For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body . . . whether it be good or bad.
We must appear. Everyone shall give an account of himself to God. Those that are saved will be rewarded for what they did in the Spirit for the Lord. Those that are lost will be judged according to their evil works and cast into the lake of fire. It is humbling, or should be, to remember that the Lord will go over our entire life.
“Only one life, it will soon be past;
Only what’s done for Christ will last.”