![]() What are the blessings given at the judgment seat of Christ? Possibly a greater realm of leadership during the millennium, as Jesus said to the faithful servant in Matt. This scenario is flipped when a believer is obedient to God’s calling. If a believer has not been obedient to the calling that God has placed on his life, he will be saved, but he will lose the eternal blessings that God intended for him. And help me, by faith-filled obedience, appropriate the victory You have given me through the Cross to every area of my life.Īs children of God, we ought to take our Christian lives very seriously. ![]() Our heart’s desire and prayer should be: Lord, open my eyes to anything in my life that’s not of You. 13:5), we ought to ask ourselves these questions. As we examine ourselves as to whether we are in the faith (II Cor. 25:23) to the greatest gift God has given us, Jesus Christ? Have we been faithful to His individual calling on our lives? Have we been motivated by His love or our selfishness? (I Cor. Ultimately, what will determine blessing-or loss of blessing-is our faithfulness to what God has given to us. Everything not of Him will be burned, and everything of Him will result in an eternal blessing for us individually. Paul wrote that “fire” of Christ will reveal those areas of our life that were of Him and those areas which were of ourselves. The wood, hay, and stubble refers to us living and building our lives with our own wisdom, understanding, ability, and the fact that we did not trust in Him in areas of our life. Gold, silver, and precious stones refer to us living and building with what God has provided us through the death of Christ, and the fact that we lived by faith in His provision. Paul likened the spiritual material that we build with, and how we build, to gold, silver, and precious stones and wood, hay, and stubble. What is built on the foundation and how the believer builds is another story. 3:10) and our simple faith in Him, His death, and resurrection (Rom. ![]() The foundation of every true believer is solid the foundation is Jesus Christ (I Cor. It’s our condition, our life that will be judged. Our justification, our position will not be determined because Christ already took the penalty of our sin on the Cross. At this event we will receive or lose eternal blessings. What is the judgment seat of Christ for? It’s the time when every believer will individually stand before Christ, and Christ will make the final determination on what in our life is of Him and what is of ourselves. ![]() If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved yet so as by fire” (I Cor. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. “Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. Paul also wrote about the judgment seat of Christ: Unbelievers will experience the great white throne judgment at the end of the thousand-year reign of Christ (Rev. The judgment seat of Christ will take place most likely immediately following the rapture (I Thess. No unbeliever will experience this judgment, only true believers. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men ….” (II Cor. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Paul wrote “Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. ![]() Every child of God should live with the understanding that one day we will stand before the judgment seat of Christ. ![]()
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