Payday Someday - by Pastor John Fredericksen

Payday Someday -

by Pastor John Fredericksen

While our children were growing up, by God's gracious provision, our family had a small janitorial business to supplement our financial needs. We always took the children even if all they were able to do was gather the wastebaskets. One day, the girls were less than enthusiastic about their participation. So, without really thinking it through, I told them: "If you work hard with a good attitude, when you graduate high school, mom and I will buy you a car." I only promised that once but, they never forgot it, nor would they let me forget, nor allow me not to follow through on my promise.

Our Heavenly Father has a fantastic promise for every blood-bought believer. Referring to the time when we graduate from this life into eternity, 1 Corinthians 3:8 says: "...every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour." With absolute certainty, we are assured the Lord will handsomely reward us for service done for the Lord Jesus Christ after salvation. Reconfirming this confidence, the Apostle Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 15:58: "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know your labour is not in vain in the Lord."

As we meditate on this encouraging promise, we should also comprehend one key related truth. Any reward will be proportionate to our effort in service. As stated above, everyone will be given reward "...according to his own labour" (1 Cor. 3:8). If we choose to do little or nothing for the Lord after salvation, this will be reflected in little reward received. Second Corinthians 9:6 states it this way: "...he which soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully." As a high school yearbook reflects one's participation in school, or lack thereof, our records in eternity will correspond with our service and reward. That makes it important for us to busy ourselves now with activities that will matter once we reach eternity. We can serve Christ by inviting or transporting folks to church, presenting the gospel, handing out gospel tracts, serving in the church nursery, teaching the Scriptures, assisting in youth ministries, giving faithfully, doing follow-up on visitors, befriending newcomers to church, and much more. The limit on serving Christ is only our imagination and our willingness.

Don't be among the foolish who serve only self in this life. Choose to do something today to further the cause of Christ. Remember, there will be a payday someday.

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Don't Give Up - Pastor John Fredericksen

Don't Give Up 

Pastor John Fredericksen

Being in the pastorate can be discouraging. After all, you are an obvious target for criticism. The messages are always too long or too short, you use too many illustrations or not enough, the content is too deep or too shallow, you stand too strongly on biblical truth or not strongly enough, and so it goes. On one occasion, I had a Christian leader harshly dress me down in public for 45 minutes and accused me of a variety of things I simply had not done. He only thought I had done them. I left that meeting so discouraged; I just wanted to give up the ministry, and maybe even give up walking with the Lord. Thankfully, He sent me encouragement when I needed it most.

Being discouraged spiritually isn’t exclusive to pastors either. All believers encounter this at one time or another. You can almost feel the sorrow of heart when you read the testimonies of God’s men of the past. David wrote: “I had fainted…” (Psa. 27:13), Jeremiah said: “When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me” (Jer. 8:18), and Jonah said: “…my soul fainted within me” (Jonah 2:7). They were so discouraged and spiritually weakened that they simply felt like giving up. Thankfully, these servants of God did not give up, and there is much to learn from what carried them through.

ates to us how he found the strength to carry on: “I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto Thee, into Thine holy temple” (Jonah 2:7). Coupled with obedience to God’s will, his discouragement turned when he stayed his mind on the Lord in prayer. Similarly, Isaiah proclaims: “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength…they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint” (Isaiah 40:31). As you can see, Isaiah also found it helpful to focus his thoughts on the Lord through prayer.

The Apostle Paul had opposition from without and from within the company of believers, and had much to be discouraged about, but he didn’t quit. His testimony was: “seeing we have this ministry…we faint not” (II Cor. 4:1). He kept his heart focused on serving the Savior, with Galatians 6:9 in mind: “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” Simply put, heaven and reward from the Savior strengthened the resolve of this servant. It can for us too.

re you discouraged spiritually? Don’t quit! Pray, focus on the importance of serving Christ, and rejoice in future reward!

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Payday Someday

by Pastor John Fredericksen

While our children were growing up, by God's gracious provision, our family had a small janitorial business to supplement our financial needs. We always took the children even if all they were able to do was gather the wastebaskets. One day, the girls were less than enthusiastic about their participation. So, without really thinking it through, I told them: "If you work hard with a good attitude, when you graduate high school, mom and I will buy you a car." I only promised that once but, they never forgot it, nor would they let me forget, nor allow me not to follow through on my promise.

Our Heavenly Father has a fantastic promise for every blood-bought believer. Referring to the time when we graduate from this life into eternity, 1 Corinthians 3:8 says: "...every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour." With absolute certainty, we are assured the Lord will handsomely reward us for service done for the Lord Jesus Christ after salvation. Reconfirming this confidence, the Apostle Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 15:58: "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know your labour is not in vain in the Lord."

As we meditate on this encouraging promise, we should also comprehend one key related truth. Any reward will be proportionate to our effort in service. As stated above, everyone will be given reward "...according to his own labour" (1 Cor. 3:8). If we choose to do little or nothing for the Lord after salvation, this will be reflected in little reward received. Second Corinthians 9:6 states it this way: "...he which soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully." As a high school yearbook reflects one's participation in school, or lack thereof, our records in eternity will correspond with our service and reward. That makes it important for us to busy ourselves now with activities that will matter once we reach eternity. We can serve Christ by inviting or transporting folks to church, presenting the gospel, handing out gospel tracts, serving in the church nursery, teaching the Scriptures, assisting in youth ministries, giving faithfully, doing follow-up on visitors, befriending newcomers to church, and much more. The limit on serving Christ is only our imagination and our willingness.

Don't be among the foolish who serve only self in this life. Choose to do something today to further the cause of Christ. Remember, there will be a payday someday.

Les Feldick Ministries

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Sk Payday Someday by Pastor John Fredericksen While our children were growing up, by God's gracious provision, our family had a small janitorial business to supplement our financial needs. We always took the children even if all they were able to do was gather the wastebaskets. One day, the girls were less than enthusiastic about their participation. So, without really thinking it through, I told them: "If you work hard with a good attitude, when you graduate high school, mom and I will buy you a car." I only promised that once but, they never forgot it, nor would they let me forget, nor allow me not to follow through on my promise. Our Heavenly Father has a fantastic promise for every blood-bought believer. Referring to the time when we graduate from this life into eternity, 1 Corinthians 3:8 says: "...every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour." With absolute certainty, we are assured the Lord will handsomely reward us for service done for the Lord Jesus Christ after salvation. Reconfirming this confidence, the Apostle Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 15:58: "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know your labour is not in vain in the Lord." As we meditate on this encouraging promise, we should also comprehend one key related truth. Any reward will be proportionate to our effort in service. As stated above, everyone will be given reward "...according to his own labour" (1 Cor. 3:8). If we choose to do little or nothing for the Lord after salvation, this will be reflected in little reward received. Second Corinthians 9:6 states it this way: "...he which soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully." As a high school yearbook reflects one's participation in school, or lack thereof, our records in eternity will correspond with our service and reward. That makes it important for us to busy ourselves now with activities that will matter once we reach eternity. We can serve Christ by inviting or transporting folks to church, presenting the gospel, handing out gospel tracts, serving in the church nursery, teaching the Scriptures, assisting in youth ministries, giving faithfully, doing follow-up on visitors, befriending newcomers to church, and much more. The limit on serving Christ is only our imagination and our willingness. Don't be among the foolish who serve only self in this life. Choose to do something today to further the cause of Christ. Remember, there will be a payday someday. Les Feldick Ministries http://www.lesfeldick.org/ 30706 W. Lona Valley Rd. Kinta, OK 74552 Posted By Cecil and Connie Spivey https://www.facebook.com/cecil.spivey E-mail this BIBLE UDY to all your friends

THE GOD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS - By Robert E. Hanna

THE GOD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS 

 By Robert E. Hanna

Scripture Reading: Psalms 111:3

"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one   But now the righteousness of God without the law is  manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; even  the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto  all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference;  for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being  justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in  Christ Jesus" (Romans 3:10, 21-24). "For the wages of sin is  death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ  our Lord" (Romans 6:23).

The Apostle Paul, being himself a Jew by origin, grieved  for Israel, "For they being ignorant of God's righteousness,  and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not  submitted themselves to the righteousness of God. For Christ  is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that  believeth" (Romans 10:3, 4).

Human self-righteousness is graphically defined in the  sixth verse of Isaiah 64, "We are all as an unclean thing,  and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags ... " One may  well ponder Job's searching question, " ... How should man  be just with God" (Job 9:2b)?

Our own apostle gives the joyful answer: " ... Be ye  reconciled to God. For He hath made Him [Christ] to be sin  for us, [He] who knew no sin; that we might be made the  righteousness of God in Him" (II Corinthians S:2ob, 21). The  resultant condition is that of being " .. .found in Him, not  having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that  which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith" (Philippians 3:9). God alone is righteous!

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Believing Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.

Believing Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.

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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DOCTRINE- By Robert E. Hanna

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DOCTRINE-

By Robert E. Hanna

Scripture Reading: II Timothy 2:15, 3:16-4:2

If we would learn the truth, we must of necessity turn to the one source of truth-the Holy Scriptures. "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God" (Romans 10:17). We will not so learn by randomly quoting verses plucked from a "promise box." Neither will we gain knowledge of the truth by sitting under the ministry of clerics who ramble from point to point in their pulpits, moralizing and theorizing and spiritualizing. Pure truth can be learned only from pure doctrine; and the source of pure doctrine for this age and dispensation is the pen of the Apostle Paul.

Paul wrote in his epistle to the Romans, "God be thanked ... ye have obeyed from the heart that form of DOCTRINE which was delivered you .... Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the DOCTRINE which ye have learned; and avoid them" (Romans 6:17,16:17). To his young son in the faith, he wrote, "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the DOCTRINE; continue in them .... Thou hast fully known MY DOCTRINE. ... continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them" II Timothy 3: 16a, II Timothy 2:lOa,14).

We are provided not only with the sound doctrine of spiritual truth but also with instruction as to its proper exposition. "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth notto be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth ... .All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for DOCTRINE .. .for instruction in righteousness.

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Keep Your Eye on the Finish Line - by Pastor Ricky Kurth

Keep Your Eye on the Finish Line - by Pastor Ricky Kurth

"Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work" (John 4:34).

Here in John 4, the Lord was just beginning His ministry, but He already had His eye on the finish line. What a great example for us! It is so easy to get caught up in the details of everyday life and give little or no thought to life's end. As Pastor Stam used to say, "Most people live for this life as if it were never going to end, and they live for the next life as if it were never going to begin, when the very opposite is the case!" Too often this is true of God's people as well.

Of course, as grace believers we are not just interested in what the Lord Jesus would do. Since we follow Paul as he followed Christ (I Cor. 11:1), we look to Paul as our example. But this is how he lived his life as well! He talked about how it was his goal, as he says, to "finish my course" (Acts 20:24). He too lived his life with his eye on the finish line!

If you are wondering what it means to live like this, notice that the Lord said that while on life's journey, He made it His "meat" to do God's will. The Bible word "meat" speaks of food of any kind, and food is the most important thing in your physical life. If you don't believe that, just try going without it for a few days! This writer has a friend who says that while fasting, he will sometimes go to the grocery store just to gaze upon food! Thus the Lord was saying that continuing to do the will of His Father was the most important thing in life, and the way to live with the finish line in view.

How about you, dear Christian friend? Are you living your life with your eye on the finish line? It is important to notice that while the Lord talked about the finish line at the beginning of His ministry, Paul spoke of it as he neared the end of his life. And so if you are a young Christian, it is not too early to start living with the finish line in view, and if you are a "seasoned citizen" in the kingdom of God, it is not too late!

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God's Revelation of Himself - Pastor Cornelius R. Stam

God's Revelation of Himself

Pastor Cornelius R. Stam

Romans 1:18-20 declares that God has revealed Himself to man in creation. Not that we can learn His plan of salvation from creation — far from it. But the creation: the glory of its star-studded heavens, the beauty of its flowers and sunsets, the sun and rain and crops to supply us with food, and the unchangeable laws of nature, all show forth, not only the existence of God, but His power, His love, His justice, so that man is a responsible being and, as Verse 20 says, “without excuse” for the deplorable condition in which he finds himself.

A believer, talking with an atheistic evolutionist one day, took out his watch, looked at it and put it back into his pocket, saying: “I have a wonderful watch; it keeps perfect time; never misses a second.”

“What make is it?” the atheist asked.

“Oh, no make,” answered the Christian.

“Well, who manufactured it?”

“Oh, nobody; it just put itself together somehow.”

“Nonsense,” said the atheist, “A watch can’t just come into existence. Somebody had to design it and somebody had to manufacture it.”

“True,” said the Christian, “yet you expect me to believe that this universe, with its billions of stars and planets, all working together in perfect order, just came about by itself; that it had no Designer, no Creator and no one who keeps it running? Isn’t that nonsense?”

No wonder Paul says that the godless are “without excuse,” including even the vast majority of “religious” people, who salve their consciences by giving a small part of each week or each day to the performance of some religious rite but keep God out of their businesses, their politics, their social relationships — their hearts.

But thank God, as He has revealed His power and glory in creation, He has revealed His mercy and grace, His plan of salvation, in the Bible, where we read how “Christ died for our sins” (I Corinthians 15:3), so that we might have “redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace” (Ephesians 1:7).

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