03/16/2025 – “The Master Will Judge” / 2 Corinthians 5:10
“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” (2 Corinthians 5:10)
“Paul says that we must all, preachers and other people alike, ‘appear before the judgment seat of Christ.’ But if you will learn here and now to live under the scrutiny of Christ’s pure light, your final judgment will bring you only delight in seeing the work God has done in you. Live constantly reminding yourself of the judgment seat of Christ and walk in the knowledge of the holiness He has given you. Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to allow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. One carnal judgment of another person only8 serves the purposes of hell in you. Bring it immediately into the light and confess, ‘Oh, Lord, I have been guilty there.’ If you don’t, your heart will become hardened through and through. One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it. It is not only God who punishes for sin, but sin establishes itself in the sinner and takes its toll. No struggling or praying will enable you to stop doing certain things, and the penalty of sin is that you gradually get used to it, until you finally come to the place where you no longer even realize that it is sin. No power, expect the power that comes from being filled with the Holy Spirit, can change or prevent the inherent consequences of sin.
‘If we walk in the light as He is in the light …’ (1 John 1:7). For many of us, walking in the light means walking according to the standard we have set up for another person. The deadliest attitude of the Pharisees that we exhibit today is not hypocrisy but that which comes from unconsciously living a lie”
Soli Deo Gloria!
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Let scripture testify to scripture!:
I recall a brother in a men’s bible study group a year or so ago , in our study of the Gospel of John shared with the group that he was convinced that Christian born again believers would not have to face the judgment. Well, that is in direct contradiction to 2 Corinthians 5:10. So, we should have asked him what scripture he had that supported that view.