Darren Tappouras – Class 4: Least and Greatest in the Kingdom

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Thanks brother.
Russell and good morning once

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again everybody excellent.
My voice is a little bit croaky

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so try and conserve as much as I
can and not yell at you too

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much.
So we go through all that.

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Study this morning is called
works and rewards and it’s a

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suppose we’re building on some
of the concepts we laid

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yesterday.
So we’ll continue on with this

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consideration of how these
things all play out at the

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Judgment seat.
Just a couple of spies initial

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Concepts and some of the ideas
are going to set the scene for

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our investigation this morning,
all our lives.

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I suppose we’ve grown up.
It’s been drummed into us that

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we are saved by grace and we say
through faith and we’ve told

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over and over again, that
salvation is a gift and we’re

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not saved by works.
We can earn our Salvation.

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We can’t impress god with our
works to sort of get set.

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Nation by that in that method we
can’t do Works to sort of earn

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brownie points or to build up
the balance sheet on one side of

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The Ledger or the other.
And we know we know these things

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we’ve been we’ve had these
things taught to us in school

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kids in some regard and yet.
And yet, also, we’ve come across

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many, many references in
scripture and it’s been

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references throughout our life
as well.

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That our works our board up at
the Judgment seat in the works

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of sort of front and center at
the Judgment seat.

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So there’s this sort of conflict
there in our thinking, to some

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degree.
How do you, how do we reconcile

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these these ideas and these
Concepts?

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And even, you know, today
amongst, you know, I’ve got

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teenage kids were all even older
than teenage kids and I’d have a

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little bit of do with young
people’s groups and young.

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People find this as a bit of a
struggle.

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You know, the idea that you
know, your works is almost a

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dirty word, you know, to say
things about works.

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And and and in any way employing
that works have any involvement

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in our in the Judgment suit or
anything like that.

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So it’s a it’s there is a Moment
of confusion in all this to some

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degree.
So hopefully we might try and

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clear some of that up today and
we’ll see that works are closely

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associated with the Judgment
seat, and yet at the concepts

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that we’ve, we know are true of
that works, don’t sort of earn

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salvation.
Rule is also true as well, and

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hopefully, that will come
through in what we look at.

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We as I said we going to build
on some of the concepts.

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We looked at yesterday, we sort
of look at this idea that there

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are scripture records, two types
of recordings of our life, The

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Book of Life in which our name
is in, and we saw from

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Revelation 20, that the verdict
about whether we are in the

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Kingdom or not, whether we are
saved or not or whether we are

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rejected or not, is based on the
book of life and I’m being in

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that book.
And yet, we saw in that judgment

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seat seen that, the books of our
life are opened as well.

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And we were judged according The
things written in the books

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plural.
So we need to sort of try and

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reconcile that a little bit this
morning as well.

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But what we, what we have tried
to do in the previous session

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is, I suppose show that the the
verdict about our salvation is

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based on Grace, but at the
Judgment seat, our works are

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still considered and and in
there is a decision made about

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those works and there is a an
evaluation of those Works made.

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Which is.
In some way separate from the

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verdict of Salvation.
So let’s try and build on that a

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little bit this morning and I’m
going to introduce this concept

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now that will then we’ll sort of
follow through in the rest of

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our studies.
This idea that if their name is

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in the Book of Life to use this,
this word picture of this

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analogy.
I’ve sort of said, well we are

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in a Zone here that I’ve just
called The Pale of Salvation.

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We are in God’s Plan of
Salvation.

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We are in essence.
We are saved in that.

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It’s not the, of course
ultimately that we haven’t been

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given immortality and there’s
always still the possibility.

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We could make shipwreck of our
faith Etc.

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But while we remain This Book of
Life or this pail of Salvation,

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we are in the will be accepted
by our lord.

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And there are some conditions
put on this idea and we’re going

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to look at these quotes in John
John to and John for ETC.

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That talk about we are we can
have confidence that the

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Judgment seat if we abide in the
lights.

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Or if we walk in the light,
sorry, if we abide in him.

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So we’re going to try and look
at what that means.

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Is, we go through as well.
So if we are in the Book of

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Life, we will be recipients of
God’s Grace will be in the

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Kingdom.
However, the reality is our name

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can be removed from that book.
And we saw that referred to in

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some of those verses that I’ve
got to read yesterday and then

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can be removed, which means we
are taken out of that zone.

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If you like out of that pail of
Salvation, and we got many

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examples, Was in scripture of
people who either deliberately

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made a choice to walk out of
that zone and to leave that zone

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of Salvation or who drifted out
of that zone, all their very

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behavior, and attitude, deems
them to have left that zone in

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God’s eye.
So Judas, for example, went out

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and there’s a point made about
that but he went out and it was

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dark, you know, we went out into
the world and he rejected the

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light.
He was instead of abiding in the

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like in the presence of his
Lord, he went out and put

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himself outside.
Side that the prodigal son in

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the parable, in Luke 15, he goes
out from his father’s house and

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he wants to wants to sample the
world.

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So he leaves physically in that
Parable goes out into a world of

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darkness in that sense and then
comes to his senses later on and

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comes back in to the family and
there are many other warnings in

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scripture of people who are
either, you know, in a path in a

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decline that is eventually going
to lead to them being Outside

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that zone as well.
And you know, outside God’s pale

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of salvation.
So what just to quickly recap,

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what we looked at in our first
session, we sort of said, the

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normal view of the Judgment seat
is this idea, we give account,

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we receive praise and admonition
and we are accepted and

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rejected.
And we sort of said, well maybe

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based on the parable of the
sheep and goats Works slightly

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differently that we are accepted
or rejected, we give account.

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And then there’s this receiving.
Praise and admonition is a final

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part of the process and it’s
probably a part that I

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personally haven’t given much
thought to I suppose I’ve sort

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of grown up with the sort of
binary view of the Judgment

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seat.
It’s a verdict based process

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that you’re in all out.
And that’s the sort of

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terminology at the judges are
going to be in, or out in or

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out.
And that’s really all that I

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thought about the juggling
around in or out, and it’s

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really more than just in or out,
it’s much more layer than that.

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And there’s this this concept of
being rewarded at the Judgment

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seat that I haven’t really taken
that that seriously because all

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I’ve been concerned about is in
or out and whether, you know, I

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couldn’t really care less about
being rewarded.

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Or having praise given to me.
It’s been just about it around.

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Has been the focus of my
particular view just quickly

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flick through here.
I suppose that the Judgment seat

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conjures up for most of us, the
idea of a court.

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I suppose that’s the closest
analogy we have.

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When we try and picture the
judges little, think about the

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Judgment see and even the the
word itself judgment seats.

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That’s it conjures up a legal
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However, I’m going to suggest
that it’s not the best analogy

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to use.
When we think about what is

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actually taking place at the
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There are some major differences
major differences, which make

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that.
And that analogy, a flawed

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analogy, really, when we try and
relate it to the Judgment seat.

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The judge was, he’s not like a
human Court in a number of, very

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fundamental ways.
One of the big differences is

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the judge, already knows you now
in a human Court situation,

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which human courts trying to
arrive at a verdict.

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That’s that’s the whole sort of
reason it’s established and held

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because all the evidence is
going to be presented, And an

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impartial judge is going to
listen to one side or the other,

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the prosecutor or the defendant
and he’s going to make a final

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verdict on something.
That’s our idea of a courtesan.

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So the channeling everything to
work to this final result and so

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the judge is not allowed to know
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In that case, it’s got to be a
blank canvas is working with

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him.
And even to extremes that are,

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you know, rapists in who’s
committed right before you can’t

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even bring up that, that he’s
done it before in some cases,

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because it would be prejudicial
to the particular case being

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examined at that.
Particular time and a judge has

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to recuse themselves or stand
down, if there’s any connection

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with the defendant in any way at
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So so that is a that that the
concept in the end, the

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objective of a human court is
not really analogous to what’s

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going on at the at our judgment
seat and there’s this other

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Factor as well.
That’s got to be brought to

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account here in our sort of
coming to grips with this.

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We are already.
By virtue of the fact that we

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are in Christ, we are already
declared righteous that would

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righteous is many of us know our
legal term.

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It means that we’ve already been
declared right?

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Or or innocent or have you know
there’s the Slate has been

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cleaned.
Really our garments are washed

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in the blood of the Lamb so
we’re already forgiven, we’re

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already innocent in a sense.
So how does that also play out

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in our judgment seat pictures as
well?

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And there’s some other little
interesting differences to, you

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know, Romans 8 makes this big
point at the end of Romans 8,

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who will lay anything to the
charge of God’s elect in

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essence?
There’s no prosecutor at the

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Divine sort of judgment seat.
There’s no prosecutor as there

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isn’t a human Court, who, who
sort of lays the charges and

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brings the evidence against us.
The question is asked, who is at

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the Judgment?
Who’s laying any thing to the

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charge of God’s elect?
Is a God?

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No.
No, it’s not God.

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He just has One who says we’re
innocent.

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He’s justifying us.
He’s like Christ.

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No.
His they’re making intercession

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for us.
He’s our defense.

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Attorney a few.
If you like, so that the whole

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analogy is not complete.
Is that the human core

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technology?
And I, and I think that’s the

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Mind picture.
Many of us have the Judgment

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seat and yet it’s a little bit
flawed, as we’ll see.

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Another analogy that I think is
is probably closer.

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Of course.
No analogy is a perfect but this

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analogy, I think is closer to
what is actually being achieved

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at the Judgment.
Seat is a concept of a

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performance review.
Now, I don’t know if many of you

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or aware of it, not every job
has these sorts of things, but

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in many occupations and many
companies, particularly if you

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work for a big like a
multinational firm or a big

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pharmaceutical company or some
sort of large government

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Department, all the employees
are subject.

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To what’s called an evaluation
review or performance review and

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it’s often either annually and
the, you know, the anniversary

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of your starting date or it
could be a set time in the year.

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Sometimes it could be twice a
year.

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Now, a performance review, you
sit down with your manager

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usually and or your immediate
supervisor and you go through

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what you have done and what you
may not have done in the

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carrying out of your of your
role.

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And so the job descriptions
bought out Out, things like

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kpi’s, which are performance
indicators that you have, you

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should have worked towards all.
These things are examined, and

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you go through them and it’s
brought to your attention,

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whether you’ve met them or
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with your fallen short, or
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what you’re supposed to have
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review were sort of analyzed as
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the performance review is not to
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That’s The objective of the
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cases, it happens, particularly
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laws or a little bit sort of
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your performance review, the
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your bags and get out of here,
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So that that is an extreme
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but that’s not the objective.
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performance review is all about?
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to make you better and trying to
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Your performance which in turn
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increases the performance of the
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The company Etc.
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There’s a selfish reason behind
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It’s trying to, to better you in
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the company in God’s economy,
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There’s a reason that he does it
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self-improvement building With
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it.
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God working in our lives and
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So as we said, one of the
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performance review, understand
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Because all of us have blind
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even the business World
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identify weaknesses and we try
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In fact, you’ve got to identify
your own weaknesses in offering

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these things.
So I should always write, you

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know, I work too hard and all
those sort of you know, I give

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too much effort.
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But so, so we got to try and
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Not the not the ones we’re
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Boss now.
No one likes to come under

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scrutiny in any way.
We don’t like it at all.

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It’s and, and I’ve hope in any
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haven’t sort of trivialize the
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I think, you know, it’s even
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from first John 2.
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boldness and confidence.
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there and there’s a use of
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take into account.
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in any.
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It’ll be a If you know, the word
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the judgments that we’ll talk
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But but it’s not Terran, it
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And and there is a reason behind
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performance review.
I remember when I work for a

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company we used to have
performance reviews and remember

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the mornings of your performance
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I mean, I used to I couldn’t eat
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those are you know me now that’s
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That’s a pretty that’s pretty
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I couldn’t even have breakfast.
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the nice shops and so, it’s a
stressful thing to have a

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performance review back, but
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a performance review, it, okay.
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through that process.
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You know, you know, it’s not fun
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to.
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you would take the option.
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actually for your own good.
I’m not, you know, you might

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have a boss, is a psychopath and
an idiot night.

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I understand that, but on the
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our own.
I’m good and even when things

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are pointed out to us that we’ve
done wrong or we’ve failed, we

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sort of know, deep down that
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that’s pointed out to us, we
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of once a week.
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We sort of know that’s true.
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will try and work on that and
and make that go away or reduce

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it or whatever.
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a performance review, particular
if you work for an American type

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company or a multinational
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rewards attached to that, and
we’ll bring that up as well in

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as we continue on with this
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Now, some of you may feel a
little bit uncomfortable, that

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analogy think.
Well, I don’t really like that

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that much.
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back to The Parables again and
this think about particularly

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the parable of the pounds and
the parable of the talents and

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in the sense you can see this
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Isn’t it though?
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Now we have up time at Matthew
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The three servants are brought
in and they have to settle their

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account.
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done with their Lords resources,
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And also Luke 19 with the ten
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each, they told to occupy till I
come on, which means to do

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business while I’m away.
Then they called in and their

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performance is reviewed.
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that that is Quite a genuine
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And when I think that’s, that’s
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then the court case analogy.
So this brings us back to our

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our main objective this morning,
looking at the, the connection

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between works and Grace and and
trying to reconcile these IDs.

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Look what we’re going to build
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little bit further.
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Charter haven’t really gone
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But basically, we ask the
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Why do we have this second stage
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So, if we, if we have, if it is
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that we are accepted early on in
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the sheep and goats will
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process, we, what’s the need for
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Well, we have to give account
Out and give account involves

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looking at our works, or our
actions in our life and also our

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motives are examined.
There’s no doubt about that.

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And we’re gonna look at this
word fan arou that comes through

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in all these judgment seat
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opening up in a revealing of our
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So we that happens.
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this as one of the objectives of
that process, to refine our

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character to have our, our
faults purged and to prepare us

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for more Telly, that that makes
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I think we all will get that and
I think if you remember HP,

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Mansfield’s ideas on the
purpose, behind the judgments

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that came out very clearly, this
idea of preparing us for

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immortality, but there’s also
another objective of the

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Judgment seat, which and I
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before.
I never really sort of either

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cared about or took seriously
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my judgment seat, sort of view
the idea of Ward’s and rebuke

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that the Judgment seat.
We are going to be rebuked and

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rewarded.
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connected been rebuked at the
Judgment seat with connected

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that with whether we are saved
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And I think that’s where the
confusion for me has laid will

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be a rebuke to the judges.
There’s no doubt about that, but

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doesn’t necessarily mean that we
won’t be saved or accepted by

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our Lord and we’re going to be
praised for certain things and I

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think my goodness, how could I
possibly be Praise for anything,

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it doesn’t it?
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everything.
I’ve thought about before about

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the Judgment seat but there’s no
doubt we’re going to be praised

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for things we do at the Judgment
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There’s so many references to
this, this idea that you can’t

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ignore it.
And if we’re looking at the

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Judgment seat being an overall
verdict that you know, all our

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actions and life is weighed up
and then there’s this one result

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that comes out of that.
It doesn’t make sense that we

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are ever going to.
Anyone would really be praised

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in that sense and rebuked and
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But when we separate those
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makes makes a bit of sense.
So let’s go through it, even

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yesterday.
We looked at this idea of the,

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The Works been examined, bit of
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take that as referring to
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the, the sort of leaders in the
teachers and you Collision of

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the underlying principles, the
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The modems are examined as to
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or just wooden stubble.
The torch is applied the

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scenario presented in First
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work is totally consumed.
So his work was might, it might

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have been motivated by wrong
reasons, or for

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self-aggrandizement, all
whatever it might have been, or

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even foolishness and
insensitivity, whatever might

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have been for some reason, it’s
burnt.

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And yet it says he still saved.
So there’s a disconnect between

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the Salvation result of that
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their Works, in that particular
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well, there’s this emphasis on
the idea of reward which is

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connected to the works and
separate from the Salvation

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event.
So hopefully that makes sense.

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We are rewarded according to the
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is the leaders or the all the
teachers in that case the

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rewards go, according to the
works, In that scenario, that’s

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person receives no reward
because his works are all

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consumed.
And yet, it says, he’s still

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saved yet.
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So, so keep that in mind.
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says, everyone will receive his
own reward, according to his

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labor, okay?
The connection between what he’s

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done and rewards and yet that’s
separate from salvation that

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several from being saved.
If any man’s work abide,

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remember, we looked at that
yesterday or survives, he

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receives a reward, it’s
mentioned again.

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If any man’s work work in
suicide work.

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They don’t work is burned up.
He suffers a loss, which will

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try and make some suggestions
about as well.

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But he still say nonetheless and
that picture that is presenting

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First Corinthians 3 shows that
difference between the works,

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even all his Works in that
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He still save.
So we want to make some sense of

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that.
We sort of looked at that

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yesterday that the works are
totally destroyed, but he’s

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saved as well.
Now, we have again, these are

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Concepts.
We’ve been brought up with us as

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kids.
Haven’t we salvation is a gift

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from God.
Eternal life is a gift, you can

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earn it.
And yet there’s this connection

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between works and the Judgment
seat that we sort of got to try

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and come to grips with for by
Grace, you are saved through

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faith as a gift of God.
So how is it a gift of God?

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And then if it’s connected to
our works, how then is it a

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gift?
And we need to think about that.

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Now what I’m going to do very
quickly than this morning is

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look at Reality of rewards for
works, you can’t deny that.

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It is so much a part of the
judgments that picture that you

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can’t deny the connection
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Judgment seat and again that it
goes against their idea of the

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gift of God and Grace and given
given salvation is a gift.

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You this idea that people are
saved.

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Yes, but there’s, there’s a
proportion in the rewards

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receive at the Judgment seat.
We’ve got to try and build all

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these things into, whatever
picture we have of the Judgment

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seat of eventually.
Even even this word, I mean the

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words taken from a parable and
it seems to be the word that

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using nearly every song.
You have about the Judgment seat

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and every place I’ve ever been
in on the Judgment seat this

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idea of well done.
And I find that again, that word

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even is a little bit.
Counterintuitive is well done.

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So you get the Judgment seat and
it’s well done think really,

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really well.
It’s isn’t it, a gift is a gift

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from God and and even if any of
us, even if we have the scarcity

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view that only a few going to be
Is anyone in that few really

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well done?
And they really done everything.

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Well, it’s sort of a, an
interesting concept isn’t it

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that we have try and come to
grips with?

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As we as we try and look at
this, we’re saved by grace.

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Aren’t we?
What, why is, well done?

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The big judgment-seat word that
pops up?

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Well, also hopefully see that
he’s a big part of the Judgment

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seat and it is it can be
reconciled.

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Okay, I’ve put a lot of the
quotes this morning up on the

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slides because if I we look them
all up we’ll just be here all

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day and I know no one wants to
do that.

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Typically my wife.
So I you know I can’t go over

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time when she’s here so invite
me back another time we can go

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over time all your life, just
want to show the connection

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between works and rewards and
this is Greek word the word

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according that we’re going to
look at in the English Bible.

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According is in the king in the
King James anyway, it’s this

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Greek word Hoss, which means I’m
in the men are all in like

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manner or like even as its shows
a connection between the two

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things Hoss.
So it’s translated here.

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Mainly, according I put put it
in read revelation. 22 verse 12

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behold, I come quickly, and my
reward is with me.

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So there’s the idea of reward to
give every man according as his

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work Think a singular there.
Yes.

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As his work shall be according
Hoss.

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So the connection between his
work and the reward is is really

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clear.
There, Matthew 16 for the son of

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man shall come in the glory of
his father, with his angels and

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he shall reward.
Every man, according Hoss to his

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work, Revelation 22 verse 23, I
am.

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He that searcheth the reins in
the hearts and will give unto

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every, man, every one of you,
sorry, according Hoss, according

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to his works first Peter 1:17.
The father who without respect

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of persons judges, according to
Every Man’s work and pass.

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The time of your sojourning here
in fear.

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So, so here’s this connection of
work and the reward and we

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weren’t Try and delve into that
a little bit as we go through.

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I need to go into that.
Okay, so works and reward, we’ve

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established that.
There’s a connection would Now

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quickly establish that there’s a
connect.

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There’s this proportional
concept that plays out in the

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giving of rewards.
We’ve got hints of it in a

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parabolic sent have sent several
in The Parables.

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Matthew 25 says, well done.
Good and faithful servant you

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have been Faithful over.
A few things I will make you

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ruler over many things and sort
of start to get this this idea

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of a proportional response.
Probably more clearer.

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The parable of the pounds of the
miners.

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Is someone said the other day in
Luke, 19, your pound has gained

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10 pounds, have authority over
ten cities.

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So you can see the results that
he achieved is is proportional

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connected to the reward is
given.

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And then the next servant that
comes along he’d achieved five

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pounds out of the one, he gets
the authority over five cities

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and then Interestingly enough.
Later on in the parable of

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person who doesn’t use his
talent, has it taken from him

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and given to somebody else, want
to try, think about how that

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plays out to in the whole
rewards scenario.

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Now, we also on the negative
side of the ledger, so so

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rewards are given
proportionally, but also,

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rebuke, and Punishment appears
to be proportional as well.

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Hints that adding a few of the
statements of Our Lord which are

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sort of a little bit enigmatic.
But they do imply this idea.

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Luke 12 says and that servant
which knew his Lord’s will.

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So he knew he knew what he did
something wrong.

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Sort of very consciously shall
be beaten with many stripes.

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So this is the story of many
stripes, but he, that knew not

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and did commit things worthy of
Stripes.

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So, he sort of did it
ignorantly.

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He didn’t quite know.
He was doing something wrong,

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even though he should have,
shall be beaten with few stripes

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for unto whomsoever.
Much is given of him shall be

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much required.
Try it just try and work that

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through into the Judgment seat
process.

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In the, in the going through of
our life, in the, in the

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00:27:57,900 –> 00:28:00,800
examination of our of what we’ve
done, and what we haven’t done

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it, appears that some people get
a harder time and get rebuked

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and receive more castigation, or
rebuke from our Lord than others

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00:28:11,100 –> 00:28:15,500
May who have not had same the
same advantages or opportunities

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00:28:15,500 –> 00:28:18,600
that others have had.
Now, these interesting Matthew

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10 again on the idea of reward,
he that receives that you can

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all see that up there but I’ll
read anyone here that receives a

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prophet in the name of a prophet
shall receive a prophet’s reward

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and he that receives a righteous
man in the name of a righteous

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00:28:33,400 –> 00:28:36,700
man shall receive a righteous
man’s reward and even someone

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00:28:36,700 –> 00:28:39,600
who gives that our a cup of
water in the Name of Christ says

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he shall not lose his reward.
So even in that little parrot in

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that little statement, that
parabolic statement.

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You’ve got these Different
rewards mentioned, you got a

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prophet’s reward a righteous
man’s reward and a cup of water

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00:28:53,600 –> 00:28:59,800
givers reward, you think, well,
you know what, why differentiate

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that?
What y if sent if reward is

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00:29:03,500 –> 00:29:05,800
careful how I say this.
I say, simply eternal life.

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That’s probably an
understatement snot if the word,

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if the reward we get is only
eternal life and that’s what the

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judges he’s dishing out.
Yes.

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You know, there’s binary
yes-or-no in or out.

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Thing.
Then why are we talking about

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00:29:20,800 –> 00:29:23,200
levels or grades or qualities of
rewards?

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00:29:23,200 –> 00:29:27,200
Its we’re just in or out that
should be it but obviously

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00:29:27,200 –> 00:29:32,400
there’s more happening than just
that there’s an indication.

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Also that how we live our life
now and the things we do and the

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00:29:37,208 –> 00:29:41,000
things we don’t do have an
impact on the quality of our

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00:29:41,000 –> 00:29:44,200
reward and how we reward is
played out in the future.

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There’s some very interesting
little statements Matthew 7 is

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interesting, judge not that you
be not judged.

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Now again thinking that through
the idea I always thought was if

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you know if you bit harsh
judging people and the Lord will

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00:30:02,200 –> 00:30:04,000
reject, you’ll be harsh to you
and just reject you at the

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Judgment seat but that it seems
a little bit so it’s a little

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bit extreme, isn’t it a little
bit, you know?

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The Lord we can be forgiven of
all our sins cartwheel is

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00:30:14,100 –> 00:30:17,000
there’s no in our context
unforgivable sin.

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So if we have done something
that’s a little bit judgmental,

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and we may feel guilty about
that later on in our life, even

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decades.
I think, gee, I was bit

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00:30:23,800 –> 00:30:26,900
judgmental back then, and it’s
probably too late to rectify and

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00:30:26,900 –> 00:30:28,200
we think well, that’s blown it
for me.

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00:30:28,200 –> 00:30:30,800
I’m out of the Kingdom because
I’m going to get judged as I

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judge.
Somebody else that is something

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00:30:32,100 –> 00:30:34,700
I did 20 years ago and that’s
probably behind the guilt of

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people in the rest homes or
wherever, who thinking, how am I

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going to face the Judgment?
I did that?

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Well, I think there’s no sin.
That’s Unforgivable.

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So how does that literally play
out?

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Maybe I’m just suggesting maybe,
because we’ve acted that way

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that there is, we are judged
harshly by a Lord and rebuked

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00:30:52,300 –> 00:30:55,400
for those things and told off
about them by our Lord, in a

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severe way in a proportion of
how we’ve treated others in our

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life and bought maybe grief, or
or pain to somebody else.

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Judge not that you be not judged
for with what judgment ye judge

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00:31:09,700 –> 00:31:12,300
ye shall be judged.
And with what measure, You meet,

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00:31:12,300 –> 00:31:13,900
it shall be measured to you
again.

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So maybe that plays out in some
way, second Corinthians 9.

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But I say he that sows sparingly
shall reap also sparingly and he

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which soweth bountifully shall
reap bountifully.

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This is this idea.
If you’re generous with others,

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then God will be in a sense
generous with you.

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Now, how does that play out?
Is that just about any exact,

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just refer to one in, or out
scenario?

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00:31:36,500 –> 00:31:40,400
Or the way we’re dealt with it,
the Judgment seat, and then I’ll

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reward you receive I built into
that into that process.

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He’s one.
We’re looking at with Jonah,

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Matthew 6 layup or which means a
mass or build up for yourselves.

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Treasures in Heaven, where
neither moth nor rust does

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00:31:54,100 –> 00:31:56,600
corrupt.
There’s a Matthew 6 is full of

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00:31:56,600 –> 00:31:59,900
this idea of reward, isn’t it?
It’s interesting that uses this

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00:31:59,900 –> 00:32:03,800
plural Treasures in Heaven.
That would indicate some people

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00:32:03,800 –> 00:32:06,900
have more Treasures than others.
It’s like a like, a bank account

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00:32:07,800 –> 00:32:12,100
sort of terminologies that we
lay up install Treasures.

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00:32:12,100 –> 00:32:16,800
In Heaven is Some way in which
those of us who are, who are

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00:32:16,800 –> 00:32:20,000
generous with our money and do
it behind the scenes or or give

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00:32:20,000 –> 00:32:22,500
our time, and our effort and do
it with no one without reward

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00:32:22,500 –> 00:32:26,500
and praise who carry on their
life, without getting rewarded

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00:32:26,500 –> 00:32:28,800
from others.
Is there a sense in which they

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00:32:28,800 –> 00:32:31,100
are building up?
A reservoir of treasures that

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00:32:31,100 –> 00:32:34,800
they will receive, not
necessarily salvation for, but

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00:32:34,800 –> 00:32:37,200
they’ll receive reward for it in
a particular way.

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00:32:38,500 –> 00:32:40,600
And it’s interesting when you
look at that that you know you

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00:32:40,600 –> 00:32:42,700
look at the sermon on the
mountain is in the Lord says

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00:32:42,700 –> 00:32:45,100
about the Pharisees I suppose
he’s talking about the Pharisees

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00:32:45,100 –> 00:32:47,600
primarily.
He says, they have received

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00:32:47,600 –> 00:32:50,200
their reward.
In a sense, they got

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00:32:50,200 –> 00:32:52,900
recognition, they got on our,
they got Glory, they got

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00:32:52,900 –> 00:32:56,100
position, they got status, all
those things are very important

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00:32:56,100 –> 00:33:02,700
in that, you know, judeo based
culture in, which they live

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00:33:02,700 –> 00:33:07,800
that, you know, They got those
things if that’s the reward

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00:33:07,800 –> 00:33:11,500
we’re going to get than it’s got
to play out some way in a

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00:33:11,508 –> 00:33:14,800
similar Fashion on the other
side, on the flipside in the, in

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00:33:14,800 –> 00:33:17,500
the Kingdom.
So just try and keep those

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00:33:17,500 –> 00:33:22,700
things in mind.
Luke 14.

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00:33:22,800 –> 00:33:25,100
I’m just well, we look, I’m just
trying to get us now as we look

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00:33:25,100 –> 00:33:28,800
at some of these verses that we
look at rewards, we can simply

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00:33:28,800 –> 00:33:32,300
read reward being eternal life,
but there seems to be a specific

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00:33:32,300 –> 00:33:35,300
aspect to it.
When you know you do.

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00:33:35,800 –> 00:33:37,800
There’s a quick look at the
fission six in a moment says

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00:33:37,800 –> 00:33:40,500
whatsoever.
A man does he will be

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00:33:40,900 –> 00:33:42,100
whatsoever.
Good thing.

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00:33:42,100 –> 00:33:46,000
He does you receive a reward.
There’s this specific aspect of

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00:33:46,000 –> 00:33:49,500
that whatsoever.
It’s not just a general outcome

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00:33:49,500 –> 00:33:53,200
of his life gets One more good
things in the evil and you get

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00:33:53,200 –> 00:33:57,700
sort of eternal life for that.
But there’s this specific nature

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00:33:57,700 –> 00:33:58,700
to it.
We’ll get to that in a minute.

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00:33:59,600 –> 00:34:02,800
Luke 14 and thou shalt be
blessed, are you?

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00:34:02,800 –> 00:34:06,300
If you do if you invite people
who can’t invite you home, he

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00:34:06,300 –> 00:34:10,100
says they can’t recompense you.
They can’t sort of pay you back.

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00:34:10,300 –> 00:34:13,300
There’s a special blessing for
you’re going to be recompensed

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00:34:13,300 –> 00:34:16,100
at the Judgment seat of the just
you say well that’s just a game

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00:34:16,100 –> 00:34:19,100
only eternal life but there’s a
special blessing for those who

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do that, who was show that
generosity who A who go that

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00:34:22,199 –> 00:34:24,900
extra mile and do that?
Sorry.

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00:34:27,800 –> 00:34:30,600
They’ve included that he’s
actually talking about rewards

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00:34:30,600 –> 00:34:32,100
because only talking about the
just the jacket.

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00:34:32,199 –> 00:34:34,600
Yes, that’s a good point.
Actually, the river is exactly

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00:34:34,600 –> 00:34:36,199
who know the resurrection
involves other people.

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00:34:36,199 –> 00:34:38,699
That’s the Jasper are rewarded
in that way.

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00:34:38,699 –> 00:34:42,300
Yep, that’s a good point.
It’s actually you know I’m going

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00:34:42,300 –> 00:34:46,000
to talk about in a moment.
Luke 20:36 says those are

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00:34:46,000 –> 00:34:49,199
obtained.
Those who are worthy of the

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00:34:49,199 –> 00:34:51,500
Resurrection, shall be made
equal unto the angels.

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00:34:51,500 –> 00:34:53,500
We sort of get this idea.
There’s a quality in that whole

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00:34:53,500 –> 00:34:56,300
process, but we’ll get to that.
I’m jumping ahead.

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00:34:56,900 –> 00:35:02,100
Sorry, settle down down.
Even we said that the idea of

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00:35:02,100 –> 00:35:06,700
teachers being receiving a
stricter judgment, and I sort of

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00:35:06,707 –> 00:35:08,600
made the sort of a facetious
type Point.

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00:35:08,600 –> 00:35:11,400
What, why would I if I believe
that was in relation to my

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00:35:11,400 –> 00:35:14,500
eternal life?
I’m a little bit crazy to be a

647
00:35:14,508 –> 00:35:16,300
teacher.
I know because why would you put

648
00:35:16,300 –> 00:35:19,300
yourself in a harder judgment
Zone?

649
00:35:19,800 –> 00:35:23,700
That would increase the
likelihood of me being rejected.

650
00:35:23,700 –> 00:35:25,500
If you think of that, logically,
what would have been seats?

651
00:35:25,500 –> 00:35:28,800
You’re in my equipment, my
meeting at Gosford when I’m

652
00:35:28,800 –> 00:35:31,800
going to get stricter, Judgment
of stricter judgment relates to

653
00:35:31,800 –> 00:35:35,300
my eternal life, then man, I’m
it’s a little bit crazy for me

654
00:35:35,308 –> 00:35:39,500
to do that and and I believe
teachers will get stricter

655
00:35:39,500 –> 00:35:42,900
judgment, but they will be
restored, get rebuke from our To

656
00:35:42,900 –> 00:35:45,200
now be, they’ll be set straight
on.

657
00:35:45,500 –> 00:35:47,700
A lot of things will get to that
as we go through as well.

658
00:35:47,700 –> 00:35:50,200
But I’m just trying to put these
ideas in our mind before we draw

659
00:35:50,200 –> 00:35:54,200
any conclusions.
Again, there’s so many.

660
00:35:54,200 –> 00:35:56,400
So many verses here, let’s look
at the Ephesians 6:1.

661
00:35:56,500 –> 00:35:58,100
I guess we just turn to
Ephesians 6.

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00:35:58,900 –> 00:36:00,800
You see why I put them up on the
slide because we’ll be here all

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00:36:00,800 –> 00:36:02,300
day.
We look at every single one but

664
00:36:08,600 –> 00:36:11,300
As you read it, you may think
I’m just stretching a little bit

665
00:36:11,300 –> 00:36:14,200
too far or reading too much into
it, but I can’t help feeling.

666
00:36:14,200 –> 00:36:17,200
There’s got to be an explanation
for the specific aspects of

667
00:36:17,200 –> 00:36:27,000
these rewards when they’re
mentioned Vision, 6, it’s verse

668
00:36:27,000 –> 00:36:29,300
takes the one we’re going to
focus on, but it’s talking about

669
00:36:29,700 –> 00:36:33,200
servants, don’t just do things
to please your master, you know,

670
00:36:33,200 –> 00:36:36,500
and to do it for him and not do
it when he’s not looking at

671
00:36:36,500 –> 00:36:38,200
cetera.
But do everything unto the Lord?

672
00:36:40,800 –> 00:36:43,600
Verse 7 with Good Will doing
Service as to the Lord and not

673
00:36:43,600 –> 00:36:46,600
to men verse 8.
So he have got someone who

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00:36:46,600 –> 00:36:48,000
works.
You could apply this to your own

675
00:36:48,000 –> 00:36:50,600
job where you apply it to a real
service situation.

676
00:36:51,200 –> 00:36:54,000
The attitude you take to the job
you could say well I’m going to

677
00:36:54,000 –> 00:36:56,900
do the bare minimum that keep my
boss happy or I’m going to work

678
00:36:56,900 –> 00:37:00,000
unto the Lord which is this
higher ideal, which is what

679
00:37:00,500 –> 00:37:03,800
Matthew 6 and 5 6 7 all about,
got reaching this level of

680
00:37:03,800 –> 00:37:06,800
perfection You can choose which
way you go.

681
00:37:08,000 –> 00:37:11,700
He says if you choose to go the
harder route, the harder option,

682
00:37:12,600 –> 00:37:17,100
then there’s a reward a special
reward in that and so he says

683
00:37:18,400 –> 00:37:23,800
knowing verse 8 that whatsoever.
Good thing, the king, the new

684
00:37:23,800 –> 00:37:26,600
King James got whatever sort of
just trying to drill down to

685
00:37:26,600 –> 00:37:31,500
this specific aspect, whatever,
good thing any man does the

686
00:37:31,500 –> 00:37:33,500
same.
Shall he receive of the Lord?

687
00:37:33,900 –> 00:37:35,800
Whether he be Bond or free or
free?

688
00:37:35,800 –> 00:37:40,000
So the principle applies in all
About life, but just think about

689
00:37:40,000 –> 00:37:44,100
that whatever you know, it’s a
specific thing, a specific

690
00:37:44,100 –> 00:37:47,400
course, we choose to take in our
whether it be a job where I

691
00:37:47,400 –> 00:37:50,300
could lose your life for a fan
of, we take a specific course,

692
00:37:50,600 –> 00:37:53,000
the higher calling, the higher
Road, whatever you want to call

693
00:37:53,000 –> 00:37:54,700
it.
There’s a specific reward for

694
00:37:54,700 –> 00:38:00,700
that. that may be above and
beyond the granting of

695
00:38:00,700 –> 00:38:03,500
immortality will all the
acceptance into the judgments

696
00:38:03,700 –> 00:38:08,100
that generously into the king of
We’ve talked about Matthew 6

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00:38:08,100 –> 00:38:11,200
already about being rewarded and
runs all the way through.

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00:38:11,200 –> 00:38:17,200
Matthew 6, Galatians 6
whatsoever, a man soweth that,

699
00:38:17,200 –> 00:38:18,800
shall he?
Also reap and let us not be

700
00:38:18,800 –> 00:38:21,900
weary in well-doing for in due
season, we shall reap.

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00:38:21,900 –> 00:38:25,200
If we faint not again.
There’s, there’s the results in

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00:38:25,200 –> 00:38:28,000
the amount of effort to put it
at the proportional and

703
00:38:28,000 –> 00:38:29,900
connected.
The, this is interesting little

704
00:38:29,900 –> 00:38:34,200
phrase and another, you could
read, you can maybe read too

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00:38:34,200 –> 00:38:36,800
much into it because it could
just be a simple flourish.

706
00:38:37,000 –> 00:38:40,000
Or an expression.
But it’s got these that just

707
00:38:40,000 –> 00:38:43,600
makes you think it.
S, John 1 or S, John verse 8,

708
00:38:43,600 –> 00:38:45,600
really?
This is look to yourselves that

709
00:38:45,600 –> 00:38:48,900
you lose not those things which
we have wrought but that we

710
00:38:48,900 –> 00:38:51,800
receive a full reward.
Now, what’s the difference when

711
00:38:51,800 –> 00:38:55,300
a full reward and normal reward
is, is there a is there a Max

712
00:38:55,300 –> 00:38:59,000
reward is there if we live our
life, according to Matthew, 5, 6

713
00:38:59,000 –> 00:39:03,400
and 7, there’s a full reward and
there’s something lesser than

714
00:39:03,400 –> 00:39:05,800
that if we don’t.
So you say, look to those

715
00:39:05,800 –> 00:39:09,300
things.
Which we’ve taught you about and

716
00:39:09,300 –> 00:39:11,700
receive the full reward.
Maybe.

717
00:39:11,700 –> 00:39:16,000
Maybe it’s as I said, maybe just
expression, but it implies

718
00:39:16,300 –> 00:39:17,900
something that we need to think
about.

719
00:39:19,300 –> 00:39:21,500
And we can go on and on and on,
I’ll just flick through these

720
00:39:21,500 –> 00:39:24,700
very quickly.
He’s some examples of the idea

721
00:39:24,700 –> 00:39:29,100
examples of proportionality in
rewards.

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00:39:29,300 –> 00:39:30,700
We saw it in the parable
already.

723
00:39:30,700 –> 00:39:33,700
Parable of the pounds have
authority over tens, tens

724
00:39:33,700 –> 00:39:35,200
cities.
Five cities Etc.

725
00:39:36,500 –> 00:39:39,000
But even as other little hints,
as you go through the gospels,

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00:39:39,000 –> 00:39:43,000
for example, remember the story
where the, the mother of the

727
00:39:43,000 –> 00:39:46,100
sons of Zebedee was Emily’s,
wife, comes and says to Jesus,

728
00:39:46,400 –> 00:39:49,600
special request to Jesus can my
son’s sit on your right hand on

729
00:39:49,600 –> 00:39:52,300
your left, which was a position
of Honor.

730
00:39:52,300 –> 00:39:55,000
It’s been part of the inner the
inner court or the you know,

731
00:39:55,000 –> 00:39:58,400
click of a kingdom, isn’t the
sit there in that in that sort

732
00:39:58,400 –> 00:40:00,900
of close proximity and be part
of the, in a group.

733
00:40:01,300 –> 00:40:04,300
It’s a great seat of Honor.
Now, Jesus doesn’t say, oh,

734
00:40:04,300 –> 00:40:06,700
don’t be silly, there’s no such
thing in the Kingdom of Cool

735
00:40:06,700 –> 00:40:08,500
under the Outlook.
Like he doesn’t say that he says

736
00:40:08,500 –> 00:40:13,200
well that that’s not mine to
give my father will actually

737
00:40:13,200 –> 00:40:19,300
grant that that blessing which
indicates There may be an inner

738
00:40:19,300 –> 00:40:23,500
group that are associated with
Christ in a much more closer

739
00:40:23,500 –> 00:40:26,400
way.
And intimate way then others in

740
00:40:26,400 –> 00:40:30,400
the kingdom and there is that
those positions those job

741
00:40:30,400 –> 00:40:32,400
descriptions are genuine, their
ask.

742
00:40:32,400 –> 00:40:34,400
There are somebody.
There are people are going to be

743
00:40:34,400 –> 00:40:36,900
on the right hand on the left.
He doesn’t deny the reality of

744
00:40:36,900 –> 00:40:39,600
those positions.
He says that’s God’s in fact he

745
00:40:39,600 –> 00:40:43,300
confirms of my saying they Gods.
That’s God’s prerogative to

746
00:40:43,300 –> 00:40:47,200
grant that Daniel 10.
Most of us are aware of this

747
00:40:47,200 –> 00:40:52,800
little scenario and As I said
before, equal onto the Angels,

748
00:40:52,800 –> 00:40:54,200
what does that mean?
Does that mean we’re all equal?

749
00:40:54,200 –> 00:40:56,300
Like the Angels because the
angels are not equal?

750
00:40:56,300 –> 00:40:58,600
Are they?
We don’t quite know how that

751
00:40:58,800 –> 00:41:02,000
hierarchy of the Angels Came
about whether it’s based on

752
00:41:02,300 –> 00:41:05,800
their performance in a previous
era, or Epoch or even Another

753
00:41:06,300 –> 00:41:07,800
Universe.
We don’t, we don’t know really

754
00:41:07,800 –> 00:41:10,600
where the Angels came from and
where they’re why there is a

755
00:41:10,600 –> 00:41:14,300
hierarchy of both position and
knowledge amongst a, but there

756
00:41:14,300 –> 00:41:17,900
is there really is.
And there are angels called are

757
00:41:18,000 –> 00:41:20,900
Archangels, there are angels of
have more abilities than other

758
00:41:20,900 –> 00:41:25,500
angels that have more knowledge
than other Angels.

759
00:41:25,800 –> 00:41:29,200
Their angel would have special
jobs is that there’s an angel in

760
00:41:29,200 –> 00:41:33,000
Daniel called palimony, who’s
the wonderful number who’s in

761
00:41:33,000 –> 00:41:34,500
charge of numbers?
So I think, you know,

762
00:41:34,500 –> 00:41:37,400
accountants have got a, you
know, that’s that’s that’s a

763
00:41:37,400 –> 00:41:41,100
dream, every accountant.
That’s a bit know how much they

764
00:41:41,100 –> 00:41:43,800
have probably taken it too far.
The I think I’ve got reach that

765
00:41:43,800 –> 00:41:47,900
limit, so yeah, Michael is
called in it.

766
00:41:48,200 –> 00:41:50,400
Little story and Daniel 10, most
of, you know, and I’m sure that

767
00:41:50,400 –> 00:41:53,000
the younger ones may not be
aware of it, but this angel that

768
00:41:53,000 –> 00:41:55,100
comes Daniel, praise this.
Angel comes to him.

769
00:41:55,400 –> 00:41:58,200
Three weeks later and says, look
I’m I heard your words.

770
00:41:58,200 –> 00:42:02,200
I’ve come for your responded to
your words, but I got held up

771
00:42:03,400 –> 00:42:06,000
by.
I got by the words of the

772
00:42:06,000 –> 00:42:08,500
Prince, of Persia Prince of
Greece, a country of a prince of

773
00:42:08,500 –> 00:42:10,900
Greece.
I got held up trying to do

774
00:42:10,900 –> 00:42:15,100
something in world affairs.
And I was being resisted, and I

775
00:42:15,100 –> 00:42:17,800
couldn’t fulfill the job.
And so, this other Angel was

776
00:42:17,800 –> 00:42:19,700
sent ENT.
Michael was such a chief Angel.

777
00:42:19,700 –> 00:42:23,300
So again, you got this idea of
hierarchy, not just hierarchy in

778
00:42:23,300 –> 00:42:24,800
position.
But hierarchy nobility, it would

779
00:42:24,800 –> 00:42:28,000
appear.
He comes along and he fixes a

780
00:42:28,000 –> 00:42:30,100
problem up for me and I needed
his help.

781
00:42:30,500 –> 00:42:32,900
And as I said, that’s
interesting, not just rank, but

782
00:42:32,900 –> 00:42:35,400
also ability.
Now, does that translate into

783
00:42:35,400 –> 00:42:38,700
the kingdom as well when we’re
in the kingdom, are there saints

784
00:42:38,700 –> 00:42:43,700
that have more ability and are
given more power in some sort of

785
00:42:43,700 –> 00:42:47,600
physical sense, or or mental
sensor that they can do things

786
00:42:47,600 –> 00:42:51,300
that other It’s can’t, maybe,
maybe that that if the analogy

787
00:42:51,300 –> 00:42:54,200
of been like, under the Angels
carries forward into immortality

788
00:42:54,200 –> 00:42:55,600
than that.
That is a reality.

789
00:42:55,600 –> 00:42:59,800
Isn’t it in some way?
And and you know, when we think

790
00:42:59,800 –> 00:43:03,200
about our life in the Kingdom,
we’re not robots, are we in got

791
00:43:03,200 –> 00:43:06,700
never wants us to be robots.
He always wants us to, to use

792
00:43:06,700 –> 00:43:10,500
our mind and our faculties to do
things and he always makes it

793
00:43:10,800 –> 00:43:13,900
that we’ve got to, you know,
arrived at the seasons and make

794
00:43:14,300 –> 00:43:17,200
certain calls and I think that
it’s hard to imagine that goes

795
00:43:17,200 –> 00:43:18,600
out the window when Are in the
kingdom.

796
00:43:18,600 –> 00:43:20,800
And they’re all of a sudden
we’ve sort of make every perfect

797
00:43:20,800 –> 00:43:23,700
decision in every perfect way
that there would appear.

798
00:43:23,700 –> 00:43:26,500
And that little example would
help would help us come to that

799
00:43:26,500 –> 00:43:30,100
conclusion, that there is a
sense that as we reign as kings

800
00:43:30,100 –> 00:43:34,100
and Priests that we do make
decisions and there may be other

801
00:43:34,400 –> 00:43:37,200
saints that we can call on to
help us in certain

802
00:43:37,200 –> 00:43:39,700
circumstances.
So without taking it too far,

803
00:43:40,000 –> 00:43:43,900
that is a little window I think
into into that reality when

804
00:43:43,900 –> 00:43:45,200
there’s other ones, I haven’t
looked at.

805
00:43:45,200 –> 00:43:49,400
But, you know, there’s a story
of the Put my cot Michael who

806
00:43:49,500 –> 00:43:54,400
makes this feature Jehoshaphat.
He makes this little word

807
00:43:54,400 –> 00:43:57,500
picture, he says God called the
angels together in heaven and

808
00:43:57,500 –> 00:44:00,800
ask their opinion on how he’s
going to change the course of

809
00:44:00,800 –> 00:44:03,000
events in Israel.
And one Angel suggest this

810
00:44:03,000 –> 00:44:05,100
another Angel suggest that one
said what?

811
00:44:05,100 –> 00:44:09,100
And I go down and be a lying
spirit in the prophets Mouse and

812
00:44:09,100 –> 00:44:10,600
God said here.
Okay, go with that.

813
00:44:10,900 –> 00:44:14,000
Yeah, how literal that is?
I don’t, I don’t know but it’s

814
00:44:14,000 –> 00:44:18,400
interesting that it portrays
these Immortal being Things as

815
00:44:18,400 –> 00:44:21,700
all coming up with suggestions
and ideas and, and eventually

816
00:44:21,700 –> 00:44:23,200
one of those ideas been
implemented.

817
00:44:23,200 –> 00:44:26,200
So, again, it’s, it’s
interesting to think about that

818
00:44:26,200 –> 00:44:32,200
in terms of our future, there’s
a famous one here that all this

819
00:44:32,200 –> 00:44:35,200
would know as well.
Matthew 19, the apostles are,

820
00:44:35,200 –> 00:44:40,500
given will be given to sit on
the honor and the glory and the

821
00:44:40,500 –> 00:44:43,500
privilege of sitting on twelve
Thrones judging the Twelve

822
00:44:43,500 –> 00:44:47,200
Tribes of Israel, sort of
specific role, a specific

823
00:44:47,300 –> 00:44:53,000
position of Honor and power that
you and I will not get, okay?

824
00:44:53,000 –> 00:44:56,700
So there is a sense of
inequality in that outcome.

825
00:44:57,800 –> 00:44:59,400
Actually this is this a very
interesting one.

826
00:44:59,500 –> 00:45:00,900
Maybe we’ll look that up as
well.

827
00:45:00,900 –> 00:45:03,900
Let’s look at Matthew 19.
Let’s look at a couple of these

828
00:45:05,000 –> 00:45:08,300
Promise, I won’t go.
Much longer just wanted to plant

829
00:45:08,300 –> 00:45:12,600
the seed here.
Matthew 19, here’s the context

830
00:45:12,600 –> 00:45:18,300
here is You know, the Rich Young
Ruler whose come and said.

831
00:45:19,900 –> 00:45:22,800
Yeah.
What must I must I do to inherit

832
00:45:22,800 –> 00:45:25,900
eternal life in the Lord sort of
delves into that attitude and

833
00:45:25,900 –> 00:45:28,300
says, well and it gives him this
answer.

834
00:45:28,300 –> 00:45:31,100
That really is specific to him.
It’s not to All Saints of all

835
00:45:31,100 –> 00:45:34,100
Tommy says, give everything away
and sell what you have, give it

836
00:45:34,100 –> 00:45:37,200
to the poor and come, and follow
me because he’s focusing on the

837
00:45:37,200 –> 00:45:39,000
need of that particular, man, at
that time.

838
00:45:43,000 –> 00:45:46,900
The apostles hear that response,
and they start thinking and

839
00:45:46,900 –> 00:45:50,000
Peter says, in verse 27, usually
ways Peter isn’t who jumps in

840
00:45:50,000 –> 00:45:53,500
with these little things verse
27, Peter says, then Peter said

841
00:45:53,500 –> 00:45:57,500
unto him, behold we have
forsaken, all and followed you

842
00:45:57,900 –> 00:46:00,800
what will we have their vote
thereafter and it will.

843
00:46:00,800 –> 00:46:03,100
Jesus could say what a stupid
question.

844
00:46:03,100 –> 00:46:05,100
Peter you idiot.
Of course you can have eternal

845
00:46:05,100 –> 00:46:06,400
life and what does there is a
disease?

846
00:46:06,400 –> 00:46:07,800
Is there anything else matters?
Is there any old?

847
00:46:07,800 –> 00:46:10,100
What else would you want?
Jesus?

848
00:46:10,100 –> 00:46:11,800
Sort of doesn’t couch the
question.

849
00:46:12,000 –> 00:46:15,700
Ansel a quite a lot verse 28,
Jesus says unto them verily.

850
00:46:15,700 –> 00:46:20,700
I say unto you to you to the
group that not just to Peter,

851
00:46:21,500 –> 00:46:25,000
they which have followed me in
the Regeneration when the son of

852
00:46:25,008 –> 00:46:28,600
man shall sit in the Throne of
his glory shall also sit upon,

853
00:46:28,600 –> 00:46:30,600
twelve Thrones judging the
Twelve Tribes of Israel.

854
00:46:30,600 –> 00:46:33,600
Now that’s what the verse we
just looked at now we’re all

855
00:46:33,600 –> 00:46:35,400
pretty.
Okay with that but read on in

856
00:46:35,408 –> 00:46:39,900
verse 29, so that verse 28 was
to you was for the immediate

857
00:46:40,200 –> 00:46:45,400
recipients but verse 29 says,
and everyone Throughout all time

858
00:46:45,900 –> 00:46:49,700
that has forsaken house or
Brethren or sisters, or father

859
00:46:49,700 –> 00:46:53,800
or mother or wife or children
for land or lands for my name’s

860
00:46:53,800 –> 00:46:57,600
sake, shall receive a
hundredfold end.

861
00:46:57,600 –> 00:47:00,600
So the the injection or
whatever, whatever.

862
00:47:00,600 –> 00:47:03,200
And he’s in Granite City at the
additional thing here, the

863
00:47:03,700 –> 00:47:08,400
receive a hundredfold end shall
inherit eternal life.

864
00:47:09,000 –> 00:47:11,000
Now, that’s interesting.
What does that mean?

865
00:47:11,100 –> 00:47:14,600
Literally, I don’t I can’t give
you an exact answer to Question

866
00:47:14,600 –> 00:47:19,800
but it implies that maybe it
implies that say a protester

867
00:47:19,800 –> 00:47:23,300
from the from the Middle Ages
who is goes and has his tongue

868
00:47:23,300 –> 00:47:25,300
ripped out and he maintains his
faithfulness.

869
00:47:25,300 –> 00:47:29,400
Despite incredible persecution
sees his family persecuted, all

870
00:47:29,400 –> 00:47:33,100
the terrible things of that
experience may get a better

871
00:47:33,100 –> 00:47:35,800
reward than Darren de Porres is
live this pretty nice

872
00:47:35,800 –> 00:47:38,400
middle-class life on the
beautiful Central Coast of New

873
00:47:38,400 –> 00:47:42,100
South Wales and had a pretty
good and had a pretty good life

874
00:47:42,100 –> 00:47:43,900
man.
So maybe there is in that.

875
00:47:44,200 –> 00:47:47,800
Um, sort of proportionality that
that there’s a reward given to

876
00:47:47,800 –> 00:47:51,500
that person more than say us
21st century.

877
00:47:51,500 –> 00:47:55,500
Sort of got it.
Good believers.

878
00:47:56,800 –> 00:47:59,000
And then the next verse says, in
verse 13, this is the phrase,

879
00:47:59,000 –> 00:48:03,200
we’ll finish up with thinking
about many that are first shall

880
00:48:03,200 –> 00:48:05,600
be last and the last shall be
first again.

881
00:48:06,200 –> 00:48:08,700
That is an interesting concept
and we might just have a quick

882
00:48:08,700 –> 00:48:10,600
think about that before we
finish up.

883
00:48:11,600 –> 00:48:14,400
This whole idea of been least in
the kingdom of God.

884
00:48:14,900 –> 00:48:17,500
What does that mean?
How does that actually play out?

885
00:48:17,500 –> 00:48:19,700
And is it something you’ve
really ever thought about?

886
00:48:19,700 –> 00:48:22,700
What is what of Mirth does that
mean to be least in the kingdom

887
00:48:22,700 –> 00:48:25,500
of God as a reality as a
concept?

888
00:48:26,400 –> 00:48:28,700
A lot of these references are in
Matthew, the concentrated.

889
00:48:28,700 –> 00:48:31,800
Just got to Matthew 5 verse 19.
Let’s just try and think this

890
00:48:31,800 –> 00:48:40,400
through. this is a really,
really interesting little little

891
00:48:40,400 –> 00:48:45,100
word picture and again, again I
think it’s also this This little

892
00:48:45,100 –> 00:48:49,100
section here will reinforce the
thesis of my, my whole set of

893
00:48:49,100 –> 00:48:53,000
studies that that there is a
difference between salvation and

894
00:48:53,000 –> 00:48:57,300
eternal life, and, and being
rebuked, or punished in the

895
00:48:57,300 –> 00:48:58,600
Judgment seat.
There is a difference.

896
00:48:58,600 –> 00:49:03,000
And again, it gets comes out,
time and time again, let’s just

897
00:49:03,000 –> 00:49:08,000
pick it up in verse verse 19
whosoever, therefore shall

898
00:49:08,000 –> 00:49:11,200
break.
Now, the King James has got

899
00:49:11,200 –> 00:49:14,100
break, has anyone else got
another rendition of that.

900
00:49:15,700 –> 00:49:17,200
Relaxes is good.
I think it’s a useful.

901
00:49:17,200 –> 00:49:21,700
He’s a Knowles relaxes, so it’s
in some way watering down God’s

902
00:49:21,700 –> 00:49:25,800
principles so he that shall
break one of the least of these

903
00:49:25,800 –> 00:49:28,400
Commandments and chill influence
others.

904
00:49:28,400 –> 00:49:32,700
Teach men others.
Teach men the same He Shall be

905
00:49:32,700 –> 00:49:35,400
Called least in the Kingdom of
Heaven.

906
00:49:35,900 –> 00:49:42,300
So this is a Interesting little
outcome here and then it goes on

907
00:49:42,300 –> 00:49:44,800
and says but whosoever shall do
and teach.

908
00:49:44,800 –> 00:49:46,800
So he walks the walk and talks
the talk.

909
00:49:47,100 –> 00:49:49,800
He Shall be Called great in the
Kingdom of Heaven.

910
00:49:50,700 –> 00:49:54,000
Now who is this person that
water’s down certain principles?

911
00:49:54,000 –> 00:49:57,400
And what does that mean?
Well there are so many there are

912
00:49:57,400 –> 00:49:59,800
so many examples you could think
of and make of this.

913
00:49:59,800 –> 00:50:03,100
But you could say well and you
could go both ends of the

914
00:50:03,100 –> 00:50:04,600
spectrum.
I mean some people might when

915
00:50:04,600 –> 00:50:06,700
they say the word relax is he’s
got said well.

916
00:50:07,700 –> 00:50:11,400
Somebody watering down standards
of watering down and sort of you

917
00:50:11,400 –> 00:50:13,900
know, letting people do things
that they shouldn’t do or

918
00:50:13,900 –> 00:50:16,300
whatever or you can jump to the
other end of the spectrum.

919
00:50:16,300 –> 00:50:18,800
So well that could be someone
that’s playing down some of

920
00:50:18,800 –> 00:50:21,800
those really important things in
Matthew. 5, 6 and 7 like like

921
00:50:21,800 –> 00:50:24,500
piece that the best of the
peacemakers that John has been

922
00:50:24,500 –> 00:50:27,500
telling us in in the Ecclesia
instead of making peace they

923
00:50:27,500 –> 00:50:32,600
making you know Division and and
not talking to other occasions

924
00:50:32,600 –> 00:50:35,100
and thinking they’re better than
everyone else so that is also

925
00:50:35,100 –> 00:50:37,200
watering down the principles of
God.

926
00:50:37,200 –> 00:50:39,600
So So, on both ends of the
spectrum, I think are relevant

927
00:50:39,600 –> 00:50:41,400
here.
And if that affects other

928
00:50:41,400 –> 00:50:43,700
people, the problem is
magnified.

929
00:50:44,300 –> 00:50:47,900
And the result of that is that
person is not necessarily

930
00:50:49,000 –> 00:50:52,100
rejected at the Judgment seat.
There’s something about Grace in

931
00:50:52,100 –> 00:50:55,200
his faith, that that means that
he’s accepted, he’s in the pail

932
00:50:55,200 –> 00:50:59,600
of Salvation is in the book of
life, but there are consequences

933
00:50:59,600 –> 00:51:03,700
for that and the consequences
play out into the kingdom, he’s

934
00:51:03,700 –> 00:51:06,400
called least in the kingdom of
God, and whatever that means.

935
00:51:06,700 –> 00:51:10,500
And the other brother who’s
Consistently teaching and doing

936
00:51:10,700 –> 00:51:13,800
is great in the kingdom of God.
Now there’s this hierarchy of

937
00:51:13,800 –> 00:51:18,000
words actually just from Harry
weekers book on the studies in

938
00:51:18,000 –> 00:51:20,000
the gospel brother would he
could comments?

939
00:51:20,000 –> 00:51:24,400
And says, there is a, there is
here an impressive combination

940
00:51:24,400 –> 00:51:27,800
of severity and graciousness how
greatly the special

941
00:51:27,800 –> 00:51:29,800
responsibility?
The teacher is accentuated.

942
00:51:29,800 –> 00:51:32,600
My brethren be not many teachers
is Queen there from James 3,

943
00:51:32,800 –> 00:51:35,900
knowing that we shall receive
heavy a judgment yet.

944
00:51:35,900 –> 00:51:39,700
It is noted that, although
Though, least such a one, may

945
00:51:39,700 –> 00:51:42,400
still be in the kingdom and it’s
interesting.

946
00:51:42,400 –> 00:51:45,700
He goes first Corinthians 3 that
which we look at yesterday’s a

947
00:51:45,700 –> 00:51:46,600
cross-reference.
Their.

948
00:51:47,000 –> 00:51:49,700
So even though he’s least he
still in the Kingdom, which is

949
00:51:49,700 –> 00:51:51,900
it?
Which is again, maybe something

950
00:51:51,900 –> 00:51:56,300
we’ve never really sort of got a
handle on II hadn’t up until I

951
00:51:56,308 –> 00:52:00,200
looked at this subject, that
there is this interesting, sort

952
00:52:00,200 –> 00:52:04,100
of concept.
Let’s just move along.

953
00:52:05,000 –> 00:52:08,600
This seems to be a bit of a
hierarchy in the Kingdom you in

954
00:52:08,600 –> 00:52:10,600
the use of these.
These Greek words.

955
00:52:10,600 –> 00:52:14,700
Now, while we’re in Matthew,
let’s look at Matthew 18 verse

956
00:52:14,700 –> 00:52:16,600
for just just, just not far
away.

957
00:52:17,300 –> 00:52:20,900
Matthew 18 verse 4.
And here’s another sort of

958
00:52:20,900 –> 00:52:26,000
quantitative statement about Our
rewards in the, in the Kingdom.

959
00:52:30,100 –> 00:52:35,000
Matthew 18 verse for whosoever,
therefore, shall humble himself

960
00:52:35,600 –> 00:52:40,600
as this little child, the same
is greatest in the kingdom of

961
00:52:40,600 –> 00:52:42,600
God.
Now, the word great that we

962
00:52:42,607 –> 00:52:46,000
looked at in Matthew 5, that
the, the brother who’s a teacher

963
00:52:46,200 –> 00:52:49,600
and a doer, he’s consistent what
he says and does, he’s going to

964
00:52:49,600 –> 00:52:51,500
be great.
That were great.

965
00:52:51,500 –> 00:52:54,600
Is the word Mega, we get
MegaMart from whatever.

966
00:52:54,600 –> 00:52:57,500
It’s a mega this is a higher
word in the Greek.

967
00:52:57,500 –> 00:53:01,100
It’s a weird, Nick Zona And it’s
even higher than Mega.

968
00:53:01,400 –> 00:53:05,200
So, this brother who’s just or
sister is a humble person who

969
00:53:05,200 –> 00:53:08,300
humbled themselves to be like a
little child, their Meek and

970
00:53:08,300 –> 00:53:11,400
humble, and they take God’s word
into their mind and heart and

971
00:53:11,400 –> 00:53:14,000
they live it.
Their greatest in the kingdom of

972
00:53:14,000 –> 00:53:17,900
God, greater than even the
teacher, who is a really, really

973
00:53:17,900 –> 00:53:21,200
wonderful brother.
He doesn’t, he does does good

974
00:53:21,200 –> 00:53:22,400
things that he teaches good
things.

975
00:53:22,700 –> 00:53:24,400
But even higher than he’s just
like person who humble

976
00:53:24,400 –> 00:53:27,400
themselves like a little child,
they’re even greater than this

977
00:53:27,400 –> 00:53:29,800
little hierarchy.
So I just made this little lift

978
00:53:29,800 –> 00:53:33,200
up, Jesus is the greatest, the
greater, in the Kingdom of

979
00:53:33,200 –> 00:53:35,800
Heaven, is the people that are
humble in the Ecclesia.

980
00:53:36,600 –> 00:53:39,200
Someone who’s great is some
someone who teaches and does.

981
00:53:39,200 –> 00:53:42,700
It actively work doing good work
for God and been consistent with

982
00:53:42,700 –> 00:53:45,500
a can.
The least is someone who is

983
00:53:45,500 –> 00:53:48,200
relaxing.
God’s principles in some way and

984
00:53:48,200 –> 00:53:52,200
leading others to do the same
and then the Pharisees are told

985
00:53:52,200 –> 00:53:55,100
in Matthew, five of you, if you
like the Pharisees, they’re not

986
00:53:55,100 –> 00:53:56,400
even they’re not going to be
there at all.

987
00:53:56,600 –> 00:53:57,500
They’re not going to be in the
Kingdom.

988
00:53:57,500 –> 00:54:01,100
So so you can see that. little
hierarchy called chart based

989
00:54:01,100 –> 00:54:05,700
upon those words in Matthew,
Just to finish up.

990
00:54:05,700 –> 00:54:06,900
I might just make quick
reference.

991
00:54:07,200 –> 00:54:11,600
We’re about to finish some a you
for which we often use about the

992
00:54:12,700 –> 00:54:14,400
kingdom and been accepted at the
Judgment seat.

993
00:54:14,500 –> 00:54:16,400
Son.
That says, just from memory, I’d

994
00:54:16,400 –> 00:54:20,500
be I’d be happy to be a
doorkeeper in the, you know,

995
00:54:20,500 –> 00:54:24,100
how, you know, that one in the
temple and we often say well and

996
00:54:24,100 –> 00:54:26,500
again, based on the scarcity
view of the judge received.

997
00:54:27,200 –> 00:54:29,900
I’d be lucky if I get in there
crawling on my hands and legs on

998
00:54:29,900 –> 00:54:32,200
broken glass.
And if, if I just make it, I’ll

999
00:54:32,200 –> 00:54:34,100
be happy to be like the cleaner
that that’s sort of the

1000
00:54:34,100 –> 00:54:36,500
impression that that The
sometimes gives or what we have,

1001
00:54:36,500 –> 00:54:39,500
we use it.
When in fact there’s a couple

1002
00:54:39,500 –> 00:54:43,600
responses everyone is that that
position is not a lowly position

1003
00:54:43,600 –> 00:54:45,600
at all.
It’s quite a very prestigious

1004
00:54:45,600 –> 00:54:48,600
position to be that to be so
closely involved with the

1005
00:54:48,600 –> 00:54:51,200
temple, Worship in Israel’s
culture and to be part of that,

1006
00:54:51,200 –> 00:54:54,300
keeping the door in the temple
is a great honor and a great,

1007
00:54:54,300 –> 00:54:56,700
many people would have, you
know, given the right arm to

1008
00:54:56,700 –> 00:54:59,300
have a position like that.
So it’s sort of a, not quite

1009
00:54:59,300 –> 00:55:02,900
the, we use in the, in the way
that is, that is correct.

1010
00:55:03,100 –> 00:55:07,800
And based on the The fact that
God talks about rewards so often

1011
00:55:08,100 –> 00:55:11,000
and you know, Matthew 5, 6 and
7, a classic cases and they pop

1012
00:55:11,000 –> 00:55:12,900
up all over the place.
Is that the attitude God?

1013
00:55:12,900 –> 00:55:16,300
Really wants to have any way
does God want us to strive for

1014
00:55:16,300 –> 00:55:18,000
awards?
And this is a little bit

1015
00:55:18,000 –> 00:55:21,700
controversial because you know,
I use this phrase showing off to

1016
00:55:21,700 –> 00:55:25,400
God, does God want us to show
off to him now that sort of

1017
00:55:25,408 –> 00:55:28,500
loaded phrase which just to make
you sort of stop and think but

1018
00:55:29,600 –> 00:55:32,100
John, I talked about Nehemiah.
The other thing was, John had

1019
00:55:32,100 –> 00:55:34,100
mentioned Nehemiah.
Who said you kept praying all

1020
00:55:34,107 –> 00:55:35,200
the time?
Remember, For good.

1021
00:55:35,200 –> 00:55:37,600
Remember for good.
I could have sat on my Laurels

1022
00:55:37,600 –> 00:55:39,300
as the governor and had a really
crazy life.

1023
00:55:39,300 –> 00:55:41,500
But remember me for good?
Goddamn, if you could, I don’t

1024
00:55:41,500 –> 00:55:42,400
think there’s anything wrong
with that.

1025
00:55:42,400 –> 00:55:44,500
I don’t think there’s anything
wrong with doing works, not to

1026
00:55:44,500 –> 00:55:46,500
earn salvation, because that’s
not going to happen.

1027
00:55:46,500 –> 00:55:50,000
That’s not what it’s all about.
But consciously doing things in

1028
00:55:50,000 –> 00:55:52,500
the Ecclesia for other people,
people that are suffering going

1029
00:55:52,500 –> 00:55:55,700
through hard times, all those
things, there’s nothing wrong

1030
00:55:55,700 –> 00:55:58,800
with striving to do those things
and to doing them to impress God

1031
00:55:58,800 –> 00:56:02,000
and to please God this idea that
runs through Emirates on look at

1032
00:56:02,008 –> 00:56:03,600
now this idea of been well
pleasing.

1033
00:56:03,600 –> 00:56:06,500
It’s a judgment seat.
Word is Well, it’s using a

1034
00:56:06,500 –> 00:56:09,300
number of judgments that context
being well pleasing based on the

1035
00:56:09,500 –> 00:56:13,200
sacrifices under the law and the
sweet smelling, Savor all those

1036
00:56:13,200 –> 00:56:16,500
Concepts that we can live our
lives to give pleasure to God.

1037
00:56:17,000 –> 00:56:19,400
And if that’s your objective, to
please him to give pleasure,

1038
00:56:19,400 –> 00:56:22,900
it’s borne out in your works and
things that you do consciously.

1039
00:56:23,800 –> 00:56:27,400
And I said, I think, you know,
sometimes we use the the the

1040
00:56:27,400 –> 00:56:31,500
parable of the I’m going off
script D so just bear with me as

1041
00:56:31,500 –> 00:56:36,100
I ramble on but the parable of
the sheep and the goats whether

1042
00:56:36,400 –> 00:56:38,600
the people there don’t know that
they’ve done good, you know they

1043
00:56:38,600 –> 00:56:40,000
say oh when did we see you
hungry?

1044
00:56:40,000 –> 00:56:43,600
And when we see the really, when
you delve into that Parable,

1045
00:56:43,600 –> 00:56:45,200
what they didn’t know is they
did it to Jesus.

1046
00:56:45,200 –> 00:56:46,000
It wasn’t, they didn’t know
that.

1047
00:56:46,000 –> 00:56:47,400
They did it.
They obviously knew that they

1048
00:56:47,400 –> 00:56:49,200
did it.
They went and visited someone in

1049
00:56:49,200 –> 00:56:50,900
jail.
You don’t forget that lightly

1050
00:56:51,300 –> 00:56:52,900
but they didn’t know.
They did it for the Lord.

1051
00:56:52,900 –> 00:56:54,600
That was that was where the
connection is he.

1052
00:56:54,600 –> 00:56:56,700
In Jesus, if you’ve done it to
the least of these Brethren,

1053
00:56:56,700 –> 00:56:59,900
you’ve done it to me.
So we We need to consciously, do

1054
00:56:59,900 –> 00:57:01,700
good works, is not something
going to magically happen

1055
00:57:01,700 –> 00:57:06,000
somehow and it’s something we
need to consciously do and

1056
00:57:06,000 –> 00:57:09,000
Nehemiah, did consciously do?
Good works and Jesus tells us we

1057
00:57:09,000 –> 00:57:11,300
got to, you know, give he tells
us.

1058
00:57:11,300 –> 00:57:15,500
Give arms in secret for the
direct objective that your

1059
00:57:15,500 –> 00:57:17,400
father, who sees in secret will
reward you openly.

1060
00:57:17,400 –> 00:57:19,800
So there’s nothing wrong with
consciously doing those things

1061
00:57:20,100 –> 00:57:21,800
to please God.
And this is where I think young

1062
00:57:21,800 –> 00:57:24,600
people get this.
They sort of get like, they

1063
00:57:24,600 –> 00:57:26,900
struggle with this because I
say, well, why do I have to go

1064
00:57:26,900 –> 00:57:28,400
the meeting?
Do I go there?

1065
00:57:28,400 –> 00:57:30,300
Just to Impress, God and earn
brownie points.

1066
00:57:30,300 –> 00:57:33,000
Well, it’s not linked to your
salvation.

1067
00:57:33,000 –> 00:57:35,000
If that is something you do to
please God, that you want to

1068
00:57:35,000 –> 00:57:38,000
give God, you want to show God
your appreciation and, and you

1069
00:57:38,000 –> 00:57:41,000
want to be a sweet-smelling
savour, if you want to use that

1070
00:57:41,000 –> 00:57:44,500
term to God and give God.
Pleasure, anyway, I’m raving on,

1071
00:57:44,500 –> 00:57:46,400
so better finish up just to
finish up.

1072
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This little idea, went, look at
it now.

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It’s interesting, this little
analogy in this little idea

1074
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when, when David rewards, his
mighty men, he actually rewards

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them on merits on what they
achieved.

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All the grape seats that they’d
achieved.

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It’s really quite interesting.
So these men all went out to the

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cave of a dull and Etc.
They, you know, says that they

1079
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were pretty sort of Motley Crue
that’s not there in debts and

1080
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they were fleeing from this and
that it was sort of like us

1081
00:58:13,100 –> 00:58:16,800
really there’s no bodies that
were in trouble and you know,

1082
00:58:17,300 –> 00:58:19,900
looking for something.
And they come out to David and

1083
00:58:19,900 –> 00:58:23,000
they are with David during the
bad years.

1084
00:58:23,000 –> 00:58:26,100
The trial years in the
wilderness and when David comes

1085
00:58:26,100 –> 00:58:29,400
to power, he’s made King in
second, Samuel. 23.

1086
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And First Chronicles 11, there’s
quite a specific response that

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David has.
He creates these different

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hierarchies and different
levels.

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00:58:36,800 –> 00:58:40,500
And there’s a group called The
Three and they’ll and he says,

1090
00:58:40,800 –> 00:58:43,300
they were water because they
jumped in a picking killed a

1091
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lion, or they did this.
And, and the defeats and the

1092
00:58:46,700 –> 00:58:51,500
acts of courage, they shown were
With specifically related to the

1093
00:58:51,500 –> 00:58:54,100
position they got in the in the
in the kingdom, is this

1094
00:58:54,100 –> 00:58:57,200
connection with them?
I mean, all these men were part

1095
00:58:57,200 –> 00:58:59,500
of his kingdom, all of them were
accepted into his kingdom.

1096
00:58:59,500 –> 00:59:02,700
They all became his he’s private
Army and he’s, you know, he’s

1097
00:59:02,700 –> 00:59:05,100
immediate supporters and all
that, they all got their all

1098
00:59:05,100 –> 00:59:08,200
there in honor.
But there were some that were

1099
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given special places and special
positions.

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There was another group called
the three, there’s another drink

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00:59:12,800 –> 00:59:14,700
of three.
There’s another Elite group

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called The 30 and it’s, you
know, we had time to look at it

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00:59:17,000 –> 00:59:19,000
with this.
This guy was one of the 30, but

1104
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he wasn’t one of the three and
this one was one of the three,

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but not one of the the second
three and they all get, they all

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get these these rewards
according to the service and the

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courage that they’d shown.
So I look like I have gone over

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time apologize.
Hopefully, we just planted some

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seeds in your mind that will try
and bring together in a future

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session.