Verily, I say unto you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live.įor as the Father hath life in Himself, so hath He given the Son to have life in Himself,Īnd hath given authority to execute judgment because He is the Son of Man. Listen to the word of the Lord Jesus in the fifth chapter of John: It is a note reiterated, emphasized, sounded again and again. That is not alone, I say, in the apostle Paul. For we must all appear before the bēma of the Lord Jesus Christ". "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. And the lost sinner doing despite to the Spirit of grace and trampling underfoot the blood of the covenant and saying "no" to Christ and "no" to God and "no" to the church and "no" to the preacher and "no" to appeal of the evangelist and "no" to this one tonight, he also is moving toward the great final judgment day of Almighty God. The Christian with Psalms on his lips and with praises in his heart is pilgrimaging to the great judgment day of Almighty God. That poor man dressed in rags and barefoot is walking to the great judgment day of Almighty God. That rich man with splendid equipage is driving to the judgment day of Almighty God. That old man with his cane is tottering toward the great judgment day of Almighty God. That you with elastic tread is striding to the judgment day of Almighty God. The little babe in the cradle reaching up its tiny arms is reaching toward the judgment day of Almighty God. Hebrews 9:27 could be used as one of the great refrains of the holy revelation of God: "It is appointed unto men once to die, and after that the judgment." We shall all appear before the judgment bar of God. We shall receive the just recompense of the rewards of our life, and there is no escape. We shall receive the garments we have woven. We shall receive the estates we have purchased. We shall all be there, all of us, and each one of us shall receive from the hands of God according to what he hath done. There’s not any note that is sounded more constantly, reiterated more often, emphasized more earnestly, than this note in the Bible that some day all of us – all of us shall some day stand at the judgment bar of Almighty God. Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men".
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men but we are made manifest unto God, and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences. Wherefore we labor that, whether present or absent, we might be accepted of Him.įor 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. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. Now He that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.įor we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
All right, together:įor we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.įor in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven, But let’s read it all together: the fifth chapter of the second Corinthian letter, the first eleven verses, first eleven. This morning the pastor preached through the eighth verse, and the message tonight is in the tenth and the eleventh verses: The Judgment Seat of Christ. We’re going to read the first eleven verses. Now, may we turn to the fifth chapter of the second Corinthian letter – Second Corinthians 5.
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