Part 1 //The Judgment Seat and Eternal Rewards// Mike Bickle, A Biblical Overview of Eternal Rewards

and I'm beginning an eight part series on eternal rewards in this first session although I'm doing it on Sunday the rest are gonna be on Friday night I'm wanting to just bring our whole local church in our body here and to just a broad strokes kind of overview of this subject and I'm gonna break down the details of it in a far more detailed way on Friday night for the next seven Friday nights this subject of the judgement seat of Christ and eternal rewards is one of the most important themes in the Word of God Jesus talked on this subject more than any other teacher and the body of crime I mean in the Word of God because he knew the most about this subject therefore he saw its value like nobody else this theme is referred to I mean like every other page in the New Testament maybe not exactly but I mean it's it's at a major theme but it's mostly neglected in the teaching of the body of Christ I've been really captured by this subject over the years I'm gonna share an experience I had about 40 years ago that really stirred my heart up and I've sensed that time I've looked every time I go somewhere to another city and go to a Christian bookstore or now online I look for books on this subject and there's not very many of them and the body of Christ by neglecting this subject it brings us into a place of real weakness and it's a real missed opportunity even godly believers don't talk much about this subject but it was a subject talked often about and taught about by the Apostles in October 1978 about 40 years ago I was a young pastor and I had a powerful life shifting supernatural encounter I've shared this many times over the years because it's marked me that dramatically I think of this in counter on a regular basis not everyday but I mean many times in a week I'll think about this encounter it's as vivid and real in my mind today as it was near 40 years ago I went to bed one night it started in a dream but it ended up in a visionary a kind of encounter it's hard to describe exactly what the term is but I was in this dream gave more than a dream and I was kneeling before the Lord I literally saw the Lord in this dream experience it's the only time I've ever had an encounter of this level of this kind like this and he was looking right at me with a very serious look he wasn't angry but he was sober he was serious he said the most startling shocking words to me he said you're saved but your life was wasted I was really troubled by that because I know I'm kneeling before the Lord again I've never seen the Lord in a dream like it directly face to face like this except for this one time at this level and I'd been a dedicated devout believer for maybe 6 7 years at that time and I thought I'm seeking the Lord hard as far as I knew it I thought my life was wasted and I began to protest this idea in my mind I didn't say it because of who I was in front of I said this is a mistake this is a mistake you got the wrong person on I'm you know reading biographies of the great missionaries and fasting and praying and seeking the Lord and giving money and really pouring myself out in every way I knew serving people and trying to be humble and that are deducted it up notice his head trying then I thought rose up in me by the Holy Spirit very strong resounding in me it is impossible to manipulate the man Christ Jesus because when I was saying in my mind you got the wrong person the Holy Spirit says you'll never change his mind about what he's evaluated so I was panic-stricken I'm gonna had this sense of dread so I cried out can I have another chance can I have another chance at life natural life and then the next thought that rose up in me by the Holy Spirit it was more than a thought it was a resounding word in my spirit the verse Hebrews 9:27 it's appointed unto a person to die once and then they're evaluated you don't get a second chance you can't go back and do it again so I was left in this tremendous sense of loss and regret I mean I was weeping I mean I was heartbroken it was wrenching and as I'm weeping and I'm kneeling before the Lord in this dream experience tears are flowing down and my shirted my t-shirt that I'm wearing is wet in this dream but suddenly I wake up I'm not in bed I'm a couple steps over in the room I don't know how I got there I didn't I don't remember getting I'm going there and I'm kneeling and the exact same posture I was in that dream and my t-shirt is wet with tears and I go like what how did I get from there to here what was that it's very disturbing and I sit there for a while very sad but perplexed and I go Lord I don't understand why would you say this to me you know I'm in my early 20s and young pastor and very again sorrow regret pain perplexity and the Holy Spirit made it clear to me that he was allowing me to feel that regret in sorrow so I would live in a way now so that I would not have regret on the last day when I stood before the Lord there's like the Holy Spirit was saying let's fast forward many years if you live at a certain low level of dedication which is common in the body of Christ if you are content with that standard of dead fast forward some decades you'll stand before the Lord and you will have regret so I got the feel the anguish and the sorrow of that feeling it was in retrospect one of the most gracious encounters that the Lord could give me because it it it wounded my heart way back then and as I understood that I I said lord I fear regret more than anything else in life I don't want to regret on that day and I believe that there are many believers that when they stand before the Lord on that day they will be aware of how they wasted their life in a negative sense beloved the greatest appointment in your life is yet future it's with a man he's a great king he's Christ Jesus every one of you that are a believer you will meet him on that day there isn't a point today it is the most significant appointment in your life and when your eyes meet his eyes on that day whatever he is thinking about you is the most significant evaluation of your life in this age I don't care how many people are applauding you or how many people are criticizing you one extreme or the other or both none of that will matter only what is in his mind when you meet eye to eye not so far from from now I will meet him face to face and he will remember that day and I will understand then how gracious it was that he let me have that heart wounding piercing experience again I've thought about that day thousands and thousands of times let's look at Roman numeral 1 Romans chapter 14 on the notes here again today is just that a broad stroke overview we're not going to go into the detail but on Fridays we'll break down many of these details with a lot more verses and a lot more elaborate explanation of them Paul gives a very important declaration it's very gracious that we are aware of this ahead of time romans 14 verse 10 Paul says we'll all stand every one of us before the judgment seat of Christ each of us will give an account of himself to the Lord we will give an account for what we did with what he gave us now every one of us have a different a very unique life situation every single person knows your life situation is based on your physical abilities or lack of your giftings or the giftings you don't have the finances your emotional makeup your family situation life circumstances the generation you live in all of these go together to form a unique setting and context for every individual and the Lord says I will only have you answer according to what I gave you and that composite of all those things and the Lord's very gracious in his evaluation he's very merciful he's very very tender very loving towards us now it's interesting that the word judgment seat here which is Paul uses it two times here in Romans 14 then again in 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 we'll look at in a moment it's the word the Bema seat judgment seat is Bema seat and the Bema seat in the Greek culture was a very familiar term the Bema seat wasn't the place where the judge stood to give penalties to a criminal he what's that where a criminal was tried and then sent to prison the Bema seats a very different word it's where the judges stood like in the athletic contest the Olympic Games to give an award so even in the term judgment seat Bheema see this greek word it has a very positive connotation the Lord is eager to reward even the smallest things that we do to show our love towards him he said surely I say to you even if you give a cup of cold water surely I will reward you because rewards are Jesus expressing the way he feels about the way we love him rewards are Jesus expressing how he feels about the way you loved him in this life and the Bema seat the place of the judge to give the gold silver bronze medal that's a real stand it's mostly very positive the negative comes in when there's we understand that we lost opportunities because of our neglecting the will of God or just or making wrong choices even as believers look at the second time the judgment seat is used by Paul he emphasizes this theme second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 10 he says we must all appear before the Bema seat again the Bema seat is the is the stand where the judge was that gave the olympic awards the medals the wreaths i'm using contemporary terminology we must all appear there again it's a profoundly positive reality that each one would receive the things done in their body the things they actually did it's according to what they have done not just their intentions intentions are for but it's what they actually do whether good or bad now this phrase whether good or bad has created a certain amount of perplexity to believers that we look at that go good or bad bad how did the word bad Paul what are you talking about Paul haven't you read the book of Romans that salvation is by grace how did bad get in there well I'm not going to address that right now but I will on one of the Friday nights we'll take a a good we'll put about six or seven verses together and describe what this means at least my understanding of it from the scripture the good and bad dimensions eternal rewards are a significant part of our destiny our life God's plan for our life God's plan for your life doesn't end when you die physically God's plan for your life goes on for billions of years God has a plan for your 70 years on the earth not that everybody who lives that long but you know Psalm 90 says God has given unto men 70 years eighty due to strength God has a plan for your seventy years but God also has a plan for your thousand year career your assignment on the earth in the Millennial Kingdom every believer has a assignment on the earth with a physical resurrected body living in the New Jerusalem but the New Jerusalem comes down to the earth reigning on the earth for a thousand years beloved your thousand-year assignment is as real and profound and powerful as your seventy year Simon is most people don't think of their thousand-year sign but they only think of their 70 year silent I want to encourage you to think beyond I think often of what I will be doing in 300 years you think oh that's kind of cute no no this is real there's enough information a framework of understanding surrounding the issue of internal rewards and describing raining on the earth and various facets of it there's a lot of details we don't have but there's a general framework from Genesis to Revelation that if we are hungry for it we can put it together and get a broad framework of understanding about what some of our life will be like at that time not not all the details but we can know more than just a little bit and I'm gonna be alive in 300 years and so are you and you're gonna have a physical resurrected body living a reigning on the earth for real and you will have a work assignment I'd rather call it your career your it's more than an assignment it's more than a a job it's really like a career it's a vast part of who you are and then we have one past the Imola dam that's a bigger subject paragraph B we'll look at this real brief just to get you the kind of a working knowledge of some of the key verses without going into detail this morning but just so we're all kind of on the same page this is one of the more elaborate detailed passages on the judgement seat of Christ first Corinthians 3 verses 8 to 15 this is about the most important assign I mean appointment in your life that is yet future beloved's you won't be one minute late to that appointment and it will be the most significant appointment of your life I want to be prepared for it I say Lord shock me now don't shock me then I don't want to be shocked that I don't want the Lord to say your life is wasted I love you you're in my family but your life is wasted I don't want to hear those shocked me now tell me my blind spots now Lord get my attention now don't make me wait till then and that's one reason I'm taking eight sessions on this subject because again most of us are very unfamiliar with this topic but there's a lot in the Bible on it verse eight Paul says each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor or his own work verse 11 so there's no confusion Paul says there is no other foundation that anybody can lay except for the foundation of Jesus meaning salvation is by faith the free gift of God we receive the gift of righteousness as an absolute free gift based on what he did not on what we do that is the foundation reality of the kingdom of God so Paul who obviously very clear about that he goes I want you to not lose sight of that but don't think that's the end of the story either verse 11 there is no other foundation but this but verse 12 but anyone who builds on this foundation that means your life choices as a believer you build on this foundation and your life choices will be esteemed by God as gold silver precious stones or some of your life choices will be esteemed by God as wood hay and straw verse 13 Paul said when each person's life work which is the composite of thousands and thousands of little choices he's talking about your work it's more than just your ministry to other people it's your it's your life that you've built upon the foundation it's gonna be revealed the nature of it the truth of it will be revealed by fire God's fire again we'll look at this passage in far more detail on Friday night verse 14 but if anyone's work which he builds upon the foundation of the grace of God the foundation of Jesus if at work indoors or at last through the fire of God that man that woman will receive a reward meaning my words and my deeds the way I spend time and the way I spend money let's just break it down real simple my words and deeds my conversation later on today tomorrow the next day and what I do and how I spend time and money the composite of them the Lord tests the nature of them with his fire some of those God will call gold silver and precious stones and Fire doesn't hurt gold and silver but some of them will be outside of the will of God not in obedience to the scripture scriptural principles sermon on the mount type lifestyle they will be like wood hay and straw and wood hay and straw when the fire comes it consumes it he goes on in verse 15 he goes if anyone's work is burned up their life choices that believer though they're in heaven they're in the family of God God loves them and they love God that believer in heaven will suffer loss but he himself will be saved yet as though through fire again we'll break this down in more detail he will suffer loss that's a theme I've almost rarely heard about in my entire Christian life no almost nobody will break down that passage a few teachers have again I've studied it from various ones that I'm very grateful for the little bit out there but it's like we don't want to deal with that we think it will go away if we don't deal with the ostrich effect you'll put our head in the ground and the problem if we don't look at it there's no real problem there will be people that will suffer loss believers meaning I don't I believe that means they lost potential rewards paragraph D I'd like to say this over and over rewards are about expressing how Jesus feels about the way we loved him on the earth in this life because we'll be on the earth in the next life - again living the New Jerusalem reigning on the earth but the New Jerusalem is coming down to the earth so it's one big reality now the reason I say this is because uh I've I've taught on this subject for 40 years ever since I had that encounter with the Lord about 40 years ago it's a very important subject to me because it's very important in the scripture and I think about this a lot I've had a number of believers say da I don't I don't like that reward thing and and I understand a little bit what they're saying but first I tell them I go well actually you don't get to vote on whether it's real or not real there's a man named Jesus that's established it so you liking it or not liking it does it change any of it but what most people I think mean I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt when they go I don't like the idea of a rewards and I mean it's I mean people get real stirred up by this subject because it makes them feel pressure and it makes them think well I got to live different wait whoa that means it really matters what I do what I don't that's heavy one guy said this creates pressure on me this doctrine I go so okay well we're Americans American culture we don't like pressure so therefore can't be in the Bible if we don't like it the culture of heaven is not the Western culture of today and godly pressure is called the fear of the Lord I go you can't dismiss biblical truth because you don't like how you feel about it when you think about how you're living the it doesn't go because you don't like it I go it's way better to see what the Bible means it's a glorious reality but the reason some don't like it that's because they have a secular view of eternal rewards a secular paradigm they're thinking of eternal rewards is I man get rewarded in the age to come on the moon ill Kingdom I'm gonna be strutting in front of people or I'm gonna be over people and I'm gonna be bossing them around or I'm gonna have more treasure more stuff than others or I'm superior in my dedication on the earth and my superiority is going to be trumpeted aloud that's a secular view of eternal rewards I understand them not being interested in that but that is not what eternal rewards are about there reading a biblical truth but are interpreting it to a secular paradigm Jesus said it really clear in Matthew 20 he goes the Gentiles the unbelievers approach Authority and honor that way not the kingdom of God but rewards is how Jesus feels about the way we loved him you know Jesus is so wealthy he has so much treasure he can afford to be lavish with his rewards because he has so much treasure here so much I gave a cup of cold water because we love Him we take one step of obedience we get a mile of blessing it's like Jesus like some person says do we earn these are Wars they go no no you can't take a step and get a mile of blessing that's not earning and trust me it's way beyond anything you can earn because the extravagance of the reward is so great you know it says that God loves a cheerful Giver beloved Jesus is the ultimate cheerful Giver you will never out give him you give a little in humility and service and sacrifice again a step of obedience is a mile of blessing he can afford it he loves it because I want you to know how I feel about that little thing you did because you love me I'm filled with love and I'm really rich and I really like you and I make a big point out of it because that's who I am eternal rewards paragraph dear also about working in close proximity with him with that which is precious what I mean by that is that God the Father has given Jesus a mandate in the Millennial Kingdom to fill the earth with this glory I mean in the fullest sense I mean that mandates even now in this age but it happens in fullness then he's gonna rule all the nations and he's going to have resurrected believers partnering with him and ruling the nations and in ruling the nations we'll spend a whole session on that there's a whole lot of Bible verses that a lot of implications to that when believers rule the nations they will do it in partnership with him he will actually have leadership meetings with his people at various levels and they will be together working just like in ministry now we make little eat leadership choices in ministry and the Lord's with us and even our personalities are reflected in those choices it's not like we're robotic just echoing you know a a read off of a piece of paper okay we make this choice we're really gonna rule and our personalities will be involved will be interfacing with him in a close and personal way and the greater the sphere of authority the more of the interaction will be necessary that's a big big subject I don't want to develop it now but think of the people that you love and admire the most do you want to work closely with them yeah of course you do and everybody won't work in the same proximity to Jesus it will be related to our response abilities and our responsibilities will be related to our humility and obedience in this age not our gifting in this age but our humility in this age our diligence our faithfulness you can be the most unzipped adverse in' nobody's paying attention to you not making any impact on any body hardly and if you're obeying the Lord and walking humility you can be called great in that in the Millennial Kingdom God will call your choices your life choice is great it's a remarkable reality I call the judgment seat of Christ the the great equalizer because some are I mean people in this age that are great in the eyes of men now making a big impact if they're not responding to the Lord in diligence of humility they won't be their lifestyle won't be called great in the age to come I mean their life choices but somebody else a little guy nobody ever heard of the Lord says your choices were great it's everything will flip around it's a glorious reality I want to be in some of those leadership meetings with Jesus you know Jesus though by the Holy Spirit had be omnipresent he'll be everywhere by the spirit but he will still have a physical body where he in his physical person was one place at one time his physical body won't be in a thousand places at one time just like it his earthly ministry he was in Galilee then later he was in Jerusalem he wasn't in Galilee in Jerusalem the same time in his physical body and he interacted with people at various levels and again by the Holy Spirit we will have communication and fill his presence and know his heart and communicate with him by the spirit but there's more than that there's there there's this he's ruling the nation's that his people will be involved with them what a remarkable reality another reason God gives rewards because God so loves righteousness that he vindicates every choice of righteousness even though it's unnoticed and out of sight of others he so loves righteous that he's gonna itch he's gonna make known and he's gonna manifest his zeal over your righteous choices he goes I have to I love righteousness I can't let the seeds of your small acts of righteousness to go unnoticed but I'm gonna bring them to fullness and I'm gonna celebrate them in front of you because that's who I am well some folks yeah I don't still like I don't like eternal words they can't say it's not in the Bible because it's all through the Bible they could say they don't like it and mostly because they're not familiar with the subject and again their idea people strutting in their superiority and being the boss over people that is not at all the biblical view of eternal rewards look here in Matthew chapter 25 this is talking about at the last day when Jesus says I'll make you ruler over many things notice what he says enter into the joy of the Lord people believers will have greater satisfaction and joy when these rewards are released than they could ever imagine so I've shared this verse was something I don't like it I go I think you're going to I think you've got a big surprise coming I think you're gonna love the way he's moved by the way you loved him I think you're gonna love it I got a feeling you've got a surprise coming ahead of you cuz you can disregard the study of them and still live godly and it still works right but I I find the study of them ours is motivating and that's why Jesus taught and so often the Apostles did because the Apostles built their life around this reality paragraph 8 Jesus he told them buy gold from me he says be unashamed about it be bold about it be upfront about it I mean don't like in a corner like think Lord I kind of would like those but don't want to I don't wanna be selfish ego selfish this is about you and me and how I feel about you and our proximity together and our connection together no no this is about love does that about selfish well I don't know I don't want to buy gold what if I just get a couple of copper coins Lord says no Do You Know Who I am how generous I am how wealthy I am I want you to go all the way look what he says in Matthew 6 right in the heart of the Sermon on the Mount lay up treasure in heaven he urges us to do this he urges us to think on this he urges us to make decisions with this in view I make light not all choices I need to make more of them but I make choices a number of them based on this verse I want treasure I would give up treasure in this age because I'm I'm with treasure in that ancient you can have treasure in this age but you need to use it right to convert it beloved the exchange rate is really high right now you can use your money in this age and it can be exchanged converted to treasure you gotta use it kingdom weighs up I want it I'm not ashamed about it I want to go for this after I had that encounter with the Lord and studied it out the Bible and found out how important this was to Jesus and his teaching and the Apostles that's not going for this you know I've heard the story or the phrase you have to of that guy or that girl there they're so heavenly minded they're no earthly good now here's the it's kind of a cool little phrase but here's the problem I've never met that human being never I've never met a heavenly minded person that is no earthly good because the more heavenly minded are the more impact they make in righteousness on the earth I don't mean the numbers are bigger but the depth of holiness and purity other is real then they hate me way bigger impact if they're heavenly minded what I think people really mean by that phrase which is okay to use that if they want they mean if they're Spacey and disorganized but I think it's better if somebody's Spacey and disorganized to say they're Spacey and disorganized don't say they're heavenly minded because if you're heavenly minded you will be greatly effective on the earth again I'm not talking about numbers but you will move people to righteousness because it's a part of your life in a deep way Paul said the same thing Colossians 3 seek those things above he says it again in verse 2 Colossians 3 verse 2 he goes set your mind on it think on it study it talk to God about it talk to people about it give yourself to this don't make this a peripheral casual secondary idea make this important now the things above are not only eternal rewards it's the New Jerusalem it's the kingship of Jesus it's the glory of God covered the earth there's a number of things that are involved but eternal rewards are clearly a part of this again you may be think of your 50-year career you know maybe you're 20 you're thinking I got 50 more years so it's my career that's good that's wisdom book of Proverbs tells you that's good but beloved think of your thousand year career - for real for real you will be doing something in your physical resurrected body in 300 years prepare for it now nobody thinks it's odd that a young med school student will go to ten years of university at med school residency pay a couple hundred thousand dollars I mean work night and day and give hundreds of thousands died couple hundred thousand dollars to be a physician for ten years because for 50 years they got a career that's wise to go hard for 10 years for 50 beloved use the same math go hard after God for 70 years for a thousand the numbers are better excellent and the glory is far more intense now you can do both actually I believe in planning for the future and preparing in both ages again to some folks I go that sounds pie-in-the-sky it's just plain Bible read Paul John the Apostle P Jesus they this thing was on their minds they taught it the body of Christ needs to be equipped in this glorious important subject look at Roman numeral 2 top of page 2 now I have I'm mentioning here which I'll just give you a minute on each one or less 7 different types of rewards Jesus mentions 18 different rewards in Revelation 2 and 3 so there's way more than 7 in two chapters revelation 2 and 3 he misses 18 distinct ones he gives them as simple little phrases then you gotta compare the scripture with the scripture to develop the thoughts in a greater way because you compare the scripture of the scripture and just go an inch below the surface there's a lot of implications that the Bible sheds on these phrases these 18 rewards that are just simple phrases but I would guess I haven't counted there's another 10 or 15 rewards that are in addition to those 18 that Jesus mentioned Jesus mentioned a few in the Gospel he didn't mention in the book of Revelation well we're gonna try to cover all of them and see what the Bible says to elaborate our understanding I'm gonna quote 1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 9 here's what Paul said here's the grid of which we look at eternal rewards first Corinthians chapter 2 verse 9 here's what Paul says eye has not seen ear has not heard it's never even entered in the imagination of man the dimension of the glory that's coming so that's the grid that's premise number one that you take Walt Disney Plus Steven Spielberg plus the aect the next 10 guys times a thousand and these rewards are more spectacular than they could ever imagine Paul says it's never entered the heart of a man these spectacular dimension of the glory of God so that's the grid we're going to be looking at these they're they're spectacular then the second idea I compare what I look at I put together with first Corinthians 2:9 the fact that it's more glorious than we've ever imagined then I put the reality that Jesus is the designer and the architect of the New Jerusalem so this man who's fully God he's the one that came up with the creative design of the New Jerusalem I mean the streets are transparent gold there's Gardens there's rivers there's tree of life there's a spectacular dimension of glory and Jesus says let that just be a down payment everything I do has my personality and my creativity on it so when you read one of these rewards like one in Revelation 2:17 it says I'll give you a white stone read one commentator says well we get a little rock no I don't think so I think this white stone is more spectacular than what's ever entered the mind of a man and this white stone just like the garment she'll have we're designed by the man that designed the New Jerusalem his personality never changes his creativity is vast I mean look at the you know the skies and the heavens because all I'm more creative than you know I have far more power than that you are the ones I gave my life for so beloved whatever you do don't dumb down those rewards to simple little phrases and be content I'd say Lord Holy Spirit show me the word and let me just my mind just understand the glimpse more of what this might be I love this subject well paragraph B Jesus said there will be some Matthew 5 verse 19 that will be called least in the kingdom and some will be called great in the kingdom he's talking about in the morning of Kingdom the thousand year reign when Jesus returns and what I think it I believe it means that God will call their life choices least and God will call some people their life choices he will call them great it's God who's calling them least and great it's the Saints that are recognizing least and great I don't think anybody will be comparing anybody we'll all be so overwhelmed with gratitude and in love nobody will be comparing but there will be a large diversity and range of difference of people's experience even in the family of God and in the New Jerusalem look at the next one 1st Corinthians 15 it says there's one glory of the Sun there's another glory of the Moon first greatness 15 verse 41 there's another glory of the Stars for one star differs from another star in glory so also is the resurrection the whole realm of the resurrection has diversity of glory no star there's billions and billions and billions of stars incalculable number in the universe outside of the Milky Way galaxy they they say the Milky Way galaxy has a hundred billion stars and it's the Milky Way galaxy is only one of a hundred billion galaxies in the known universe likewise I can't even and every star is unique in its characteristics its mass its glory its brightness many of its every single person in the New Jerusalem will be unique like the stars in their glory paragraphs see these are I'm just giving you these seven again I'm gonna be ever so brief on them just to give you a snapshot of where this is going because again there's far more than seven Jesus said in Matthew 13 the righteous their bodies will shine their faces will shine some far greater than others there's different capacities in in every single believer there's as one star difference women another star big subject we'll spend a good portion of time on this one there's a lot of verses on this paragraph d the garments in Exodus 28 verse 2 God told Moses here's God speaking heals hey Moses make garments for glory and for beauty for the priesthood make them for glory and beauty the same God that told that the Moses is the God that created the New Jerusalem and splendor beloved the garments are going to be glorious and beautiful and diverse beyond anything we can imagine it's not entered the mind of man the fullness some people they read about the white gown and they think they're gonna have this one beautiful white gown for billions of years at every context they will ever be in they got the white gown he'll be in thousands of different social and other contexts there'll be garments for everyone I believe they will be different and diverse and the fabric and the messaging and the glory and the splendor we look at how God told Moses to make garments for the priests as a little hint is to wear that same God is making garments of glory and beauty for his priests at the age to come again it's spectacular Jesus's personality it's really big he's really smart and he's really creative and he's got incredible wealth she's no end to his resource and he loves it he loves beauty and splendor so we all get the standard white garment to enter the city but the Saints will have garments that are in accordance with their righteous choices in this age look at a revelation 19 they will have garments that will reflect the way they loved God in this age big subject paragraph the authority there's so many different levels of rating and authority you know in our nation alone America I just looked this up on the internet the other day there are 22 million people in America that are have a that are employed somewhere in the infrastructure of our government federal state or local 22 million so don't think of several billion Saints all of them are Kings well there's only 200 nations and there may be will be a few more the age to come I don't know but there's not a billion nations and a king is over a nation but there's in America alone there's 22 million positions in the infrastructure and that's all part of ruling and reigning everybody won't be a king over a nation there's not a couple billion nations but people will all be involved in various levels of spheres just like in the whole infrastructure of a nation big subject paragraph F I love this one this is probably my favorite one then the Lord will praise each person and this word praise is it worst like I worship them he's getting affirmed them beloved we love to tell the story of people who live in heroic love noble virtue like I've read biographies over the years Harry this biography of this guy or this guy oh sorry I go to my friends hey I got to tell you about this guy over the years and messages hey I read this one guy I love to tell the story of the person that lived in heroic noble love it moves me it moves people to hear it I love to tell the story of my friends and family members to tell about them to other people when they do things that are real special like I don't want to mention that my granddaughter got the christ-like award at her school and I'm not gonna mention that but she did in her class and I went all strutting around and my wife said oh calm down it isn't you and I'd slip it into a couple conversations I was so excited cuz Shiloh got the Christ like award we love to tell the story it moves us to tell it it moves the person that people that hear it I got a lot of home videos I could show you guys too but in it and it moves the person the story's about and the Lord says I love to tell the story I don't want to tell it once on your entry day I'm gonna tell the story of your love for me there's many facets many different angles I'm gonna tell the story about how I feel about the way you loved me it's a big story big subject we all won't have the same report in the same story crowns big not synonymous with eternal life the gift of eternal life and receiving a crown are not synonymous treasures many verses on this the most wealthy man that's ever lived Jesus fully God fully man tells us to get treasure he goes really I know what I'm talking about and I'll tell you how to get it you get it by obeying by diligence by humility by generosity by acting in purity does it matter how many people recognize it if I recognize it it's in my book and that's what matters and then number seven are communion with God just like in this age everyone in this room has a different capacity of communing with God right now the same will be true the resurrection there will be some that have far greater understanding than others but I have found through the years I know a lot more about the Lord and I have a lot more encounters in my 60s when I look back over 40 plus years in my twenties but what is in my twenties man I thought I was it was happening I didn't even know what I did not know and what I did not feel so I wasn't walking around at age 20 going home so sad I don't have what I have when I'm 60 I didn't think about it I think people will be happy and content because they at different capacities they won't even know what they don't know and don't feel compared to the different capacities just like today believers are like that but there's a quite a bit on this as well well anyway I'm gonna end with that have a worship team come up big topic I'm really excited about this but again my goal is it to get everybody to come to the meeting my goal is to get you to access the web stream and the and the archives and over the next weeks and months to check out this subject for your own edification and your own good and I want to get this into the language I mean godly believers many of them never talk about the subject Paul and Peter and James did it's in their writing I want to see this biblical reality inner words in our language in our thought processes amen let's stand before the Lord now some of you are really excited right now you're gonna move yes others of you are you going oh my gosh I gotta get with it oh my goodness this ain't going away on its own oh no beloved it's not too late to start hard right now I'm telling you tell man oh it's already too late no it's not that's a lie go start now it's humility its purity its generosity faithfulness its servanthood it's those things that anybody could do third category people are perplexed they're going I don't even get any of this but he seems really excited about it I maybe I need to figure this out and I'm my prayer for those that are excited that you follow through for those that are feeling troubled that you start anew today and for those that are perplexed you go Lord I'm gonna search this out and find out if this is really in the Bible father I ask you even right now that you would touch us you would stir us as a community Lord that we would see what you see and say what you say about the son I ask you as a community that we would see what you see and say what you say about this subject thank you Jesus for the Bema see the great rewards for the simplest cup of cold water that we've given your name now I won't invite people to come up for prayer you might have a need for healing in your body or your heart or maybe you're touched by this message in a certain way and you would just like someone to pray with you or you got a family situation you look prayer for I would invite anybody just come on up here to these to this frontline here if you would like prayer will have our ministry team come on up as well let's come up to the front row so the folks behind you can have room ministry team come on up at every anybody in leadership I've urgent anybody on the mission base or any way in our FCF leadership team at any level i've asking you to come join us come and join the ministry table I'm always asking you to come and help [Music] I'm giving you lord says it's not too late it's not too late push delete on yesterday starting the new today a new seal the new fate [Music] you're beautiful [Music] given you this holy spear we invite your present your manifest glory [Music] [Music] you [Music] you [Music] when I asked you to release your healing and renewing our [Music] unlike a twin you are like a wave of your spirit can I remind you [Music] time to really be present to the Lord together lise the wind of your spirit arts [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] it's gonna be worse love it it's gonna be worth it oh that we pour out I tell you it's going to be worth [Music] you're passing greatest on me it's gonna be worse [Music] it's gonna be worth [Music] it's gonna be worth [Music] father renew us cleansed of us freaking us with the truth [Music] come straight goodness [Music] come straight come on flash strengthen us to play they shoes strengthens [Music] strengthens [Music] strange [Music] my girl [Music] so you [Music] Oh [Music] with [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Mike Bickle Official

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Keywords: ihopkc, International House of Prayer, Mike Bickle, The Bible, Teaching, Preaching, Jesus, Eternity, Eternal Rewards, Judgment Seat, A Biblical Overview of Eternal Rewards

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Length: 62min 39sec (3759 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 11 2017