Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. 1 Corinthians 15:58.
Nimes 28-10-20.
 
There are so many indisputable facts from the scripture that the resurrection of our Lord Jesus is designed to prepare us for what we are to expect, either as a living saint or by those who are now at sleep in the Lord (behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:51) at his second coming. It is going to be a glorious spiritual body, a house not made with hands, not as Adam was formerly made and formed from the dust of the earth, but this time around, it is an inheritance, in-corruptible and undefiled, reserved in heaven. It is eternal in the heavens, a spiritual body: if there is a natural body, just as we are now in the earthly tabernacle (2 Corinthians 5:1), there is also a spiritual body which God shall give us afterward (1 Corinthians 15:54): let us therefore seek grace for efforts, that by our industry and employment in the Lord, whether we sleep or awake, we shall be acceptable before him. It is not only the good works and labor which are done according to the rules of employment in pure motives as unto the Lord that shall be rewarded by him: but bad and every evil works shall be rewarded as well (behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give to everyman according as his works shall be. Revelation 22:12), if any should continue to sow into the flesh, they shall reap corruption, though the deed of men pleasers done to be seen and praised by others is already rewarded: 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 5:9-10.                                                                      
Many of the works people are doing today in the name of the Lord are con, cruel, deceitful, and evil: worst, they are below the expectations of men and of God (if the Lord Jesus is willing, I hope to send Timothy to you soon for a visit. Then he can cheer me up by telling me how you are getting along. I have no one else like Timothy, who genuinely cares about your welfare. All the others care only for themselves and not for what matters to Jesus Christ. Philippians 2:19-21) in such a way that their fate is already sealed eternally (the sins of some are obvious, reaching the place of judgment ahead of them; the sins of others trail behind them. In the same way, good deeds are obvious, and even those that are not obvious cannot remain hidden forever. 1 Timothy 5:24-25), such that shall be burnt and destroyed altogether in hell –fire, away from the presence of the Lord, as he will say unto them, depart from me, I know you not, you that works iniquities. Matthew 7:17-21.
 
Again, Apostle Paul exhorts the Corinthian brethren to be resolutely and dutifully firm and unwavering; to stand their ground in the Lord and in his work with the sure assurance that their labor is not in vain. From the text before us, there are two things we should clearly see together: (a) that the brethren should keep their ranks and different position in the Lord (for as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teaches, on teaching; or he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it with simplicity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness. Romans 12:4-8): they should not give room for false brethren, the tares among the wheat to corrupt them (and that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in secretly to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: to whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. Galatians 2:4-5), neither should they give up to any spiritual or physical worldly pressure and persuasion, challenges, inconveniencies or difficulties designed by the enemy to influence their loyalty and faithfulness (who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the daylong; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:35-39) to the end, lest they should become like Demas who abandoned the works of the Lord and his co-worker and laborer (Paul), having loved the present world. 2 Timothy 4:10. Believer should not seek to engage beyond the measure of line given to them by the Lord, neither should they intrude into another’s office or ministry, lest they should destroy the works of the Lord in other’s lives and be disqualified for doing the wrong thing by spiritual intrusion and disorderliness: but we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you: for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ: not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labors; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, to preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand. But he that glories, let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commended himself is approved, but whom the Lord commended. 2 Corinthians 10:13-18.
 
We should all desire spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 14:1) according to the scriptures, but let no one among the true children of God be found to give any false impression of the Spirit operation and manifestation in them lest they should seems as one mocking and despising the Spirit of grace (whose damnation is sure. Job 12:16): neither should anyone seek for whatever reason for diabolical power of counterfeit manifestations of the spirit of Satan working miracles to bewitch others in his operation and occupation for the Lord – light and darkness have no communion. Acts 8:9-10.
 
Let us be content with our present positional and holy relationship with the Lord as individual should focus on personal spiritual growth: to continue in personal and group soul winning activities, intercessory prayer meetings, and diligent involvement in every other activities in the local church for the Lord’s sake: much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: and those members of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked. That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. 1 Corinthians 12:22-25.
 
(B) The apostle exhorts the Corinthians brethren again to always abounding in the works of God, forasmuch as their labor is not in vain in the Lord. They should not remove their hands from the plough to look back (and another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. Luke 9:61-62), but rather than to continue increasingly labourious in the glorious, honorable, worthy and rewarding works of the Lord: the works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. His work is honorable and glorious: and his righteousness endures forever. Psalms 111:2-3. It is a faithful promise that all our labor is not in vain (for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: that ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. Hebrews 6:10-12), but we also learn from the scripture that some works shall be destroyed without any reward, but the worker shall be saved, yet as by fire, because of the inferior and unacceptable materials and quality of his work. 1 Corinthians 3:12-15. So, some people shall be saved but shall loose the reward of their works and labor in the Lord, while some will both lose their soul and works done for the Lord in hell for eternity. Note: as we labor for the Lord in our zeal for his name’s sake, let us also see that we labor on ourselves to abound in everything that has to do with godliness and holiness that we might enter into his rest, lest we should labor in vain; lest any be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. We should be sober minded to take heed to ourselves and to the scriptures to continue in them (know you not that they which run in a race run all, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beats the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27), lest after we have wrought for the Lord here on earth, we should not be cast away before him at his appearing and kingdom. Note: if we are the Lord’s laborers, workmanship in Christ Jesus unto every good works which God has ordained that we should walk in them – laborers together with God to save souls; to wash the feet of the saints; to visit the poor and the fatherless, and the windows in their affliction, let us therefore be righteous in his works, and holy in his ways, even as the Lord (the Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. Psalms 145:17) who has called to work together with him is. Is our Lord not the King of saints? Are we not called to be saints – called to be holy in all manner of conversation, even as he who has called us is holy? Are we not made by Christ as kings and priests unto God his Father, having washed us from all our sins by his own blood? Should we allow sin to reign now in our mortal body in a false hope to reign with him thereafter, notwithstanding our good works of faith and labor of love? Should any be presently living corruptible lifestyle and hope to receive the inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled, reserved in heaven for us?  If we have respect and living hope for the recompense of reward just as Moses once did and shown by action of faith, should we not make right the choice of faith to walk after the example of the action of Moses faith as we position ourselves for the reward which is laid up for us in heaven? By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. Hebrews 11: 24-27. Should we also not come out of the world as Moses left Egypt to identify himself with the godly people that call on the Lord out of a pure heart? You cannot be occupied for the Lord in the world without having first come out Egypt (world) from all its appearances and compromises, if otherwise, your work is futile: friendship with the world is enmity against God. James 4:4. None can keep his religion pure and undefiled if in any way he is being spotted with the world (James 1:27) in any of the lusts therein (1 John 2:15-17): it is an open betrayal of the love we indicate and profess to have for our heavenly Father who is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works. Therefore, let Israel of God engage for him in holiness and true righteousness, to present their bodies unto him as a living sacrifice, holy and  acceptable unto him in non -conformity to the world, which is their reasonable service. Let them be just and merciful without respect of person or partiality among their brethren in the church and in the world, among whom they shine as lights. They should walk before the Lord and do every good works in his name in all lowliness of mind, meekness and humility, without the left hand made aware of what the right hand has done. This is the sum of their personal and present spiritual labour as they move closer everyday to obtain their possession, the inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that does not fades away, reserved in heaven for them. 1 Peter 1: 3-4.