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Today we will be touching on the judgement seat of Christ.
So in my research I ran across this little story and thought you would like it.
At the end of the age when all the believers were standing in line waiting to get into heaven, the angel Gabriel appeared and said, “I want all the men to form two lines.
One line will be for the men who were the true heads of their households.
The other will be for the men who were dominated by their wives.”
Gabriel continued, “And now we need all of the women to report to Mary and Martha on the other side of the gate.”
The women left while the men hurriedly formed two lines.
The line of men who were dominated by their wives was seemingly unending.
The line of men who were the true head of their household had just one man standing in it.
Gabriel said to the first line, “You men ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
You were appointed to be the heads of your households and you have not fulfilled your purpose.
Of all of you, there is only one man who obeyed.”
Then Gabriel turned to the lone man and asked, “How did you come to be in this line?”
The man sheepishly replied, “My wife told me to stand here.”
Historical/Cultural Context -
The book of 1 John is one of the five books in the New Testament that was written by John the Apostle, brother of James.
They were known as the sons of thunder.
This letter was written between A.D. 85 to A.D. 100.
First John was written to a church or group of churches in crisis—churches who were being attacked by false teaching.
Some individuals who had once been associated with the church had accepted heresy and had left the church.
After they left they continued to spread their false teaching to the church.
They went so far as to organize and send out itinerant preachers to various churches with the goal of converting those in the churches to their beliefs.
This created confusion and plunged the churches into crisis.
In response to this situation, John wrote 1 John, following that up with 2 and 3 John.
His goal was to stop this false teaching and to bring comfort to the Christians in these churches.
Biblical Text -
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Life Principle - Christians have no need to fear God’s Judgement, however they are to test themselves regularly to make sure they are in His Love.
Life Point- Do Not Fear Judgement
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Judgement is something that can be used to both motivate and alienate people.
Especially in regards to God’s judgement.
Judgement is a reality that each and every person must deal with on this planet.
We are born in sin and dead in our trespasses before a Holy God.
His attribute of justice must be fulfilled.
Every other religion on this planet talks about judgement and does so when talking about what we must do to be saved from it.
You see the sin problem is so inherent in man that man recognizes it immediately.
Whether or not they admit it or not, each person has to decide what they are going to do with it.
To the atheist it is trying to ignore it, even though you can’t.
To the rest of the religions on earth it is trying to make up for it, even though you can’t.
We are finite beings and we have sin in front of infinite God.
How can something as finite, make up for disobedience before an infinite God.
We do not know how far apart from God’s holiness we are.
That is the deception of sin.
It will blind your eyes even unto God’s holiness.
That is, unless we are shown what the Bible has to say about sin and responsibility to holiness.
So without the law (God’s Word) how could we possibly know how bad we are before God’s eyes?
We can’t.
Does that make God’s Word bad for us?
No! Because God shows His attributes in nature.
We instinctively know right from wrong.
Even if you didn’t have the Bible you know that murder is wrong, unless you are so hardened to sin that nothing is wrong for you anymore.
Notice I said anymore, for at one point even the hardest of hearts knows that murder is wrong.
So it is with everything.
This is called God’s general revelation and the Bible is God’s Special Revelation or you could say God’s specific revelation.
So, we know we have this problem with sin.
Those of us here know it is Jesus who is the answer.
Jesus didn’t say, work this formula.
He didn’t say, do your best and your good will outweigh your evil.
He said:
He died on our behalf, taking all of God’s judgement and fulfilling God’s justice for our sin.
That word translated “It is finished” is a remarkable word in the ancient Greek language.
It is TETELESTAI.
This one word that we translate “it is finished” could be translated that way, but it could also be translated Paid In Full.
You see when you took out a loan from a merchant and you paid it back that would write Tetelestai on the bottom of the certificate of debt.
This one word has had books written about it.
All because Jesus paid our certificate of debt that we could not pay, because He was and is the perfect sacrifice before a Holy God.
He paid your debt and my debt.
C.H. Spurgeon said the following about Tetelestai:
“an ocean of meaning in a drop of language, a mere drop.
It would need all the other words that ever were spoken, or ever can be spoken, to explain this one word.
It is altogether immeasurable.
It is high; I cannot attain to it.
It is deep; I cannot fathom it.
IT IS FINISHED is the most charming note in all of Calvary’s music.
The fire has passed upon the Lamb.
He has borne the whole of the wrath that was due to His people.
This is the royal dish of the feast of love.”
So you see we don’t rest on our deeds or anything we have done, but rest in God’s grace and what Jesus has done.
When the day of judgement comes we can stand in boldness before God, based on Jesus’ love.
How can we do this?
If Jesus’ love has been matured in us, then we can do this.
What is the test for this love?
As He is; so are we in this world.
As He is - This is present, not as He was.
But, as He is.
so are we in this world - The old saying of, “you are the heaven that those who are going to Hell will ever see.”
Can you say you are a good mirror of God’s grace and love?
If you want to explore that issue more just listen to last week’s sermon which is found on our website @ fbcmin.org.
John then tells us there is no fear in love, because perfect (i.e.
mature love) has cast out all fear.
How does that happen?
If we are mature in our relationship with God and we know we are standing on what He has done and continues to do in us on a daily basis then we have nothing to fear when we stand before a Holy God.
Why?
Because fear is based on an expectation of punishment, and since we know Jesus has taken our punishment and His will is being walked out in love in our lives t hen we have no reason to fear on that day.
Because of this, I don’t fear death.
What happens after we die.
Oh, I fear the way in which I will die.
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