Rewards in grace are anchored in the generosity of Jesus Christ. This is not a sentimental slogan—it is the dividing line between the Kingdom of Grace and every system that would put you back under the yoke of Law and human effort.
The Law: A System of Demanding and Failing
The Law operates on a simple but devastating principle: “If you keep the law, you can have eternal life.” The Law requires perfect obedience, making righteousness and eternal life contingent on your own effort. But Scripture is unambiguous—no one can meet this standard. The Law exposes our inability, not to motivate us to try harder, but to drive us to the end of ourselves. If you insist on standing before God on the basis of your own merit, you will find only condemnation and the impossibility of reward.
Grace: Christ as Our Righteousness and Reward
Grace does not lower the standard; it provides the only solution. Grace declares: “You cannot keep the Law. You need a propitiation. You need someone else to be your righteousness.” God has given Christ as our propitiation, so that righteousness is received as a gift, not earned by striving. This is not a mere legal fiction or a temporary covering. Christ Himself is our righteousness—His standing is given to us, not as a wage for our performance, but as a gift rooted in His generosity.
To accept this is to accept the end of all boasting. The reward system in the Kingdom of Grace is not a transaction for your labor; it is the outflow of Christ’s sufficiency. The moment you receive Him, you receive everything: righteousness, eternal life, and reward—all secured, all irrevocable.
What Is Lost If We Return to Law?
If you allow the logic of Law or merit to creep back in, you lose everything that matters. You forfeit the gift of righteousness and the assurance of sonship. You make reward uncertain, justification provisional, and inheritance conditional. You turn the Father’s house into a wage office and reduce sonship to servitude. This is not a secondary matter—it is the very heart of the Gospel. To mix Law with Grace is to undermine justification itself and to rob Christ of His glory as the sole ground of our acceptance and reward.
Sons and Heirs: The True Fruit of Justification
Justification is not merely the cancellation of your debt; it is the declaration that you are a son and an heir. Through Christ, you have the right to everything in the Father’s house. You are not a servant hoping for a tip, but a co-heir with Christ, sharing in all that is His. This is not a future possibility, but a present reality secured by His finished work.
“But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” (Romans 4:5)
“And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ…” (Romans 8:17)
The Only Secure Foundation
Everything in the Christian life flows from this: Christ is your righteousness, your reward, your inheritance. To look anywhere else is to abandon the only secure foundation. Rest in His generosity. Stand in the full assurance that your place, your reward, and your inheritance are secured—not by your effort, but by His finished work.
Anything less is not the Gospel.
