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Your Father in Heaven will Reward You.

What & Why are there Rewards?

God will give rewards in heaven at the bema, or the judgment seat of Christ, based on our faithfulness in service to Him (2 Corinthians 5:10).

The rewards will show the reality of our sonship (Galatians 4:7) and the justice of God (Hebrews 6:10).

God will give rewards in heaven in order to fulfill the law of sowing and reaping (Galatians 6:7–9) and make good on His promise that our labor in the Lord is not in vain (1 Corinthians 15:58).

Our rewards in heaven depend on the goodness and power of God.

Through Christ’s resurrection we gain an inheritance in heaven; on earth our faith is tested and results in praise and glory and honor when Christ is revealed (1 Peter 1:3–9).

The things we do in this life are only permanent (that is, carried with us into heaven) if they are built on the foundation, which is Christ (1 Corinthians 3:11–15).

Any rewards or honor we gain in heaven will be precious to us because they carry the weight and meaning of our relationship with God—and because they remind us of what He did through us on earth.

rewards in heaven glorify God and provide us with joy, peace, and wonder as we consider God’s work in us and through us.

The closer we were to God during this life, the more centered on Him and aware of Him, the more dependent on Him,

Rewards In Heaven: REWARDS CAN BE ITEMS such as crowns, treasures.

Or they may be titles and positions.

a number of passages mention “rewards”.

Jesus speaks of rewards.

Rewards are in a variety of forms, but all have a significant purpose.

That is to motivate God’s people to be about His business.

REWARDS CAN BE ITEMS such as crowns, treasures.

Or they may be titles and positions.

James 1:12 ESV

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Matthew 16:27 ESV / For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.

Matthew 5:12 ESV /

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV /

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

Revelation 22:12 ESV /

“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense with me, to repay everyone for what he has done.

Matthew 25:21 ESV /

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.

You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much.

Enter into the joy of your master.’

Luke 12:33-34 ESV /

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy.

Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Revelation 2:10 ESV /

Do not fear what you are about to suffer.

Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation.

Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Matthew 6:4 ESV /

So that your giving may be in secret.

And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

1 Corinthians 3:8 ESV /

He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.

1 Timothy 6:17-19 ESV /

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV /

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

Matthew 6:6 ESV /

But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.

And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

2 Timothy 4:8 ESV /

Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

Matthew 25:14-30 ESV /

“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.

To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability.

Then he went away.

He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.

So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.

But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.

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1 Peter 5:4 ESV /

And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

1 Corinthians 3:13-15 ESV /

Each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.

If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.

If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

1 Thessalonians 2:19 ESV /

For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Is it not you?

1 Corinthians 3:12-14 ESV /

Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.

If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.

Matthew 5:17-19 ESV /

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Jeremiah 17:10 ESV /

“I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

2 Timothy 4:7-8 ESV /

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.

Luke 18:22 ESV /

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “One thing you still lack.

Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

1 Peter 1:4 ESV /

To an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,

Luke 6:35 ESV /

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

Luke 6:23 ESV /

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.

Revelation 3:11 ESV /

I am coming soon.

Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.

2 John 1:8 ESV /

Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.

Philippians 3:14 ESV /

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 9:25 ESV /