The Bema Seat of Christ | Amir Tsarfati

you know the likelihood for you to get hurt in California or in America in general is way higher than being in Israel just so you know Plus in Israel if the rapture happens it's much faster and in Israel when you pray it's a local call so I urge you to that is step of faith I know because the media is always there's so much garbage I call them the media nights and I totally understand why you probably have an image of Israel that is surely not the reality of what's going on there but I want to extend one more time an invitation and we've got only 16 seats left on that tour and I want to encourage you to sign up because that will be a life-changing tour for all of you now speaking of that a lot of people are asking me why is it that you are so obsessed with teaching on end times on the things that are going to happen in the future and it's a legitimate question why should be why should we be so interested in those type of topics in topics such as the rapture of the church and the events that will follow that one why can't we just live the day god of PDM just do the things we need to do and care about the things on earth and and that's it well you know the Bible says in Colossians chapter 3 verses 1 and 2 if then you were raised with Christ it's a question are you a true Christian are you born and gain spiritual that means have you been resurrected while you're still alive from your deadly sins because the Bible tells us in Colossians 2 that while we were dead in our trespasses and our sins he resurrected us while we're still alive this is not the resurrection from the dead that will happen in the future so while if the Bible says if then you were raised with Christ in other words if you are a true believer then what seek those things which are above where Christ is where is Christ right now he's in how he's a right hand of the Father right now and it says so sitting at the right hand of God hello and then he says set your mind on the things above and what not on the things on this earth in other words a true believer is someone who is not always thinking about the things on earth but is someone who is wrapped already as we just said who is geared up to something that is way higher much better greatest calling of all greatest future of all this is all temporary here this is all I mean literally it's all plastic it's not real this thing right now or we go through it is going to be such a a dot in eternity and we have to seek those things which are above we have to learn to look up we have to learn to hope for the future things that the Lord graciously detailed to us through the Apostles and and the disciples it's interesting because looking up is super biblical in fact the Bible says in Philippians 3:14 I press on towards the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus even though you run it's the prize that of the upward call of God Psalm 121 I lift up my eyes to the hill you can't just look all around all the time lift up your eyes because your help is not coming from the hills or from people but from the Lord the maker of heaven Isaiah 4026 lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these things who brings out their hosts by number he calls them all by name by the greatness of his might and the strength of his power no one is missing Daniel chapter 4 when King Nebuchadnezzar was speaking the Bible says and at the end of the time I never cut nets or lifted my eyes to heaven he said and my understanding returned to me and I blessed the most high and praise and honor him who lives forever for his Dominion is an everlasting Dominion and his kingdom is from generation to generation when we lift up our eyes from the things that are all around us we understand the greatness of God we understand the beauty of our future John 11 and when Lazarus was resurrected they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying and Jesus lifted he's up his eyes and said father I thank you that you have heard me Jesus himself looked up and said father I thank you he could have you know he could have looked at people and say thank you Father he looked up it's a very biblical thing acts 110 when Jesus ascended to heaven and while they looked steadfastly towards heaven as he went up behold two men stood by them in white apparel you see the disciples learn to look up from the moment Jesus ascended to heaven and he's now at the right on the father looking up his biblical looking up is essential looking up is a sign of a true believer Hebrews 9:27 20 and is it a point now now comes the point we look up and we understand our future and our future is containing some interesting things but we cannot run away from one thing no one can no living creature can can escape judgment the Bible says and is appointed for men to die once you can try to die twice but it won't help you you have to look every born person if you are born if you're alive right now there's two chances one that you will die why will you know you're on earth right now or that you will stay alive when the rapture happens you understand that but if you die that's not the end of the story it's the beginning of the story for you you understand that but whether you're a believer or a non-believer there is judgment awaiting I mean the Bible says but after this comes judgment it's a given you cannot change it so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many to those who what he was offered once to bear the sins of man that means those who accepted him their sins are washed away I mean he died on the cross you need to believe and that's when you have eternal life and but now comes your role your active role of looking up of expecting him of looking forward to what he's about to do to those who eagerly wait for him what he will appear as second time the Bible says apart from sin which was the first coming but this time for salvation and if you understand understand which salvation he's talking about go to Romans chapter 8 because it's the salvation of our body from this evil world so Christ came once to take care of sin issue those who believed in him throughout the last 2,000 years these are the many that he bore their sins I mean I wish everyone believed that would mean he bore the sins of all but he died for all that's a fact and it's interesting because he will appear second time by the way the the word appear is different from the word come it's a very big difference he will come back that's a different thing it's a physical return of Christ with his feet standing on top of Mount of Olives when Mount of Olives split and all of that will happen in the second coming after the seven years tribulation but but the appearance we will appear before him he will appear for this is the link language in the lingo that the Bible talks about when it speaks of the rapture of the church how will appear in heaven and we will appear before him and that is the appearance and so to those who eagerly wait for him he will appear a second time apart from sin because he's coming back in the clouds to what for us to be saved the salvation of the body and so judgment is inevitable we we already understand that and in not only the New Testament tells us that even job of the oldest books in the Bible says be afraid of the sword for yourself for wrath brings the punishment of the sword that you may know there is a judgment judgment is there our deeds have consequences judgment by the way sounds like a very harsh word and half of urine right now are scary what is he talking about I thought I'm saved that this whole thing of judgment is no longer for me what am I sitting here for well when it comes to you it even more so become something that you're intrigued to know what judgment is he talking about well I would like to answer this morning eight different questions regarding that one first of all what is the Bema because we're gonna talk about the Bema judgment see where is the Bema how many future judgments are there anyway who is gonna stand there before Jesus that's the Bema seat how will they even get there how is this judgment different from the others and when will that be and what is the purpose of the Bema seat of Christ and why are we even talking about it today if it's in the future first of all what is a demon so before we start let's pray father I thank you for your word your word is truth and we ask that you will sanctify us by your truth this morning we don't want to hear any anyone's opinion or his own interpretation or his own commentary we want to hear you through your word this morning in Jesus name Amen so what is a Bheema the Bema seat of Christ first of all you have to understand the Bema seat is the judgment seat seat that is known also translated as a court or tribunal and it's a platform that could be either public or private in other words you could stand alone before the Lord or you can actually have a some sort of a public hearing but we are talking about something that is promised in the scriptures the Bible says in John 1913 why do you judge your brother or why do you show contempt for your brother for we shall all it's not maybe not could be we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ so we already know that it's going to happen Acts 25-22 is when we have a some sort of a public one and there Graper said to Festus I also would like to hear the man mice that's actually a private one I'd like to hear the man myself Paul is standing in the theatre of Caesarea Philippi and he has to stand on a platform that we call even up until today Bhima and of course tomorrow you shall hear now where is exactly the Bema seat of Christ because bhima's are everywhere I mean in Romans 14 it says but why do you judge your brother we already talked about it we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ I guess I had the wrong verse in John 19 13 but I do want you to know that in Romans when it speaks about that Paul wrote to the Romans but for the most part most of Paul's writings regarding the Bema seat was to the Corinthians and if you've ever been to ancient Corinth you would find out that they're up until today a Bheema standing in the heart of the old city of Corinth which was one of the most sinful deprived city on planet Earth probably only equal to Sodom and Gomorrah of the ancient times 2nd 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 so that means that we became believers and our sins are forgiven but still we have to given some sort of accountability to the things that we do and say and think as believers 2nd Corinthians 5:10 in the Greek looks like that can you read it well I can tell you you know you may not be able to read it but you can see the highlighted part which is Baima thoughts Taurus toes Baima toes Taurus toes means the judgment seat of Christ and it is in the Greek Beema Beema or Bema is the Greek name for the high platform elevated platform that was used in the ancient times for three different things for a word giving for judgment a tribe tribal tribunal and also in the theatre world it was used for shows and acts the word in Bhima in Hebrew Greek and English would look like that be mine English be my in the Greek and Bama in the Hebrew language we're using the same the same word even in the Hebrew this is what the Bema looks like in ancient corinth if you wonder in fact I zoomed in all the way so you can see the word Bhima you can see one more picture and you can see the Bhima you see right there right there people were judged in daylight in the middle of the city of Corinth Paul understood that if there is a way for me to describe what is going to look like in heaven that's probably it you know many times in ancient times they could I'm thinking about how would Ezekiel describe a war involved with rockets and tanks and aircraft does those things did not exist in those things so he would use vocabulary that was known to him he would use for example a dark cloud coming from the north dark cloud I mean something is gonna come flying darker than the sky of course all the way towards northern Israel so in Paul's mind what will the judgment seat of Christ is gonna look like it's gonna be an elevated it's gonna be a platform it's gonna be a place a tribunal but it's gonna be very different by the way if you've been with us to Israel you'll you could see that in Caesarea there is a big theater that by a mistake you also call it amphitheater can we see it you can clearly see there can we see it there's another picture there you go the next one and there should be a theater right there if you don't have it then too bad means you have the old version of it anyway it's right here and the theater itself has a platform so in other words when you see a what you call amphitheater it's actually a semicircle-shaped plat building structure but it has a stage and that stage is called Bhima I guess if you don't have that picture you may not have also the other pictures and the other pictures are of the Jewish the Israeli national theater today which is called the Bhima the Bhima habima it is in tel-aviv it is tribunal for not punishment but for us it's a Tribunal for rewards the Bhima is a tribunal for rewards and the large Olympic arenas there was an elevated seat on which the judge of the contest sat and after the contest were over the successful competitors would assemble before the Bema to receive the rewards or crowns you have to remember our life as believers are often described as something from this sport world we are running the race we are fighting the fight and for such things in an award or reward is awaiting all of us now how many future judgments are there anyway this is an interesting thing there are three future judgments according to the Bible there is the Bema seat of Christ number one there is the sheep and the goats number two and there is the great white throne judgment seat which is number three and you can clearly see on this diagram that the the the the other two the first one is in heaven we go up to stand before Christ but the other two are on earth and it's judgment that is not for us the church it's for other people so the first one in order to go to be what Christ is the first one because we we seek those things which are above because we have some business to do up above and we have some great things to to see up above so the first one requires all of us to go all the way up and to stand before Jesus and that is a different thing this is a place where you're gonna stand and get your rewards but the other two have to do with right after the seven years tribulation and right after the thousand years Millennial Kingdom these are the two other judgments that the Bible is telling us that are going to be and my question for you this morning which I probably gonna ask at the very end as well which judgment here is yours is it the judgment where you go up because you're a true believer and you will be rewarded for the things you did or rewards will be taken from you for the things you probably did in the wrong way with the wrong heart or are you going to be those who go through the tribulation how many volunteer there's a lot of teachers that teach that you will go through the tribulation will be my guest I can tell you one thing those hot this whole debate or of pre-trib mid-trib post-trib it's just like going to a restaurant and how do you want your steak rare medium well well-done how do you want to get to heaven rare medium well or well-done all I know is one thing if we made to spend time in front of the Bema seat of Jesus and if we need to stay and have the marriage ceremony up there and if we want to look at those mansion that he's been faithfully working on for the last 2,000 years we're not described as going with crutches and on wheelchairs because we made it through halfway of the tribulation or completely dead without heads because we are at the end of the tribulation no that's not the case we're standing there the only thing that has to happen to all of us prior to us going to be with him is that all of those lowly bodies sorry for my compliment this morning all of our lowly bodies will have to change that's it so who's gonna stand before the Bema seat of Christ only the church only the church the participants in that judgment are members of the New Testament church it's not even the Old Testament Saints it's the church we're gonna stand before Christ and the Bible says the people who have trusted Christ as Savior from the day of Pentecost from the time the Holy Spirit came because he said unless I go I cannot send you the comforter and then of course he said but if I send it to you I will also come back and receive I have to go is it to prepare place for you you want me to go to prepare a place for you and then he says I will come back and receive you I will receive you not gonna come back to be with you down here I will receive you to myself so where I am you will also be he said now how will we go to be with Jesus in order to stand before him that that Bema seat Bheema judgment see how are we going to do that it's very simple it's called the rapture of the church and it's not a word that you'll find in the Bible because your Bible is in English but if your Bible was in Greek you would have found that word in the Greek which is harpazo and if your Bible was in Latin you would have found that word in Latin which means rap Toro and so we call it rapture based on the Latin version but the word Latin is the word rapture is not in your Bible but the action who cares how they call it look what the Bible says that is going to happen to us as Paul describes to the people of Thessaloniki those people were holding onto every word Paul it's the only city that Paul was writing a letters without quoting a single word from the Old Testament they were only Gentiles over there they had zero knowledge of the Old Testament so he couldn't quote you know so many people come to Israelis and tried to evangelize to them John 3:16 what we don't believe in John I mean Israelis don't take the New Testament as the Word of God so don't quote from the New Testament you have Jesus never led anyone to believe in him through the old to the New Testament you know that only the Old Testament because there was no New Testament at that time and so Paul could not convince the Thessalonians of anything using the Old Testament because none of them knew but they were holding on to every word he had to say regarding their future what happens after I die will I even die they were so worried about that they were so worried that people took advantage of that and told him you have missed the day of the law that's it and they wrote him a letter with one word what and Paul says don't be afraid you have not missed it after and you read 2nd Thessalonians which is normally comes after first and you read the second chapter and begins with Paul telling them no there's certain things that must happen first and it's interesting because he described to the Thessalonians an amazing event where the church the Bible says the Lord Himself with a shout with a Archangel call and with a sound of God's from but he will descend from heaven and the dead in Christ will rise first and we who are alive and remain we will be caught up in the Greek are pazzo in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air and so we will be with the Lord forever therefore encourage one another with these words so first we have to be translated into our glorified bodies in order to make it to be able to even stand before him and in my poor attempt to draw something to explain how it's gonna look like Oh first of all you see that you're not standing there Christians should not stand he should always run the race he should always fight the fight you know he shouldn't sit at home and say well I'm waiting for the rapture no we have a lot to do we have to do our father's business we have to spread the word teach the word we have to in season and out of season we have to be everywhere all about God's Word so we have to be active and then of course as we run the race our eyes are not fixed on an earthly target but on you know that which is in Heaven's where Christ is the Bible says and Christ is not only the Lamb of God on the left but he's also the Lion of the tribe of Judah he already warned he already has the victory and when we get up there it's not about hell or heaven because we're already in heaven it's about receiving rewards now what's the difference between this judgment and all the other judgments is very simple the Bible says that God will reward the actions of the believers Psalm 62 you can see says and that you a lord are loving surely you will reward each person according to what he has done Matthew 16:27 for the Son of Man is going to come in his father's glory with his angels and then he will reward each person according to what he has done Ephesians 6 8 knowing that whatever good we do we will receive the same again from the Lord whether we are slaves or free your status on earth means nothing regarding your rewards in heaven and it's not gonna be judgment for sin make no mistake the people on earth will be judged for their sins because their sins are not being covered by the blood of Christ simply they simply did not believe in him faith is what required from all people in order to have eternal life that's what John 3:16 says so we're not going to be judged for our sins this thing is already something that was dealt with it's already been forgiven the Bible says in Psalm 103 verses 10 to 12 he has not dealt with us according to our sins nor punished us according to our iniquities for as the heavens are high above the earth so great is his mercy towards those who fear Him as far as the east from the west so far he has removed our transgressions from us our sins have been removed and you better understand that even Micah says in Chapter 7 he will again have compassion on us and will subdue our iniquities you will cast all our sins into the depth of the sea so the destiny of the Christian has been settled already we will make it to heaven and if sin is there we couldn't but we are no longer going to be judged for our sins our sin issue has been dealt with for a past present and future but now we're going to stand before the Lord and there is something else that we have to deal with there's definitely no condemnation as romans 8 says the devil wants you to feel that you are not worthy that you will never make it that well this is from the devil obviously but I want you to know that we do have certain things that the Bible says that are part of every promise to every believer we have eternal life the Bible says 5:24 I tell you the truth whoever hears my word and believes my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and he will not be condemned he has crossed over from death to life look when we are born were already condemned I don't know if you know that we're born sinners we're already condemned the Bible says he who believes is not condemned and he is not does not believe he's condemned already so all of us were born in the camp of the condemned whenever we place our trust in Jesus we then are moved to the camp of the not condemned the curse has been removed that curse of sin that it's a curse because look a baby is being born he did nothing yet he's already a sinner believe it or not but babies can use their fists and babies can want candy demand what they want not what you want that curse against believer has been removed the Bible says in Galatians 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming curse for us for it is written cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree the Bible says that the price for our sins have been fully paid first Peter 2:24 he himself bore our sins in his body on the cross so that we'll free from sins we might live for righteousness now you see we're free from sin but our life now should be for righteousness by his wounds you have been healed and of course the sin offering of Christ in 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 - for our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin so that in him we might become the righteousness of God the believers judgment with respect to sin is long passed and the Bible says in Hebrews 12:1 run the race and the Bible says in first Timothy 6:12 fight the good fight so what we are going to deal with in heaven has nothing to do with our sin what our sinful past it has to do with the fruits of that race and that fight those rewards therefore the judgement seat of Christ is not designed to punish believers but rather to reward them for their faithful service all of us will give an account of what we have done after trusting Christ as Savior therefore the judgment seat of Christ is a judgment of believers works works cannot save you but once you are saved works count again you'll be in heaven regardless because works are not that which saves you or else you can boast but once you get to heaven you will have to give a count there's accountability for the things you did now you may say I did so many things yeah but did you do those things with the right heart you see the judgment seat of Christ is a judgment of believers works after salvation and the analogy that Paul gave to the Corinthians is according to the grace of God which was given to me as a wise masterbuilder I've laid the foundation and another one builds on it but let each one take heed how he builds on it now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold silver precious stones wood hay straw each one's work will become manifest for the day will declare it there is a day that day will declare it there is a day we're gonna stand before Christ and the things we supposedly did for him are going to be exposed because it will be revealed by fire it's interesting because the word revealed by fire or probably [Music] refined by fire is also a word that the Prophet Zechariah chapter 13 talks about the nation of Israel all Israel will be saved according to Roman's 11 but the Bible says that two thirds of Israel will perish and only the third he will bring through the fire there is the intentions matters even then when you have to understand that fire will try each one's work and some of us will suffer a loss you see it's not about life or death hell or heaven it's about standing before Jesus after supposedly we live for him for the last few years and you can either be glad or you can be ashamed suffering loss the Bible says in 1st Corinthians 3:15 if anyone's work is burned they will suffer loss but they themselves will be saved look it's not about not making it to heaven you are in heaven but you're gonna stand there looking at everyone else receiving their rewards and the ones that you thought you had was taken from you because that which you thought you did in a great way oh I filled stadiums or I failed churches or I had tons of followers here or this everything is gonna be tested through fire and if it's not really the right heart that which you thought is yours it's taken from you you'll be safe that is through fire it's like you know when the cartoons when they go through fire they're still standing but smoke comes out of them that's not a picture you want to see yourself like fire I am sorry about the cartoons we were in Disney and all right so fire the judgement will be by fire fires using scriptures a symbol of judgment and holiness of God you can sing in Genesis the Lord reigns down burn sulfur and Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord out of the heavens you see that fire of judgment you see in Deuteronomy 4 24 for the Lord your God is a consuming fire jealous God but in Revelation 1:14 one of the ways to describe the holiness of Jesus his head is and his hair were why does white wall white as snow and his eyes were like a flame of fire now we really want to stand before Jesus and we already understand the minute the wrath to take place whether you're dead or alive we will be changed the Bible says in first Corinthians chapter 15 verses 50 and 51 behold I tell you a mystery not all of us are going to sleep to die but all of us are going to change in a minute in a twinkling of an eye the last trumpet we will wear in corruption you can go to the gym as many times as you want that body is dying and you will need a new body if you want to enter into heaven your body I'm not encouraging you not to live healthy lifestyle I'm encouraging you not to trust that this body will get you to heaven first John 2:28 and now little children abide in him he needs to be the thing you draw your life from abide in him that when he appears appears remember that word Rick pretends to what talks about what the rapture the time he appears before us when he appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming Wow so there is a possibility of being ashamed that is coming we want to receive the full reward believers will receive that full reward for the deeds of faith but the question is what is going to look like second John 8 look to yourselves that we do not lose those things we have worked for but that we may receive a full reward be careful not to lose them it's not about losing your salvation is losing your reward revelations 3:11 behold I come quickly hold fast what do you have that no one may take your crown that means whatever you do however you live the way you believe should genuine and not phony now I'm very bad in illustrations in fact I don't even have a clue how to use illustrations so I found it online we can illustrate the loss of reward in the following manner let us say that you've recently built a new two-story house while on the second floor you smell smoke looking downstairs you see that the first floor is on fire you jump out of the second-story window to save your life but then you watch your new house burned to the ground and obviously you will have mixed emotions you're thankful that you were able to jump and save your life but you're sad because your new house is destroyed this is similar to those believers who are saved but have nothing to show for it they squandered their opportunities to live for Christ yet they are enjoying the benefits of heaven with Jesus Wow how sad then instead of rejoicing in the presence of God instead of standing before Christ making it to heaven then that's the happiest place on planet Earth or not on planet earth in the world instead of rejoicing you're standing there and your whole life is passing right in front of you and you find out the one thing after the other but you thought you're doing for the Lord but he actually did it because you wanted other people to see you doing it or you actually did it because there was some sort of gain well the Bible says all who experienced the judgment seat of Christ will possess the privilege and honors as children of God but Jesus said he will acknowledge those who have believed in him before his father and before the Angels as Matthew 10:32 says there will be gifts to be received as Paul said to the Corinthians I has not seen nor ear heard nor as have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who loved him but God has viel them to us through his spirit for the spirit searches all things yes the deep things of Christ of garlic City now we have to understand that our rewards will be proportionate to the way we lived and to the things we did with that which God gave us the reward of the believers it's proportionate to the faithfulness they show in this life the key is faithfulness to the gifts God has given you and the Bible is clearly indicating that 1st Corinthians 4:2 more ever it is required in stewards that one be found faithful there's different degrees of rewards and Jesus said that in several of his parables in Luke 19 17 he says well done my good servant his master replied because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter take charge of 10 cities and yet to someone else he said in verse 19 you take charge of five cities in other words that which God gave you is enough to give you everything you need but if you don't do with it anything then you will not be blessed and be rewarded the way you could have if you were trustworthy if you were faithful because God gave every one of you either time talent or resources and he's gonna ask you what have you done with the time talent and resources that I gave you and those crowns second Timothy says I've fought the good fight I have finished the race Paul isn't at the end of his life he understands okay I guess I am going to die but look what he says that I'm going to die with a huge smile why because I know I fought the good fight I didn't stay at home I didn't do nothing I fought the good fight I ran that race and I finished it I have kept the faith I'm faithful cuz I've done everything God gave me whatever he gave me I did something with it and look what he says now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness and and Paul understands the sequence of which things are going to take place so he's not saying I'm about to appear before Christ today and I will receive the crown of righteousness right now no he knows there is a day set there is a day reserved not only for him so he said that crown of righteousness that the Lord the righteous judge will award to me when on that day he said not only to me but he says but also to all who have longed for his what appearing what is his appearing means exactly him appearing in the sky in the cloud for us who are taken to be with him to those the crown of righteousness is reserved there's the book of life that the Bible says that is part of that judgment seat because he's gonna you know we're gonna look at what we did in our life death is no longer has dominion over the believers believers will be clothed in white garments having their names written in the book of not just you understand every person on planet earth that has ever been born his name was written automatically in the book of life because life means he's alive however when you die and you do not have faith in Christ and your name is not written now in the Lamb's Book of Life with the blood of Jesus can never that can never be raised then you're blotted out of the book of life because you're no longer alive you know sounds very simple the book of life is for those who are alive and then you are your name is now in the Lamb's Book of Life that and it cannot be blotted out that's why the Bible says in Revelations three four and five those who come we'll have their names written in the book of life that's the land with the light and then you say you have a few names even in sardis who have not defiled their garments and they shall walk with me in white for they are worthy he who overcomes shall be clothed in white garment and I will not blot out his name from the book of life but I would because you they have eternal life and I will confess his name before my father and before his angels and when will that be of course first we have to be with him so the rapture then we have to stand right after the rapture because first comes judgment the Bible says in the book of Hebrews is appointed upon man to die once and then comes a judgment it's not gonna be okay you sit here watch this movie get this popcorn I'll come back in two years and judge you know first thing right after the rapture the judging of believers will occur right after the rapture we gonna stand before him revelation 19:7 and eight let us be glad and rejoice and give him glory for the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready fine linen bright and clean was given her to wear that represents the righteous acts of the saints that means that you've been already after the Lambs throne of judgment so the judgment seat of Christ is a time of examination and reward from Scripture we can conclude the following concerning the judgment seat of Christ first of all the Lord will resurrect the bodies of the saints who have died during the church age as well as change the bodies of those who are still like us I believe too they will meet the Lord in the air and proceeded to judgement seat of Christ 3 this judgement will consist of rewards for faithful service and it will not be a condemnation for anyone for rewards will consist of crowns given to believers based upon our faithful service to him the rewards will be proportionate to our faithfulness and now comes the last question why in the world do we have to study about that and what is the purpose of the judgment seat of we look I always have to ask myself what's the purpose of things I struggled when I started for the Millennial Kingdom message I struggled I said to the Lord I'm sorry but I don't agree with you I said you took me all the way up there to taste heaven and you gonna throw me back for another thousand years on earth and then I had to get all my assurances from the Scriptures to understand the a for us who are like him now a thousand years are like what one day don't worry second I understood that that was a display of His righteousness because after a thousand years when Christ is in Jerusalem physically reigning no sin no satanic influence because he's locked down in that bottom as if still people at the end of the thousand years millennium are ganging up against Christ and his people that means that they do deserve the judgment seat of the white judgment throne at the end of the Millennial Kingdom so he is displaying his righteousness for a thousand years and here knowing today what the Bema seat in heaven is all about causes us to live faithful lives today as believers here on earth when you understand that Christ will judge you for the things you do as a believer then you have to ask yourself now maybe starting from today am i doing those things with the right attitude the greatest consequence of unfaithfulness here on earth is that it disappoints Christ first John 2:28 and now little children abide in him that when he appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming it's a sobering thought that we could be ashamed as we stand before the Lord at the same time it should encourage us with a prospect of receiving his average rewards if we serve Him faithfully during our time on earth sin and indifference in this life robbed us of our present desire for serving the Lord that in turn means loss of rewards as in Ephesians 5 15 to 16 see then that he walks circumspectly not as fool's but as wise redeeming the time because the days are evil sin an indifference result in a loss of power in our lives because sin grieves the Holy Spirit and sin and indifference causes also us to pass up opportunities for service which we would otherwise perform and be rewarded for and I would conclude with this we are to run the race in order to win not you don't show up to the stadium and then you start walking like that you have to run and don't even just run like that run the Bible says look it says do you know no you don't know in 1st Corinthians 9 that those who run run the race all day all run but only one receives the price so run in such a way that you may obtain it run as a winner and everyone who completes for the prize is temperate in all thing but now they do it to obtain a perishable crown but we for an imperishable crown and whatever you do Colossians 3:23 24 do it heartily as to the Lord and not to men knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of inheritance for you serve the Lord Jesus Christ and I will conclude with Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable to God which is your reasonable service father we thank you so much for your word it's not only giving us comfort knowing that sin has been dealt with and there is no condemnation but it also encourages us to use the talents we have received to be as faithful as we can to flee from temptation and to run the race fight the fight and do it in such manner in excellence and in in great anticipation for that day that we will stand before you in heaven father you said through Jesus that he will come back the second time to those who eagerly wait for his appearance obviously if we're not ready we're not legally of waiting so father we ask that you will work in our lives to show faithfulness in our service to you so we will be ready and eagerly await your return it is anyone here this morning that is life even as a believer is not reflecting the sincerity of service to you and maybe he's not even aware of the consequences of how he does things and why he does this so father this morning we ask that you through your Holy Spirit convict change renew redeem and restore we bless your name this morning and we do that in the name of the Holy One of Israel in the name of Yeshua our salvation and all of God's people say [Music] on behalf of our pastors and staff we want to thank you for tuning into today's video if you want to stay informed about what's going on here at Calvary Chapel East Anaheim we'd love for you to subscribe to our Channel go ahead and do so by clicking the button below we'll see you next time

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Published: Sun Aug 18 2019