Job 37:1-39:30
2 Corinthians 4:13-5:10
Psalm 44:9-26
Proverbs 22:13

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New Testament: 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:10

 

Summary: Treasure in Jars of Clay, Our Heavenly Dwelling

 

 

 

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.  ~ 2 Corinthians 5:10

God is the judge of all people*. He will test whether we are truly his servants. Only those people who are loyal to him will have a place in heaven and the New Jerusalem*. However, nobody can earn that place by their own deeds. They receive it because of their faith (trust) in Christ. Christ died so that God could forgive their wrong and evil deeds.

 

God is also the judge of the deeds that his servants carry out in their work for him. That is the judgement that Paul seems to refer to in 2 Corinthians 5:10. By the words ‘we all’ in that verse, he seems to mean all Christians.

 

In that judgement, God wants to reward his people for their loyal work for him. However, God, who knows everything, cannot approve of all our actions. Even when we do the right things, we may act for the wrong reasons, or with wrong attitudes*.

 

Paul discusses this judgement further in 1 Corinthians 3:11-15. It is possible for someone to fail this test but still to receive a place in heaven*.

 

Although that person is a genuine servant of God, he will suffer the loss of everything. His work for God, his master, was completely unsatisfactory; but still God, in his love, will save that person.

 

By God’s standards, all people are weak. It astonishes us to think that God wants us to work for him. Again, it astonishes us that God can consider our work to be valuable. It astonishes us to know that God wants to reward us for our deeds for him. In 1 Corinthians 15:9-10, Paul expresses that thought by reference to his own experience.

From: usefulbible.com

 

For we must all appear,…

That means all of us. Are you ready?
  
This is the reason why the saints are so diligent and laborious, so earnest and intent upon it, to be accepted by the Lord, because we must stand before the King. If Jesus is not your King now is the time to make Him your King.

Jesus Christ who is appointed Judge of the whole earth, who is every way qualified for it, being God omnipotent and omniscient; and when he comes a second time will sit upon his great white throne, a symbol of purity and integrity, and will enter on this work, and finish it with the strictest justice and equity: and before him “we must all appear”; all the saints as well as others, ministers and people, persons of all ranks and conditions, of every nation, age, and sex; there will be no avoiding this judgment, all “must appear”, or “be made manifest”; they will be set in open view, before angels and men; their persons, characters, and actions, even the most secret will be judged.  ~ John Gill

 

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