Our Final Examination

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Our Final Examination

• 1 Corinthians 310-15

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Our Final Examination

• What happens to us after we are raptured?

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Our Final Examination

• Jesus Will Judge Every Believer (10).
• Jesus Values Will Be the Standard (11-12).

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Our Final Examination

• For we must all appear before the judgment seat
  of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed
  for his deeds in the body, according to what he
  has done, whether good or bad.
• 2 Corinthians 510

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Our Final Examination

• Jesus Will Judge Every Believer (10).
• Jesus Values Will Be the Standard (11-12).
• There Will Be No Secrets (13).
• Jesus Judgment Determines Our Reward (14-15).

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Our Final Examination

• What are the rewards?
• Diadema the crown of a king
• Stephanos the crown of victory

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Our Final Examination

• crown of exultation (1 Thess 219)
• crown of life (James 112)
• crown of righteousness (2 Tim 48)
• crown of glory (1 Peter 54)

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Our Final Examination

• What will we do with the crowns?

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Our Final Examination

• The twenty-four elders will fall down before Him
  who sits on the throne, and will worship Him who
  lives forever and ever, and will cast their
  crowns before the throne
• Revelation 410

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Our Final Examination

• Isnt it selfish to serve God for the hope of
  rewards?

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Our Final Examination

• If there lurks in most modern minds the notion
  that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope
  for the enjoyment of it is a bad thing, I submit
  that this notion has crept in from secular
  philosophy and is no part of the Christian
  faith. Indeed, if we consider the unblushing
  promises of reward and the staggering nature of
  the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would
  seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too
  strong, but too weak.

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Our Final Examination

• We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about
  with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy
  is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants
  to go on making mud pies in a slum because he
  cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a
  holiday at the sea. We are far too easily
  pleased.
• C.S. Lewis

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Our Final Examination

• What is of eternal value in your life? What is
  only wood, hay, or straw?

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