The Bema

The Bema

2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

The Bema

“ Living life for what will outlast it ”

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A Pious Attitude Regarding Self

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A Overstated Attitude Regarding Sin

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A Non-Chalant Attitude Regarding Service (WORKS)

The Bema

“ The Incredible Accounting of our Stewardship”

The Bema

Romans 14:10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Romans 14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

The Bema

The Stewardship of: The LIFE of God

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The GOSPEL of God

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The GIFTS of God

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The RESOURCES of God

1 Corinthians 3:10-15 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon.

But let every man take heed

how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day

shall declare

it, because it

shall be revealed

by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon,

he shall receive a reward

. If any man's work shall be burned,

he shall suffer loss

: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

The Bema REWARD # 1: VERBAL COMMENDATION (For Being Counted Worthy) REWARD # 2: ROYAL CLOTHES (For Living Righteously) REWARD # 3: ACTUAL CROWNS (For Investing In His Kingdom)

The Bema

2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

Proverbs 31:10-31

Proverbs 31:10

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Her Biblical Identity

Proverbs 31:10 (a)

– “Who can find a virtuous woman? …

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1 Corinthians 2:9-10 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

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1 Corinthians 2:11-12 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

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1 Corinthians 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

Proverbs 31:10 (a)

– “Who can find a virtuous woman? …

Ruth 3:11

And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that

thou art a virtuous woman

.

• Ruth is a Gentile from a cursed race (Moab) • She finds herself in a time of famine • She hears good news from a far land that the Lord had visited His people in Bethlehem in giving them bread.

• She turned from everything she knew and the gods she had served and went to Bethlehem to partake of that bread.

• She took of it and went to work in the field • A Jewish Kinsman Redeemer, from Bethlehem called her out of the field & made her his bride

Proverbs 31:10 (a)

– “Who can find a virtuous woman? …

Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; Ephesians 5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Proverbs 31:10 (a)

– “Who can find a virtuous woman? …

Proverbs 31:10 (a)

– “Proverbs 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for

her price

is far above rubies.

Proverbs 31:1 The words of king Lemuel , the prophecy that his mother taught him.

1 Kings 11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

Ecclesiastes 7:26-28 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher,

counting one by one

, to find out the account: Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a

• Solomon… Son of David Matthew 1:1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

• Solomon: Early in his Kingship was a Picture of Christ 1 Kings 10:4,6-7 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the house that he had built, And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had

Song of Solomon

6:13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies. Song of Solomon 6:3

I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine

: he feedeth among the lilies.

Proverbs 31:10 (a)

– “Proverbs 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for

her price

is

far above rubies

.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

Proverbs 31:10 (a)

– “Proverbs 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for

her price

is

far above rubies

.

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RARE

Proverbs 31:10 (a)

– “Proverbs 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for

her price

is

far above rubies

.

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RARE

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COSTLY

Proverbs 31:10 (a)

– “Proverbs 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for

her price

is

far above rubies

.

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RARE

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COSTLY

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RED

1 Peter 1:18-19 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot

Proverbs 31:10 31 …

Hebrew Acrostic

“Who can find a virtuous woman?”

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Her Biblical Identity

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Her Biblical Identity

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Her Beautiful Character

Proverbs 31:11 14

Proverbs 31:11

The heart of her husband doth

safely trust in her

, so that he shall have no

Character:

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She can be TRUSTED

Ephesians 2:2-3 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world,

according to the prince of the power of the

air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Ephesians 2:4-6

But God

, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus

Colossians 1:12-14 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who hath

delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption

through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins

James 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know

ye not that the friendship of the world is

enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

John 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

Proverbs 31:11

The heart of her husband doth

safely trust in her

, so that he shall have no

Character:

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She can be TRUSTED

Proverbs 31:11

The heart of her husband doth

safely trust in her

, so

that he shall have no

Character:



She can be TRUSTED

Luke 11:22 But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.

Luke 16:11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

Proverbs 31:11

The heart of her husband doth

safely trust in her

, so

that he shall have no

Character:

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She is TRUSTED

Proverbs 31:12

She will

do him good and not evil

all the days of her life.

Her Beautiful Character: 

She is TRUSTED

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She is RESPONSIBLE

1 John 2:1(a) “ My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. …”

1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous

2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one

that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

Proverbs 31:12

She will

do him good and not evil

all the days of her life.

Her Beautiful Character: 

She is TRUSTED

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She is RESPONSIBLE

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship,

created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Titus 3:3-7

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us

, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our

Titus 3:8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly,

that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works

. These things are good and

Proverbs 31:12

She will do him good and not evil

all the days of her life

.

Her Beautiful Character: 

She is TRUSTED

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She is RESPONSIBLE

1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Proverbs 31:12

She will do him good and not evil

all the days of her life

.

Her Beautiful Character: 

She is TRUSTED

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She is RESPONSIBLE

Acts 13:25(a) And as

John fulfilled his

course…, .

Colossians 4:17 And say to Archippus,

Take heed to the ministry which

thou hast received in the Lord,

that thou fulfil it

.

2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith

Proverbs 31:12

She will do him good and not evil

all the days of her life

.

Her Beautiful Character: 

She is TRUSTED



She is RESPONSIBLE

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Her Biblical Identity

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Her Beautiful Character

Proverbs 31:11 14

Proverbs 31:10 (a)

– “Who can find a virtuous woman? …