4:5) So this judgment is not about salvation or discipline, it’s about rewards. As one theologian put it, It cannot be too strongly emphasized that the judgment is unrelated. It will be a serious and necessary time of reckoning, but, as God’s redeemed, we will never be condemned with the wicked. How great then the contrast to be manifested before the judgment-seat of Christ, as the justified, with no condemnation. The Lord will bring all this to light and then we’ll each receive the praise that’s legitimately due to us. The judgment seat of Christ is a time when we will be called on to report, to render an accounting of what we did for Jesus. Then Paul said we shouldn’t judge anything before hand, because it’s impossible for us to discern a person’s motive, even when it’s our own. Stanley Life Principles Daily Bible, Paperback: Holy Bible, New American Standard Bible. But even if we have nothing good to our credit we’ll still be saved ( 1 Cor. 10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive compensation for his deeds done through the body, in accordance with what he has done, whether. The good things will be rewarded and the bad things will be discarded, being of no value in the Kingdom. ![]() I believe things done in the Lord’s name with the intent of expressing our gratitude to Him will be like gold, silver, and precious gems and considered to be good.īut things done in our own name with the intent of glorifying ourselves will be like wood, hay, and stubble and are bad. Otherwise we wouldn’t even be there.Įarlier Paul had said in effect that the definitions of good and bad have to do with our “good works” and are based on our motive, not on the outcome. It was on this occasion, the day of atonement was instituted. And the Lord spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord and died. ![]() We must, however, notice the fact, that sin was found even in the sons of Aaron. This can not be a reference to sin because Jesus has already been judged for all the sins of our life and all of them have been forgiven ( Colossians 2:13-15). On the day of atonement this was not the case in one instance. 5:10 says we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
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