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A Life God Rewards: Why Everything You Do Today Matters Forever | 
 enlarge | Author: Bruce Wilkinson
Publisher: Multnomah
Category: Book
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Rating:  49 reviews
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Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 6.4 x 4.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1576739767
Dewey Decimal Number: 236.2
EAN: 9781576739761
ASIN: 1576739767
Publication Date: September 2002
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Product Description
In this book, you're going to discover that God's son Jesus revealed a direct link between what you do today and what you will experience after you die. Astoundingly, the majority of spiritual seekers around the world -- including millions who follow Jesus -- seem to have missed what He said. Could you be one? If so, your picture of the future is missing about a billion stars. Author Bruce Wilkinson shows you what Jesus said about God's plan to reward you in eternity for what you do for Him today. What you'll discover will unlock the mystery of God's power, plan and will for your life. And you'll begin to live with the unshakable certainty that what you do today matters ... forever!
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 What product? November 9, 2008
I never received my book I ordered. Not sure if I was refunded or not.
 Rewards Matters August 2, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Rewards Matter ... FOREVER. Forever is not just 100 years in this life, but many hundred years in eternity FOREVER! Read to understand what Bruce Wilkerson shares in A Life God Rewards about what you do today does matter FOREVER. Read, study, listen, & apply now then receive rewards FOREVER.
Skeptical at first but... July 12, 2008
I'm the sort of person who reads books, tape-flags the websites and/or quotes within them, and posts those websites / quotes to del.icio.us or my to various blogs. Here's an example of some text I recently tape-flagged for Bruce Wilkinson's A Life God Rewards: "Jesus showed that although good works are useless to get anyone into heaven, they still matter."
A "tape" of mine (to use terminology from <[...]>) is that "God's Will *will* be done so it doesn't matter what I do." ...The best lie is close to the Truth and Wilkinson's quote is good medicine for me with regard to the aforementioned (~close~ to the Truth) tape. Yes, God's Will *will* be done....AND....my actions matter. Dropping a ball (inaction) and throwing a ball (action) may still result in a ball on the ground; the difference is distance. ...Or, to take the analogy further, throwing the ball (action) would make (an unseen to me) catcher's job easier; dropping it would not...
All of this is to say that what Wilkinson said was good medicine for me, a person with a Calvinistic background that I just can't seem to shake. That same medicine may not be good for someone else. So, *looks at naysayers*, maybe Wilkinson's Bible-based book wasn't medicine for you, but that doesn't invalidate it.
A Life God Rewards May 28, 2008
Excellent Book. It will teach that if you are born of God, Judgment Day is going to be a lot of fun. As, we receive our rewards for the life we have lived her on earth. REWARDS THAT WILL BE FOREVER. Highly Recommend It.
Catchy Title Doesn't Measure Up February 27, 2008
I have finished checking out "A Life God Rewards". There are several issues. I will summarize all the feedback I received....
According to "A Life God Rewards" you are not working for your salvation but for how big your mansion will be in heaven. It is just another form of legalism that Paul fought in his day. It is an invention of law not a work of God's grace.
One reader gave an example of his two sisters. One was more interested in getting "rewards" from her parents, and the other could care less, as she was only there to love her parents. Which one of these sisters found favor? He made a point that the "Jones" do not live in the Kingdom of Heaven, so that you won't have the keep up with them.
True Christian focus is love, and the joy of being in His presence; not getting His "presents". We are not out to serve ourselves but to help others come to the same saving faith and future we have in the Savior. Our help is motivated by love not rewards. We "so love" because God "so loved". Judas's green eyed, out-to-help-himself attitude about Jesus' mission led him to betray the Savior for a foolish reward. He cared about the purse strings... JN 12:6 He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
The Bible teaches to "love your neighbor as yourself" not "love your neighbor to reward yourself". The Bible teaches we "ought to lay down our lives for our brothers" not for our benefit. A life God rewards fosters a spirit of greed instead of a spirit of love and giving, and knowing God's grace. If refocuses on the selfish instead of selfless; a merit system about what I can achieve to better my eternity instead of how many people I can reach for Christ.
Satan encourages us to think "who is the greatest" when God's word says "we have all fallen short". When the Twelve argued about this point Jesus said MK 9:35... "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all."
We must remember that our Lord and God alone is worthy to receive glory and honor and power and worship, and the "crowns" we possess will be laid before His throne because He gave us our very being in first place... REV 4:9-11 Paul shows us that these crowns are our glory and joy in the presence of our Lord Jesus. They are the very brothers and sisters whom we shared the gospel, witnessed, and had played part in leading to the Lord! Can you really think of anything more wonderful then to have someone in heaven come up to you and thank you for planting a seed that helped them down the path to salvation!?!? 1TH 2:19 For what is our hope, our joy, or the crown in which we will glory in the presence of our Lord Jesus when he comes? Is it not you? 20 Indeed, you are our glory and joy. (PHP 4:1)... The Philippians were Paul's present joy as he received favorable reports of their spiritual growth, and their presence with Christ at his return would be his future crown when Christ comes to reward his servants.
God alone is worthy because all our righteous acts are like filthy rags...
ISA 64:6 All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
God alone is worthy because every inclination of our heart is evil from childhood....
GE 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood.
Those lulled into a rewards mentality must consider the parable of the laborers. (MT 20:9-15) Those hired at the end of the day received the same pay as those who started at the beginning of the day. Jesus has the right to do what He wants, it is not unfair, "or are you envious because God is so generous?" (MT 20:15).
The "Johnny-come-lately" thief on the cross will not be in a lesser place in heaven... He will be with Jesus! LK 23:43 Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise." His gratitude for inheriting what he did not deserve will be the same gratitude of all the saints for what they did not deserve.
The opportunity to reign with Christ was given through Christ's death not our works. The Lamb has made the ransomed into a "kingdom" and made them "priests". Christians "will reign on the earth" because they have been given "kingly authority" through his death. REV 5:9-10 And they sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. REV 5:10 You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth."
The point of these next verses is to set your heart attitude on things above that will last forever and not on the earth that will fade away. It is not a rewards / works doctrine but rather the only smart thing to focus on are things that will last..
PHP 1:21-24 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. 22 If I am to go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. Yet what shall I choose? I do not know! 23 I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; 24 but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.
MT 6:19 "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
COL 3:1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
His Grace expressed in kindness through all eternity to "all" the saints... not some more than others! We were created to do good works God prepared in advance! EPH 2:7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Someone should write a book on prayer or submission and see how popular these titles will be in todays society. A Life God Rewards is nothing more than a catchy title with a twisted theme. God commands us to be noble and test everything with the Scriptures to see if it is true.. Acts 17:11 Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.
This one does not check out.
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