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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Salvation Is Deliverance From Sin, #8
For 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. (II Corinthians 5:10)
How Deliverance From Sin Will Affect Our Resurrection From the Dead
The character of our resurrection from the dead is being directly affected by the decisions we are making today. We actually are passing through the Judgment Seat of Christ today. Let us explain.
The Judgment Seat of Christ.
Every person who has lived on the earth will at one time or another be revealed before the Judgment Seat of Christ. When this takes place he may receive some of the consequences of that revelation. The remainder of the consequences will be assigned to him or her in the day of resurrection.
No person will ever be judged except at the Judgment Seat of Christ. God the Father judges no one. All judgment has been given to Christ, and He will share the judgment with His Church.
For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: (John 5:22)
Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. (John 20:23)
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? (I Corinthians 6:2)
The Judgment Seat of Christ began when the Lord Jesus rose from the dead.
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? (I Peter 4:17)
Judgment begins with the Christians. As we confess our sins we are bringing an eternal judgment against those sins. They are destroyed out of us by one means or another, sometimes by deliverance; sometimes through suffering; sometimes through consecration on our part. But they are destroyed, they are put to death.
The entire thousand-year Kingdom Age will be a period of judgment and reconciliation to God, not only on the part of the saved nations but also for the elect who were not raised in the first resurrection, as we understand the events. It is obvious that most believers have not been fully reconciled to God at the time of their death. But they must be fully reconciled to God if they are to be part of the new Jerusalem and see the face of God!
The final judgment will take place after the earth and heaven pass away. At that time Christ and His saints will judge those who have been raised and who will be standing before God.
It is the Lord's will for everyone today who has been saved and filled with the Holy Spirit to look to Jesus. When we do this He begins to show us, through the Spirit, the areas of our life that He is judging. We are being revealed before the Judgment Seat of Christ. When we see these areas we are to pass judgment on them, declaring them to be sin, to be unclean, to be fit only for the Lake of fire. Then God is faithful and righteous to forgive our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. This is the doctrine of eternal judgment. Those sins we have confessed, have denounced, have turned away from, will never be mentioned to us again.
To be continued.