![]() ![]() The issue is this, the life that we live will determine what those rewards may be. Listen, it is a time when He desires and His plan to reward us for the life that we've lived. In other words, the judgment of the Lord Jesus Christ for His believers. So first of all only those who've trusted Christ as their Savior will be present at this judgment. That is, we stand before God accountable to Him for our life. But the issue I want us to think about is our accountability. If you are a believer, your name is there. There's a judgment of the believer and that judgment which is the judgment of the unbeliever where their name is not found in the book of life. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them, and they were all judged, every one of them according to their deeds". "And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. Verse eleven, "Then 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-"can't escape it. But if you turn to Revelations chapter twenty and look in verse eleven there is another time of accountability. There is going to be a moment of judgment for every single one of us. The judgment of the believer is unavoidable. For we must, not maybe, not ought to, we must, all, not some of us, "All appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed or rewarded for his or her deeds in the body, according to what he's done, whether good or bad. Listen, "Therefore, we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. We are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. And Paul is speaking to believers, writing to believers and he says in verse six, "Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we're at home in the body we're absent from the Lord," "For we walk by faith, and not by sight". And if you look in Second Corinthians chapter five for a moment, look if you will. So, what I want to talk about in this message is our convictions about our judgment before God. And that's what the Judgment is all about. And it's important that we distinguish this whole idea of accountability with the Lord God and with His Word. Accountability is a safety feature for all of us. A person with a feeling that they don't need to be accountable to someone is walking on very thin ice and a dangerous direction. Many people act like they don't have to be accountable to anybody. ![]() But the truth is every single one of us is accountable to God. Well to whom in this life do you feel accountable? Naturally, husbands and wives are accountable to each other, children to their parents, and maybe grandparents or whatever it might be. ![]()
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