What's your favorite day? Christmas? Valentine's Day? (Happy Valentine's Day.) I think everyone's favorite day is payday! God never said you'd be working for Him for free! Think of all the parables of Jesus that involve a landowner squaring accounts with his workers. Rewards! - it's a big topic in the New Testament, and we've shied away from it, for fear that people would think they could earn their way to heaven. But Jim has made it cool to talk about everyone's favorite day again, as we've studied crowns and other perks of the Kingdom. He'll end the series with An Overview of the Rewards.

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Let's talk about your love life. Of course I'm referring to your love for the Lord, because today we'll find out how that relationship can bring future blessings. The word "love" sure has a lot of different meanings, doesn't it? It's like the word "tempt," or "temptation:" we have to read carefully and watch the context if we want to understand what's intended. In Jim's current sermon about the Judgment Seat of Christ, we'll learn about one more crown to be awarded there: it's the Crown of Life. The Apostle James gave us some powerful instruction about this crown... and temptation... and love.

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Are you a sheep, or a shepherd? Or maybe both? We see a lot of emphasis on leadership in the business world - being a leader instead of a boss, and so forth. But not everyone is cut out to be "in charge." We can have "too many chiefs and not enough Indians," as we used to say. But those godly folks who are called to lead others need to step up; and the rest of us need to rally around them in support. What are the qualifications for leaders, and how can they win The Shepherd's Crown? Here's Jim.

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Could you win a race... if you were the only one running? Some of us might not win, even if only competing against ourselves - especially if the race is a long one. We might drop out. We might be disqualified. What if we didn't even know we were supposed to run? That's the situation that some Christians are in, today. They're athletes unawares! Today we'll look at another New Testament mention of "crowns." For those who do win the one-man race, there is lasting glory.

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Would you like your work to have great significance... forever? No one wants to toil away at a job that adds no value to anyone. But work that helps people and pleases God - that would bring us joy, wouldn't it? In thinking about the Judgment Seat of Christ we've come across something called the "Crown of Joy," and it's awarded for doing the most significant work of all.

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If righteousness is a gift, then what does Paul mean by "the Crown of Righteousness?" We've been blowing the dust off of some neglected truths about our coming "employee review," if you will. There will be some things to gain, or to lose, at the Judgment Seat of Christ. One of those rewards is called "the Crown of Righteousness." But how can we understand that bonus, after we've come to believe that righteousness is not something we earn, but something we receive by faith?

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Redeemed losers. Born-again flops. Bankrupt kings. How can such things be? Perhaps we've been focused on making converts instead of making disciples, as Jesus commanded. Maybe that's why we know so little about the ranks of dignity and power that will exist in the New Creation. We see the saved and the lost; God sees those - and - which of His servants are faithful. And He'll reward them accordingly. Still thinking about the Judgment Seat of Christ, Jim brings us Part 1 of a message called, What We Will Lose.

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All men are not re-created equal! The coming Kingdom will put an end to egalitarian fantasies; some there will shine like the moon, some like the variously brilliant stars - forever. Different crowns, different rewards - everything God has revealed to us about our future life points toward distinctions based on merit. There is more at stake than we've realized

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