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What is The Reward for
Christian’s?

Why ask such a nonsensical question doesn’t every Christian know the reward of their faith?

No! A majority of Christian’s do not their living in the land of Babylon where confusion rules as the King of worldly desires twisted into false religion.

GOD IS NOT THE god of CONFUSION

Isaiah 45:16 They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.

Jeremiah 3:25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God

Making God into a human we create an idol that cannot direct their own step god! In other words, God becomes nothing more than a weak flawed human full of sin that can’t make sense out of his own life let alone rule the lives or others.

Jeremiah 10:23 Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

Thus, when human rebelled against God at the start of human race they used government building a great idol tower of babel God confused their languages to where they could not succeed in doing vast evil throughout the world by their sinful hearts that lust for material gains against each other.

Hence, with the vast improvement in communication technology human have overcame the language confusion and have spread world wide evil into all of our lives by a tsunami of propaganda. Subsequently to ask the question what is the reward for Christian’s must be ask simply because most don’t have a clue.

Matthew 8:10 When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, "Most certainly I tell you, I haven't found so great a faith, not even in Israel.

Christianity are in a world wide group in pursuit of materialism for a better life on this earth now, believes with sincerity God rewards us now with a prospers life, in homes, cars, careers, and a good family.

1 Timothy 6:7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can't carry anything out.

But what is the real reward grantee all true followers of Christ Jesus? Let us ask the question this way?

WHAT ARE THE WAGES FOR SIN?

In other words, what reward does sin give all of us? Not a tick question? It is death, correct? So what is the reward for all true Christian’s and that would be wheat Christian’s not weed Christian’s.

It would be eternal life, nothing less, or nothing more!

John 3:15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Christ while on earth used a parable that confused everyone listening including his own disciples. As your read his words below think in the terms of grace, undeserved kindness, and/or unmerited kindness.

The book of Matthew

Chapter 20

20:1 "For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
20:2 When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius{A denarius is a silver Roman coin worth 1/25th of a Roman aureus. This was a common wage for a day of farm labor.} a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
20:3 He went out about the third hour,{Time was measured from sunrise to sunset, so the third hour would be about 9:00 AM.} and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.
20:4 To them he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.' So they went their way.
20:5 Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour,{noon and 3:00 P. M.} and did likewise.
20:6 About the eleventh hour{5:00 PM} he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'
20:7 "They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' "He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.'
20:8 When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.'
20:9 "When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.
20:10 When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.
20:11 When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,
20:12 saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'
20:13 "But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn't you agree with me for a denarius?
20:14 Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.
20:15 Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'
20:16 So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."

What is the reward of our faith in Jesus Christ? Eternal life, and all that comes with it! Did Christ Jesus promise us a prosperous life in this world? So let us consider some more points to firm up what are faith rewards us with?

The wages of sin is death at what age does that change, by what accomplishment does death change, by what material wealth does the reward of death change? What position, what education, what skin colour does that change? It does not, no matter if a person is a new born or a hundred years old when they die they get the wages of sin!

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The reward for a Christian’s faith is eternal life, not what they think they’ve earned in prestige trials, suffering, wealth, power, age, giving up, preaching or about anything else under the Sun on this earth, God holds out two rewards for all human, one death by sin, and two eternal life by our faith in Jesus Christ.

John 3:36 One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys{The same word can be translated "disobeys" or "disbelieves" in this context.} the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

Many labour all their lives as a Christian under trials, but they earn no more or less than the new born child of God in the reward of eternal life. Many Christian’s in Babylon the Great blame God for not giving them a better prosperous life on earth comparing themselves by the fleshly rewards of other false Christian’s unwittingly denying the very person they publicly claim to love Christ Jesus.

GRACE IS NOT WORKS, OR WORKS ARE NOT WORKS!

Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

The key to understanding our bibles is Grace, and understanding that nothing we do on earth in our works gains us more with God, but why?

The simple truth is, at rebirth into Christ Jesus life, we’ve been given eternal life! It is not a future reward! If not future, but now, we cannot add to the reward given us by God in his Son Christ Jesus, which is, eternal life by any work on this earth we do, we have been rewarded.

Romans 5:15 But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

Romans 5:16 The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.

God loves us before we every loved him, thus, we are rewarded with eternal life when we respond in our love for him. God owes us nothing but love, he does not owe us a prosperous life on this earth we have been given the reward promised us by God, eternal life in Christ Jesus.

4:7 For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
4:8 You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
4:9 For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
1Cor. 4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.
4:11 Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
4:12 We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
4:13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
4:14 I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

Work as hard as we can, sweat in the hot Sun, beg, plead, brag, and account our years of service to the Lord and still we gain nothing or add nothing to God’s finish works in Christ Jesus. The reward was given without anything we did good or evil. Moreover, nothing or no one on earth rewarded us with eternal life, but God in Christ Jesus, not a religion, or the approval of any Christian’s on earth.

James 3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

Matthew 18:32 Then his lord called him in, and said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me.

Luke 19:22 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.

Let us not call our master and Lord wicked because we have been lied to by false religion thinking are works in Christ Jesus name, entitles us to more than the reward already given freely in Christ Jesus eternal life! We do not reward evil for good by teaching we earn eternal life by our good works.

Galatians 6:14 But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Ephesians 2:9 not of works, that no one would boast.

Philippians 2:16 holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

Does being forgiven all our sins enough for us? That question will follows us all the days of our lives. If we want more than complete forgiveness of wicked ways then we want false religion, we want the world, the world Christ Jesus was crucified too?

Do we honestly understand our being crucified with Christ Jesus by our being in him, means, we are DEAD TO THIS WORLD. We like Christ are no part of this world. And that is the reason friends Satan created false religion that is of this world, a part of this world.

James 4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

John 17:15 I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.

John 17:16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

Moreover, that is why Jesus Christ stated while on earth there would be a vast field of weed false Christian's right up to its end. Yes, those Christian’s that don’t want to be crucified in Christ to this world but want a prosperous life now, trading the glory of God for a corrupt substitute that religiously gives them the things of this world in Christ Jesus name!

Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"

Matthew 13:36 Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel weeds of the field."

Matthew 13:38 the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.

Matthew 13:40 As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.

James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn't God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Titus 2:12 instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

Completed: August 06, 2022

by: Daniel a Slave in Christ Jesus