REWARD of Eternal CROWN
Sunday Fb Live
"Rewards of Eternal CROWN"
> Though we are to work together, we are REWARD INDIVIDUALLY.
1 Corinthians 3:8-15
(The choices of material)
12] Now anyone who builds on that foundation may USE GOLD, SILVER, JEWELS, WOOD, HAY, or STRAW.
(Time of Testing)
13] But there is going to come a time of testing at the judgment day to see what kind of work each builder has done. EVERYONE'S WORK WILL BE PUT THROUGH THE FIRE to SEE WHETHER or NOT it KEEPS its VALUE.
(We need to Survived)
14] IF THE WORK survived THE FIRE, THAT BUILDER WILL RECEIVE A REWARD.
( Save but no REWARD)
[15] If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved---even though only as one escaping through the flames.
(Desires BOTH , REWARDED and SAVED)
1 Mga Taga-Corinto 3:12
May nagtatayo na gumagamit ng ginto, pilak, o mahahalagang bato; mayroon namang gumagamit ng kahoy, damo, o dayami.
1 Mga Taga-Corinto 3:13
Makikilala ang uri ng gawa ng bawat isa sa Araw ng Paghuhukom sapagkat mahahayag sa pamamagitan ng apoy kung anong uri ang ginawa ng bawat isa.
1 Mga Taga-Corinto 3:14
Kung ang itinayo sa ibabaw ng pundasyon ay hindi masunog, tatanggap ng gantimpala ang nagtayo noon.
1 Mga Taga-Corinto 3:15 (not only to Save, Crown)
Ngunit kung masunog naman, mawawalan siya ng gantimpala. Gayunman, maliligtas siya, kaya lang ay para siyang nagdaan sa apoy.
Psalm 37:18
Day by day the Lord observes the good deeds done by godly men and gives them eternal rewards.
INTRODUCTION
One day we will all stand before God and our lives will be judged.
But there is a judgement of the believer as we have just read. Our life, our work, our deeds will be ‘put through the fire to see whether or not it keeps its value.’
Our open passage tells this
• Though we are to work together, we are reward individually.
• We are partners with God in this work.
• The work’s foundation can only be Jesus Christ.
• Choices of material - gold, silver and jewels or wood, hay and straw.
Not the loss of salvation. They will be saved but like someone just escaping a fire – with nothing. They will miss out on rewards.
God does not want us to just escape hell, but to live a full life for Jesus and receive eternal rewards that he has prepared for those that love him.
> In the Bible these rewards are defined as crowns and today we are going to look quickly at
5 CROWNS OF
ETERNAL REWARDS.
1. THE CROWN OF LIFE
2. THE INCORRUPTIBLE CROWN
3. THE CROWN OF REJOICING or the SOUL WINNERS CROWN -
4. THE CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
5. THE CROWN OF GLORY
(THE CROWN OF LIFE)
- to those who devote themselves to Jesus.
James 1:12
14 God blesses the people who patiently endure testing.
> Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.
> This crown is given to those who love God.
> Devote themselves to Him in every area of their lives.
Mark 8:35
says Whoever shall save his life shall lose it and whoever shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospel the same shall save it.
Would you like to receive the crown of life
- Allow the Holy Spirit to bring you closer to God,
loving Him with all your heart, mind and strength.
(THE INCORRUPTIBLE CROWN)
- for those who lived a disciplined Christian life
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
24. Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize?
Run in such a way that you may obtain it.
25. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable (incorruptible) crown.
26. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.
27. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
> Paul describes life here in Corthinians as a race.
And there is prize at the end.
It is the incorruptible, imperishable
