What Happens To You When You Die? | Run for the


What Happens To You When You Die? | Run for the...

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What Happens To You When You Die? | Run for the Prize February 8, 2015 Text: 1 Cor. 9:24-27 (p. 957)

Don’t just run. Run to _________! Running to _________ requires _________________. To run our race to win we have to keep the perspective that there is a finish line, and it comes _____________ than we think. (Jm. 4:13-14) Running to _________ requires ______________. It is easy for us to get _______________ from the best in the midst of all the good that is available to us. The philosophers of society right now are telling us again and again that the greatest pursuit we can have is to obtain resources so we can live __________, comfortable, easy lives. I love our nation, but the comfortable, easy mindset often contradicts the gospel. We are ___________ for ___________. It is impossible to have ________ ____________ faith if we do not believe God rewards those who seek after Him. Even Jesus endured the cross because He saw the reward. (Hb. 11:6; Hb. 12:2) What Jesus endured on the cross was because He focused on the reward that brought Him _________ ____________. You know what the reward was? Us being made right with the Father. His joy – His reward – was you having every opportunity to have ___________ and not __________. That was His prize. Every one of us as believers will stand before the judgment seat of Jesus, and our actions on earth will be judged. And we will receive our reward _________________. (2 Cor. 5:10; Mt. 16:26-27) We _____________ make it to heaven based on what we do. If we could, then there was no reason for Jesus to come and die and overcome the grave. We are __________ _____________ by trusting Jesus. The judgment of believers is to evaluate and give _____________ ____________ of rewards in heaven based on how we ran this race called life. At the end of my life, I don’t want to look back and believe it was _____________ on trivial and ultimately meaningless things. (2 Tim. 4:7-8) At the end of my life, I want to have spent my life for the _________ ______ __________, joining Him in the eternal works He created me for. In heaven I first want to see Him face to face. And I want to hear, “Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter the __________ of your Master.”