Does Every Sin Cost Me an Eternal Reward?

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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God promises eternal rewards for his people’s present obedience. But does every sin cost us one of those rewards?

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0:00.0	While do each of my sins cost me an eternal reward?
0:09.8	Are we caught in a race to outweigh our sins by our good deeds in order to preserve any
0:16.3	level of rewards that we may have in heaven?
0:19.5	It's a question today from a listener named Brandon, Hello Pastor John, I know the Bible
0:24.0	talks about rewards in heaven in the form of crowns.
0:27.4	I want the most joy in heaven I possibly can in the life to come.
0:31.8	But in this life, I feel like I'm constantly sinning, and every time I sin, I feel like
0:37.1	my eternal rewards slip from my fingers.
0:41.1	I can never get ahead, always returning back to a balance of zero.
0:46.2	At this rate, there won't be any rewards for me in heaven left, or is my thinking here
0:52.8	backwards?
0:53.8	Pastor John, can you help me understand this?
0:57.2	Well it's right to want the most joy possible in heaven, if the aim is to be satisfied
1:08.2	in God himself supremely, with the gifts of his grace as secondary echoes of his excellence
1:18.2	that then we enjoy for that reason.
1:20.8	So amen to that, and I can confirm to Brandon that he not only feels he is sinning
1:27.0	every day.
1:28.0	He is.
1:29.0	I can confirm that analysis, and so are all of us.
1:35.1	None of us loves God perfectly, the way we should.
1:39.3	In our best deeds, there is something to regret.
1:44.9	So so far so good in Brandon's thinking, and then things start to go haywire.
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