Weekly Pursuit – Week 4 of April
Verses:
2 Tim. 4:7 “I have fought the good fight; I have finished the course; I have kept the faith.”
Excerpts:
The race we are running is actually Christ Himself. The Lord Jesus said, “I am the way”. A race is a way, a course. Christ is the race because He is the way. The way we are walking is the race we are running. Although Christ is our way, we should not take this way simply as a way; rather, we should take the way as a race to run. We should not take the time to consider, look around, stand still, or walk slowly. We need to run the race until we can declare, like Paul did in 2 Timothy 4:7, “I have finished the course.” Paul began to runthe course of the heavenly race after he was taken possession of by the Lord, and he continued to run until he finished the course. Then at the end he triumphantly proclaimed, “I have finished the course.” He also proclaimed that he would receive from the Lord a reward—the crown of righteousness.
The prize that the believers win for running the race is an incorruptible crown, which is a reward as an incentive. This reward will be given to us according to our works at the Lord’s coming back. It will be decided at the judgment seat of Christ and enjoyed in the coming kingdom. This prize is not salvation in a common sense but a reward in a special sense. Eternal salvation is by faith, having nothing to do with our work, whereas the reward is for our work after we are saved. As believers in Christ, we have all received His salvation through faith. But whether we will be rewarded by the Lord depends on how we run the race. (Truth Lessons—Level Four, vol. 3, lsn. 44)
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