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PAUL’S VIEW OF JUDGMENT, IS IT YOURS?

“THEREFORE WE MAKE IT OUR AIM,
WHETHER PRESENT OR ABSENT, TO BE WELL PLEASING TO HIM.
FOR WE MUST ALL APPEAR BEFORE
THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST,
THAT EACH ONE MAY RECEIVE THE THINGS DONE IN THE BODY,
ACCORDING TO WHAT HE HAS DONE,
WHETHER GOOD OR BAD.”
2 Cor. 5:9-11

“FOR WE SHALL ALL STAND BEFORE
THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST.
FOR IT IS WRITTEN:
"AS I LIVE, SAYS THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME,
AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL CONFESS TO GOD.“
SO THEN EACH OF US SHALL GIVE ACCOUNT
OF HIMSELF TO GOD.” Rom. 14:10-13

“AND THERE IS NO CREATURE HIDDEN FROM HIS SIGHT,
BUT ALL THINGS ARE NAKED AND OPEN TO THE EYES OF HIM

TO WHOM WE MUST GIVE ACCOUNT.” Heb. 4:3

“…LET US HEAR THE CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER:
FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, FOR THIS IS THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN.

FOR GOD WILL BRING EVERY WORK INTO JUDGMENT,
INCLUDING EVERY SECRET THING, WHETHER GOOD OR EVIL.”

Solomon in Eccl. 12:12-14

Considering the repetitious theme of scripture above, one can easily see that there is
heavy support for the concept of the Lord also being plainly presented as our Judge.
Having become our Savior, our King and our Lawgiver on earth as followers of the
Lord Jesus Christ, it should not surprise us that He is now going to assume the role in
eternity as our Judge. What is it that He will judge? It is the quality of life that we
have lived as Christians. That life should be measurable.

1. QUESTION: DO I KNOW THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS MY SAVIOR ?

The answer is yes if you can look back and enumerate the various changes He has
brought into your life since you accepted Him. Lordship is measured by how much
we give over to Him, not by how much we receive from Him. Lordship produces
measurable repentance in the life of the born-again sinner. We immediately begin to
bring forth “fruits worthy of repentance” (Acts 26:20). Lordship produces a tangible
life filled with evidence of “diligence, clearing of yourselves, indignation against sin,
Godly fear, vehement desire, zeal, vindication (making things right)” (2 Cor. 7:11).

2. QUESTION: DO I KNOW THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AS MY KING ?

The answer is yes if you truly live like you have been “translated out of the power of
darkness and into the Kingdom of the Son of His love” ( Col.1:13). The answer is yes
if you are no longer a “friend of the world” (Jam. 4:4). The answer is yes if you are
“transformed rather than conformed” (Rom. 12:2). The answer is yes if you confess to
be “a stranger and pilgrim on earth” (Heb. 11:13). The answer is yes if we plainly
declare that “Here we have no continuing city for we seek the one that is to come”
(Heb.13:14). The answer is yes if we declare that “our citizenship is in Heaven, from
whom we eagerly wait for the Savior the Lord Jesus Christ” (Phil. 3:20).
The answer is yes if we confess as did Jesus, “My Kingdom is not of this world”
(Jn. 18:36).
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