![]() Just the same, the Christian life includes a performance review – with subsequent rewards and rebukes. In a marriage relationship, soliciting and giving feedback promotes greater communication ad intimacy. In the business world, annual performance reviews sometimes include 360-feedback where managers solicit input about a person’s performance. Then, on top of everything else, He rewards our faithful, loving service!Īs in any relationship, there is a personal accountability for our walk of faith. In return, we love and serve Him with gratitude and the passion deserving of such an intimate relationship. As our Eternal Lover, He offers His salvation and lovingly works to conform us to His likeness. įar from intending to scare us into working like crazy to receive His favor, God outlines a love story. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. And unless we forget, even here on earth, God’s judgment begins with believers.“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”.“For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ”.But Scripture plainly confirms each believer faces a personal accounting before the Lord Jesus Christ. Call it a “time out” of sorts with God restraining His judgment against sin. ![]() Yes, we are currently in the church age, a dispensation of God’s matchless and boundless grace. For Christ followers, it takes place at the Judgment Seat of Christ.Īt this point you may protest, “We’re in the dispensation of grace! God’s grace covers everything! Why disrupt my comfort zone with a disturbing message of judgment?” “They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead”. For unbelievers, that occurs at the Great White Throne. Īlong with the certainty of death, everyone faces the reality of judgment in the hereafter. ![]() It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. He invites, but doesn’t coerce He offers, yet is the perfect Gentleman while awaiting the response. Yet, He leaves the choice to each individual. He invites everyone to spend eternity with Him in Heaven and sacrificed His life to make that possible. ![]() Actually, He warned about Hell more than He inspired about Heaven. He clearly identified the only alternative to heaven. Without Jesus Christ, eternity is a place of hopelessness, unrest, and judgment. Yes, that’s a morbid yet sobering thought – one each person will face one day. 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. ![]()
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