Ultimate Success

Welcome to this edition of PowerPoint with Jack ran a little later in the program will tell you how you can get a copy of Dr. Graham's book Kevin first hears the message ultimate success ballast to God's word and turn to first Corinthians the third chapter, we know that life matters and eternity is real and therefore it makes life even more meaningful.

The Bible tells us that there is coming. Another great day. A day in which we will stand before Christ and honor will be given to whom honor is due as a biblical principle.

Give honor to whom honor is due. And when we get to heaven.

When Christ comes for us.

We will be rewarded based upon the life that we have been given in the life that we have live for him.

I need to level set this message at the very outset and remind you that the Bible tells us there are two judgment at the end of time what is called the great white throne judgment and I judgment after the millennial reign of Christ on earth will be a final judgment of the unsaved dead those who will spend eternity apart from God forever and ever ultimate and final condemnation because the rejection of Jesus Christ – the great white throne judgment but there is another judgment when Christ comes to take us home that is called the judgment seat of Christ, and will be talking about that judgment seat of Christ today, and how God chooses to award to honor and reward those faithful servants of Christ, not all of us will be the same in heaven heaven is not this benign place where everyone is equal. The Bible never teaches that the Bible tells us that we are going to serve him were going to be doing different things. The glory of heaven will be fast and different and so will we have and we will be rewarded.

Not all the same. We will be rewarded differently based upon the lives that we live all judgment is according to works.

Now I need to say very clearly that we are not saved by good works. We are not saved by doing the best that we can and hope in God will approve of us know we are safe for given by the amazing Grace of God, and we will not at the judgment seat of Christ be there to defend ourselves against our own sins, nor will our sins be judged at the judgment seat of Christ. Our sins were judged at the cross when Jesus died on the cross he died for all of our sins past, present and future.

The blood of Jesus Christ, God's son cleanses us from every sin, every sin, every staying all the shame is forgiven forever in Jesus Christ. So this judgment doesn't have anything to do with the judgment of our sins when we stand there we will stand in his righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne, but that doesn't mean that we will not be judged according to our service. We have been given a life in Christ to live what we do with our lives that is what God will judge on that date for the Bible says we will all appear before the judgment seat of Christ at St. Simons, Georgia there is a wonderful old church that began with the Church of England sent over missionaries like Charles and John Wesley who preached under great Marshville Spanish moss filled out trees or some magnificent and beautiful place in an at the gospel was shared here in the colonies. In those days and ultimately became an American Episcopal Church for several centuries and is still operating as a church we were there and it is a beautiful old church and like many of the old churches. It has a cemetery beside it and around behind and so Deb and I took some time to go back to the old cemetery and look around and I'm especially intrigued in these old graveyards by the epitaphs in the descriptions. Many of them brief descriptions of the life buried there.

And of course when you see a cemetery or gravestone. There is a birthday. Then there is a death date and a – in the middle. As I was looking at those seven those gravestones and thinking about the people buried there. I looked at that – and I wondered how many tears in that day trial test. What were their triumphs. What was their testimony for Christ because representative that – is the life either. Well done are not so well done or very poorly done. We had nothing to say about our birthdates. We have very little if anything to say about our death dates, but we have a great deal to say about what happens in the – the very quick span of life that we have been given and it is what happens between life and death in the – that God will judge on that day and so that's why in first Corinthians chapter 3, beginning in verse 11.

The Scripture says, for no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Not anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones would hay and straw each one's work will be become manifest for the day will disclose it. The day will disclose 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 is built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss that is the loss of reward. Though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. Paul is saying that our lives are built upon the foundation of Christ. How firm this foundation is and we spend on this foundation secure and strengthen forever and if you come to faith in Christ there is this foundation in your life. However, we are then given a life to live and we are builders on this foundation and how you build will determine what happens at the end of your of your time on earth. When you stand before God, whether you have built with wood hay and stubble worthless materials that will not last, or whether you have built your life with gold and silver and precious stone that which will last the legacy of the life well lived. Look around you today all around you is either that which is perishable, or that which is imperishable those things which will last forever, and those things which are lost forever and at this judgment seat of Christ. When we are judged for the Scripture says we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, our lives will be evaluated and Jesus himself will perform this final exam and in this examination. Our service for Christ not only what it is but what kind it is.

What sort it is. The day will reveal it.

The day will reveal it that day in the pure white hot heat of the presence of a holy God.

That day will reveal what our lives have truly been about and God will judge Jesus himself will be the judge. So why this judgment.

What is this about 18 is to reveal those things which are hidden, it will be a transparent day to bring to light all the things that were unknown, both good and bad are motives most pure and impure. What we did and why we did what we did. It will be a day of vindication.

God himself will be vindicated. Happy people to say something like well when I get to heaven. I got a few questions. I'm going to ask the Lord. He's got some explaining to do to be willing to you so you will be in his presence. One scintilla of a second that you will forget about all your questions will nevermind Lord because on that day. The transparency of that day.

We will see that it all makes sense, those things in life that didn't make sense that that we didn't have a clue as to water. Why it happened on that day of revelation that day. A declaration God himself will be vindicated. God's word will be vindicated. This is man's day man is having his day off, and Satan is having his way, but then and there. God's day.

We will see clearly the purposes of the plan of God and all will give glory to God in every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, you are listening to PowerPoint with Jack Graham in today's message ultimate success. Even in Mike's happiest moments, the promise of heaven holds out and encouraging hope for you today.

When you understand what your future with God will be like the burdens of the present film later. That's a pastor Graham's book, heaven is all about and it's why we want to get a copy into your hands today heaven is our thanks for your gift to help share the truth of the gospel to more people around the world. This is the last day of this offer. Call today: 800-7954 627-1800 795-4627. You can also text the word PowerPoint to 59789 and don't forget to visit Jack Graham.org where you can shop our E store. Give a gift online or sign up for Dr. Graham's free daily email devotional our website again is Jack Graham.Margie now it's get back today's message ultimate success. This is why in first Corinthians 45, the apostle said judge nothing before it's time we are too quick and too soon to judge things of our lives, or even the lives of others.

You see when you die you don't really die, your life goes on your the influence of your life. The testimony of your faith is invested and given to others. This is why so many of us celebrate godly Christian mom and dad parents and grandparents who gave himself to us and provided a Christian home and family for us a foundation for faith in our lives, and therefore it takes a lifetime and beyond to see the long-lasting impact of a life well lived in the honors and the awards and the rewards that are given on that day will take into account all the lasting influence of people's lives who had invested so don't judge anything before it's time. This is a sobering thought as well because on that day. All the mask will be down all the hypocrisy those things that we did for personal gain. The motives that we shared that were wrong that day. All that will be revealed.

It will be a day when those times those times that you were falsely accused.

Or perhaps you were laughed at her scorn for your faith in Christ that will be settled. The applause of man and the cheers of the accolades of audiences do not compare to the smile of God.

When someone stands for crimes.

So on that day. While the world jeered the crowds of heaven will cheer the people who stood for Christ students who stood for Christ to live your life the right way.

When your friends maybe weren't living the right way and God knows the decision you made in the throes of that temptation. God knows and sees the heart cry about mother crying out for her child praying over child and though that child may grow up in single platform for thousands of people on that day. On that day.

Your mother will be rewarded for her faithful prayers and her service for Christ. It will be on that day that the smallest act of kindness that cup of cold water that is given in Jesus name will break on the shores of eternity and what is on the back pages of Earth's tabloids will be front page news in heaven and the cheers and the applause and the smile of God will be upon all who are faithful I'm saying to you that on this day. On this day it will be a time when he makes everything right. He will reveal those things which are hidden he will write those things which are wrong. There's a great old hymn that we saw generations ago.

We will understand it better by-and-by.

We will and on that day God will reveal these things, God will write these wrongs and then he will reward those who are worthy. Those who have built with the jammies gold, silver and precious stones rather than the junk of Woodhaven stop who have built their lives with treasures, rather than trash as a beautiful testimony to the glory of God.

The Bay must see the judgment seat of Christ is taken right out of history, several of us have had the opportunity to travel on a journeys of Paul expedition where we track the second missionary journeys of Paul in Greece primarily, and in that trip on that trip we been the core of the ancient city of Corinth and their magnificent rulings there and walk through it and that you remember so often in these rulings. The ancient past, and how they apply to the word of God, and they support the word of God. For example, when Paul spoke of the judgment seat of Christ today in the city of Corinth you could go to a place and see the Bay must see another famous he was a raised platform where the magistrates would judge the people you would bring your disputes and settle your disputes there and it was a place where judgment took place. It was also a place this judgment seat where it was a platform for people to to say things that the philosophers could speak to Aaron and people with ideas could come there and speak at the famous he famous. He was also placed at the Corinthian games of the Isthmian games like the Olympics of the ancient world. These games were well known and the judges would stand at the judgment seat famous seat and there they would award a reward and honor the great athletes much like you see at the Olympic Games today when there is the gold and the silver and the bronze medal and there standing on this platform, the famous see Paul takes that right out of history and says in heaven we will all appear before this judgment seat of Christ, and there we will be honored as honor is due or so will be stripped of those rewards because they had nothing but the charred embers of a wasted life to present to Christ in that day there will be a fiery test in which Paul describes in all those worthless things.

All those meaningless things.

All those wasteful things so much that looks so important here today that we give our lives to do it will mean nothing, absolutely nothing. And it will all go up in smoke and some will have nothing but a platform there in Christ and they will not experience hellfire but they will experience the fire of this judgment which wipes away a life that is not truly given to Christ. Paul pictures it is a person their houses on fire and they lose everything except their life. They run out of the house but everything is lost another save but saves the barely saved a lot of people are like that say, but barely say and you will escape with nothing on your back and that is to suffer loss so I'm challenging you today to live at the judgment seat of Christ. What a difference it would make if we began every day at the judgment seat of Christ. In view of that day when we stand in the decisions we make the choices the activities in which we engage. What a difference it would make if we began in light of eternity. Realizing that what we do and why we do what we do will be judged accordingly is not the duration of our life is the donation of our life that matters the most is not the length of life with the depth of life, not the quantity but the quality of life. So why send that – are you are you building with wood hay and stubble or gold silver and precious stones. Are you living a life that will be rewarded our life that will be regretted, say, is it possible to regret anything in heaven. Indeed, you know the Bible says that on that day when we stand before Christ in heaven that he will wipe away tears from our eyes. Tears in heaven.

Could it be that some of those tears wiped away will be those tears of regret. The tears of regret. Because we didn't share our faith with our friends are family members or children are children are lost and separated from God forever will we regret bitter tears are failed and wasted witness with the tears of heavenly, wiped away because we have live lives that have not honored Christ. But in fact dishonored him in many ways we can't take our lives for granted. Can we now's the time to right the wrongs, now's the time to witness of our faith.

Now is the time to serve our Lord. Now is the time to do what God has called us to do.

There's a book out called 100 things to do before you die is written by Dave Freeman, a very popular book in this book he offers counsel. The life is this life is a short journey. How can you make sure you fill it with the most fun and that you visit all the coolest places on earth before you pack those bags for the very last time Dave Freeman gives a list of all these fun things to do, including attending the Academy Awards and running with the bulls in Spain sad thing is that the author of this book died recently at the age of 47 after hitting his head in a fall at his home, it only accomplished half of the items on his list and according to a friend interviewed after his sudden death. Dave Freeman's mantra in life was. You should live every day like it would be your last in the Fran added there's not that many people who do that but you know, with all due respect to Mr. Freeman in his 100 most important things to do before you die a lot more important things to do then go to the Academy Awards and spend your life doing the coolest and most fun things in spend your life running with bulls in Spain whole life is full of great experience. I don't minimize that it ought to be some fun things that we do that we get to do the want to do in your life. No problem with that, but life is so much more than just doing cool things and having fun, isn't it, how are you building what if we had our own list of those things that by God's grace we will do for God before our time is done. Those ministries those things for his glory that we would say Lord by your grace, I will do this to build your life the last you'll hear those words will your listening to PowerPoint with Jack ran in today's message ultimate success no matter what struggles you are facing today. You have hope in the promise is awaiting you in heaven. And God calls you to share that hope with others today. That's why we want to encourage and inspire you today by sending you pastor Graham's book had this exciting book takes you straight to Scripture to help me see all that awaits you in the life to come, and how it impacts your life today to find hope for today encouraged to share that hope with others.

So don't wait to request a copy. Heaven is our special thanks for your gift to help only proclaim God's word through PowerPoint. This is the last day of this offer so call today, when 800-795-4627. That's when 800-795-4627. You can also text the word PowerPoint to 59789 and don't forget to visit Jack Graham.org where you can shop RV store give a gift online or sign up for Dr. Graham's free daily email devotion our website again is Jack Graham.March pastor through PowerPoint key to living a life that last living the judgment seat of Christ and what I mean by that is, we should wake up every day with the mindset that everything we do throughout the day. The decisions we make, the activities we engage in will be ultimately judged by Christ and what this means, of course, is that every moment matters. Every day counts, even our vacation days. I know a lot of Christians these days don't like to think about the fact that they will face any kind of judgment when life is over, and certainly is true that we are saved by faith, hear me now we are saved by faith in God's grace because the work of Christ not by any works that we do. We don't get to heaven by our good works but if you are a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. You need to know that while your sins are forgiven, past, present and future. You have an accountability and responsibility to God to live for Jesus in the power of his spirit every day. So the judgment that I'm talking about the judgment. The Bible talks about this judgment seat of Christ not talking about the judgment of our sins that's already taken care of at the cross. What I'm talking about is the judgment of our service at the judgment of our lives.

God will judge what we do what we don't do including our motives that make a difference in people's lives. So here's what I want to encourage you to do today take an honest evaluation of your life are you building on wood hay and stubble worthless materials that are going to be burned away at the judgment seat of Christ, signifying a life that didn't last the life that didn't mean anything on earth or are you building a life made of gold, silver and precious stones the priceless things that will last forever.

Perhaps you say Jack, I don't know if I'm building a life that will last. If so let me ask you, would you say you're investing your life more to accumulate things or are you investing your life in deepening relationships with people and sharing the good news of Christ with people who need him are you building up a fortune or are you working at building up the kingdom of God. Are you working in the ministry of his church.

If you say that your focus has been more on stuff on the things of this world is never too late to hit the pause button. Ask God to redirect your life and begin again.

Living every day at the judgment seat of Christ, knowing that you are accountable and responsible as you and I do this, may we build a life that last. And then we hear the words one great day. Well, the good faith serve and that is today's remember when you give a gift PowerPoint will sing Dr. Graham's book heaven is our thanks.

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