The Days are Short
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:10Devotional Series: The Judgment Seat of Christ
Teaching: The Judgment Seat Of Christ pt. 1 (SUN_AM 2021-07-11) by Pastor Star R Scott
All of the world’s treasures are vanity. Layup treasures in heaven; amen? Where thieves cannot break in and steal. Every time we’re distracted, someone has stolen our reward.
The reason I’m sharing this at this time is because I believe that the days are short. We’ve talked about the bride making herself ready. Why don’t we finish greater than we’ve ever been? Why don’t we get out of our adolescence and stop everything being about us, and glorify our Father? It’s amazing, as adolescents, the lack of appreciation we have for our fathers, for our parents. As you get older, and you realize it’s not all about you, you’re thankful for all that they’ve sown into your life. Many of us didn’t have good homes growing up, but you’ve sure had a good Father since you’ve been regenerated; amen? So, we’re hoping to see in this little review of this judgment seat of Christ that it should naturally be motivating us. Not because we get the little gold star put on the chart, and the person next to us has to deal with a silver one. And when we talk about the rewards, we’re not talking about how much is done, what you’ve accomplished. We’re talking about what you’ve accomplished with what God has gifted you with. In other words, we are going to be judged according to our faithfulness as stewards with the gifting that God has given us and the placement that God has given us.
I’ll tell you what’s going to come up in the judgment seat of Christ and that is the issue of contentment. Well done, thou good and faithful servant; amen? It’s about being faithful where God has placed us. It’s about a one-hundred-percent pursuit of God, and then what is allowed by His grace for us to perform. So, all of us can only boast in the Lord, for we have nothing except that which we have received of Him; amen? So, it’s a great time. Well, in this great white throne judgment, so many Christians over the years have kind of, through confusion, applied different aspects of these judgments to one another. And we want you to remember, we’re only talking about that judgment that’s going to occur following the rapture when we first come into that great marriage supper of the Lamb, when all of us will receive that that we’ve done good for the kingdom of God, for the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 5:10 says, “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.” Now, Paul’s contrasting, here, in context, the mortal with the immortal, he’s talking about the frailties. Let’s remember who Paul is writing to, here. He’s writing to the Corinthian church. There’s still all of this carnality within them. A strong influence of the church having been infiltrated by a Judaizer mentality, trying to bring a snare upon the church that there are certain responsibilities, a degree of works that we must perform for our redemption to be finally sealed. And Paul, here is talking about the finishing of this course. His readiness, his willingness, his desire to go and be with the Lord. Remember, Paul was questioned about his apostolic ministry. Paul was pushed aside because of his stand for the gospel and without compromise, and many of these prophets that were coming in their own name were being raised up and heralded as great and bringing about false doctrine. Paul was reminding them of who he is. He’s reminding them not to be deceived by those that were among them as somehow special and great in the eyes of men. He reminds them that God judges the hearts.