INTRO: We have looked at the possibility that when we die, or after the rapture, we may go through a process before we become at home in heaven. In the last message we looked at the three formal judgments and I recommended that the Judgment seat of Christ will take place at this altar. I am not dogmatic on this, but I am dogmatic that it will take place, and recommended that this is a likely place for it to happen.
I have recommended that we will go through a judgment called the judgment seat of Christ. We looked at what this is. It is not a judgment to see what kind of punishment will be administered, but it will be a judgment such as is used in sports events. If one did things that were against the rules unknowingly, there would be loss of points. If all things were in order and one was first, a prize was in order. This is called a bema judgment.
Romans 14:10 says, “But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.â€
2 Corinthians 5:10 says, “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.†|
