The Bema

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The Bema
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The Bema
Living life for what will outlast it
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The Bema

• A Pious Attitude Regarding Self
• A Overstated Attitude Regarding Sin
• A Non-Chalant Attitude Regarding Service (WORKS)

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The Bema
PART-2
The Incredible Accounting of our Stewardship
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The Bema

• The Stewardship of
• The LIFE of God
• The GOSPEL of God
• The GIFTS of God
• The RESOURCES of God

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The Bema
2 Corinthians 510 For we must all appear before
the judgment seat of Christ that every one may
receive the things done in his body, according to
that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
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The Bema
Romans 1410 But why dost thou judge thy
brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy
brother? for we shall all stand before the
judgment seat of Christ. Romans 1412 So then
every one of us shall give account of himself to
God.
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1 Corinthians 310-15 According to the grace of
God which is given unto me, as a wise
masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and
another buildeth thereon. But let every man take
heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other
foundation can no man lay than that is laid,
which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon
this foundation gold, silver, precious stones,
wood, hay, stubble Every man's work shall be
made manifest for the day shall declare it,
because it shall be revealed by fire and the
fire shall try every man's work of what sort it
is. If any man's work abide which he hath built
thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any
man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss
but he himself shall be saved yet so as by fire.
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The Bema

• REWARD 1
• VERBAL COMMENDATION
• (For Being Counted Worthy)

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• Matthew 2521 His lord said unto him, Well
  done, thou good and faithful servant thou hast
  been faithful over a few things, I will make thee
  ruler over many things enter thou into the joy
  of thy lord.
• Matthew 2523 His lord said unto him, Well done,
  good and faithful servant thou hast been
  faithful over a few things, I will make thee
  ruler over many things enter thou into the joy
  of thy lord.

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• Proverbs 3110 (a) Who can find a virtuous
  woman?

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• Ruth 311 And now, my daughter, fear not I will
  do to thee all that thou requirest for all the
  city of my people doth know that thou art a
  virtuous woman.

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• Ruth is a Gentile from a cursed race (Moab)
• She finds herself in a time of famine
• She hears good news from a far land that the Lord
  had visited His people in Bethlehem in giving
  them bread.
• She turned from everything she knew and the gods
  she had served and went to Bethlehem to partake
  of that bread.
• She took of it and went to work in the field
• A Jewish Kinsman Redeemer, from Bethlehem called
  her out of the field made her his bride

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• Proverbs 3128(a) Her children arise up, and
  call her blessed .

• Her Bountiful Reward
• SHE will REJOICE
• HER CHILDREN will
• REJOICE

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• Proverbs 3128 Her children arise up, and call
  her blessed her husband also, and .

• Her Bountiful Reward
• SHE will REJOICE
• HER CHILDREN will
• REJOICE
• HER HUSBAND will REJOICE

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• 2 Corinthians 112 For I am jealous over you
  with godly jealousy for I have espoused you to
  one husband, that I may present you as a chaste
  virgin to Christ.

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• Proverbs 3128 Her children arise up, and call
  her blessed her husband also, and he praiseth
  her.

• Her Bountiful Reward
• SHE will REJOICE
• HER CHILDREN will
• REJOICE
• HER HUSBAND will REJOICE

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• Matthew 2521 His lord said unto him, Well
  done, thou good and faithful servant thou hast
  been faithful over a few things, I will make thee
  ruler over many things enter thou into the joy
  of thy lord.

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The Bema

• REWARD 1
• VERBAL COMMENDATION
• (For Being Counted Worthy)

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• 1 Peter 17 That the trial of your faith, being
  much more precious than of gold that perisheth,
  though it be tried with fire, might be found unto
  praise and honour and glory at the appearing of
  Jesus Christ

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The Bema

• REWARD 1
• VERBAL COMMENDATION
• (For Being Counted Worthy)

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• Proverbs 1523 A man hath joy by the answer of
  his mouth and a word spoken in due season, how
  good is it!

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• Proverbs 2511 A word fitly spoken is like
  apples of gold in pictures of silver.

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The Bema

• REWARD 1
• VERBAL COMMENDATION
• (For Being Counted Worthy)

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• Colossians 19 For this cause we also, since the
  day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you,
  and to desire that ye might be filled with the
  knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual
  understanding

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• Colossians 19 For this cause we also, since the
  day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you,
  and to desire that ye might be filled with the
  knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual
  understanding
• Colossians 110 That ye might walk worthy of the
  Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every
  good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God

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• Philippians 127 Only let your conversation be
  as it becometh the gospel of Christ that whether
  I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear
  of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one
  spirit, with one mind striving together for the
  fath of the gospel

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• Philippians 127 Only let your conversation be
  as it becometh axios the gospel of Christ that
  whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I
  may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in
  one spirit, with one mind striving together for
  the fath of the gospel
• Colossians 110 That ye might walk worthy axios
  of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in
  every good work, and increasing in the knowledge
  of God
• 1 Thessalonians 212 That ye would walk worthy
  axios of God, who hath called you unto his
  kingdom and glory.

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• Ephesians 41 I therefore, the
  prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk
  worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called

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• Colossians 38 But now ye also put off all
  these anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy
  communication out of your mouth.

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• Hebrews 1116 But now they desire a better
  country, that is, an heavenly wherefore God is
  not ashamed to be called their God for he hath
  prepared for them a city.

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• Malachi 42 But unto you that fear my name shall
  the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in
  His wings and ye shall go forth, and grow up as
  calves of the stall.

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• Luke 112 And he said unto them, When ye pray,
  say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be
  thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as
  in heaven, so in earth.
• Philippians 310 That I may know him, and the
  power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of
  his sufferings, being made conformable unto his
  death

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• Ephesians 619 And for me, that utterance may be
  given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly,
  to make known the mystery of the gospel
• Colossians 43 Withal praying also for us, that
  God would open unto us a door of utterance, to
  speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also
  in bonds

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• The rights of the people

• Laodicea

• The Laodicean SAY

• I am RICH
• I am INCREASED W/Goods
• I am in NEED of NOTHING

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• Ephesians 21-4 And you hath he quickened, who
  were dead in trespasses and sins Wherein in time
  past ye walked according to the course of this
  world, according to the prince of the power of
  the air, the spirit that now worketh in the
  children of disobedience Among whom also we all
  had our conversation in times past in the lusts
  of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh
  and of the mind and were by nature the children
  of wrath, even as others.

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The Bema

• REWARD 1
• VERBAL COMMENDATION
• (For Being Counted Worthy)

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The Bema

• REWARD 2
• ROYAL CLOTHES
• (For Living Righteously)

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• 2 Corinthians 521 For He hath made Him to be
  sin for us, Who knew no sin that we might be
  made the righteousness of God in Him.

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• Ephesians 28-9 For by grace are ye saved
  through faith and that not of yourselves it is
  the gift of God Not of works, lest any man
  should boast.

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• Ephesians 28-9 For by grace are ye saved
  through faith and that not of yourselves it is
  the gift of God Not of works, lest any man
  should boast.
• Ephesians 210 For we are his workmanship,
  created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which
  God hath before ordained that we should walk in
  them.

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The Bema

• REWARD 2
• ROYAL CLOTHES
• (For Living Righteously)

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• Isaiah 202-4 At the same time spake the LORD by
  Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the
  sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy
  shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked
  and barefoot. And the LORD said, Like as my
  servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot
  three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and
  upon Ethiopia So shall the king of Assyria lead
  away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians
  captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even
  with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of
  Egypt.

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• John 213 Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a
  fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee.
  They went forth, and entered into a ship
  immediately and that night they caught nothing.
• John 217 Therefore that disciple whom Jesus
  loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when
  Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt
  his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,)
  and did cast himself into the sea.

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• 1 John 228 And now, little children, abide in
  him that, when He shall appear, we may have
  confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His
  coming.

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• 1 John 228 And now, little children, abide in
  him that, when He shall appear, we may have
  confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at His
  coming.
• 1 John 229 If ye know that He is righteous, ye
  know that every one that doeth righteousness is
  born of Him.

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• 1 John 511-12 And this is the record, that God
  hath given to us eternal life, and this life is
  in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life and
  he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

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1 Corinthians 310-15 According to the grace of
God which is given unto me, as a wise
masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and
another buildeth thereon. But let every man take
heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other
foundation can no man lay than that is laid,
which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon
this foundation gold, silver, precious stones,
wood, hay, stubble Every man's work shall be
made manifest for the day shall declare it,
because it shall be revealed by fire and the
fire shall try every man's work of what sort it
is. If any man's work abide which he hath built
thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any
man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss
but he himself shall be saved yet so as by fire.
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The Bema

• REWARD 1
• VERBAL COMMENDATION
• (For Being Counted Worthy)

• REWARD 2
• ROYAL CLOTHES
• (For Living Righteously)

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The Bema
REWARD 1 VERBAL COMMENDATION (For Being
Counted Worthy)
REWARD 2 ROYAL CLOTHES (For Living
Righteously)
REWARD 3 ACTUAL CROWNS (For Investing In His
Kingdom)