every man with stand before the judgment seat of christ

Every man with stand before the judgment seat of christ free#

It is clear that a distinction must be drawn between the tribunals-the Bema and the Great White Throne. How shall we reconcile this fact with the great verities before named?ġ. Yet it is abundantly clear that -Ī word used twelve times in the New Testament, and, with two unimportant exceptions, always translated Judgment Seat. The law made nothing perfect we dare not return to it. Grace has produced what law failed to do. To get on to legal ground is to lose the great motive of Christian conduct-reigning grace-standing in grace-constraining love. We must not allow any construction to be put upon any other Scriptures that would rob us of the priceless treasure of - JUSTIFICATION AND SALVATION BY GRACE. They are its distinctive features, its unique characteristics. These are the eternal verities of the Christian faith. At the Coming of the Lord we shall all be caught up to meet Him in the air. We shall all be changed in a moment-in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump.ĥ. Hereafter, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.

Immediately, we depart and are absent from the body, we are present with the Lord. This life was not earned or merited, but gratuitously given.Ĥ.

Every man with stand before the judgment seat of christ free#

We have received the free gift of eternal life-are born again a new creation. The work of Christ on the Cross, which is imputed to us, is so complete that we are said to have been perfected forever by that one offering.ģ.

Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect, since God has justified?Ģ.

No charge can be brought against the dead. So complete is that justification, that we are said to have died, and 'he that died is justified' (Rom. We are justified freely by grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. 14: 10 has it)? Again, has not God promised to remember his sins and iniquities no more? How then shall the deeds done in the body whether good or bad be brought up at the Judgment Seat? Are they not cast into the depths of the sea-behind God's back and blotted out as a thick cloud? Imagery that leaves no doubt that sins righteously dealt with at the Cross are no longer imputed to the believer.īefore attempting to discover the Scriptural answer to this problem, let us review -ġ. There are real difficulties raised by this subject.ĭoes not John 5: 24 tell us that the believer 'shall not come into judgment' (krisis) but is passed from death unto life? How then must he appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ and of God (as the R.V. In these Scriptures the great fact is stated-'We (believers) must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ.'