of Christ. At the bema seat, Jesus Christ will bring to light every deed, fortunate or unfortunate that every devotee has done on earth since the individual in question turned into a Christian. Each Christian will be compensated dependent on his words, deeds, and devotion (see 1 Cor. 3:11-14).

1 Cor 3:13-15 "Each man's work will be made show: for the day will proclaim it since it will be uncovered by fire; and the fire will attempt each man's work of what sort it is". "If any man's work withstand which he hath manufactured immediately, he will receive a reward". "On the off chance that any man's work will be singed, he will endure misfortune: yet he will be spared; yet so as by fire."

Jesus shows judgment and respects in the illustration He gives (in Matt. 25:14-30). A man who is going to go on a voyage endows his assets to three of his hirelings, each according to his capacity. These three hirelings speak to Christians; the ace speaks to Christ; and the assets speak to the time, ability, and fortunes that Christ gives each Christian. In the illustration, two of the hirelings are loyal with what the ace gives them, however, one is unfaithful. When the ace returns and calls his hirelings before him, the two reliable workers are compensated with more and are given guidelines or charge over numerous things. However, the unfaithful worker loses what he had been given and is thrown into "external dimness" (Matt. 25:30).

In this anecdote, the individuals who are steadfast with the time, ability, and fortunes that Christ gives them will be remunerated with crowns (1 Cor. 9:24-27), and the chance to help Christ in governing the Millennial Kingdom (Rev. 20:4). In any case, those Christians who are unfaithful (Matt. 25:28-30), will have their rewards taken from them and given to the reliable individuals, and they will be thrown into "external obscurity," where there will be "weeping and gnashing of teeth."

(In Revelation 22:12), Jesus Christ says, "I come rapidly and my reward is with me, to give each man according as his work will be." Are you prepared to remain before the bema seat of Christ? Out of your adoration for Christ and thankfulness for the endowment of salvation, serve God loyally now, and you will be remunerated later. The expectation of winning crowns from Jesus Christ and reigning with Him ought to convince a Christian that running a dependable race merits the effort. Being granted any of these crowns or chances to control will be respect past anything we can imagine. How about we put it all on the line!

Reigning According to Faithfulness: In (Luke 19:11-27), we find the story of the ten minas. This story vouches for the quantitative component in our Christian help. Ten hirelings were given a mina each. The first invested that mina, and at the coming of his Lord he had earned ten minas. Note the acclamation and the injunction of the Savior in Luke:

Luke 19:17 "Well done, my great worker!" his lord answered. "Since you have been dependable in a little issue, assume responsibility for ten urban areas." Because this hireling had amplified his substance, he was given the authority of ten urban communities during the Millennium. The equivalent is said in stanza 18 of the second worker, who had taken his mina and gained five minas. To him was offered the position to rule more than five urban areas.

The unfaithful worker, who basically came back to the ace the mina he had been given, received nothing; actually, the mina he had was removed, which may well indicate that the unfaithful hirelings of Christ, however, spared ("yet just as one escaping through the blazes" (1 Cor. 3:15), do not have any uncommon honor, yet will live a fairly desolate presence during the Millennium.

Steadfast workers, however, will be given a position of genuine administration in Christ's kingdom, a place of initiative straightforwardly in extent to the level of reliability in Christian help. What a test to devotees to be loyal in the manner they can in this life, for in their administration for Christ they are laying up for themselves loves in heaven that will one day determine their station and position for a thousand years.

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