WILL ANYTHING BE SCRUTINIZED AT THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST?
2 PETER 3:1-18
As we are fast approaching the Rapture of the
Christian, it is imperative to consider some things that are going to affect us in the near future.
- The
Rapture will occur next.
- Then
the Judgment seat of Christ will take place while we are in heaven.
- What
happens at or how the judgment seat is conducted we don’t know.
- The
bible does suggest some things that may be scrutinized when we are there.
THE JUDGMENT OF TRUE BELIEVERS
(1 Co. 3:11-15; 2 Co. 5:9-10; Ro. 14:10-12).
The Purpose of this judgment.
- It is for Christians, not the unsaved (1 Co. 3:1,11-12).
- It is to examine the believer's service, not to determine his salvation (1 Co. 3:8,10,13).
What Shall I Take?
Out of this world I shall never take
Things of gold and silver I make.
All that I cherish and hoard away,
After I leave, on this earth must stay.
Though I have toiled for a painting rare
to hang on the wall,
I must leave it there;
Though I call it mine, and boast its worth,
I must give it up when I leave this earth.
All that I gather and all that I keep
I must leave behind when I fall asleep;
And I often wonder what I shall own
in that other life when I pass alone.
Shall the great Judge find when my task
is through
that my spirit has gathered some riches,
too?
Or shall at last be it mine to find
that all I worked for I left behind?
His Plan for Me
When
I stand at the judgment seat of Christ,
And
He shows me His plan for me,
The
plan for my life as it might have been
Had
He had His way, and I see
How
I blocked Him here, and I checked Him there
And
I would not yield my will--
Will
there be grief in my Savior's eyes,
Grief,
though He loves me still?
He
would have me rich, and I stand there poor,
Stripped
of all but His grace,
While
memory runs like a hunted thing
Down
the paths I cannot retrace.
Then
my desolate heart will well-nigh break
With
tears that I cannot shed;
I
shall cover my face with my empty hands,
I
shall bow my uncrowned head,
Lord,
of the years that are left to me,
I
give them to Thy hand;
Take
me and break me, and mold me
To
the pattern Thou has planned!
--Martha
S. Nicholson
THINGS THAT WILL BE SCRUTINIZED AT THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST:
I.
Our Testimony For Christ (Phil 2:16)
II. Our Suffering For Christ (I Pet 4:13)
III. Our Faithfulness To Christ (Luke 12:42-43; Rev 2:10)
IV. Our Service For Christ (I Cor 3:8; Heb 6:10)
V. Our Generosity For Christ (II Cor 9:6; I Tim 6:17-19)
VI. Our Use Of Time For Christ (Eph 5:15-16; Col 4:5)
VII. Our Leading Of Souls To Christ (I Thess 2:19)
II Peter 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation
and godliness.
