12/16/2023 0 Comments The judgment seat of christ video![]() When we yield to him and let him do what he wants, he rewards us and when we don’t, he strips us of the potential rewards. Since we are God’s possession, he has the privilege to use our bodies to do whatever he wants. We have been bought with a price and our bodies are now the temple of God. After we were saved, we were no longer our own. You see, the judgment seat of Christ is a literal judgment and at this judgment we are judged for the things done in our bodies whether those things are good or bad!! The reason that we are judged is simple. Rom 14:10 says, “But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.” And 2 Cor 5:10 says, “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.” You can actually find the phrase “the judgment seat of Christ” in two places in your Bible, Rom 14:10 and 2 Cor 5:10. Notice that the Lord calls this sacrifice our reasonable service. You and I are expected to serve the Lord as a living sacrifice. ![]() This is the Lord’s judgment of our service to him. That’s because most Christians don’t know about this judgment that all Christians will face right after the rapture. So we never escape His graciousness in the way in which we fulfill our responsibilities.The Judgment Seat of Christ is one of the greatest doctrines in the Bible to get you to serve the Lord after you get saved. But like the question, “Why then do we pray?” remember what Paul says: “I worked harder than everyone else, but it was the grace of God working in me” (1 Cor. And if there’s any moment of embarrassment I envisage, I think I might be inclined to say, “Lord, if I’d really understood this, I would have wanted to serve you even better.” I would say, especially to a Christian who is nervous and fearful about that final assessment, that we should always remember that just as our justification is by grace, that assessment will also be by grace. You say, “Lord, what did I ever do? I mean I know I did great things for Ligonier, but what did I ever do to deserve this?” I envisage Him, theologically at least, saying, “Nathan, will you never understand it is all entirely of my grace?” Then He puts you in charge of Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra. So I imagine ourselves standing before the judgment seat of Christ-so there’s you and myself, Nathan-and the Lord assesses our lives. But what really strikes me is that the result of the assessment is out of all proportion to any service the individual renders. The only relationship between the minas and the cities is the number, which I think is a little indication that you need to connect these two things. What’s the assessment? Well, he says “How about me making you mayor of ten cities?” That’s the language Jesus uses, putting people in charge of ten cities. Say you’ve been given five minas, and you made five more. When they come to give account to the master, there is a relationship between the master’s assessment of their lives and the service they rendered him. Here are these servants, and their master gives them a certain sum of money, and they all do different things with them (Luke 19:11-27). I personally have found the parable that Jesus tells very helpful in this respect. I think one might say that every believer may look forward to the crown of righteousness, but each crown may be differently shaped. He knows he is justified, but he’s looking forward to receiving the crown of righteousness. Paul, for example, looks forward to receiving the crown of righteousness. The New Testament also teaches that God assesses us as we actually are.įor example, Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:10, “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ to receive what is due to us for what we have done in the body.” And there are a number of New Testament passages that indicate, yes, there will be an assessment of our lives. There is an absoluteness about its completeness and finality. There is an absoluteness about the perfection of that righteousness. But if you then ask, “Well how is that?” the answer is, “Because the only righteousness with which I’m justified is Jesus Christ’s righteousness.” What that means–if you can begin to take it in–is that when you stand before God you are able to say, “I am as righteous before You as Your Son Jesus Christ.” Now that can sound very arrogant. ![]() ![]() First of all, let me try and put it this way: When we are justified, we are justified with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
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