The Master Will Be The Judge

Mea e 'ai e tatau ma le aso
“We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ ” (2 Corinthians 5:10).

Paul says that we must all, preachers and others alike, no matter how high or low your rank in life is, will “appear before the judgment seat of Christ.” But if you learn to live under the loving example of Christ’s pure light, your final judgment will bring you only delight in seeing the good work God has done in you.

Christians should live constantly reminding oneself of the judgment seat of Christ, and walk in the knowledge of the holiness He has given you.  Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person, or hatred towards them causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you display yourself on the outside.

One carnal judgment of another person only perpetuates the sinful nature in you.  Bring that sinful tendency immediately into the light of God and confess, “Oh, Lord, I have been guilty there.”  If you don’t, in time your heart will become hardened through and through.

One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it, or compromising to justify it.  It is not only God who punishes for sin, but sin establishes itself in the sinner and takes its toll.   It grows to the point that no struggling or praying will enable you to stop doing certain things, and the severity of sin is that you gradually get used to it, until you finally come to where you no longer even realize that it is sin.

No power, except the power that comes from being filled with the Holy Spirit, can change or prevent the consequences of sin. “If we walk in the light as He is in the light ” (1 John 1:7).  For many of us, walking in the light means walking according to the self-righteous standard we have set up for our-selves towards another person.  The quote that John is saying is "as He (Jesus) is in the light, thus we should also walk following Jesus example of light.

The deadliest attitude of the Pharisees we adopt today is not hypocrisy but that which comes from unconsciously living in sin, and not realizing it.

The saddest news I've read recently is there are certain people on the internet tweeting and linking the catastrophic hardship the people of Japan are suffering, to their sinful past.

We are not put here on earth to judge one another, this is not our calling.   For the Bible says that one day  “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ ”


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