Well, some of us will get lesser rewards in heaven and others will get more rewards in heaven.

So why this discrepancy?

And won't this disparity cause eternal remorse in some and some level of strain and tension

among all of us?

Today's question comes from a listener named Alex who lives in Germany.

Hello, Pastor John.

You've talked about rewards in heaven in one of your answers to a listener's question.

The episode number 417 is God more happy with other Christians than me.

There you mentioned the God rewards faithfulness, not fruitfulness.

Does this mean that we may not be rewarded to a degree we could have been depending on

our faith on earth?

This question has been plaguing me since I listened to that episode.

Would that not mean that God chose bias towards those with greater faith?

I'm grieved because I'm unlikely to live up to the reward God may have planned for me

and forever will be called a lesser to those with greater faith.

Those thoughts feel poisonous to me.

Is it only my envy and pride speaking or is this something to be concerned about?

Pastor John, what would you say to Alex?

About 10 years ago, I recorded a section from Jonathan Edwards' Sermon on Romans 210,

which I think is one of the most beautiful, mind-expanding, heaven-displaying, scripture-opening,

hope-awakening passages that I've ever read anywhere outside the Bible.

So, I want to do that again here and give it fresh exposure.

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