the judgment seat of christ and unconfessed sins samuel

When they come to give account to the master, there is a relationship between the master’s assessment of their lives and the service they rendered him. Here are these servants, and their master gives them a certain sum of money, and they all do different things with them (Luke 19:11-27). I personally have found the parable that Jesus tells very helpful in this respect.

I think one might say that every believer may look forward to the crown of righteousness, but each crown may be differently shaped. He knows he is justified, but he’s looking forward to receiving the crown of righteousness. Paul, for example, looks forward to receiving the crown of righteousness. The New Testament also teaches that God assesses us as we actually are.įor example, Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:10, “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ to receive what is due to us for what we have done in the body.” And there are a number of New Testament passages that indicate, yes, there will be an assessment of our lives. There is an absoluteness about its completeness and finality. There is an absoluteness about the perfection of that righteousness.

But if you then ask, “Well how is that?” the answer is, “Because the only righteousness with which I’m justified is Jesus Christ’s righteousness.” What that means–if you can begin to take it in–is that when you stand before God you are able to say, “I am as righteous before You as Your Son Jesus Christ.” Now that can sound very arrogant. First of all, let me try and put it this way: When we are justified, we are justified with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

The judgment seat of christ and unconfessed sins samuel