Verse 8
When the Lord returns we will receive our reward at the judgment seat of Christ. In the meantime we should be patient and encouraged knowing that our reward lies ahead, as God has promised (cf. Matthew 6:20). The rich, who behave as typical rich people, either do not have or have lost sight of this hope. They live only to accumulate as much reward here and now as they can.
". . . the finish line is just ahead: the important point is not to give up now and lose all that for which one has already suffered." [Note: Ibid., p. 184.]
"Anything that must happen, and could happen today, is in a very legitimate sense at hand." [Note: Hodges, The Epistle . . ., p. 111.]
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