Revelation 22:12-13

12 Behold, I am coming soon, and I shall bring My wages and rewards with Me, to repay and render to each one just what his own actions and his own work merit.

• For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God; Not because of works [not the fulfillment of the Law’s demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.] Ephesians 2:8-9
• But God’s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of] many. Romans 5:15
• But then Law came in, [only] to expand and increase the trespass [making it more apparent and exciting opposition]. But where sin increased and abounded, grace (God’s unmerited favor) has surpassed it and increased the more and superabounded, Romans 5:20
• Grace is a free gift. We believe and have been made the Bride of Christ only by free Grace. We did absolutely no work on our own, even believing, to receive this Grace and be saved.
• Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking under the power and influence of the [Holy] Spirit of God can [ever] say, Jesus be cursed! And no one can [really] say, Jesus is [my] Lord, except by and under the power and influence of the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:3
• Jesus freely gave Grace on the Cross to those  who were killing Him and as we have studied so often, Jesus never changes. Even our righteous actions do not deserve pay, but Grace pays us anyway.
• We have also studied that we will not only rule with Jesus, but that we will judge with Him.
• Do you not know that the saints (the believers) will [one day] judge and govern the world? And if the world [itself] is to be judged and ruled by you, are you unworthy and incompetent to try [such petty matters] of the smallest courts of justice? 1 Corinthians 6:2
• Then I saw thrones, and sitting on them were those to whom authority to act as judges and to pass sentence was entrusted. Also I saw the souls of those who had been slain with axes [beheaded] for their witnessing to Jesus and [for preaching and testifying] for the Word of God, and who had refused to pay homage to the beast or his statue and had not accepted his mark or permitted it to be stamped on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived again and ruled with Christ (the Messiah) a thousand years. Revelation 20:4
• No ones own personal works will ever measure up. The reward of works, even good works, is death. What Jesus brings is Grace and His grace will superabound anything that any person has done.
• Now think of this here, we are told that we will judge with Jesus. Now if this is true, how could we ever judge anyone guilty when we have been set free solely by Grace and not by our works?

13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last (the Before all and the End of all).

• Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega and He was very, very successful on the Cross.
• Well then, as one man’s trespass [one man’s false step and falling away led] to condemnation for all men, so one Man’s act of righteousness [leads] to acquittal and right standing with God and life for all men. Romans 5:18
• Jesus will reward people based on Grace and every knee will bow and every tongue will confess the Truth and the Truth is what will set us all free.