THE JUDGMENT OF THE BELIEVER'S SERVICE [2]

Pastor Rick Jackson

THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST :

 

I. DEALS WITH PREPPING  [ROMANS 14]

1. Focus on Christ [v. 1-9]

2. Focus on Self [v. 10]

3. Focus on Pleasing Him [v. 11-13]

 

III. WILL CAUSE TEARS IN HEAVEN

1. Tears of shame [1 John 2:28]

And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

2. Tears of loss [1 Cor. 3:10-15]

3. Tears of Terror [2 Cor. 5:10-11]

 

Thank God, after the millennium God will wipe away ALL tears. Revelation 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

III. PROVIDES CROWNS FOR CHRIST

At the "Judgment Seat" we will be given "crowns" as rewards:

1. The Crown of Mastery [1 Cor. 9:25-27]

And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things . Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means , when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

2. The Crown of Witness [1 Th. 2:19]

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

3. For not yielding to temptation [James 1:12]

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried , he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

4. The Crown of Faithful Pastors  [1 Pt. 5:1, 4]

-The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

-And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

5. The Crown for Loving His Return [2 Tm. 4:8]

Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

 

We will then take these crowns to the throne, where Jesus is seated, and we cast them at the feet of Jesus in thanksgiving for what He has, is, and will do for us [Rev. 4:10-11]

The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

 

 

WE ARE IN CHRIST AND NOT SUBJECT TO THAT

ROMANS 8

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

Not subject to that? What’s “that”? That is the subject of the chapter and of the message. D.L. Moody said he thought the three greatest chapters God had Paul write were 1 Corinthians 13  the Love Chapter, 1 Corinthians 15 – the Resurrection Chapter, and Romans 8 which opens with “No condemnation” and closes with no separation.

 

 I. IN CHRIST WE ARE NOT SUBJECT TO CONDEMNATION [v. 1-17]

 

1. We are Free in Christ

[the condemned man is not free] [v. 1-3, 10]

2. We are Free in the Spirit [v. 4-13]

3. We are Free in God’s Family [v. 14-17]

 

II. IN CHRIST WE ARE NOT SUBJECT TO ETERNAL CORRUPTION [v. 18-28]

 

1. We Shall Be Delivered [v. 18-25]

2. We Are Being Helped [v. 26-27]

3. We Know God is Working on Our Behalf [v. 28]

 

III. IN CHRIST WE ARE NOT SUBJECT TO SEPARATION [v. 29-39]

 

1. God is for Us [v. 29-32]

2. Christ Intercedes for Us [v. 33-35]

3. God’s Love Inexhaustibly Keeps Us [v. 36-39]

IGNORANCE AIN’T BLISS

JOHN 8:32     And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. WE CAN KNOW

1. We Can Know We are Sinners [Romans 3:19, 7:14]

-Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

-For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

2. We Can Know the Bible Plan for Us [1 Timothy 1:8]

- But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

3. We Can Know the Fragility of Our Existence [Romans 8:22]

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

 

II. YOU CAN KNOW

1. You Can Know the Saviour [John 14:11-14]

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

2. You Can Know You are Saved [1 John 5:13]

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

3. You Can Know Why You are Saved and Secure [2 Timothy 1:12, 1 John 5:20]

-For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

-And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

 

III. WE OUGHT TO KNOW

1. We Ought to Know to Grow [1 Corinthians 2:12, Philippians 3:10]

-Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

2. We Ought to Know How to Behave [2 Th. 3:7, 1 Tm. 3:15, 1 Cor. 8]

- For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

-But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

3. We Ought to Know How to Pray [1 Jn. 5:13-15]

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

THE JUDGMENT OF THE BELIEVER’S SIN

ROMANS 14:10

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

We are studying the 6 Great Judgments. Last week – The Believer’s Sin, this week – the Believer’s Service. Eventually, Lord willing, we will cover the other 4. The Judgment of Israel, the Judgment of Gentile Nations, the Judgment of Angels, and the Great White Throne Judgment.

 

I. THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST  DEALS WITH PERFORMANCE  [2 CORINTHIANS 5]

1. This is a Judgment Only for Believers [v. 1-8]

2. This is a Judgment for Accepting (or not) Works [v. 9-10a]

3. This is a Judgment of Approving Workers [v. 10b-11, 2 Tm. 2:15]

Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

 

II. THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST  DEALS WITH PERFECTION [1 CORINTHIANS 3, 4; MT. 5:48]

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

1. The Foundation Must Be Right [3:7-11]

2. The Motivation Must Be Right [3:12-23]

3. The Information Must Be Right [4:1-5]

 

III. THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST  DEALS WITH PREPPING  [ROMANS 14]

1. Focus on Christ [v. 1-9]

2. Focus on Self [v. 10]

3. Focus on Pleasing Him [v. 11-13]

ISRAEL’S BRIGHT FUTURE

ISAIAH 46:9-13

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. WHAT SAITH THE SPIRIT IN GENESIS?

1. God’s promise to Abraham Included the Land [Gen. 12:1-7]

2. The Promise is Dependent on God, not Abraham [Gn. 15]

3. Nothing Changes the Promise, not even the Law [Gal. 3:17]

 

II. WHAT SAITH THE SPIRIT IN ZECHARIAH?

1. Jesus Christ Shall Return [12:8-10,]

2. Jesus Christ Shall be Recognized [12:10-13:1, Mt. 5:4]

-Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.]

3. Jesus Christ Shall Reign [14:1-4, 9-11, 14-19]

 

III. WHAT SAITH THE SPIRIT IN ROMANS?

1. Some Jews are Saved now [11:1-5]

2. Jews and Gentiles can both be saved now [11:6-11]

3. Israel, as a Saved Nation, has a Future [11:25-27]

STAND FAST!

2 THESSALONIANS 2:15

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. STAND FAST AGAINST IMITATIONS! [v. 1-5]

1. Don’t Be Shaken, Be Stirred! [v. 1-2]

2. Don’t Be Deceived, Be Discerning! [v. 3-4]

3. Don’t Be Forgetful, Be Studious! [v. 5, 2 Tm. 2:14-15]

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

 

 II. STAND FAST AGAINST IGNORANCE! [v. 6-9]

1. Know the Withholder [v. 6-7] the Holy Spirit

2. Know the Wicked [v. 8] the Antichrist, the Beast

3. Know the Working [v. 9] Satan the enabler

 

 III. STAND FAST AGAINST INDIFFERENCE! [v. 10-17]

1. The post-rapture unbelievers will be Indifferent to Christ! [v. 10-12]

2. The Pre-rapture Believers must not be Indifferent to Truth! [v. 13-14]

3. The Pre-rapture Believers must not be Indifferent to Responsibility! [v. 15-17]

6 GREAT BIBLE JUDGMENTS - #1 THE JUDGMENT OF THE BELIEVER'S SIN

1 JOHN 4:15-19

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

If you ask many people how many judgments are in the Bible, you would get a wide range of answers. Some think there is only one general judgment and one general resurrection--- but they would be wrong. Some say two judgments- one for the lost and one for the saved. Again--- wrong. The Bible teaches there are 6 "Great" judgments. (We say "Great" because individual "judgments" or decisions are going on all the time. For example, God sometimes judges that certain believers' behavior causes them to be more trouble than they're worth and takes He them home prematurely.

1 Corinthians 11:29-31 29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

Many have mixed these 6 judgments together to their own confusion. It is not the objective of this series to cover each one exhaustively today but to give us a general idea of the 6 GREAT BIBLE JUDGMENTS. In this message we look at THE JUDGMENT OF THE BELIEVER'S SIN. Here is a strange thing, this judgment is passed. It occurred almost 2000 years ago. This is one judgment you want to be sure and get in on. Every believer's sin was judged and paid for on the cross of Calvary by the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

I. THE VIRTUOUS LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST [i.e., the sinlessness of Jesus]

Someone says, “What does the sinlessness of Jesus Christ have to do with the judgment of the believer’s sin?” Not much, just EVERYTHING!

 

1. The Lost Declare Him Sinless

Judas said, “I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.” [Mt. 27:4]

Pilate’s wife said, “Have thou nothing to do with that just man:” [Mt. 27:19]

Pilate said, “I find no fault in this man…. Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him: No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him….       what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him” [Luke 23:4, 14-15, 22]

The Thief on the cross said, “but this man hath done nothing amiss.” [Luke 23:41]

In John 8:46 Jesus asked the Pharisees, “Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?”

2. The Saved Declare Him Sinless

Peter said, Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: [1 Peter 2:21-22]

Paul said, “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” [2 Cor. 5:21]

3. The Word of God Declares Him Sinless [Hebrews 4:15]

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

 

II. THE VICARIOUS DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST [i.e., the substitutionary death of Jesus]

 

1. So says Isaiah 53

2. So says John 11:49-52

And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all, Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not. And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.

3. So says Simon Peter [1 Peter 2:24, 3:18]

- Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

-For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

 

III. THE VICTORY OF BELIEVERS IN JESUS CHRIST

 

1. No Concern [Rm. 5:1-2, Rev. 1:5]

-Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

- And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

2. No Condemnation [Romans 5:8-11, 8:1]

- But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

-There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

3. No Further Cleansing Necessary [1 John 1:7, Hebrews 7:25]

-the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

-Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.