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Did Jesus Support the Ecumenical Movement? (Mark 9:40)

July 9, 2019 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - against the Lord, Discipleship, Ecumenicalism, rewards

When I was an army chaplain, there were many who pushed for ecumenical understanding. This meant that doctrinal differences should not keep us from working and ministering together. We should not let denominational differences keep us from doing the work of the Lord. Sometimes Mark 9:40 was used to support this notion. Jesus is talking

The Glory of the Lord (Mark 9:2-3)

June 6, 2019 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - glory, rewards, transfiguration

One of the exciting things about studying the Bible is that no matter how long we have been studying it, we can always learn something new. We have all studied a passage we have examined many times before and see something in it for the first time. I had such an experience this week. In

Different Levels of Faithfulness (2 Tim 4:10-11)

June 3, 2019 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Demas, Perseverance, rewards

I love neat summaries. For example, the Bible sometimes will give a succinct principle, with examples, in a few verses. From these examples we can see how the principle works out in the lives of individuals. One such occurrence is found in 2 Tim 4:10-11. These verses come at the end of the book, as

Supporting Ministries Is Rewardable (2 John 8-11)

April 18, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - giving, rewards

Be careful what ministries you support. I am sure you know the Bible teaches God will reward you based on the works you’ve done: For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or

How Context Helps (Mark 4:3)

October 4, 2018 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - context, four soils, hardened hearts, Mark 4:1-20, rewards

In Mark 4:3, Jesus begins the Parable of the Four Soils: “Listen! Behold a sower went out to sow.” Anyone exposed to Free Grace teaching in regards to this parable understands how misunderstood it is by many within Christendom. While everyone agrees that the first soil represents unbelievers, most think that the second and third

Do Judgment Seat of Christ Rewards Last Forever or Just 1,000 years?

June 18, 2018 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Eschatology, Eternal Rewards, Millennium, Overcomers, rewards

In a recent blog I suggested that missed rewards would be missed forever. One person strongly disagreed and commented in response that “rewards are for time, 1000 years, not eternity.” Someone else responded to that comment with this question: “Where does the Bible tell us that rewards are just for a short time? It is

Why Is This Life Training Time If We Will Never Sin in the Eternal Kingdom?

January 31, 2018 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 1 cor 4:1-5, earl radmacher, rewards

I wrote a blog on the impeccability of Jesus Christ. (See here.) In that blog I cited Dr. Earl Radmacher who said that for the believer this life is “training time for reigning time.” I then received this excellent question: Why? Why does God allow us to “train” when the “training” has no purpose? If

George Müller on Rewards

November 22, 2016 by Brad Bell in Blog - Quotes, rewards

Rewards “Christians do not practically remember that while we are saved by grace, altogether by grace, so that in the matter of salvation works are altogether excluded; yet that as far as the rewards of grace are concerned, in the world to come, there is a intimate connection between the life of the Christian here

Alexander Patterson on The Judgment Seat of Christ

November 8, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Judgment Seat of Christ, Old Authors, rewards, Stewardship

Alexander Patterson waves together many strands of truth when he writes about the Judgment Seat of Christ, “Not a service done for Christ loses its reward. ‘For his sake’ is the criterion by which everything is to be judged. The sacrifices of the believer are then shown and rewarded. It is then the Beatitudes are

Rewards, Antithetical to Grace?

October 25, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Grace, rewards, Works, Zane Hodges

by Zane Hodges, excerpted from an article originally published in the Autumn 1991 edition of the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society Among the very last recorded words of our Lord Jesus Christ are these: “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his