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Rapture
Immediately after the rapture we go to the Father’s house and receive our rewards
— This is called by Paul ( 2 Cor 5:10 ) the judgment seat of Christ
We read at the end of Revelation:
12 “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.
( Rev 22:12 )
What is this time of rewards?
It is a time of rewards for the service that we have rendered to God
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 Cor 5:10 )
The Place of Judgement — unfortunate translation.
Judgment usually means sin, but that is NOT the idea behind this word.
— 7 Major judgments in scripture
— Each has it’s own time and place
judgment of sin: 4 gospels.
Happened in time (30AD) and the place was at Calvary.
Judgment of self - goes all during your life. 1 Cor 11:31 If we judge ourselves we will not be judged.
If we evaluate our lives carefully, we will avoid chastening
Judgment of believer’s works — this is the rewards that we are talking about tonight
Judgment of Israel.
When Christ returns at the end of the tribulation He will judge Israel
Judgment of the Gentiles, the judgment of the nations (Matthew 25:31:46)
Remember how Christ comes down.
His feet touch the Mount of Olives.
He splits the Mount of Olives.
All the nations are gathered into the Mount of Olives, and there he judges the nations.
The place is earth; the time is the end of the tribulation.
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The judgment of Satan and his demons.
This happens at the end of the 1,000 year Millennial Kingdom
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The judgment of the unsaved.
Rev 20:11-15 is called the Great White Throne Judgment.
After the thousand-year reign of Christ, there is a resurrection, and all the ungodly are brought before the throne, and Christ judges them out of the books that are written.
They cannot make it on the basis of good deeds, and they’re all throne into the lake of fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
The Judgment of the Believer’s works - all of the other judgments are based on Sin.
This is not
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 Cor 5:10 )
— Now the word judgment seat is the word that we want to notice.
The literal Greek term is the term bema; if you’re going to transliterate it, it’s B-E-M-A.
Now that describes the place of judgment.
Literally, bema means a raised platform mounted by steps.
— It is just a seat of authority
— It’s merely a seat of dignity or prominence or authority.
— Outside Corinth was a large Olympic stadium, and the Greeks of course were great on athletics
— During the Olympics there was a platform — BEMA
— It was a platform of prominence.
It was a platform of honor.
It was a platform of dignity.
— Every believer is going to climb up on the honor stand
“And every man shall have praise of God.” ( 1 Cor 4:5 )
— BEMA is never used of a judicial bench
the Person - Who is the judge?
Christ.
John 5 Jesus said, “God the Father has committed all judgment unto the Son.”
And you see that’s a part of the exaltation of Christ, he will manifest authority in judgment.
And in Revelation 22:12, “Behold I come quickly and my reward,” – watch this, I love it – “my reward is with me to give.”
You see?
So the reward is going to come from Christ himself.
God is always person with giving out rewards.
It is individual
The People - We must all appear.
It is the church.
It is Christians
1 Cor 3:15 is the same account.
Everyone at the BEMA will be saved but some of us will smell like smoke
5 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
( 1 Cor 3:15 )
The Purpose — What is the point of this judgment?
So then each of us shall give account of himself to God. ( Ro 14:12 )
— Every believer will give an account of himself to God
— God knows that we need to be accountable to somebody.
— But someday we’re going to stand face to face with Jesus Christ, and we’re going to have to talk about the issue of our life.
— There is no penalty for our sin: Is 38:17
If I go to a rich man or something and say, “There’s a real need and I know you’re one of the richest men in the world and you’ve got X millions of dollars and I want you to give to this need.”
And the man says, “Oh, I will give to that need,” and he sits down and writes out a check for $9.25.
You say, “Thank you very much, sir, you have given me out of your riches.”
But if I say to another rich man, “Rich man, I have a need and the need is for X number of dollars.”
And the rich man takes out of his checkbook and says, “How much do you need?”
And he writes me double the amount I need.
Then I say, “You have not given me out of, you have given me according to.”
And when God starts dispensing grace, he doesn’t dole it out out of his grace; he gives it out according to his grace.
As rich as he is, that’s how much forgiveness you have.
There are no limits; it is full and it is total.
Let me give you just a fabulous illustration of this; it comes out of Isaiah 38.
And so many of the terms used in the Old Testament are vivid, but this one is really very, very vivid.
Isaiah 38, you’ll know the Scripture, 38 verse 17 I think it is.
Yes.
Listens to this.
You don’t even need to look it up; just listen.
He says, “But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption.”
Now he’s talking to God, then he says this, “For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.”
You know what the literal Hebrew is?
You have put all my sins between your shoulder blades.
Have you ever tried to turn around and look between your shoulder blades?
There’s a lot of places you can see; that’s not one of them.
God has put your sins in the one place that he can’t – now that’s a beautiful metaphor.
God is saying in effect, “As a man could never see what was between his should blades, so I have placed your sins in a place where I cannot see them.”
That’s forgiveness.
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