God's Economy: God's "economy" refers to how He accomplishes His purposes through grace and resurrection power His goal is to produce the church as the fullness of Christ He is working Christ into believers and building His life into the church This operates by grace, not human effort Our Accountability: We are "accountable" for participating in God's economy through NT ministry This means distributing the unsearchable riches of Christ to other believers It builds up and edifies the church, Christ's body Our work in this will be tested by fire at the judgment seat of Christ Whatever remains is imperishable and will be rewarded We should judge our flesh now and not cling to temporary things Enemies of the Gospel: Enemies of the gospel try to make believers fear God's refining fire They portray it as punishment rather than a blessing But we should desire for Christ to burn away all that is not of Him So we can fully gain Him and have our hope completely set on Him True Ministry: Ministry should flow from what renews and satisfies us in Christ Not dutiful sacrifice or trying to appear spiritual As we enjoy Christ, He flows through us to comfort and edify others Our participation in this is itself a reward Gaining Christ: Those who swerve from proclaiming Christ damage faith They avoid judging themselves and can't fathom suffering loss But we count all as rubbish to gain Christ And will rejoice at Christ being revealed in us as imperishable In summary, God produces Christ in us by grace. We build up His body by sharing Christ. Our focus now is gaining Him. One day all that remains will be His glorious imperishable life in us. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOMK5p4Cja4

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