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    The Seven Ultimate Rewards
    The Seven Ultimate Rewards
    The Seven Ultimate Rewards
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    The Seven Ultimate Rewards

    By Emmanuel Socrates Quansah

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    One of the main duties of every Christian is to constantly encourage and persuade other people about the rewards of eternity. Persuasion means to captivate the heart of a person for a cause. We are supposed to exhort and provoke each other unto good works even as the day of Jesus' return approaches. This is such a crucial matter because we can miss the rewards and incur discipline, if we do not keep it in sight.
    'And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. (Hebrews 10: 24- 25)
    A simple mention of heaven, as the place from which the New Jerusalem comes from, is not enough. We need to persuade them about the 'milk and honey' in heaven; the goodies of heaven. I do not think walking on streets of gold and wearing a crown is a strong enough message of persuasion. My prayer is that at the end of this book, you will catch a vision of the New Jerusalem that will be a real motivating feature in your life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmmanuel Socrates Quansah
    Release dateMar 14, 2012
    ISBN9781476057293
    The Seven Ultimate Rewards
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    Emmanuel Socrates Quansah

    Emmanuel Socrates Quansah is the author of 'The Spirit of Excellence', 'The Seven Ultimate Rewards' and 'How to Rule Your Future Today'.

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      The Seven Ultimate Rewards - Emmanuel Socrates Quansah

      The Seven Ultimate Rewards

      Emmanuel Socrates Quansah

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      Copyright 2011 Emmanuel Socrates Quansah

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      All scriptural quotations are from New International Version

      Unless stated otherwise.

      PREFACE

      Thank God it’s Payday!

      Before a job starts, the rewards are agreed upon. As we are doing the work—especially the jobs we hate most--we are driven by the rewards. Rewards are the persuasive instruments that incite and motivate all of us. The promise of a reward influences a person’s attitude and approach to all areas of life. A rewards could be in the form of money, children, love, ownership of a house or car, or sometimes, just freedom. Our eyes are fixed on paydays, but at times we hate beginning of the month! Everything we do in this world has a consequence—either positive or negative. This is the design of the universe. It is always in a state of give and take. When you sow, you expect to reap. It is an eternal principle that the Creator of the universe will surely not breach. It is not evil to expect and enjoy the highest rewards possible because God put this desire in us.

      Milk and Honey Reward

      God uses rewards to motivate men. Abraham, the father of faith, met with God. Through Abraham, God decided to bless a chosen people and make them His own. God’s end goal was to have His people in one place and to live among them in order to achieve the closest possible relationship between humanity and divinity. Abraham was given a son, Isaac, Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot twelve sons.

      Through God’s divine plan, His people became slaves in Egypt. Suffice to say that freedom from slavery was enough motivation; the children of Israel still needed a reward to drive them. A land flowing with milk and honey was God’s promise to His people for leaving Egypt. Whenever God is dealing with a person or a group of people, He almost always gives them a vision of a reward to stimulate and motivate them. Having been used to garlic and onions, they needed a powerful and motivating vision of the land of milk and honey to persuade them to fight for their freedom. And God gave them the reward he had promised (even though only a handful of people made it to the Promised Land). Below is Joshua’s account of how many failed to reach the Promised Land due to their unbelief and consequential disobedience.

      For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord—to whom the Lord swore that He would not show them the land which the Lord had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. (Joshua 5: 6)

      Only Joshua and Caleb

      The book of Numbers gives insight into the specific reason why only Joshua and Caleb were able to reach the Promised Land even though they were surrounded by a large crowd of unbelievers: These two men had a spirit that resonated with the vision of God’s. They had a different spirit! Numbers 14:24 reads, "But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it."

      Even though God gave them a vision of the land of milk and honey, they did not literally see milk and honey because God usually communicates in spiritual terms. You need spiritual sight—not physical sight—to see and follow God’s vision, and that was what made Joshua and Caleb different. By revelation and insight, the writer of Hebrews gives us the reason why the Israelites did not enter the Promised Land (also known as the rest of God). It was as simple as this: unbelief. They did not see the vision that God gave them of the reward. It was not in their spirit. The writer of Hebrews sheds more light on the fact that unbelief was their main barrier to entering the Promised Land in chapter 3:

      For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. (Hebrew 3: 16–19)

      To live with the benefit of hindsight is a tremendous opportunity for us. It is unfortunate that history shows that people do not learn from history. We are told that everything that was written in the Old Testament was written for our learning. Romans 15:4 says, "For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and

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