Will You Be "Rewarded or Destroyed"!? Despise God's Word-Destroyed! Fear God's Word-Rewarded! A Point To Ponder . . .

The gavel of Final Judgment based on the reward of despising or fearing of GOD'S WORD!

A Devotional for Tuesday November 18, 2025

From the pen of John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress

Rewarded or Destroyed[!?]

“For verily I say unto you, ‘Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise

pass from the law, till all be fulfilled’”

Matthew 5: 18 9 (KJV).

[God’s Word] . . . is to be called a fearful Word because of the truth and faithfulness of it. The Scriptures cannot be broken. Here they are called the Scriptures of truth, the true sayings of God, and the fear of the Lord. For that every jot and tittle thereof is forever settled in heaven and stand more steadfast than doth the world. “Heaven and earth,” said Christ, “shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” (Matthew 24:35). Those, therefore, that are favored by the Word of God, those are favored indeed, and that with the favor that no man can turn away. But those that by the word of the Scriptures are condemned, those can no man justify and set quit in the sight of God. Therefore, what is bound by the text, is bound, and what is released by the text, is released. Also, the bond and released is unalterable (Daniel 10: 21; Revelation 19: 9; Matthew 24: 35; Psalm 119: 89; John 10: 35). This, therefore, calleth upon God’s people to stand more in fear of the Word of God than of all the terrors of the world. There wants even in the hearts of God’s people a greater reverence of the Word of God than to this day appears among us. And this let me say, that want of reverence of the Word is the ground of all disorders that are in the heart, life, conversation, and in Christian communion. Besides, the want of reverence of the Word lays men open to the fearful displeasure of God: “Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed; but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded” (Proverbs 13: 13).