The Wage Paid

THE WAGE PAID 

LIFE & HOPE STREET MINISTRIES 

Equipping the saints to walk by Kingdom Principle 

Evg. Bradley Sliedrecht

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The Wage Paid 

Mark 16:17 (MEV) These signs will accompany those who believe: In My name 

they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 

Let's look at this scripture with Mathew 7:21-23 (MEV) which says, “Not everyone 

who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does 

the will of My Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, 

Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and 

done many wonderful works in Your name?’ 23 But then I will declare to them, ‘I 

never knew you. Depart from Me, you who pracce evil.’[a]. 

We need to understand the word will here because we assume that doing all 

these things, prophesying, casng out demons and wonderful works are God's will 

and they are, But what is His ulmate will for mankind? 

1 Timothy 2:1-6 (MEV) Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplicaons, 

prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone, 2 for kings and for all who 

are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and 

honesty, 3 for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who 

desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 There is 

one God and one mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, 6 who 

gave Himself as a ransom for all. This was the tesmony given at the proper me. 

The word “will” is the GK word theléma, Strongs 2307. 

Usage: an act of will, will; plur: wishes, desires. 

HELPS Word-studies 

2307 thélēma (from 2309 /thélō, "to desire, wish") – properly, a desire (wish), 

oen referring to God's "preferred-will," i.e. His "best-offer" to people which can 

be accepted or rejected. 

[Note the -ma suffix, focusing on the result hoped for with the parcular desire 

(wish). 2307 (thélēma) is nearly always used of God, referring to His preferred-will. 

Occasionally it is used of man (cf. Lk 23:25; Jn 1:13.] 

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God's will is that we be healed, delivered restored, made whole, and made well 

but His preferred will is that we do not sll go to hell being healed of our diseases 

but that we be in eternal relaonship with Him, in heaven. God's ulmate will is 

that all men be saved. 

By this, we can conclude that mankind can be persuaded and have confidence 

(believe, GK - pisteuō) in the fact that God is God our healer, God our deliverer, and 

God our provider, etc, But was not persuaded that He is God our righteousness, 

Jehovah-Tsidkenu having connued to pracce evil (GK 458 ANOMIA meaning - 

lawlessness, iniquity, disobedience, sin). 

If we do not know God as God our righteousness, then God does not know us. 


458 anomía (from 1 /A "not" and 3551 /nómos, "law") – properly, without law; 

lawlessness; the uter disregard for God's law (His writen and living Word). 

458 /anomía ("lawlessness") includes the end-impact of law breaking – i.e. its 

negave influence on a person's soul (status before God). 

3 John 2-4 (MEV) says; Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you 

may be in good health, even as your soul is well. 3 For I greatly rejoiced when 

brothers came and tesfied of the truth that is in you, just as you walk in the 

truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. 

Mathew 16:24-27 (MEV) Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone will come 

aer Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 25 For 

whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will 

find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his 

own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? 27 For the Son of 

Man shall come with His angels in the glory of His Father, and then He will repay 

every man according to his works. 

The word Soul is the Strongs GK 5590, Transliteraon: psuché 


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5590 psyxḗ (from psyxō, "to breathe, blow" which is the root of the English words 

"psyche," "psychology") – soul (psyche); a person's disnct identy (unique 

personhood), i.e. individual personality. 

5590 (psyxē) corresponds exactly to the OT 5315 /phágō ("soul"). The soul is the 

direct aermath of God breathing (blowing) His gi of life into a person, making 

them an ensouled being. 

We may prophesy, cast out demons, and do many wonderful works in Jesus' 

name, But if we have not looked aer our own soul, we will reap the wages of sin. 

Psalm 145:20 (MEV) The Lord preserves all those who love Him, but all the wicked 

He will destroy. 

Hebrews 10:26-30 (MEV) For if we willfully connue to sin aer we have received 

the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a 

fearful expectaon of judgment and fiery indignaon, which will devour the 

adversaries. 28 Anyone who despised Moses’ law died without mercy in the 

presence of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severe a punishment do 

you suppose he deserves, who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has 

regarded the blood of the covenant that sancfied him to be a common thing, and 

has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is 

Mine,” says the Lord, “I will repay.”[a] And again He says, “The Lord will judge His 

people.” 

The payment or wage for the working of sin is death. Death is not a punishment 

for sin, but a fair wage. Romans 6:23 (MEV) For the wages of sin is death, but the 

gi of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

Prayer will not save your soul, the soluon to sin remains unchanged even if you 

are acvely raising the dead. “Repent and be bapzed, every one of you, in the 

name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you shall receive the gi of 

the Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who 

are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call” Acts 2:38-39 (MEV). 


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The Church has gone from hyper-grace to hyper-power and must come to a 

place of balance BUT lean to righteousness. 

Jesus told his disciples in Luke 10:18-20 (MEV) He said to them, “I saw Satan as 

lightning fall from heaven. 19 Look, I give you authority to trample on serpents 

and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. And nothing shall by any 

means hurt you. 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice that the spirits are subject to you, 

but rather rejoice that your names are writen in heaven.” 

To know God as God our Righteousness is to accept His sacrifice for sin and sin 

no more. 

I pray this has blessed and encouraged you, or at the very least provoked you to 

righteousness. 

Evg. Bradley Sliedrecht

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