From this passage in Hebrews and others like 1 Corinthians 11:27-32, God disciplines His children for the following reasons: (1) To bring a wayward child who refuses to judge himself back into fellowship (1 Cor. 7:9; Matt. 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. Scripture teaches that Christs death was all-sufficient, completely satisfying Gods wrath toward sin in the believer. 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. Two things: (a) This describes all the crowns. As Paul declares in Romans 5:1-2: Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God. 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. 4:10; Rom. 5 You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brothers eye. Perhaps this is a good place to discuss the concept of selfishness and rewards for some see an appeal to rewards as selfish and therefore carnal. But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged. While people are saying peace and safety, then sudden destruction will come as birth pains upon a woman in travail. 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. (6) It is a day of extreme deception and delusion (2 Thess. Scripture teaches that for the believer Gods justice has already been fully and forever satisfied at the Cross in relation to the believers sins. 3:9-10, 23). 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. Rev. Do Those Who Commit Suicide Go To Hell? 24). 11:28f; cf. But we shall rejoice also as we realize that the rewards given will be another example of the grace of our Lord; for at best we are unprofitable servants (E. Schuyler English, The Church At the Tribunal, in Prophetic Truth Unfolding Today, ed. 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. 32:3-5). 1:10; Rev. So the order of events will be (a) the rapture which includes our glorification or resurrection bodies, (b) exaltation into the heavens with the Lord, (c) examination before the Bema, and (d) compensation or rewards. Why is possession of Gods Son necessary to have eternal life? 3:23; Hab. IV: Ecclesiology-Eschatology, Dallas Seminary Press, Dallas, TX, 1948, p. 406. But (2) Scripture also uses it of a very special and future time of tribulation that is to come upon the whole earth (Matt. 24:31-46). This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. In the first stage, we are all judged from the books according to our works. Appears refers to the rapture which leads quickly into the Bema. But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. Now these facts will become evident to each individual and proven without question. I see one Judge two 2 Final Judgment Seats. (14) It is a time of unprecedented evangelism (Rev. 2:12-14 [note the emphasis on good works]). There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor? Biblical Verses related to The Day Of Judgement. This is a plain indication of Gods righteous judgment so that you will be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which indeed you are suffering. 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. 12:11). Friend, have you put your trust in the person of Christ as the God-man Savior who died for your sin? In August of 2001 he was diagnosed with lung cancer and on August 29th, 2002 he went home to be with the Lord. The following is a short presentation of the good news of how God has provided that men might know Him and experience eternal life. (2) To destroy and remove unacceptable production portrayed in the symbols of wood, hay, and stubble. See Appendix B for more on the Judgment Seat (Bema) of Christ. Hope will at last become reality for all those who are delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God (Rom. 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. 17:22; 14:30). Further, the words awake or asleep of verse 10 refer to a spiritual or moral condition, not whether one is alive or dead when Christ returns as in 4:13-14. Yes, Thou wilt cast all their sins Into the depths of the sea. He said to the judges, Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for man but for the Lord who is with you when you render judgment. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;Lovingkindness and truth go before You. Since love is a preeminent virtue in Christianity, true selfishness often involves a pursuit of self-interest that violates the law of love.12. Indeed, He works in us both to will and to do as we volitionally appropriate His grace (Phil. 6:1-5; 2 Thess. According to Romans 1:18-32, when men turn away from the knowledge of God revealed so vividly in creation, God, as an expression of His holy wrath, turns men over to their own devices and foolish imaginations. We turn to our personal bag of tricks by which we seek to handle life (Gal. They teach us the basic cause of discipline is failure to examine and confess known sins because that hinders our fellowship with God. One of the prominent doctrines of the New Testament is the Doctrine of Rewards and the Judgment Seat of Christ. 28:13). 1:24f, moral degeneration and the gradual breakdown in the moral fiber of men when they turn away from God. The penalty for the believers sins has been fully paid for by Christ, the believers substitute. WebThirty pieces of silver was the price for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, according to an account in the Gospel of Matthew 26:15 in the New Testament. The Lord performs righteous deedsAnd judgments for all who are oppressed. 2 Peter 3:7 But by His word the present Of course all sickness, weakness, or suffering is not a product of sin, but it can be and often is (1 Cor. Because of what Jesus Christ accomplished for us on the cross, the Bible states that He that has the Son has life and we can receive the Son, Jesus Christ, as our Savior by personal faith, by trusting in the person of Christ and His death for our sins. The deeds of the unbeliever are only examined to show that the person, no matter how much good they have done, falls short of Gods holy demands. In all of these passages, Paul was picturing the believer as a competitor in a spiritual contest. (2) The believer who fails to abide experiences shame by the revelatory nature of Christs presence at the Bema. How many times does judgment appear in the Bible? (1) Jacobs Trouble or distress (Jer. The sea and death (i.e., the ground) contain the bodies and Hades contains the souls. 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. 12:3-4). 5:15; Heb. The idea is not good in the sense of righteousness versus bad in the sense of evil or sinfulness. 5:16f). 26:19).5. This results in the works of the flesh and their awful and fruitless consequences (Gal. 1:15, 18; Rev. There is the glorification of living believers in glorified bodies, the resurrection of those believers who have died in the Lord also in glorified bodies, and the translation of both to meet the Lord in the air. The rapture is the means of our deliverance from the wrath he discusses in chapter 5:1-3. (4) Our Spiritual Gifts. Because this is a completely different matter. This is why earlier the Apostle called them fleshly (the Greek sarkikos, adapted to, controlled by the flesh) (3:3). 4:5b). For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. Remember that all of our crowns will be cast at the feet of Christ, for only He is worthy (Rev. Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 25:21; Lk. Key Verses on Rewards: Rom. If the believer remains unrepentant, this can lead to the sin unto death as with Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5), and some of the believers at Corinth who were failing to confess their sin and get right with the Lord (1 Cor. 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. (3) Hades, a reference to the place of torments, the compartment which contains the souls of all unbelievers (Luke 16:23). 28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 1 Cor. To overdo the sorrow aspect of the judgment seat of Christ is to make heaven hell. 32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord in order that we may not be condemned along with the world. These passages: (2) God does not judge us for our sin in the sense of making us pay the penalty for that sin. Isaiah 38:17 Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; It is Thou who hast kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, For Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back. 2:12-13). Some today refuse to distinguish between the general tribulations of this age that the church will endure, and the unique, universal, and unprecedented Tribulation that will come. 6:10-12; 1 Pet. 5 Dwight Pentecost, Things to Come, Dunham Publishing Co., Findlay, OH, 1958, p. 411. It will occur somewhere in the heavenlies in the presence of the Lord. A Christian believes in a God they have never seen through faith. We are not to judge others in the sense of condemning them or passing judgment on the opinions of others on doubtful matters as discussed in Romans 14. In the King James version. (10) It is a time of extreme anti-Semitism (Rev. They emphasize the importance and necessity of faithful living today but reject any thought of forensic punishment at the Bema. Then in anticipation of His death on the cross, the Lord spoke of Satans judgment and doom in John 12:31; 16:11, and Luke 10:18-19. But the fact still remains that the Bible promises us rewards. 3 Let not him who eats regard with contempt him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him. It is literally if He appears. The conditional clause does not question the reality of Christs coming, only the time of it and thereby points to its imminency. The Rock! It is great because all the unbelievers of all time, from Cain to the final revolt at the end of the Millennium, will be here assembled to face the bar of Gods holy justice. 15 But the free gift is not like the transgression. This was the royal crown, the crown of a king. 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. 2:2 the ruler of the kingdom of the air, NIV [air is the Greek, aer, the atmospheric heavens]). And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment. (1) All the passages dealing with the Bema or rewards are addressed to believers or pertain to believers of the church (Rom. 2:9; 5:3; 8:35; 12:12; 1 Thess. If God were to punish the believer judicially for his sins for which Christ has already rendered payment, He would be requiring two payments for sin and would therefore be unjust. Moses was on Mount Sinai for forty days and nights receiving Gods laws. At a Thanksgiving dinner, each person eats a different amount, but each is satisfied. 9 Lewis Sperry Chafer, Major Bible Themes: 52 Vital Doctrines of the Scripture Simplified and Explained, rev. How many times was Jesus mentioned in the Bible? Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. Our tendency is to rationalize and excuse our sins, but God says we are to judge them as sin to God. Hoyt has a good summary of what this passage is talking about and involves: The Bible suggests that there will be shame at the judgment seat of Christ to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the measure of unfaithfulness of each individual believer. It is called white because it will be the supreme and undimmed display of the perfect righteousness and justice of God to all mankind. This is seen in those passages where a reward is administered in the form of something like well done thou good and faithful servant (cf. So we read in Hebrews: Hebrews 12:4-11 You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; 5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by Him; 6 For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He scourges every son whom He receives. 7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? How much more matters of this life? 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. 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. 8:1, 13-17), they are subject to judgment at the Judgment seat of Christ in relation to their works. Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 4:13-18), the Tribulation begins with only unbelievers. Rom. As Amos 3:3 says, can two walk together unless they be agreed? Obviously the answer is no. As the victorious Grecian athlete appeared before the Bema to receive his perishable award, so the Christian will appear before Christs Bema to receive his imperishable award. 1:15). This book also reveals that even when men do not have the written Word, they have the law of God written in their hearts (Rom. John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for Gods wrath remains on him. We are all sinners. Therefore, at the judgment seat of Christ forensic punishment will not be meted out for the believers sins.15. Romans 14:1-5 Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions. 39:28). 12:6, 8). Part of this removal occurs through the Tribulation judgments themselves (Rev. (c) There are two views: (1) The believer who fails to abide is made to feel shame by the Lord, i.e., the Lord puts him to shame. It is the word used of the crowns promised to believers for faithfulness in the Christian life. 24:21), and it will be culminated by the personal return of Jesus Christ to earth (Matt. Undoubtedly, then, the Scripture will be used to demonstrate the clearness of the plan of God and that man is without excuse. 20:34-38; Matt. This is Gods judgment to cast Satan down from his position in heaven as the anointed cherub with all those angels who followed him to this earth and its atmosphere as the primary abode of their operations (cf. This is further verified by the time periods of Revelation which divide the tribulation into two periods of three and one-half years (Rev. 15 And if anyones name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. 25:21; Lk. Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment. This last view I believe to be the one that is in accord with Scripture. 4:10-11). The Tribulation judgments (Matt. The order of Gods resurrection program which includes the judgment of rewards would seem to be: (1) the resurrection of Christ as the beginning of the resurrection program (1 Cor. But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. The phrase Son of Man occurs 195 times in the Old and New Testaments. 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. The instinct to preserve our lives is the same. 16 In view of this, I also do my best to maintain always a blameless conscience both before God and before men. A spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment. 7:25; Rev. 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. Without the abiding life, the life of faith and obedience to the Savior, we can do nothing (John 15:1-7). Sin requires a penalty, the penalty of death as Gods holy judgment on sin. How do we know who falls into the category of swine, those incapable of appreciating the truth, if we do not make certain judgments? Daniel 9:24-27 shows us that the Tribulation, Daniels Seventieth week, is seven years. 3:24; 5:15-17; 6:23; Eph. 59:2). The graduates do not leave the auditorium weeping because they did not earn better grades. 17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him. 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. The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification. Other Bible teachers espouse a mediating position. 1 Cor. (1) Stephanos. The judgment of the Nation of Israel (Matt. Let each man be fully convinced in his own mind. In other words, when we fail to honestly judge sin in our lives it spills over in one area after another. 14:4), but Ezekiel 20:34-35 shows God brings Israel out from the nations where she has been scattered throughout the times of the Gentiles (gathers her to the last person, Ezek. The Judgment Seat of Christ is not a place and time when the Lord will mete out punishment for sins committed by the child of God. Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the. Crowns are given as rewards for faithfulness to appropriate Gods grace and Christs victory in the Christian life. 6:8; 2 Tim. The moral man, the religious man, and the immoral and non-religious are all in the same boatthey all fall short of the glory of God (Gods perfect righteousness). A strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate. Self-centeredness or selfishness is preoccupation with self at the expense of others and Gods will in ones life. (2) The Promise of Heavenly Treasure (Matt. In the King James versionthe word - judgment - appears 294 timesthe word - (3) It is a day of utter darkness, gloom, and extreme cloudiness (Joel 2:2; Zeph. It is from Goda time of divine wrath. The emotional condition of the redeemed is that of complete and unending happiness. 15:23); (2) the resurrection of the church age saints at the rapture (1 Thess. 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 Chafer and Walvoord have an excellent word on this view: With reference to sin, Scripture teaches that the child of God under grace shall not come into judgment (John 3:18; 5:24; 6:37; Rom. (2) The Incorruptible Crown (1 Cor. But for now, lest we draw some wrong conclusions, we need to be ever mindful that Gods Word clearly teaches there are specific and very serious consequences, both temporal and eternal, for sin or disobedience. There will be no need for forensic punishment, for Christ has forever borne all of Gods wrath toward the believers sins.11. 2 Lewis Sperry Chafer Systematic Theology, Vol. At this resurrection the soul and body are reunited and the person is brought before the throne. 9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? 11:30). Again, there is only one judgment day, but Revelation 20:11-15 tells us the judgment process has two stages. the word - 20:1-3, 7-10; 2 Pet. Romans 4:1-5: What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found? Return to Me, for I have redeemed you. The regathering of those Israelites who were left after the tribulation judgments, both believing and unbelieving Jews (Matt. In view of his use of crown (stephanos, the victors wreath) in other places, and the fact believers will cast their crowns before the Lord (Rev. A great deal of confusion exists with respect to the subject of Gods judgments and particularly regarding the final judgment. 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. 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). The same thing happens in the life of believers, but God brings discipline to stop the process. After discussing the immoral man, the moral man, and the religious man in Romans 1:18-3:8, the Apostle Paul declares that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin, that there is none righteous, not even one, and all have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Rom. 6 All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him. Carnal believers are occupied and controlled by their own self-centered desires (Gal. Our rewards seem to primarily be a matter of responsibility and maybe opportunities, but they will not be like badges or medals we wear as in the military. Although there is undeniably some measure of remorse or regret, this is not the overriding emotion to be experienced throughout the eternal state. John 12:31 with Rev. Here each unbelievers eternal destiny is declared and determined with ample proof and reason. Bring to light is photizo, to bring to light, make visible. Disclose is phaneroo, to manifest, reveal. The issue should be extremely clear from these two verses: The Lord will evaluate the quality and nature of every persons work. This would mean that the finest of Christians could be sorrowful throughout eternity. Dan. The Bible teaches us that God loves all people and wants to bring them into a harmonious relationship with Himself. All who have died without faith in Jesus Christregardless of their status in human history, religiously, politically, economically, or morallymust stand before this throne of judgment. 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. The Christian has been in court, condemned, sentenced, and executed in his substitute, Jesus Christ. What then is the solution? Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the Lord;For He is coming to judge the earth. 5:11), of ungodly deeds (Jude 15), of deeds of darkness (Rom. 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. It is called great because of the awesome intensity and the degree of its importance. 1:6; Rev. 31 But if we judged ourselves rightly, we should not be judged. 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