The works that remain and get rewarded are “good,” Paul says. The bad is burned and gone. The bad are not sins because we will never again face our sins because of Christ’s justifying death. All rewards will be based upon that word: “Good”. This simple description is a word when used in the Bible of everything but people it means ‘good’, and when used of people, it means ‘kindness, generosity, benevolence’.
Someday, we are going to stand in front of Jesus Christ and watch him open the history files of our lives. Better than any web program, God has logged the keystrokes of our lives. Our actual motivations, our genuine intentions, and our literal thoughts will all be exposed as the frames around each action. There, at last, will be exposed the complete picture of God’s servants. And everything done for Jesus that was done in grace-energized kindness will last forever.
Jesus mentioned this word “good” twice in a statement that nearly all believers can be heard wanting to have spoken over them by the Lord. Here is what Jesus said in Matthew 25:21,23 “… ‘Well done, good and faithful servant…” NKJV.
When we stand before Christ’s judgment seat, God the Father has already graciously “justified” the document of our lives: removing every sin, erasing the record that they were ever done, and placing the full penalty upon Jesus Christ.
But now, in the “history file,” is everything we have done since salvation. Every service of Christ’s church we came to, every day of work we lived, every moment in our homes, cars, and personal lives. And that file is placed on the altar, and a fire burns that will consume anything that was not a grace-energized work of kindness.
From GEW-17b – Grace-Energized Kindness (070819AM)
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