![]() This is the second death, the lake of fire and if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire” (Rev. Then death and hades were thrown into the lake of fire. And the sea gave up the dead in it, death and hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what they had done. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done. Also another book was opened, which is the book of Life. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. These are the words of the one who preached the Sermon on the Mount, who raised the dead, who spoke to the storms and they were stilled.Ĭonsider how the disciple Jesus loved, the apostle John, describes that same day in the book of Revelation: “Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat upon it from his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. This is what Jesus the Son of God claimed. Thus the Christ who has watched mankind, does know infallibly who are his own sheep and who are the goats, and in that tremendous day he will separate them, one from the other. He must drive them through different gates into different fields. There are certain times in the course of a year when a shepherd has to separate his goats from his sheep. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left” (Matt. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. At the end of his life he still speaks about it even expanding his description of that event: “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. “All mankind are going to appear before me,” he claims, “and I will determine their eternal destinies.” Those are the words of an egotistical maniac, or they are the words of the living God, and all the despising and rejection which Jesus endured for three years did nothing to change that conviction. There, right at the beginning of the New Testament, and at the commencement of the ministry of this rabbi from Nazareth, we are being confronted with a self-consciousness of staggering proportions. ![]() Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Christ will have his tribunal! You think of the climactic words of Christ in the Sermon on the Mount. Paul is referring to the tribunal on which the Roman governor sat to hear accusation and defence of an accused person standing before him. ![]() Our text makes this fact starkly clear: “we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ” (v.10). THERE IS A JUDGMENT SEAT BEFORE WHICH WE MUST APPEAR. May God help us to face up to them and their implications for our entire lives.ġ. Think of it! This is the theme of these words before us. A day is coming when he will confront us and pass his judgment upon us. Every individual possess a real freedom which true responsibility entails, and Almighty God himself is going to evaluate our relationship with him, and with one another, and how we have spent our years. But the Lord has made man alone in his image and likeness, and so we, even more than the angels themselves, are the most accountable beings in the universe. Compared to Jehovah God we are like insignificant specks of dust, sustained throughout our brief existence entirely by his providential care. We men and women are going to be answerable to our God for the things we have done while in the body, whether good or bad. “On the day of judgment,” said Christ, “men will render account for every careless word they utter,” (Matt. One day every single one of us is going to be held personally accountable by the Creator of the universe for our entire lives. There can be few themes as solemn as this. Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men.” ![]() 2 Corinthians 5:10 & 11 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due to him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
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