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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Six Unscriptural Traditions, continued
Now there is in store 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 longed for his appearing. (II Timothy 4:8—NIV)
We Shall Receive Our Reward When We Go to Heaven
We do not get our reward when we go to Heaven. We get our reward in the Day of the Lord. Everything in the Scriptures points toward the Day of the Lord. If we would be scriptural let's start looking forward to the Day of the Lord and the resurrection from the dead.
We are determining what kind of resurrection we will experience by the way we are behaving today.
At a recent convention we were told that the reward of some believers will have to be brought in on a forklift. The angels will bring the reward of other believers with a pair of tweezers. To some will be given a great mountain of glory; to others, a diaper.
Our reward will consist largely of the body from Heaven that will clothe our resurrected physical body. The heavenly body that will clothe our physical body is growing before the Throne of God in Heaven as we are sowing our present body to the death and resurrection of Christ.
In the Day of the Lord our body from heaven will clothe our resurrected physical body.
We are not going to a mansion in Heaven. Our mansion in Heaven is a living house that will clothe us in the Day of the Lord.
For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. (II Corinthians 5:4—NIV)
The Apostle Paul was looking forward to the Day of the Lord, not to receiving the crown of life when he died but when Jesus returned.
The Lord Jesus will bring our reward with Him when He returns. We are laying up treasures in Heaven today that will be given to us when the Lord appears.
Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. (Revelation 22:12—NIV)
There was an incestuous believer in Corinth. Paul was not trying to get him into Heaven but endeavoring that his spirit would be saved on the Day of the Lord.
Hand this man over to Satan, so the sinful nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on the day of the Lord. (I Corinthians 5:5—NIV)
We have eternal life now in our inward nature. But when the Bible says that God so loved the world He gave His Son that whoever believes in Him would not perish but have eternal life, it is referring to being raised to life in our body in the Day of Christ.
Notice the following very carefully and it may change your theology:
For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. (I Corinthians 15:22,23—NIV)
Those who belong to Christ will be made alive when He returns. We have eternal life now in our inward nature. The eternal life we have now is a firstfruits of the life that will make alive (redeem) our mortal body in the Day of the Lord.
To be continued.