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Revelation 20:11-15

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Facing Judgement Part 2

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Facing Judgment: Part 2

DEATH HELL AND JUDGMENT

Revelation 20:11-15

 

DEATH HELL AND JUDGMENT

 

The effects of sin bring about all three:

The effects of the cross intervene into all three:

 

Intro: We know that justice is a good thing just as we know that injustice is a bad thing. We like justice, but, as sinful creatures, we do not like the judgment necessary for justice to exist. God’s grace looks good on us, but it doesn’t have the same appeal when we cloth someone with grace who has wronged us. We know that it simply isn’t justice to pretend that wrong never happened, but we also know that we need grace ourselves.

We know that wrongs should be righted, but our sin nature distorts the image of judgment. So we must look to God’s Word on what true justice actually is. 

 

 

THE BIG IDEA: Judgment is complete and eternal. 

 

 

  1. Everyone will face judgment before God. 
    1. The Christian and the unbeliever
    2. 10 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; 11 for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” 12 So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. 13 Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. — Romans 14:10-13
  2. Judgment for the believer
    1. 10 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
    2. The Judgment Seat of Christ(βῆμα τοῦ χριστοῦ, bēma tou christou). The seat for eschatological judgment, building on the concept of the judgment seat of Roman judges or tribunals. A specific phrase that appears only once in the New Testament (2 Cor 5:10).
    3. “The term, Bema Seat, is taken from the Greek word for judgment, bēma. We refer to it as the Bema Seat because it is a fathomable picture of how Jesus is set above us as He renders judgment to His church.”
    4. “Paul’s use of sports metaphors is prevalent throughout his letters…ancient Greeks, who instituted the Olympics in the eighth century B.C. A judge sat at what they called the Bema Seat at a respective race’s finish line.”
    5. This is not a time of judgment for sin, but it is a time of how the believer used the life God gave them for him. 
      1. If the works were evil, there will be a revealing.
      2. 17 For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light. — Luke 8:17
      3. This will expose the nature of what was truly done for God.
      4. Likewise, what was done for Jesus will be rewarded.
      5. Illustration: We have started giving an allowance to Lydia, and we reward Max with something he wants when both do what we have asked. The system goes like this: If you obey, you get rewarded. If you disobey, you get something taken. I don’t fully understand what will happen at the judgment seat as far as rewards go, but I know that there will be a similar way our heavenly Father measures treats us. 
  3. Judgment for the unbeliever
    1. The “Lake of Fire”
      1. Possibly the same place Jesus calls Gehenna (Matt 10:28; Mark 9:43; Luke 12:5).
      2. The term “Gehenna” is primarily used in the Synoptic Gospels as a symbol of future eschatological judgment (Matt 23:33).
  4. Misconceptions about judgment
    1. “I’ll see you in Hell.”
      1. There will be no joy in Hell.
      2. There will be no union in fellowship, 
      3. The “Lake of Fire” is second death.
        1. Death is separating.
        2. “Slow Death” is what we associate with one of the worst things you can undergo in life…how about an eternal one?
    2. “The devil is ruler of Hell.”

Nope. 

      1. Greek mythology spilled over into Christian theology
      2. 15 But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit. 16 Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, 17  who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?’ 18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb; 19 but you are cast out, away from your grave, like a loathed branch, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a dead body trampled underfoot.  — Isaiah 14:15-19