![]() That gives us encouragement to live rightly for the Lord now. I suspect another reason is to encourage us to live rightly now, so that we’re not living aimlessly, because we know that in a future day there will be a review there will be recompense there will be responsibility. And so future responsibility will be decided at the Judgment Seat of Christ. In fact, they will also probably attach themselves to us throughout eternity. It is a matter of responsibility, because the awards given will be the enabling power for us to reign with Christ in His millennial kingdom. We shall receive back the things done in the body. Why? It will be a place where rewards are given. So one reason is the necessity and helpfulness of having a review afterwards to see how we’ve done. That is very important for us and I suspect it is very important for Him. What could have been better? And so the Lord at the Judgment Seat of Christ will review our lives. After this conference, the committee will review it to see what went wrong, what went right. ![]() So what is the Judgment Seat of Christ? It is an occasion when our lives will be assessed and awards will be given for what we have done and for our motives in doing them.īut why have such a judgment? One of the reasons is that our lives need to be reviewed. The warning is a real one: “Let no man take thy crown.” It will be an award ceremony, but it will also be a place where there will be loss as we consider what might have been. But I suspect that the real truth is somewhere in between. On the other hand, some people say that it’s a bit like a flower show where everybody wins a prize. On one extreme, people fear it because they think that everything there will be made manifest and they will be hugely embarrassed. It is more this idea that we should keep in mind when we think of the Judgment Seat. The winners, however, were given the prize. Now there were also losers on that occasion but the losers were not chastised, whipped, beaten, or killed. Someone has written, “To see the Judgment Seat of Christ as a place where sin is rehashed and failures are broadcast is to swing a serious blow at the work of Christ.” And so at the Judgment Seat of Christ we think of it more in terms of the Greek concept at the athletic games, where awards were given to athletes who had run the race and who had run well. There is no question here that any of our sins will arise because they have already been dealt with. It is not a place, in the Roman concept, where the judge sat on a throne, listened to evidence for and against, and then found the defendant guilty or not guilty and handed out (if guilty) a punishment that he deemed appropriate. It is a judgment for believers and for believers only. Of course, the Judgment Seat of Christ is none of these. There is the judgment of the world, of angels, of the Jews, of living nations, and the judgment of the Great White Throne. I would like to address these six questions relative to the judgment seat of Christ. ![]() Why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ…So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God (Rom.
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