Pay Day For Christians

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"But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God." (Luke 14:13-15)


"Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life." (Matt. 19:27-29)

"Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting." (Luke 18:30)

"Whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free" (Ephesians 6:8).

John Bunyan wrote:

"Ah! little do the people of God think, how largely and thoroughly, God will at that day, own and recompense all the good and holy acts of his people. Every bit, every drop, every rag, and every night’s harbor, though but in a wisp of straw, shall be rewarded in that day before men and angels – "Whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you," saith Christ, "he shall in no wise lose his [a disciple’s] reward" (Matthew 10:42)."

Bunyan said again:

"Here also will be a reward for all that hardness, and Christian enduring of affliction that thou hast met with for thy Lord, while thou wast in the world. Here now will Christ begin from the greatest suffering, even to the least, and bestow a reward on them all: from the blood of the suffering saint, to the loss of a hair: nothing shall go unrewarded (Hebrews 11:36-40; 2 Corinthians 8:8-14)."

From http://www.reformed.org/

Heaven will be worth it all! The Lord is "not unrighteous to forget" the "labor of love" of the Christian.

"For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister." (Heb. 6:10)

When the day of judgment comes, will you be rewarded as a Christian or as a wicked reprobate? Will you received the "reward of unrighteousness"? (II Peter 2:13) Or, will you receive the reward due to the saints? Will you receive then the "wages of unrighteousness" (II Peter 2:15), the "wages of sin" (Rom. 6:23), or will you receive the rewards of Christian faithful service?