The Scripture teaches that before Messiah can begin to reign, there must be a judgment to determine who will enter into Messiahs kingdom since they are not all Israel (spiritually regenerated believers who put their trust in Jesus Christ as their Messiah) who are Israel (physical descendants only) (Rom. At the other end of the spectrum another group, which holds to the same eschatological chronology, views this event as an awards ceremony. This was the victors crown, the wreath given to the victorious athlete before the judge at the Bema. 3:9). 3:13-15 each mans work will become evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with fire; and the fire itself will test the quality of each mans work. 14:10-12; 1 Cor. 9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him. (See Appendix A for an explanation of how to become a Christian.). We will each be enthralled with God and our glorified state. Although this burning lake is only mentioned in the last book of the Bible, it is a significant place that Christians need to know about since it reminds us of the consequences of sinfulness, Jesus sacrifice to save us from everlasting punishment, and the need to tell the gospel. And not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming (presence). Please note several things here. Romans 4:1-5: What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found? See answer (1) Best Answer. So, much as we see in Romans 1:18f, God turns the world over to the consequences of its choices. As with all Christians, you need fellowship with other believers in a Bible teaching church, personal time daily in Gods Word and regularly with other believers in a Bible teaching setting during the week. 14:10-12; 1 Cor. (1) Loss of Fellowship With the Lord. (1) Unconfessed sin relates to fellowship in this life, not ones relationship or standing with God. For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly. 3:11-15; 2 Cor. But (2) Scripture also uses it of a very special and future time of tribulation that is to come upon the whole earth (Matt. In other words, it was a reward seat and portrayed a time of rewards or loss of rewards following examination. 4 Or how can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye, and behold, the log is in your own eye? Will the Lord reject forever?And will He never be favorable again? But this sorrow must be somewhat relative because even for the finest of Christians there will be some things worthy of unceasing remorse in the light of Gods unapproachable holiness. (8) The Many Crowns or Diadems (Rev. (2) All believers, regardless of their spiritual state, will be raptured and will stand before the Bema to give an account of their lives and will either receive rewards or lose rewards. This day of judgment, also known as the Final Judgment, is when Jesus, the Son of God, will judge the living and the dead before destroying the old heaven and earth, which are corrupted of sin. Sin can be defined as anything that opposes Gods will and law. To engage in sin is to disobey or abuse His laws. Two things: (a) This describes all the crowns. Gods wrath against mans sin and rebellion will be withheld no longer. 1:4; 4:25). There will be no need for forensic punishment, for Christ has forever borne all of Gods wrath toward the believers sins.11. Carnal believers are occupied and controlled by their own self-centered desires (Gal. This time he calls it simply, the day of Christ. 2:9-12; Rev. The loss of salvation, and ultimately the one sin that separates a person from God and confines him to the eternal Lake of Fire, is because of failure to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness and a perfect righteous standing before God. the word - judge - appears 191 times. Although Christians apparently will reflect on this earthly life with some regret, they will also realize what is ahead for them in the heavenly life. WebThe Archangel* Gabriel is mentioned in the Holy Bible at least four explicit and possibly two implicit times: Daniel 8:1527. He did not whip the losers.3 We might add, neither did he sentence them to hard labor. 16 In view of this, I also do my best to maintain always a blameless conscience both before God and before men. So that points us to the purpose, the return of the Savior and what it will mean. 3 Samuel Hoyt, The Judgment Seat of Christ in Theological Perspective, Part 1, Bibliotheca Sacra, January-March, 1980, electronic media. Matthew 25:1-30 shows that God will judge living Israel to separate the saved from the unsaved. 7:6). This crown is a reward promised to Elders for faithfulness in the discharge of their responsibilities in shepherding the people. 39:28). 3:10). (5) The Promise of Special Responsibilities and Authority of the Lords Possessions (cf. These could refer to special blessing of rewards to those believers who overcomer special trials and tests rather than a general promise to all believers. and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. (2) Daniels Seventieth Week (Daniel 9:24-27). (5) The Crown of Righteousness (2 Tim. Because of this, He cannot have fellowship with anyone who does not have perfect righteousness (Hab. (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. Not with Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing. Reasons for this will be set forth and developed as we study the nature, purpose, and basis for the Bema. The Book of Life: This book contains the names of all believers, of all who have put their faith in Christ and Gods plan of salvation or righteousness through the substitutionary death of Christ. We are all sinners. (Rev 20:11-13) The people at the White Throne Judgment have rejected Christ's Sin Atonement & are judged according to the Law. He used the Greek katheudo in 5:10 rather than koimao, the word he used metaphorically in 4:13-14 of physical death. 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. Eph. But the point of Scripture is that even this is a part of Gods judgment upon a world that has sought its answers apart from the true God. To his own master he stands or falls; and stand he will, for the Lord is able to make him stand. 5:2). Then all opposing powers against the Lord will be dealt with in judgment (Rev. They are resurrected, gathered before the throne and actually behold the dissolution of heaven and earth as a foreboding preparation for their judgment. Right now I receive Him as my personal Savior by trusting in Him alone as my only way to heaven. This is a serious matter with consequences both for time and eternity since the failure to do so leads not only to the loss of rewards, but the judgment of Gods discipline of His believing children as a loving Father and as the Vine Dresser who must prune the vine for production (Heb. 29 For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he does not judge the body rightly. We may rule over galaxies, celestial bodies, the heavens, and definitely over angels, and the world (cf. 12:4-11; John 15:1-7). God is not only perfect holiness (whose holy character we can never attain to on our own or by our works of righteousness) but He is also perfect love and full of grace and mercy. God cannot exact payment for sins twice since payment has been fully and forever paid. 3 For what does the Scripture say? 2 Corinthians 5:21: He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 12:11). As the Shepherd who lays down His life for the sheep, Jesus said, I have come that they (all mankind) may have life, and have it abundantly, a life with meaning and purpose. Romans 6:4-11 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. This is the second death, the lake of fire. Though the death of Christ does not obliterate the presence of the sin nature and though it is still a powerful enemy (Rom. For the Christian, the future reality of this event should cause deep concern because of the many (including some of our friends and relatives) who will face this throne of judgment because they never received the Savior by faith. Nor are pleasure and enjoyment illegitimate experiences. Before the Last Supper, Judas is said to have gone to the chief priests and agreed to hand over Jesus in exchange for 30 silver coins, and to have attempted to return the money afterwards, filled with 4:1). 2:10f; Rev. Isaiah 44:22 I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud, And your sins like a heavy mist. (3) In 2 Timothy 4:8 and 1 Corinthians 4:5, rewards are associated with that day and with the Lords coming. 8:18-22; Eph. Revelation 20:11-15 And I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. The judgment seat of Christ might be compared to a commencement ceremony. So Christians need to examine their hearts and actions for sin according to the Scripture and then judge the sin they find as sin and confess it to the Lord. I believe Jesus Christ died for me and rose from the grave. 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. 2:12). Friend, have you put your trust in the person of Christ as the God-man Savior who died for your sin? 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. So, it is only fitting that He also judge the old earth and heavens that has been the arena of Satans activity and mans sin and rebellion. This is caused by the realization of what his own failure and sin has cost him in terms of the loss of rewards and loss of glory to the Lord. 20:12b, 13b, 15a). 3:9-14; 9:24-27). Paul shows us in Romans that all categories of peoplethe good, the bad, and the uglyare really in the same boat and on their way to eternal separation from God. The Lord Jesus is the victor, and our victory is really His victory which is appropriated by faith. 7:18, 22, 27. 5:10; 1 John 2:28). 6:14f; 9:20; 11:10, 18). Q. Titus 3:5-7: He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by His grace we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. The result of this judgment will be that each Christian will be grateful for the reward which he receives, and he will have little or no shame. 2:5). All the graduates are there and excited about graduating, yet at the time of rewards, some sorrow might be experienced, but it is quickly overcome by the joy of the event. Undoubtedly then, one book is the book of works which contains a record of every persons deeds as a witness of the true nature of their spiritual condition. This is the good news of the Bible, the message of the gospel. 15 If any mans work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as through fire.. 24:9, 21, 29; Mark 13:19, 24; Rev. Some go even further by stating that Christians must experience some sort of suffering for their sins at the time of this examination. 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died is freed from sin. (6) The Crown of Glory (1 Pet. It will become unprecedented in its affliction as suggested by the description, the Great Tribulation (Matt. The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment, and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. 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. God gives us salvation. Note that these two things go together. In 1 Thessalonians 2:19-20, the Apostle Paul drew courage and was motivated by the fact of rewards at the return of the Lord for the church which he mentions in every chapter in this epistle and becomes the primary subject of 2 Thessalonians. In one sense, the Thessalonians will be Pauls crown, and the effect at the Bema and throughout eternity will be rejoicing or exultation over their presence in heaven. also 1 John 5:16-17). (7) Loss of Physical Health and Vitality. Key Verses on Rewards: Rom. It will begin with an apparent time of prosperity and peace created by this one world government under the deceptions of the man of lawlessness. All believers will live in the millennium and in eternity with the Lord. 27:19; John 19:13), its use in the epistles by Paul, because of his many allusions to the Greek athletic contests, is more in keeping with its original use among the Greeks. But this will only be momentary or short-lived at best in view of passages like Revelation 7:17; 21:4 and Isaiah 65:17. (3) A time of trouble or distress (Daniel 12:1). 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. The judge at the Bema bestowed rewards to the victors. No amount of good living will get us to heaven or give us eternal life. It is not punitive. This is why earlier the Apostle called them fleshly (the Greek sarkikos, adapted to, controlled by the flesh) (3:3). All their hopes and dreams had been placed in an earth and system that was passing away (1 John 2:17), and now they see it dissolve before their very eyes. 4 Who are you to judge the servant of another? To sin means to miss the mark. It is a gift through faith, but He rewards us for good works. Some will reign with Him, but, because of loss of rewards, evidently some will not. 12:5f and 1 Cor. A God of faithfulness and without injustice. 5:8). Gods discipline is patterned after the principles of Proverbs 13:24 which read: He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him diligently. Discipline is an evidence of love. The faith which you have, have as your own conviction before God. These are: (1) The Promise of Crowns. While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him a message, saying, Have nothing to do with that righteous Man; for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of Him.. 6; 9:15, 18; 11:13). As a child of God, you are, however, a babe in Christ and you need to grow and be spiritually nourished and built up in the things of Christ. Colossians 1:29 And for this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me. Note that the text says and the books (plural) were opened, and another book (singular) was opened, which is the Book of Life. We have two sets, the books and the book which is mentioned again in verse 15a. Jesus Christ, the sinless and perfect Son of God, the only one who could qualify as our substitute, died to satisfy the demands of Gods absolute holiness. Here each unbelievers eternal destiny is declared and determined with ample proof and reason. Compare also Ephesians 4:17-19: This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. While many would place the resurrection and reward of Old Testament saints with that of the church at the rapture, a number of factors favor this at the conclusion of the tribulation at the same time as the resurrection and reward of tribulation saints mentioned in Revelation 20:4. (4) The Crown of Life (Jam. In Romans 14:10 the Apostle called this examining time the Bema of God while in 2 Corinthians 5:10 he called it the Bema of Christ. After the fall of Adam and Eve, and as a judgment for mankinds disobedience regarding the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:17), certain curses or judgments were placed upon Satan (the promise of his final doom), upon Adam and Eve, and upon the earth. 'the fear of God' is However, Scripture does call us to show what we might call critical discernment on certain matters. 8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. 30:7). How many times is the son of man mentioned in the Bible? Compare also Romans 16:20; Ephesians 1:20-21; Colossians 2:14-15; Hebrews 2:14-17. See Appendix B for more on the Judgment Seat (Bema) of Christ. 28:11-19; Rev. (5) It yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness (Heb. This means that rather than operating by faith in Gods provision, we end up operating in the energy of the flesh. Yet Ryries Notes Say Otherwise. 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. What follows below is a fuller explanation of both terms. Terms used of this period. The overwhelming emotion is joyfulness and gratefulness. 14 If any mans work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward. We turn to our personal bag of tricks by which we seek to handle life (Gal. The crowns of royalty which stand for Jesus Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lord who alone has the right to rule and judge the world. (2) The second book will be the book of works or deeds. 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. The verb used is komizo and means to carry off safe, to carry off as booty. 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