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“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1).
In our verse yesterday, it said that all of us must give account of ourselves to God, and we mentioned that this included both believers and unbelievers. However, it is most important for us to understand that there can never be any judgment for sin for believers. Today’s verse makes this abundantly clear. If we have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, then all the judgment for our sins took place at the cross. The Lord Jesus bore the judgment for us, and the question of our sins can never be raised again.
However, God will hand out rewards to believers for faithfulness in our lives down here, and in that sense we will, as believers, also give account of ourselves to God. At the judgment seat of Christ for believers, our lives will be reviewed, and what has been done for the Lord will be rewarded. Everything else will be burned up.
Those rewards are something greatly to be desired, although God never sets rewards before us as a motive for living for Christ. No, there is another more important motive for living for God’s glory in this world, and we will discuss that tomorrow.
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