Truth For Life on Oneplace.com Living with Significance (Part 3 of 3)
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Oct 22, 2025 Explore the unique gifts Jesus bestows on believers to share the Gospel effectively. Discover how faithfulness in investing these gifts can lead to rewards, while neglect brings spiritual impoverishment. Learn about the balance between zeal and resting in Christ, emphasizing the importance of relationship over mere tasks. Good works reflect salvation, and compassion for the lost should motivate action. Ultimately, union with Christ is essential for genuine discipleship and faithful service.
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Rewards Reflect Faithful Investment
- Our eternal rewards reflect how we invest the gifts God has given us rather than equal allotments for all.
- Alistair Begg warns that some will enter heaven with differing rewards based on faithful service.
Pastoral Grief Over Neglected Opportunities
- Begg recounts pastoral sorrow at seeing Christians become spiritually impoverished through neglect.
- He describes people who wrapped their entrusted gospel in a blanket and enjoyed it privately instead of sharing it.
Good Works Are Evidence, Not Currency
- You cannot earn salvation by works, nor can genuine salvation exist without good works.
- Begg stresses that good works are the evidence of salvation given, not a means to obtain it.
