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Topic: What is "the reward"Jesus referred to when He said, "My reward is with Me"?
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becauseHElives
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Revelation 22:12 Behold, I am coming soon, and I shall bring My wages and rewards with Me, to repay and render to each one just what his own actions and his own work merit.
Isaiah 40:10 Behold, the Lord God will come with might, and His arm will rule for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.
Jeremiah 17:10 I the Lord search the mind, I try the heart, even to give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Before we can grasp the meaning of verse 12 we must comprehend verse 11, remember line upon line precept upon precept……
Revelation 22:11 He who is unrighteous (unjust, wicked), let him be unrighteous still; and he who is filthy (vile, impure), let him be filthy still; and he who is righteous (just, upright, in right standing with God), let him do right still; and he who is holy, let him be holy still.
When Yeshua returns there will be now time to change what you are…
You will be found doing the will of Yahweh, praying, seeking to be conformed to the image of Yeshua, crucifying the flesh, doing the things Yeshua Commanded (For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me a drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.”)
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You will be found using His “Grace” as a license to live according to the lust of the world. Saying faith alone is sufficient, I need no obedience. Never considering what you watch, what you listen too, how you spend your time, what you wear, how you treat you spouse, how you treat your children, how you treat the stranger, do you consider the poor, hunger, naked, sick, fatherless, the prisoners…..
Yeshua is speaking of the same thing here in Revelation as the Apostle James was speaking of …
Faith without works (fruit) is dead and Yeshua is coming soon to give to every man his just rewards
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Strive to enter in at the strait gate:for many, I say unto you will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. ( Luke 13:24 )
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Jesus said in the revelation shown to John on the Aegean island of Patmos:
Revelation 22:12
And look, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give to every man according as his work shall be.
Jesus said His reward, not His punishment, but His reward, was with Him.
Was Jesus referring to the reward for the bornagain Christian thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and hundredfold, since the Lord was "coming with His reward" and NOT with His punishment?
Who do you think this "reward" is for in this verse:
Revelation 22:12
Look, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give to every man according as his work shall be.
It that being said to bornagain Christians or to non-Christians and to the world-at large, and their "reward" is actually "punishment"?
Is Jesus referring here to the thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and hundredfold rewards, or is Jesus referring to "punishments that unbelievers will get or be rewarded with"?
What do you think?
Eden
"O happy birthday, Jesus"
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