Jeopardy: Losing Your Rewards, Part 3

Greetings friends and your listeners and welcome to this program at the Archie Harding ministry. I'm sure not thanking you for joining us today because we know Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. The message we bring you today is timely and trustworthy jeopardy. Losing your rewards. I hope you will hear with your heart and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal to you how you should respond to this inspired word jeopardy.

Losing your rewards parable on the talent parable in chapter 25, 11 talent another to another. And he told the now I'm giving you your and when he came back to get an account for what their assignment paper by what they needed to carry out one had increased his the other had increased the one had not only not increase energy while you what I gain you to use the target in the one that had been faithful and what he said well John now blind and faithful servant.

You've been faithful over a few things, I will make you over ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of the Lord never already in heaven.

You understand that this is not going to happen or not work in in the pearly gates but are we going to the joy of the Lord. Now I'm not talking about sadness like here on earth.

He's little like our tears away. I'm talking about the joy of getting those rewards you think those people to stand up on the Olympic games with those bold innate metals and they got joy in the crime lab. The joy that will receive when we hear the Lord say well done up there with the city of millions of people at all. No brother Johnny's going to come up. He's been saying well done good and faithful servant and sister Susie's going to come up and he's been saying well done.

Now, good and faithful servant and how long will it take you. But you know I don't really care that will have anything better to say, well, well done to the joy and the joy now want to share something with you that I recently came across and down. I heard this testimony and it was being given and I don't know what the original person I don't if he's still alive or not. Because he had this vision 20 years ago in the early 80s there was a shepherd while he was a shepherd of the pastor's name is Don Sheppard and he pastored a church in California and he became very ill and was hospitalized. He had he had double pneumonia in his lungs and he was really going down and he really didn't know what he was going to survive or not mean he was at death's door.

So while he was in the hospital. He had, I guess it was the vision. He later said that he never was really sure whether he went out of his body are not like because that when I was in the binder out of the body. I don't know but I went to heaven to the third heaven pastor Don Sheppard. He said that he felt himself leaving his body and when he left his body. He became aware of the fact that he was in a very long tunnel and it was a long line of people as far as he could see and he also became aware of the fact that there was an angel with him and some Italian. He understood that this particular angel had been an angel that was assigned to him while he was on earth, and so at first he was kinda complaining that he was getting hardest in this long long line of people, but eventually he was getting closer to the end of the tunnel and he saw this beautiful bright light at the end of the tunnel and when he came out of that title it "and it opened up and would like us chamber. It was this huge chamber, but it was the shape of a circle and there were tears in tears and rows and rows of people is far more just one like like acquire risers like this illegal all circular chamber of all of these people just numbers of people and all of them had their hand books, some only had one book Symantec pupils Psalm had a lot of books near all these people were standing these tiered the circles with all these books in their hands. Then suddenly, in the center of the chamber came his golden throne and Jesus Christ was sitting on the throne.

Beautiful glorious throne and from the throne, opened up and came out of it and begin to shoot down the back of the throne of people as far as balls were shooting up in the air and shut up in the air, they would begin to fall down and they would all on the books that the people had in their hand and they found on the books. Some of them. When the fire hit, then turned to ashes. There they were standing there with the heat action and honors when the fire headed he turned and all kinds of beautiful gemstones. Not like these colored blasting the real thing beautiful gemstones and some people wailing and lamenting some crying because they look and all they had were ashes and is all these beautiful gemstones and a little and installing the line coming in. He saw with that time and I don't know the name right but that would all be always be would be speculation.

You speculate if you want name is not told. Remember, this is the early 80s. He saw a very well-known television evangelist with that time winning thousands and thousands of souls to Christ, and here he stood, and he had on the box next to this little woman. She had one book in her hand and when the fire that televangelist both disliked that they were consumed in the ashes and he heard the Lord say to him, enter thou into thy rest then healed and the fireball hit the little woman her books and it turned into a pile of precious beautiful gemstones and he heard the Lord say to her. Well done, thou good and faithful servant.

You have been faithful in the least now entered value showing of the Lord. And so this man. He was having this dream about that time he got curious to see what would happen to his own books and what he reluctantly went to his book.

Immediately he was whisked away before he saw he was with the way by the Holy Spirit and we were became all of a sudden he found himself in another place in another line and this time he was closer to the front of the line and when he got up close again. He saw that pain televangelist and he saw that same woman and they had books in their hands again but this time the Lord stepped out. He was behind a beautiful golden altar and he's stepped out from the altar and he had in his hand a golden scepter and when he, the people would walk up to him he would take that scepter and he would touch their books with his scepter when that televangelist came up Jesus took the scepter touched his book the scepter spit out fire in the books turning to ashes. He heard that man wailing all of that is been in vain. It's all been in vain. Next was a little woman stern and Jesus took the scepter and touched her book and this time when the fire hit her book instead of turning into precious again. It turned into liquid gold and it began to pour out over the altar of the liquid gold begin to just run down the altar and Jesus knelt down to begin to scoop up the liquid gold and begin to scoop nobody begin to molded any minute with his own and he was mold that would go any mold in the shape of a beautiful golden crown, and then he reached over and got original apologetic tone. She got the first time and you begin to pick up the stem and the crown crown and when he is a beautiful crown it up and he said well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter into the joys of the Lord.

And again this man. He was having this vision critical of the again folks think and the next thing he knew back in her room back in his back but the angel was there and the angel said now you you get ready for that day. That man recovered. He got well he tried in vain to get in touch with this minister that he saw in his dream he tried to get in touch with him was never able to make contact and a few years later that same minister fell into a serious moral indiscretion that ruined his ministry so I told you that because when I heard this struck me and I envision she did down here taking that goal in making that little woman's crown and when I begin to realize begin to hit me hard personally what it's going to be like.

I thought to myself I want to make heaven to the rest yes, God will wipe away my tears yes all I want to hear Jesus say well done, thou good and faithful servant, and that everyone last Scripture and I'm in a stopper tonight and I'll save the rest for next time let's turn to first Peter the first, second Peter. The first chapter.

This is why you were told in the word of God examine yourself, you examine yourself now get ready for that day prove yourself to see if you'd be in the faith and see if Jesus Christ is truly in you) first Peter, I keep saying first be running second Peter in the first chapter is Minister Wanda bookmarks that Noah took. Okay, here it is. Now I'm going to skip all the way down to verse 10 actually not too long ago about two weeks ago for the hardy freaks on the first few verses of ink preaching and 90 but I want to skip the verse 10 wherefore the rather and I would like to take the wherefore and referred everything up taught from out of first Corinthians the third chapter about the fire trying our works. Wherefore the rather brethren to make your calling and you election sure, for doing these things, you shall never fall in verse 11. For some insurance and shall be ministered unto you did late into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Every time that you make a sacrifice every time that you crucified the flesh and every time that you like your tone and every time that you pray rather's and every time you come to church when you'd rather rest and not go on and on and on but that's another night but I want you to know that when you do that that there is it's being written down and if you think that they got supercomputers on this earth that can keep track they got no go online as you want a cookie and they're following you around. They know what you find where you been on. I'm not coming around that I'll know a lot about that much. How much more you think that the Lord is keeping and if you care about the screws in the sockets and the thread in the temple. How much more does he care about what I mean don't and how I'm building on the foundation that went before him, and he reaches out that scepter of fire will turn into a bunch of beautiful and will look a lot better than this. Brown Tonya, how many say amen. So is why we have to give diligence and that's what we thought to be faithful in the most somebody's listening.

We've got to be faithful in the least. I tell you what, I'd rather have mine in heaven. What about you, you know.

No wonder Paul said, adding food and clothing and raiment be content in a lie. That's all. The sinner has down here pretty how their nice cars and all that.that's all there. Everyone but I want mine in heaven. What about you. I want the eternal rewards.

What about you and I'm going to do everything I can to make my calling neck and next time I minister I would tell you this seven thing I put up 10 NIV 10 by then. Right now, excessive the seven that are to be the criteria that is going to try a sewing not DB say, to see whether or not I works will be silver and gold and precious stones calmly want to know all right. Next on the third Wednesday in Wenatchee.

Father, we just thank you for your word tonight. We thank you Lord that you're doing a working on that we cannot possibly understand. And when we argue with ourselves in our head and when our spirit rises up in our pride when we get stubborn and we we get angry and we have this warfare going on.

Help us to visualize an image in our mind what it's going to be like Luis before you, and the books are open and we never done everything we never thought said is going to be recorded and be revealed in that day, Lord, I know that we will strive diligence like your words as we will give more diligence to make our calling and election and equipment same for many years.

All the more reason why we got to be careful that we don't become complacent that we don't do things just because we been doing them so long and that's what we do but we do it for the glory and the honor of Christ, because we know we know Lord that that day it will be joy unspeakable and not yet been told big try not, it's not hard things that you prepared for them that love you all day of rejoicing.

That's going to be. I thank you father for the Staples things of God, and I asked the Lord to keep your hand of blessing and protection upon and those larvae were hungry and thirsty to come out in the house of the Lord tonight and had been here to hear and open your heart to the holy spirit that you have deposited something in their heart that they will shorten upon that it will anointed and you will bring into their heart again that it will give them strength and it will give them courage, and it will give them joy and it will cause their faith to be ignited. Lord, that we will serve you with all of our heart and all of my now keep us while we were waiting one from another, protect us, deliver your healing touch begin every six body that the hand of God be upon everyone here tonight that the pace of God and the blessings of the Lord rest upon these people in Jesus name I pray, amen. God bless you will see you next time you also just thinking about and lift my spirits. What about you. Amen.

You may be seated. When you tell someone that your message is going to be the seven things that were going to be judged on UK tell five or six. You gotta tell seven, so we gotta move quickly. Amen. And as I said to you before last week that I knew as I got into it would be a two-part message and really both parts can stand alone even though they dovetail together. However, very quickly, because I know some of you were here the last time and if you want to get the whole message. It is available on tape but just to get started. We will reread our main text in first Corinthians the third chapter because it's from this text that the message will flow and were in first Corinthians 3 verse nine for we are laborers together with God, your God's husbandry here God's building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another build their own. But let every man take heed how he build their own for other foundation can no man lay than that is late, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver and precious stones would hey double every man's work shall be made manifest for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive what a reward.

If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire. Very quickly I'll just make the major points. When Paul said that the foundation is already laid, that is Christ, and there can be no other foundation laid, it's an terrorist tense which means it was an action that was completed in the past once and for all. The foundation is permanent.

It will never change. However, when he said, take heed how you build there on it in the present tense which means the building project is continual. It's going on from dispensation to dispensation generation to generation. The building process upon the permanent foundation will continue until the day of Jesus Christ. And then we find others individual responsibility that every man that's me that's heard that it better individually take heed how he build their own because there is going to come in today.day because the article before day.

It's speaking on a particular day that day when that day is there any data when there will be a judgment of the work that we have done in our body and it will be somewhere between the rapture of the church and the second coming of Christ during that. Bob tribulations the import not only are the saints of God will be in heaven will be enjoying many things that we don't even know much about yet. We do know about the marriage supper of supper on the land and we know the part of those events will be this judgment seat were talking about tonight so we will stand before the Lord and will bring out works before him, and the fire is going to try then needing the fire is going to be put to bed and if they remaining come out of the fire without integrating they will have a reward and we will not know until then it will be mad and where they would stumble and hang the fireworks and it was gone or wasn't silver gold and precious stones. The fire headed and it just came out yours before I again I reiterate when you're not talking about being lost were not going to heaven or hell. This is the judgment of the saints. It has nothing to do with sinners or backsliders working in heaven were in heaven but now the decision will be made. Do we get rewards or not and whether that's important to you.

That's something you'll have to decide for yourself, but it's important to me. I made up my mind. I'm going to heaven and then I went to get everything that God says I can chat. I really department a lot of stuff down here because it's temporary and at best. It's only good for one season or two, but is eternal. So I want the rewards that the Bible says I can see and that's a very strong word.

Anytime you see that in the New Testament. It all. It's an alarm it's be careful because it's alluding to the back door many pitfalls and there are many opportunities for you to slip up.

That's why you gotta continually be on guard because we are going to stand before the judgment seat of Christ, and were going to have our works, try now.

Very briefly I will of mentioned the vision that brought out last week for the sake of those who weren't here on this mission was given to a pastor in the early 80s. He was a pastor in California. He became very ill and was hospitalized. He had double pneumonia and there was a point when he didn't think he would live while he was in this condition. He had envisioned. He later said he never was really sure whether he was in the body or out of the body, but he had this vision he saw himself going through a long dark tunnel and it was a long line of people. It was way way far down you actually said he was complaining because along the line was so long he was aware of the fact there was an angel with him and he also was aware of the fact that this angel was the angel that had been assigned to him on earth and so he saw this beautiful bright light at the end of the tunnel and finally he made it to the front of the tunnel and it opened up into this glorious beautiful place and it was like a circular chamber and around the walls of the circular chamber. There were tears of of people and there were steers and rose ascending up into heaven is far as I could see and all the people were standing there had books in their hands. Some had lots of books, big books normally had a few summary one. He also became aware of just in front of him he saw who was at that time. I don't know they didn't give the name, so I won't give.

We just speculate it doesn't really matter, but he saw that who was at that time in the early 80s I very prominent television evangelist with that time was winning thousands of souls to Christ. And this man was in was going into the line and he had a whole polyp a bunch of big books next to him was this little unknown woman and she just had one small book in her hand while he's looking at all these things all the sudden the center of the chamber of the grant of the glorious beautiful golden throne and sitting upon the throne was Jesus Christ and in the back of the throne. The throne opened up and began to shoot down the throne huge ball of the bargain issue WAP in the air and then they would fall down and as they fell. They fell upon the books that all these people were holding in their hands as they fell upon the book. Some of them immediately turn into Apollo bashes and others immediately turn into Apollo beautiful precious gemstones and he saw people that were wailing and crying because all they had were ashes.

He saw people that were rejoicing because they had these beautiful stones and a look at the televangelist and when the fire had his books. They just disintegrated into Apollo bashes, and he began to lament all was in vain. All this was in vain. Then he saw the fire hit the little woman's book and when it did it turn into a pile of precious stones. So at that time he thought will when he went to look to see what happened to his books, but he was with the way before he got to see and the Holy Spirit took him away and he found himself in a line shorter this time and as he got up to the close to the front and saw the same televangelist there with books and he saw the same little woman there with books. This time Jesus was standing behind a golden throne, excuse me Brooke golden altar.

The first was a throne. The sun is behind an altar and yet a golden scepter in his hand and as people would come up one at a time. Individually, Jesus would take the scepter and he would reach out and touch their book and fire would shoot out of the scepter and so this time he looked in the televangelist came up Jesus took the scepter and touched his books and again they disintegrated into a heap of ashes and he was lamenting. But Jesus looked at him and said, enter thou into the rest of the Lord. Then he turned to the little woman as she came up and Jesus took the golden scepter and touched her book and when it he did the fire shot out but this time instead of turning into go to the gemstones and it began to pour over the altar just began to pour over and Jesus began to kneel down and scooped up the liquid gold he was scooping it up with his hand and as he scooping up.

He was molding and shaping it and making it really made this beautiful crown and then he raced over to the pile of gemstones that she'd gotten the first test and begin to pick them up and one by one, he began to place them in that beautiful crown and then he took the crown and he said it on her head and he said well done, thou good and people started. You have been thankful in the lease you will be roller over the enter into the joy of the Lord, prepared for you. Again, the minister was having this vision quickly look to see what was that the handbook any hurting and like that he was whisked away again and this time he found himself back in the hospital. Back in that bed in his body. But the angel was there and the angel said to him, now you get ready for that day vision, but they obviously revelation this person or might revelation to illuminate to get the idea of what were talking about amen letting eye-opening heart transforming word of the Lord jeopardy losing your rewards St. I must tell you truthfully when God revealed to my spirit. How much everything I do and how I do it and why I do it for his kingdom will determine what eternal rewards I will receive or forfeit. It revolutionized my Christian walk. My whole life. All my life has been serving God, but I didn't always do it with the best attitudes I had tendencies to pride and self-righteousness and even pouting that I did not see his problems were not talking about one salvation are going to heaven. We are talking about our works being tried once were in heaven.

Paul said that every man's work shall be made manifest and revealed by fire to see what sort not what size, what quality not what quantity it is. Paul said that we all individually will stand before the beam at the judgment seat of Christ to give an account for the deeds done in our bodies, whether good or bad. He referred to Christians not sinners and he said that if our work survived the fire, we shall receive a reward. They will come forth as gold silver and precious stones. But if they do not survive the fire. They will be burned as would stubble and hay and he shall suffer the loss of his rewards for me this is a sobering reality. I don't really want to go to heaven. I want all the rewards on eligible to receive and I believe you do to find out seven things the Scripture say that will be tried from our words to our works are giving how we act and endure in trials are motivations you know there's even a reward for those who love and look for the Lord's coming and the rapture.

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