Pastor Earl K. Young
“It is appointed for men to die once but after this – The Judgment.” (Hebrews 9:27)
The final judgment has nothing to do with Heaven or Hell.
WHAT THEN IS THE FINAL EXAM ALL ABOUT?
There are two distinctly different places and there are two distinctly different purposes where the final exams will take place.
One is at the Judgment Seat Of Christ and the other is at
The Great White Throne.
The only identical feature is that the decisions made at both are final, without appeal, everlasting.
•The Judgment Seat Of Christ is totally about blessing, everlasting rewards, grace and mercy.
•The Great White Throne is totally without mercy and grace. All about justice, punishment and pain.
1. For all unbelieving – Great White Throne.
Revelation 20:11,12,13
Daniel 7:9,10
Matthew 10:26
I Corinthians 4:5
Luke 12:3
Revelation 20:15 – “Anyone not found written in the Book of
Heaven was cast into the Lake of Fire.”
Hebrews 2:2
2. For all believers – Judgment Seat of Christ.
“For we shall all stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ, so each of us, shall give account of himself to God.”
(Romans 14:10&12)
“For we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ – that each one may receive the things one in the body according to what he has done whether good or bad.”
(II Corinthians 5:10&11)
This Judgment is not about retribution but rewards.
The Believers Judgment – I Corinthians 3:8-15.
Vr. 8 – “Each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.”
Vr. 14 – “If your work which you have built, endures you will receive a reward.”
Vr. 15 – “If your work is burned up – you will suffer loss, but you will be saved, yet so as through fire.”
JESUS SAID
“Lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. Where your treasure is your heart will be also.”
(Matthew 6:20-21)
WHERE WILL YOU TAKE YOUR FINAL EXAM?
1. Without Jesus – at the Great White Throne?
2. With Jesus – at the Judgment Seat of Christ?
You are deciding now!