Re: Merged Thread - Rewards and Punishment
“Watch ye therefore, and PRAY always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape” (Luke 21:36).
"No more powerful lever can be imagined for overturning our natural sluggishness. Facts are more moving than a whole library of exhortation. For the coming judgment of believers is a revelation levelled specifically at the flesh in the believer, and therefore can never be popular: the very bitterness with which it is assailed is an extraordinarily subtle and convincing proof of its truth. Caleb and Joshua witnessed to the approaching Kingdom, and to the necessity for obedience as well as faith to enter it, at the peril of their lives (Numbers 14:10); and the Lord foretells that the servant who disqualifies for reward is also the servant whose intolerance starts persecution (Matthew 24:49). It is little wonder if those who belittle responsibility, themselves fail to achieve it."
The Judgment Seat of Christ
D.M. Panton
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