In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, our rewards in heaven.

Have you ever thought about what kind of rewards you can receive when you get to heaven?

Well, you say, well, like, what kind of rewards? Well, have you ever just thought about what kind of rewards you're going to receive, and if you thought about what you're doing today

in your daily life that would bring about those rewards.

Do you find yourself sometimes comparing yourself with someone else saying,

well I know that he or she's going to have lots of rewards and I'm probably

not going to have very many.

And so you try to sort of evaluate all of that.

And then you probably ask, well, by what criteria is God going to judge me anyway

so I want to answer that briefly there are four things that are very important in

the way that we're going to face the judgment and every single

child of God will face the judgment seat of Christ to receive the rewards that not so much

we deserve but those things that God has chosen to give us.

He's going to judge us by the light of truth we've received.

Everybody hasn't received the same amount so his judgment's going to be just not only by the

like we receive but also by the opportunities he's afforded us everybody doesn't

have the same opportunities.

And thirdly, by the way we live out our life

with those opportunities and delight we have.

Now there's one more, but I want to say that

to a little later on the message. So God's judgment is

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