TOPIC: Five Heavenly Crowns

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CROWNS

  1. THE VICTOR’S CROWN
    • Incorruptible Crown
    • Given to those who learn how to master their sin nature.
    • I Corinthians 9:25-27 And everyone who competes for the prize (exercises self-control) is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
    • Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
    • Isaiah 40:31 But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
    • I Peter 5:Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time
  2. THE CROWN OF REJOICING
    • Reserved for soul winners.
    • I Thessalonians 2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Is it not even you in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?
    • Luke 15:10 Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
    • Daniel 12:2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
      Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt.
    • Proverbs 11:30  The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
    • John 4:36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
  3. THE CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
    • Given to those who look forward to the rapture and ultimately His return.
    • II Timothy 4:8 Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.
    • Zechariah 12:10 (Jewish) then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
  4. CROWN OF LIFE
    • Is the reward given to those who endure trials for Christ’s sake: be faithful even to death.
    • James 1:12 Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
    • Rev 2:10 Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

  5. THE CROWN OF GLORY
    • Given to spiritual shepherds – Faithful ministers of the Word.
    • I Peter 5:4 and when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.