- Because i am jesus christ and i will die for all your sins series#
- Because i am jesus christ and i will die for all your sins free#
When we stand before Christ as Judge, we will be judged according to our deeds in this life. We need only say that before we enter the final state of glory with our resurrection bodies on the new earth, we will stand before Christ as Judge. “It is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment.” We don’t need to be more specific than that this morning. That’s implied in the text, but Hebrews 9:27 makes it explicit. So God the Son and God the Father are one in their judgment, but the Son is the one who stands forth as the immediate Judge, to deal with us. It is God’s judgment too (Romans 14:10–12: “We must all stand before the judgment seat of God”), but God “has given him authority to execute judgment” (John 5:27). “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ.” Not just unbelievers, but “we.” And not some of us, but “all of us.” Let me make four simple and obvious observations about this judgment and then tackle the problem of why Christians will be judged if in fact Christ has already been judged for us (Romans 5:8–9), and if there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1).Īll Christians will stand before Christ as judge. The verse we are focusing on this morning is verse 10, “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” Today we focus on a third truth about what happens when believers die. Four Simple Observations About the Judgment There will be a resurrection of the dead. He does not mean for us to be disembodied souls forever. Christ will come and change our body of lowliness into one like his glorious body (Philippians 3:21). That’s what we saw last week “we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable and we shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:51–52). There is also a resurrection of the body. The second thing we have seen is that there is more than leaving our body behind and going to be with Christ.
Because i am jesus christ and i will die for all your sins free#
“Grace gives salvation as a free gift to be received by faith, not earned by works.” Verse 8: “We prefer to be absent from the body and at home with the Lord.” For those of us who trust Jesus as Savior and Lord “to live is Christ and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21) “to depart and be with Christ is very much better” (Philippians 1:23). What we have seen so far is that believers in Jesus go to be with him when we die. He has told us many things, to encourage us and free us from the emptiness of evolutionary creeds and from the fear of death. It has nothing to do with reality - what is really going to happen.īut if you find written on the tablet of your heart the truth that there is a Creator God, and that you are made to have a relationship with him, and that what separates you from whales and dolphins and chimpanzees is not mutations and chemicals, but personhood in the image of God, then you probably will lie awake at night and think about eternity - because, as Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, “God has put eternity in man’s heart.”Īnd if, like millions of others, you have met Jesus Christ in the pages of the Bible and have been persuaded that he is worthy of your trust, then you do not have to be unsure about what is coming when you die.
Because i am jesus christ and i will die for all your sins series#
Your opinion would be that this series is irrelevant. You feel nothing, know nothing, have no consciousness. If you can make the leap of faith in the full-blown creed of evolution that grips the minds of many modern people, then you will believe that what happens to you when you die is no more significant than what happens to a tree when it dies.
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