The Rock! 31 But if we judged ourselves rightly, we should not be judged. (9) It is a time of internationalism: religiously (Rev. 20:34-35a). Some Bible teachers view the judgment seat as a place of intense sorrow, a place of terror, and a place where Christ display all the believers sins (or at least those unconfessed) before the entire resurrected and raptured church. 4:8; Rev. Though ones primary focus might be on the future judgments, this study will also cover the judgments of the past and the present because they are related and form a part of the total picture revealed in Scripture. Behold, the days are coming when I will break your strength and the strength of your fathers house so that there will not be an old man in your house. But we need to understand the nature of these rewards to understand the nature of the motivation. was a 1966 graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and a former pastor of 28 years. The awesome fact is that salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ. Though some of them were not living as they should, looking ahead and seeing them in glory brought joy and would bring great rejoicing. But Israel is first gathered at the borders, outside the land of Israel, called in Ezekiel 20:35 the wilderness of the peoples, for judgment, face to face, one by one as sheep pass under the shepherds rod. This evidently takes place after the resurrection of the unbelieving dead from the grave and Hades. The judgment of God is also described in the Bible as a process, not strictly the rendering of a verdict or passing of a sentence. For example, Peter tells us that "the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God" ( 1 Peter 4:17 1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? Charles Lee Feingberg [Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1968], p. 29). (a) The verb is what we call in Greek an aorist subjunctive, and with the basic meaning of this verb, the grammar points to a future act, but not a continuous state. (4) It is a day of destruction and global catastrophes (Joel 1:15; 2:3; 1 Thess. The resurrection of the just mentioned in verse 15 will be followed by the Judgment Seat of Christ or the Bema, the place and time when believers will be examined for rewards or their loss (see discussion below). This is why earlier the Apostle called them fleshly (the Greek sarkikos, adapted to, controlled by the flesh) (3:3). But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? To sin means to miss the mark. In the eternal state there will be no place for that which reminds men of the rebellions of Satan and man with all its wickedness and sorrow (Rev. 22:12).4. 12:7). but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries. Rom. Because of His love, grace and mercy He has not left us without hope and a solution. In actuality, the New Testament reveals six distinct judgments which will impact current and 2:5). See answer (1) Best Answer. It was not a time of punishment where believers are judged for their sins. The victor of a given event, who had participated according to the rules, was led by the judge to the platform called the Bema. The Christian has been in court, condemned, sentenced, and executed in his substitute, Jesus Christ. 4 Who are you to judge the servant of another? 6:2-4; 16:14; 19:14f; Joel 3:2, 9f; Rev. 12:4-11; John 15:1-7). 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 24:31; Ezek. This time he calls it simply, the day of Christ. How Many Times Is The Virgin Mary Mentioned In The Bible? Self-interest in Gods way is legitimate. (13) It is a time of global and universal war, human and angelic (Rev. 0. Key Scriptures: Heb. 8:18-25). Carnality causes broken relationships and pain to those around usour families, friends, associates, and co-workers in the body of Christ (Gal. 1 Cor. (8) The Day of the Lord (Joel 1:15; 2:1; 1 Thess. The elements of remorse, regret, and shame cannot be avoided in an examination of the judgment seat of Christ. Joy will indeed be the predominant emotion of life with the Lord; but I suspect that, when our works are made manifest at the tribunal, some grief will be mixed with the joy, and we shall know shame as we suffer loss. Though the death of Christ does not obliterate the presence of the sin nature and though it is still a powerful enemy (Rom. (NIV). (3) It is an expression and a proof of Gods love (Heb. 18 Samuel Hoyt, The Judgment Seat of Christ in Theological Perspective, Part 2, Bibliotheca Sacra, electronic media. 2 Lewis Sperry Chafer Systematic Theology, Vol. Here each unbelievers eternal destiny is declared and determined with ample proof and reason. The Point: Jesus who is God is our examiner and rewarder. These verses show we cannot come into judgment. It was there Christ paid the penalty for the sin of the world (1 John 2:2). The negative effects involve the following: (1) The loss suffered in 1 Corinthians 3:15 refers to the loss of rewards, not salvation as the verse goes on to make clear. (1) Jacobs Trouble or distress (Jer. (4) Loss of Opportunities. I see one Judge two 2 Final Judgment Seats. Of course we should serve the Lord out of love and for Gods glory, and understanding the nature of rewards will help us do that. For instance, Matthew 7 which tells us not to judge, is immediately followed with the command, Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces (Matt. Will believers experience shame, grief, remorse at the Bema? 25:1-30). And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. 4 Now to the one who works, his wage is not reckoned as a favor, but as what is due. 1:18-21), a revelation man has ignored. Knowing and having the hope of the resurrection and all that this means to the Christian, the Apostle spoke of his commitment to maintain a clear conscience, one cleared by confession and the forsaking of all known sin (1 John 1:9; Prov. (4) Our Spiritual Gifts. God can therefore find no cause for accusing the Christian judicially any more than He can find cause for accusing Jesus Christ. Jn. Also, Matthew 25:21, 23 and Luke 19:17-19 show us our rewards consist of authority over either many things or many cities. Do Those Who Commit Suicide Go To Hell? They, therefore, have no righteousness and cannot be accepted before God, but must be cast into the eternal Lake of Fire. The only exception is the person of Jesus Christ who, through the virgin birth, escaped the sin problem that is normally passed down from generation to generation. Similarly, Paul tells rich people that God gives us richly all things to enjoy. (1 Tim. (1) Christs judgment for sin, dying in the place of the sinner, bearing his sin and judgment on the cross as the sinners substitute. 2:12-14 [note the emphasis on good works]). But man is separated from God by the problem of Sin. Will any punishment be meted out? In other words, it was a reward seat and portrayed a time of rewards or loss of rewards following examination. They teach us the basic cause of discipline is failure to examine and confess known sins because that hinders our fellowship with God. Daniel 9:24-27 shows us that the Tribulation, Daniels Seventieth week, is seven years. Because Scripture declares all men to be sinful. The goal, however, is always to bring us back to Him (Heb. So, much as we see in Romans 1:18f, God turns the world over to the consequences of its choices. The rebels of unbelief must be removed so that only believing Israel will enter into the kingdom (cf. Carnal believers are occupied and controlled by their own self-centered desires (Gal. 1:15). 11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. The Lord performs righteous deedsAnd judgments for all who are oppressed. It came about the next day that Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood about Moses from the morning until the evening. A common misconception which arises from this English translation is that God will mete out a just retribution for sins in the believers life, and some measure of retributive punishment for sins will result.7. The word judgments refers to the decrees or the decisions of God that make up His plan. Gods judgments lead to Gods will, which in turn achieves His purpose. God, knowing our sinful state and having the wisdom to design a plan to bring about our salvation, has made certain decrees, decisions, and judgments to institute His plan. 24:9, 21, 29; Mark 13:19, 24; Rev. I can do nothing on My own initiative. 12:10). Copy. 11:32); in his standing before God, and on the ground that the penalty for all sinpast, present, and future (Col. 2:13)has been borne by Christ as the perfect Substitute, the believer is not only placed beyond condemnation, but being in Christ is accepted in the perfection of Christ (1 Cor. Matthew 24-25 set the chronology and thus the time. 6:17). 25:1-30; Ezek. Eph. This crown is a reward given for witnessing, follow-up, and ministry to others. 2-3). Rather, it is a place where rewards will be given or lost depending on how one has used his or her life for the Lord. But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. The Tribulation judgments (Matt. 2:5). All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God. The Bible teaches us that God loves all people and wants to bring them into a harmonious relationship with Himself. 2:7; 2:11, 17, 26. It is not to judge believers for sin of any kind, confessed or unconfessed. Not only did Christ die for our sin as the Lamb of God (John 1:29), but He died to break the reign of sin in the lives of those who put their trust in Him as their Savior. 2:3f). They could enjoy themselves freely provided they abstained from eating from the one forbidden tree. 4:5; cf. (Rev 20:11-13) The people at the White Throne Judgment have rejected Christ's Sin Atonement & are judged according to the Law. 2:22; 7:14). 2:10f; Rev. 13:8-9). 5:8). garmin vivoactive 3 vs forerunner 45 How much more matters of this life? (2) The Incorruptible Crown (1 Cor. 9:1f; 13:2-3, 11f; Dan. 2 Peter 3:7 But by His word the present This judgment proves them sinners and in need of the righteousness which God freely gives through faith in Jesus Christ. Romans 5:19 For as through the one mans disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. This was the victors crown, the wreath given to the victorious athlete before the judge at the Bema. May the reality of this judgment cause us to carefully reflect on the serious consequences of this passage on a Christ-rejecting world. WebEditor - KJV Only, Dispensational, Bible believer Author has 62 answers and 23.3K answer views 1 y There are three different judgments for people: the judgment seat of Christ the judgment of the nations the great white throne judgment Judgement seat of Christ Saved Christians will not go through any other judgment apart from this one. 3:10). The judgments of this time will grow in intensity and conclude with an awesome display of Gods wrath against a Christ-rejecting world. John 3:16-18: For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. 12:6, 8). Zane Hodges has some good thoughts on this concept: Scripture does not teach us to be uninterested in our own happiness or well-being. This means we must each come to God the same wayas a sinner who recognizes his sinfulness, repudiates any form of human works for salvation, and relies totally on Christ alone by faith alone for our salvation. Of course all sickness, weakness, or suffering is not a product of sin, but it can be and often is (1 Cor. To execute on them the judgment written;This is an honor for all His godly ones.Praise the Lord! (4) It is designed to produce obedience and to protect them against untimely physical death (Heb. 3:11-12. Without the abiding life, the life of faith and obedience to the Savior, we can do nothing (John 15:1-7). Again, there is only one judgment day, but Revelation 20:11-15 tells us the judgment process has two stages. 28:13). Revelation 20:5 and 11-15 show this takes place after the conclusion of the millennium following the doom of Satan and the destruction of heaven and earth, but before the eternal state of the new heavens and earth of Revelation 21:1. This means that, through coidentification with Christ in His death on the cross, the believers sin nature was also judged, crucified, with Christ in His death so that its power has been broken or neutralized. John 12:48 is very pertinent here: He who rejects Me, and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day. 5:11), of ungodly deeds (Jude 15), of deeds of darkness (Rom. For a summary of three major views, let me quote Samuel L. Hoyt from Bibliotheca Sacra. A great deal of confusion exists with respect to the subject of Gods judgments and particularly regarding the final judgment. By my count (with the help of some BibleWorks magic), there are 1,944 verses in Other Bible teachers espouse a mediating position. The Bible declares, we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory (the perfect holiness) of God. In other words, our sin separates us from God who is perfect holiness (righteousness and justice) and who must therefore judge sinful man (Rom. 6-19). What becomes the issue for us today? This word was taken from Isthmian games where the contestants would compete for the prize under the careful scrutiny of judges who would make sure that every rule of the contest was obeyed (cf. This results in the works of the flesh and their awful and fruitless consequences (Gal. God gives us salvation. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Mary is a virgin in the accounts of Matthew (1:16; 18-25) and Luke (1:26-38). 7:6). (1) All the passages dealing with the Bema or rewards are addressed to believers or pertain to believers of the church (Rom. 14 If any mans work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward. When God put Adam and Eve in the garden, He furnished them with every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food (Gen. 2:9). Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city. Reasons for this will be set forth and developed as we study the nature, purpose, and basis for the Bema. 24:17). (12) It is a time of martyrdom of believers (Rev. 11:28-32. It occurs 107 times in the Old Testament, but 93 times in the book of Ezekiel. 12:9; Rom. This is the second death, the lake of fire. They were assembling themselves with other believers and partaking of the Lords supper, but they were out of fellowship with the Lord and were controlled by the sinful nature, the flesh, rather than by the Holy Spirit. Ungodliness is always the source of unrighteousness; ungodliness (turning away from God) leads to idolatry (man worshipping the products of his own mind and hands), and idolatry leads to unchained sensuality. As seen in the above section dealing with self-judgment, the New Testament clearly teaches us that one of the ministries of our heavenly Father is the ministry of loving discipline. The clear emphasis of Scripture is that the events of Revelation 6-19 constitute a time of Gods special judgment poured out upon the earth. Whats the basis on which the Bema is conducted? 8:13; 1 Cor. Paul teaches us that the varied forms of the awful sinfulness of man have their beginnings in the rejection of the revelation of God in creation. Because of this, He cannot have fellowship with anyone who does not have perfect righteousness (Hab. For the non-Christian, the one who has never trusted in the person and work of Jesus Christ, it should cause him to want to search out the truth regarding Jesus Christ, to embrace Him in faith as the Savior from his sin and eternal doom. It is called white because it will be the supreme and undimmed display of the perfect righteousness and justice of God to all mankind. It is a doctrine often ignored or, when taught, it is misrepresented because of the term judgment that is used in translating the Greek text. He did not whip the losers.8 We might add, neither did he sentence them to hard labor. Known sin in ones life causes a loss of intimate fellowship with the Lord with the consequent loss of His joy and peace (Ps. It is used of the seven diadems of the Beast in Revelation 12:3 and 13:1. We will each be enthralled with God and our glorified state. 12 Zane Hodges, Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society, Autumn, 1991, p. 7. Rom. There are a number of passages that refer to the negative aspects of the Bema which need to be mentioned and explained. Compare also Romans 16:20; Ephesians 1:20-21; Colossians 2:14-15; Hebrews 2:14-17. This vision of the Great White Throne describes the last and final judgment of history. There used to be a sign in the registrars office at Dallas Seminary which read, Salvation is by grace Graduation is by works.. (7) Loss of Physical Health and Vitality. Hebrews 10:17-18 And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more. As they refused to follow the light, they were brought to folly in their thoughtsbecame vain in their [corrupt] reasonings, and their foolish [senseless] heart was darkened. The intellectual revolt against what they knew to be right was attended by a darkening of the whole understanding. The point is the Great White Throne Judgment does not occur on earth or in heaven as we know it, but somewhere beyond, perhaps in extreme outer space. 5:3; Rev. If you have not, may I encourage you to read Appendix A, investigate the claims of Christ, and receive Him as your Savior by faith. 26:19).5. I believe we have two books here. 10:14) and loved of God as Christ is loved (John 17:23).9, Again, Chafer writes concerning the Bema, It cannot be too strongly emphasized that the judgment is unrelated to the problem of sin, that it is more for the bestowing of rewards than the rejection of failure.10. 7:25; Rev. He said to the judges, Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for man but for the, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and, the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries. Those who hold this view believe that the Christian will stand glorified before Christ without his old sin nature. 6:1-5; 2 Thess. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;Lovingkindness and truth go before You. (1) The sea, a reference to all those who died at sea and were not buried in the earth. Revelation 22:12 Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done. Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the Lord;For He is coming to judge the earth. He wanted to walk blamelessly, to keep short accounts with God, and to stay in close communion with the Lord lest he should become disqualified for rewards at the Bema (cf. They may include galaxies of the universe. 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