This is one of my
favorite verses that I believe backs up my contention that Heaven more
resembles a Capitalist system than it does a Socialist system.
The point here being
that not everyone is equal in Heaven. We
don't all get equal honor and glory. If
we accept Jesus, we all get to go to Heaven,
but once there we all get different honor and rewards based on the
service that we provided to God.
Mark 10:35-40(NKJV)
Then James and John,
the sons of Zebedee, came to Him, saying, “Teacher, we want You to do for us
whatever we ask.”
And He said to
them, “What do you want Me to do for you?”
They said to Him, “Grant us that
we may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on Your left, in Your glory.”
But Jesus said to
them, “You do not
know what you ask. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and be baptized
with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
They said to Him,
“We are able.” So Jesus said to them, “You will indeed drink the cup that
I drink, and with the baptism I am baptized with you will be baptized;
but to sit on My right hand and
on My left is not Mine to give, but it is for those for whom it is prepared.”
Notice that Jesus
didn't say "hey wait a minute.
There are no special seats in Heaven.
We are all equal". Jesus
didn't say that at all did He?
Nope. Jesus acknowledged that
there are different honors in Heaven.
Jesus just didn't have the authority to assign those honors.
So if that is the
system that God has in place in Heaven then why wouldn't He favor the same
system here? I personally believe that
He does!
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