Pew 2 You
12/8/2013
Pastor Phil Vance
Following Jesus – The Reward
Highlights:
1.) Jesus understands that there is a cost to following Him. If you pay the cost to follow Jesus, there is a REWARD for those choices you make.
2.) Followers of Jesus are not making sacrifices, we are making investments! But not all dividends will be received in this life. Our treasure is stored up for us in heaven.
3.) It’s not YOLO, it’s YOLT! We live twice! What we do in this life will prepare us for the next – we need to make sure that what we do is preparing us for it!
4.) When we think nobody is watching, we need to realize that what we do on this Earth will one day come to light and at that point it will be as if everyone was watching!
Discussion Questions:
1.) Let’s talk about the reward. Scripture isn’t very clear on exactly what that reward will be. What do you think our heavenly reward will look like?
2.) Share together how you are making investments that will earn a heavenly reward. What investments are easy for you to make and what has been difficult?
3.) How can a fresh revelation of our eternal destination and reward change the way you are living now?
Key Scriptures:
Then Peter said to him, “We’ve given up everything to follow you. What will we get?” Jesus replied, “I assure you that when the world is made new and the Son of Man sits upon his glorious throne, you who have been my followers will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or property, for my sake, will receive a hundred times as much in return and will inherit eternal life. But many who are the greatest now will be least important then, and those who seem least important now will be the greatest then. (Matthew 19:27-30 NLT)
For no one can lay any foundation other than the one we already have—Jesus Christ. Anyone who builds on that foundation may use a variety of materials—gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw. But on the judgment day, fire will reveal what kind of work each builder has done. The fire will show if a person’s work has any value. If the work survives, that builder will receive a reward. But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss. The builder will be saved, but like someone barely escaping through a wall of flames. (1 Corinthians 3:11-15 NLT)
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