Reading Glorious Finish: Keeping Your Eye on the Prize of Eternity in a Time of Pastoral Failings
What will judgment day look like, when will it happen, what will it consist off? The answers to these questions will help us find out if our lives are in alignment to finish well or not. The big ideas that impacted me:
A) Daily activity matters in time and eternity. Deny yourself (flesh, be worthy Matthew 10:38), take up your cross daily (world, build to finish, fight to win; Luke 14:25-35), follow Jesus (not the devil). Matthew 16:24-27
Don't excuse yourself or wait for a future time, do it when asked. Luke 14:15-24
Commandments of Jesus
Matthew 16:27, "For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done."
B) Our physical life impacts our spiritual life.
2 Cor 5:10, "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body (physical life), whether good or bad."
C) We are personally accountable to God
Romans 14:12, "So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God."
Accepting others differences means abstaining from our freedoms (Romans 14)
- Judgment of Believers and Unbelievers
D) Heart motivation is known only by the individual, God, and brought to light by wise people.
1 Cor 4:5, "Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God."
- For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey. Romans 2:13 (God's righteousness can be applied to our hearts through repentance (Romans 2)
- Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. James 1:22
- But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do. James 1:25
- The Spirit of God reveals sin, righteousness, and judgement
What will judgment day look like, when will it happen, what will it consist off? The answers to these questions will help us find out if our lives are in alignment to finish well or not. The big ideas that impacted me:
A) Daily activity matters in time and eternity. Deny yourself (flesh, be worthy Matthew 10:38), take up your cross daily (world, build to finish, fight to win; Luke 14:25-35), follow Jesus (not the devil). Matthew 16:24-27
Don't excuse yourself or wait for a future time, do it when asked. Luke 14:15-24
Commandments of Jesus
Matthew 16:27, "For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done."
B) Our physical life impacts our spiritual life.
2 Cor 5:10, "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body (physical life), whether good or bad."
C) We are personally accountable to God
Romans 14:12, "So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God."
Accepting others differences means abstaining from our freedoms (Romans 14)
- Judgment of Believers and Unbelievers
D) Heart motivation is known only by the individual, God, and brought to light by wise people.
1 Cor 4:5, "Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart. At that time each will receive their praise from God."
- For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey. Romans 2:13 (God's righteousness can be applied to our hearts through repentance (Romans 2)
- Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. James 1:22
- But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do. James 1:25
- The Spirit of God reveals sin, righteousness, and judgement
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