The Bema

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The Bema
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The Bema
2 Corinthians 510 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 511 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.
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The Bema
Romans 1410 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 1412 So then
every one of us shall give account of himself to
God.
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1 Corinthians 310-15 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.
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The Bema
Living life for what will outlast it

• A Pious Attitude Regarding Self
• A Overstated Attitude Regarding Sin
• A Non-Chalant Attitude Regarding Service (WORKS)

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The Bema
The Incredible Accounting of our Stewardship

• The Stewardship of
• The LIFE of God
• The GOSPEL of God
• The GIFTS of God
• The RESOURCES of God

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The Bema
2 John 18 Look to yourselves, that we lose not
those things which we have wrought, but that we
receive a full reward.
REWARD 1 VERBAL COMMENDATION (For Being
Counted Worthy)
REWARD 2 ROYAL CLOTHES (For Living
Righteously)
REWARD 3 ACTUAL CROWNS (For Investing In His
Kingdom)
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Proverbs 3110

• Her Biblical Identity

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• Proverbs 3110 (a) Who can find a virtuous
  woman?

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• Ruth 311 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.

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• 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

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• Proverbs 3110 (a) Who can find a virtuous
  woman?

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• Proverbs 3110-31 Hebrew Acrostic Who can
  find a virtuous woman?

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• Proverbs 3110 (a) Proverbs 3110 Who can
  find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above
  rubies.

• Rubies are
• RARE
• COSTLY
• RED

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• Her Biblical Identity
• Her Beautiful Character

Proverbs 3111-15
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• Her Beautiful Character
• She is TRUSTED
• She is RESPONSIBLE
• She is INITATIVE

Proverbs 3111-15
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Part 3
Proverbs 3110-31
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• Her Biblical Identity
• Her Beautiful Character
• Her Boundless Responsibilities

Proverbs 3116-23
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• Proverbs 3116(a) - She considereth a field, and
  buyeth it .

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World

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• Matthew 1338(a) The field is the world

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• Mark 1615 And He said unto them, Go ye into all
  the world, and preach the gospel to every
  creature.

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• Proverbs 3116(a) - She considereth a field, and
  buyeth it .

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World

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• Matthew 1344 Again, the kingdom of heaven is
  like unto treasure hid in a field the which when
  a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof
  goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth
  that field.

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• Proverbs 3116(a) - She considereth a field, and
  buyeth it .

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World

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• Proverbs 3116- She considereth a field, and
  buyeth it with the fruit of her hands she
  planteth a vineyard.

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World

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• Luke 811(b) The seed is the word of God.

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• Proverbs 3117 She girdeth her loins with
  strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World

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• Ephesians 614 Stand therefore, having your
  loins girt about with truth, and having on the
  breastplate of righteousness

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• Ephesians 614 Stand therefore, having your
  loins girt about with truth, and having on the
  breastplate of righteousness
• John 1717 Sanctify them through thy truth thy
  word is truth.

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• Proverbs 3116-17 She considereth a field, and
  buyeth it with the fruit of her hands she
  planteth a vineyard. She girdeth her loins with
  strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World

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• Proverbs 3118 (a) She perceiveth that her
  merchandise is good .

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World

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• 1 Corinthians 1558 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.

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• Proverbs 3118 She perceiveth that her
  merchandise is good her
• candle goeth not out by night.

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World

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• 1 Thessalonians 54-7 But ye, brethren, are not
  in darkness, that that day should overtake you as
  a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and
  the children of the day we are not of the night,
  nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as
  do others but let us watch and be sober. For
  they that sleep sleep in the night and they that
  be drunken are drunken in the night.

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• Proverbs 3119-20 She layeth her hands to the
  spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. She
  stretcheth out her hand to the poor yea, she
  reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World

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• Luke 418 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
  because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel
  to the poor he hath sent me to heal the
  brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the
  captives, and recovering of sight to the blind,
  to set at liberty them that are bruised

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• Proverbs 3119-20 She layeth her hands to the
  spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. She
  stretcheth out her hand to the poor yea, she
  reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World

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• Philippians 215-16 That ye may be blameless and
  harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the
  midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among
  whom ye shine as lights in the world Holding
  forth the word of life that I may rejoice in the
  day of Christ, that I have not run in vain,
  neither laboured in vain.

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• Proverbs 3121 She is not afraid of the snow for
  her household for all her household are clothed
  with scarlet.

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World
• To her Family

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• Job 3822 Hast thou entered into the treasures
  of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of
  the hail

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• Revelation 167 And I heard another out of the
  altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and
  righteous are thy judgments.

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• Proverbs 3121 She is not afraid of the snow for
  her household for all her household are clothed
  with scarlet.

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World
• To her Family

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• Romans 59 Much more then, being now justified
  by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath
  through Him.

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• Proverbs 3121 She is not afraid of the snow for
  her household for all her household are clothed
  with scarlet.

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World
• To her Family

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• Proverbs 3122 (a) She maketh herself coverings
  of tapestry .

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World
• To her Family
• To Herself

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• James 12-4 My brethren, count it all joy when
  ye fall into divers temptations Knowing this,
  that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
  But let patience have her perfect work, that ye
  may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

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• 1 Peter 17 That the trial of your faith, being
  much more precious than of gold that perisheth,
  though it be tried with fire, might be found unto
  praise and honour and glory at the appearing of
  Jesus Christ

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• Romans 828-29 And we know that all things work
  together for good to them that love God, to them
  who are the called according to his purpose. For
  whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to
  be conformed to the image of his Son, that he
  might be the firstborn among many brethren.

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• 2 Corinthians 410 Always bearing about in the
  body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life
  also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

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• Proverbs 3122 She maketh herself coverings of
  tapestry her clothing is silk and purple.

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World
• To her Family
• To Herself

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• Proverbs 3122 She maketh herself coverings of
  tapestry her clothing is silk and purple. (WHO
  HE IS-WHAT HE DOES)

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World
• To her Family
• To Herself

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• Galatians 327 For as many of you as have been
  baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

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• Colossians 38-10 But now ye also put off all
  these anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy
  communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to
  another, seeing that ye have put off the old man
  with his deeds And have put on the new man,
  which is renewed in knowledge after the image of
  him that created him

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• Colossians 312-14 Put on therefore, as the
  elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of
  mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness,
  longsuffering Forbearing one another, and
  forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel
  against any even as Christ forgave you, so also
  do ye. And above all these things put on
  charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

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• Proverbs 3122 She maketh herself coverings of
  tapestry her clothing is silk and purple. (WHO
  HE IS-WHAT HE DOES)

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World
• To her Family
• To Herself

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• 1 Corinthians 1531 I protest by your rejoicing
  which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die
  daily.
• 2 Corinthians 515 And that he died for all,
  that they which live should not henceforth live
  unto themselves, but unto him which died for
  them, and rose again.

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• 1 Peter 42 That he no longer should live the
  rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of
  men, but to the will of God.

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• Proverbs 3123 Her husband is known in the
  gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the
  land.

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World
• To her Family
• To Herself
• To Her Husband

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• Matthew 1928 And Jesus said unto them, Verily I
  say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in
  the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in
  the throne of His glory, ye also shall sit upon
  twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of
  Israel.

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• Proverbs 3123 Her husband is known in the
  gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the
  land.

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World
• To her Family
• To Herself
• To Her Husband

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• 2 Timothy 48 Henceforth there is laid up for me
  a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the
  righteous judge, shall give me at that day and
  not to me only, but unto all them also that love
  his appearing.

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• Proverbs 3123 Her husband is known in the
  gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the
  land.

• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• To the World
• To her Family
• To Herself
• To Her Husband

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• Her Biblical Identity
• Her Beautiful Character
• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• Her Bountiful Reward

Proverbs 3124-31
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• Proverbs 3125 Strength and honour are her
  clothing and she shall rejoice in time to come.

• Her Bountiful Reward
• SHE will REJOICE

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• 2 Corinthians 418 While we look not at the
  things which are seen, but at the things which
  are not seen for the things which are seen are
  temporal but the things which are not seen are
  eternal.

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• 1 Thessalonians 219 For what is our hope, or
  joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in
  the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His
  coming?

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• Proverbs 3128(a) Her children arise up, and
  call her blessed .

• Her Bountiful Reward
• SHE will REJOICE
• HER CHILDREN will
• REJOICE

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• Proverbs 3128 Her children arise up, and call
  her blessed her husband also, and he praiseth
  her.

• Her Bountiful Reward
• SHE will REJOICE
• HER CHILDREN will
• REJOICE
• HER HUSBAND will REJOICE

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• Matthew 2521 His lord said unto him, Well
  done, thou good and faithful servant thou hast
  been faithful over a few things, I will make thee
  ruler over many things enter thou into the joy
  of thy lord.

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• Her Biblical Identity
• Her Beautiful Character
• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• Her Bountiful Reward

Proverbs 3124-31
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• Proverbs 3129-31 Many daughters have done
  virtuously, but thou excellest them all. Favour
  is deceitful, and beauty is vain but a woman
  that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. Give
  her of the fruit of her hands and let her own
  works praise her in the gates.

Proverbs 3110-31
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• Proverbs 3110 (a) Who can find a virtuous
  woman?

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• Her Biblical Identity
• Her Beautiful Character
• Her Boundless Responsibilities
• Her Bountiful Reward

Proverbs 3124-31