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3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building. 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 3:11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 3:12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 3:13 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. 3:14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
1CORINTHIANS 3:9-15
THE NEXT GREAT EVENT FOR THE CHURCH WILL BE THE RAPTURE! "RAPTURE" IS THE TERM USED BY THEOLOGIANS TO TELL US HOW THE CHURCH WILL BE REMOVED FROM THIS WORLD. IT IS NOT USED IN THE BIBLE, BUT WITH THE LATIN "RAPTUS" COMES THE IDEA OF "SNATCHED AWAY;SEIZED, SWEPT AWAY, RAPID."IT IS DESCRIBED AS "....OUR GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM" IN 2THESSALONIANS 2:1, AND IS VIVIDLY DESCRIBED IN 1THESSALONIANS 4:13-18, AS WELL AS 1CORINTHIANS 15:51-53. THE THING WE NEED TO KEEP IN MIND IS THAT THE RAPTURE IS COMING! JESUS IS COMING AGAIN TO RECEIVE US TO HIMSELF (JOHN 14:1-6).
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT FOR THE CHURH TO CONSTANTLY KEEP THAT IN MIND? ITS REMEMBRANCE WILL ENCOURAGE US TO KEEP OURSELVES PURE AND FREE OF THIS WORLD'S CONTAMINATION (1JOHN3:3); AND , IN SO DOING, IT WILL HELP US TO STAND UNASHAMED BEFORE HIM AT HIS COMING!(1JOHN2:28).
WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER THE RAPTURE? EACH CHRISTIAN WILL APPEAR BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST (1CORINTHIANS 5:10), TO BE JUDGED FOR THE WORKS HE DID ON EARTH FOLLOWING HIS CONVERSION. SIN WILL NOT BE MENTIONED THERE. THIS JUDGMENT WILL BE FOR REWARD OR LOSS OF REWARDS (1CORINTHIANS3:13-15); THIS JUDGMENT WILL CAUSE MUCH DISCOMFORT AS CHRISTIANS FACE THE WORKS THEY DID OR DID NOT DO.
WERE WE GOOD AMBASSADORS FOR HEAVEN? WERE WE MINISTERS OF RECONCILIATION?DID WE STAND BETWEEN GOD AND MEN, SAYING, "BE YE RECONCILED TO GOD?" DID WE PERFORM WELL AS SALT AND LIGHT (MATTHEW 5:13-16), AND AS RIGHTEOUS MEN IN AND UNRIGHTEOUS WORLD?
YOU WILL BE JUDGED FOR YOUR LIFE; I WILL BE JUDGED FOR MINE! SCARY, ISN'T IT?
BY EVANGELIST WALLACE CLINGAN VANDALIA BAPTIST TEMPLE, VANDALIA, OH. |
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