The Judgment Seat of Christ: For Believers [Pamphlet]

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Excerpt- Now there was no good in our lives before we were saved, for the Bible says, "they that are in the flesh cannot please God." Rom. 8:8. But when God saved us He gave us a new life, the very life of Christ. As someone has said; He then began the credit side of the record of our lives, and now He takes notice of the things done for Him. Even a cup of cold water given in His Name, or a thought upon His Name, or even our confidence in Him, will be manifested and rewarded in that day. Indeed the daily things of life, if done as unto the Lord, will be rewarded. (Col. 3:23,24).

Yet there has been failure and sin in our lives since we were saved, and even though they were all borne by the Lord Jesus at Calvary, yet they must be manifested. It is not a question of charging them to us, for the one offering of the Lord Jesus has perfected the believer forever as to his standing before God, (Heb. 10:14), so we read in 1 John 4:17, "that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world."

Why then are the "bad" things mentioned in 2 Cor. 5:10? As mentioned before, it will not only reveal the riches of His grace in saving us, but we also think of His long suffering patience with us even as believers. How often we have followed afar off like Peter, and He has brought us back. "He restoreth my soul." Psa. 23:3. We may have just wasted our lives, or part of them, living to please ourselves when we should have lived, not unto ourselves but unto Him who died for us and rose again (2 Cor. 5:14,15). All this will be manifested, for only what has been done for Him in obedience to His Word will be rewarded. The rest will all be loss, as we learn from 1 Cor. 3:8-15. We will notice these verses in particular later, but they show us very clearly that there is either loss or reward as the result of the manifestation. Some things may come out beforehand, but all will most surely be brought to light then. We learn from 1 Cor. 3:15 that the one whose bad works are burned up, is nevertheless himself saved, for it is the work of Christ alone that puts away our sins and fits us for heaven, and not our own works. It is, however, possible to have a saved soul but a lost life. Surely as we think of the judgment seat of Christ and the manifestation of our lives, and when we consider His great love to us, we are constrained to live unto Him!