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what God is wanting you and me and us to
do is to live in light of the future not
only in light of the now when you go to
college they ask you what is your major
that’s going to affect the length of
time you invest it’s going to affect
things once you make that long-term
decision once you decide you want
maximum reward and Glory it’s going to
affect choices in
time Matthew 6: 19 to 21 it tells us to
store up Treasures in
Heaven in other words live for your
reward you can know the difference
between the maturity or immaturity of a
child and the maturity of a
parent because children only live for
the now all they concerned about is now
any of you have children children that
think money grows on
trees they don’t talk to you about
saving they don’t talk to you about
investing they don’t talk to you about
401s or 403 BS and they don’t they don’t
get into all of that because they want
what they want
now but as you mature as you grow in
understanding of life you understand
that a good portion of Life must be
future
oriented that’s why you encourage them
to go to school you you’re encouraging
them to be future oriented whether or
not they like studying
now you have a retirement fund or
savings account because there is some
part of your life that you understand
must be future
oriented he says I want to motivate
you to live your life with a future
orientation for the reward and here is
the phrase of
inheritance it is my hope that every
head of household here has a
will the reason you want a will is you
want to
control what you have accumulated and
where it goes when you are no longer
here because if you don’t decide that
somebody else will decide it for
you or some system will decide it for
you so you want to control that so every
responsible head of household has an
inheritance or has a will where they
have decided what goes where that’s
that’s an inheritance we talk about what
our children or offspring will inherit
my will the first thing that’s in there
is what I will leave to oakcliff Bible
Fellowship because the Lord’s word comes
first then what I leave to other
Ministries will be in their
second and then what I leave to my
children come next next and then after
that what I leave to
others because there is a inheritance
where you are future oriented when you
are not here Paul calls God having an
inheritance he calls it the reward of
inheritance and he wants to incentivize
you and me to get all that is in his
will for
you every believer is in God’s
Will and he wants to incentivize us to
get the maximum reward that he has
willed for every believer he wants to
incentivize
that uh Airlines want to incentivize
travel so what do they have they have
different levels of uh recognition for
your
relationship if you travel like me
American Airlines you you can just
travel you can be advantaged or you can
be advantaged gold or you can be
advantaged platinum or you can be
advantaged executive platinum or you can
become
coner and the different levels of what
you get is determined by how close the
relationship was with the airlines how
much did you fly them and the amount of
knowledge that you use to fly affects
the level of reward that they offer you
so each level gives you a different
level of
reward and so those who fly it a lot get
more reward more perks more more
upgrades more this more that because you
were closer to the
airline you didn’t fly Delta when you
could have flown America
because they are valuing the
relationship athletes are given
incentive Clauses in their contract to
incentive ize them usually tied to more
money if you make this many tackles
catch this many passes throw this many
touchdowns they will incentivize the
basic so that you can get a greater
reward so God wants us to love him yes
because of the price paid but he also
wants us to pursue reward salvation is
free rewards must be
earned salvation is a gift
but reward comes from
work and so he speaks to Christians
about pursuing their
inheritance
pursuing the
reward Revelation 22:12 Jesus says I’m
coming back and I am bringing my reward
with me to reward every man according to
what he has
done Ecclesiastes 12 ver verse 13 says
the conclusion when all has been heard
is fear God keep his Commandments
because this applies to every person for
God will bring Every Act to judgment
everything which is hidden whether it is
good or
bad good or
evil so what God is wanting you and me
and us to do is to live in light of the
future not only in light of the now but
to live now in light of the future when
you go to college they ask you what is
your major what do you want your major
to be they’re asking you a question
about your
future because once you say I want to be
let’s say a doctor you can’t then say
but I’m only G to go to school for four
years you see those two don’t
match because you going to have to go to
medical school so the once you say what
you want the reward to be the career to
be the income to be then that’s going to
affect which courses you take that’s
going to affect the length of time you
invest it’s going to affect things once
you make that long-term decision once
you decide you want maximum reward and
Glory it’s going to affect choices in
time but if you don’t have a great love
and a high incentive for
reward then you’ll be satisfied to be a
casual Christian
to be a a nerdy well Christian you’re
going to just be
satisfied to get to heaven but not get
the benefits of
heaven so what are some of these rewards
what is God going to give
you by way of reward if in fact you
decide you want to be not casual not
even committed but you want to be
you want to be a radical
Saint appropriately
radical well one of the things he’s
going to give
you is public
recognition you’re going to be a
celebrity those Christians who
rise to the high level of
commitment who gave God their all not
perfectly because none of us is perfect
but
consistently wanted to serve Christ love
Christ follow Christ and even when they
fell short they bounced back to get in
sync back with
Christ these will be the
celebrities of Heaven these will be the
ones you recognize I remember just the
other day I was at an event and a major
and a mega celebrity walked into the the
event if I gave their names you would
all know this Mega celebrity and when
the mega celebrity walked into the event
All Eyes of the people in the event
shifted over to that
celebrity because he had gained a
name in
heaven those Christians who have
exceeded the norm will have a name and
all the other Christians will point to
oh did you see him did you see see him
did you see her look look look at that
because God is going to give them Divine
approval and celebrity
recognition in John
chapter 12 verse
26 Jesus says these
words he says in John 12: 26 if anyone
serves me he must follow me and where I
am there my my servant will be also if
anyone serves me my father will honor
him so your service to Christ will bring
honor from
God this is not something every believer
gets this is something some Believers
get because of their service for
Christ they will become
recognition I remember an incident when
I was at the National Religious
broadcasters where people meet or do
television or
radio and we were at this annual event
there were thousands of people in the
room for the speaker because the speaker
was the former President George W Bush
when he was president he was the speaker
that particular day and so I was one
among thousands in the room for his
speech
and he was introduced he came to the
podium
when he stood at the
podium he greeted everybody he says I’m
certainly honored that the National
Religious
broadcasters have invited me to speak
and then he looked down and he said
publicly Tony Evans is that you out
there so good to see you my friend I’m
sure glad to see you and he started
talking about me for a few moments and
everybody
everybody was zeroed in on me because
the president of the United States
called my
name what would it look like in heaven
if the king of the universe calls your
name if Jesus says look at Jane or look
at butch or look at bill or look at
Betty cuz I know them y’all all here but
I know
them
now he called my name because I had a
relationship with him as Governor here
in Texas he had been to the church
numbers of times we had eaten dinner
together numbers of times and so that
relationship gave us a
familiarity so in the crowd They Call My
Name Don’t You Want Jesus to call your
name the Bible says we’ll see it next
week he says he says well done my good
and faithful servant
this is public recognition public honor
becoming one of the celebrities of
Glory he will give
honor