Our lives influence others, so we should not just do whatever we please.

Never underestimate the power of the grace of God and the Spirit of God in some one’s life.

We should serve God because He loves us, we love Him and also because He promises rewards.

Make your life count.

1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.

1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also:2 On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come.

Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.

21 Peter asked Jesus, "What about him, Lord?" 22 Jesus replied, "If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You follow me."

We are not our own bosses to live or die as we ourselves might choose.

And now, dear children, continue to live in fellowship with Christ so that when he returns, you will be full of courage and not shrink back from him in shame.

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.11 Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are well known to God, and I also trust are well known in your consciences.

10 For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in our bodies.11 It is because we know this solemn fear of the Lord that we work so hard to persuade others. God knows we are sincere, and I hope you know this, too.

But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

then He adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."

Dear brothers and sisters, not many of you should become teachers in the church, for we who teach will be judged by God with greater strictness.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,

And now, dear children, continue to live in fellowship with Christ so that when he returns, you will be full of courage and not shrink back from him in shame.