Get Your Pretense On!

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evaluation and review time is formal, comprehensive, and decisive. The agent’s work product as well as their personal predisposition during the work are evaluated, and they are rewarded, based on their performance. Paul spoke often of his answerability before God of the work that he had been called to do. He used the analogy of the bema seat , the place in the ancient municipalities where actions were weighed and judgments given regarding the facts of a case. He taught that each believer will need to stand before the bema seat of Christ, to receive directly from the Lord the blessings and or judgment for the work they did, in answer to their particular call. (This judgment is not concerning eternal life, but regarding reward for faithfulness in answer to God’s specific call on our lives.) Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, [24] knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. [25] For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality. ~ Colossians 3.23-25 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. [11] For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. [12] Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw – [13] each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. [14] If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. [15] If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be