Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:9-10.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
A day of reckoning. What is that? The final day of judgment for how you spent your life on earth. My Son spoke of it, you all will face it. It is true that believers in My Son have their names in the Lamb’s book of life and will not be condemned with those who have persisted in unbelief, you are not subject to the great white throne judgment of the unsaved, but you do appear before the judgment seat of Christ for whether you will are able to receive the full reward I planned for you from before the foundation of the world.
Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. 2 John 7:8.
How do you receive a full reward?
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future there is laid up 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 loved His appearing. 2 Timothy 4:7-8.
Only overcomers sit with Jesus on His throne and He shares My throne. How are you an overcomer? You fight the good fight of faith and you love that I sent My Son in the flesh to save you and that He will come again to receive you into glory. Though you have not seen Him, you love Him by having heard about Him, having read about Him, and having listened to His Words in the Bible as revealed by My Spirit. Who I am and who I gave you in Him and in My Spirit has touched your heart with love, pure, precious love expressed in your faith and trust in My Word. For I am My Word.
What does it mean to fight the good fight of faith? It means you live by faith and not just by sight.
Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. For yet in a very little while, He who is coming will come, and will not delay. But My righteous one shall live by faith; and if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him. But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul. Hebrews 10:35-39.
It means that you do not just sit back and accept whatever the devil says to you and whatever he and his unclean spirits try to put in you and on you.
Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. James 4:7-8.
It means you do not let him steal My Word out of your heart.
And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How will you understand all the parables? The sower sows the word. These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. Mark 4:13-15.
This means you know how to answer the lies of the devil that try to pull you into doubting the truth of My Word, as he did with Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden. You answer his lies with the truth of My Word and that ends the argument. All evil came into the world simply by not keeping faith in My Word as truth, that is how it all started and that is how it still persists in the world.
And Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me. He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me. I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness. If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.” John 12:44-48.
Yes, it is what you do with My Word that will judge you. Doers are rewarded both in this life and the next. Doing My Word is the rock on which you must build your life if you want to withstand the storms of this world. If you want to overcome. It is all about My Word, for by your words you are acquitted and by your words you are condemned. Watch your words, you will render an account for every idle, useless, evil word you speak. My Words are faith tools.
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we must render an account. Hebrews 4:12
You have to be an overcomer to enter My Kingdom. What is an overcomer? I have defined that for you:
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, he who accuses them before our God day and night. And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death. Revelation 12:10-11.
It is the accusations and lies of Satan you must overcome to live the life of an overcomer. And you do this by the blood of My Son shed for you that released you from all your sins, and from the word of your testimony, that is, speaking My promises as the truth to put down the devil’s lies. And what is the victory that overcomes the world? Your faith in two immutable things: My Word and My love for you. I am My Word, I cannot lie, and I am love, I can do nothing else but think, talk, and walk in love. You have no reason to fear and every reason to believe. Do not be afraid, only believe.
All fear comes from doubt, unbelief, and guilt, which are byproducts of sin. Fear has to do with punishment, and it torments you. It is knowing you have done wrong and fear of being found out and punished for it. And it comes down to fear of death. But you who believe in My Son have passed from death to life and have been set free of fear, condemnation, doubt, unbelief, and guilt.
Therefore, since the children share in [m]flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives. Hebrews 2:14-15.
And now let My Son tell you about judgment day.
For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey. Immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and gained five more talents. In the same manner the one who had received the two talents gained two more. But he who received the one talent went away, and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money. Now after a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them. The one who had received the five talents came up and brought five more talents, saying, ‘Master, you entrusted five talents to me. See, I have gained five more talents.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’ Also the one who had received the two talents came up and said, ‘Master, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have gained two more talents.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’ And the one also who had received the one talent came up and said, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed. And I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’ “But his master answered and said to him, ‘You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed. Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest. Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.’ For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away. Throw out the save into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 25:14-30.
What do you learn from this? Back to the first blessing with which I formed the first man and women, “Be fruitful, bear much fruit.” You are made in My image and according to My likeness and I am fruitful, just look around and you will see how fruitful I am and how intricate and well planned all I have made is.
My Son also told you about an unfruitful fig tree that was given one last chance to bear fruit or it would be cut down for cluttering up the ground.
Look at your life. Is it full of fruit, good fruit that is blessing you and others, or is it full of clutter that is taking up the ground like the unfruitful fig tree? Can you run your race with all your encumbrances?
What is the attachment to? Attach to Me, cling to My Word, embrace My thoughts, ways and songs and you will bear fruit and prove to be My disciples. When you are attached to Jesus, who is My Word, as a branch is attached to a vine you cannot help but produce the fruit of the vine for that is the sap (grace) that flows into you. My life flows into you by My Spirit who is given to those who believe in My Son.
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had put to death by hanging Him on a cross. He is the one whom God exalted to His right hand as a Prince and a Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.” Acts 5:30-32.
You are rewarded for believing in My Son for that is obeying Me for I will that all men be saved and come to know the truth. And that truth is in Jesus, the exact expression and radiance of My being. All who confess Him as Lord and believe in their hearts I raised Him from the dead with all your sins gone, borne by Him who knew no sin but became sin for you all, are saved, then you must renew your mind in My Word, which is truth.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days. Deuteronomy 30:19-20.
My Word is not far off from you that it eludes you. It is very near you, in your heart and in your mouth. The spirit of faith is that you believe in your heart and speak with your mouth. I want to reward you but as long as you keep talking like the devil with malice and slander, backbiting, taking offense, gossiping, judging, pointing the finger at others in blame but never yourself, causing bitter roots to grow in you and planting them in others, I am not able to do much with you and the talents I have given you for the Kingdom lie dormant. Your life becomes filled with clutter and you end up cluttering up the ground so that more fruitful plants are curtailed by your taking up space and taking the nutrients they need to grow merely to feed your own flesh. Such is the man who grows rich for himself and not towards Me. That is foolish behavior. Selfishness is foolishness for in the end it does not benefit but destroys you and others.
I am only looking for one thing in your heart to reward you. My image. And I am pure love and light. And that is what I am looking to reward in your heart. And love is fruitful, it produces all virtues and is the crown of them all. And light is fruitful, for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth. Ephesians 5:9.
That, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. Ephesians 4:22-24.
I love you. You can do nothing without Me, but attached to Me through My Son you can do all things. Nothing is too hard for Me and nothing is too hard for you who believe that. On the day of reckoning you will have nothing to fear if you have My love shining brightly in your heart. Solid gold.
According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. 1 Corinthians 3:10-15.