Everything Unto the Lord
Scripture: Colossians 3:23Devotional Series: The Judgment Seat of Christ
Teaching: The Judgment Seat Of Christ pt. 1 (SUN_AM 2021-07-11) by Pastor Star R Scott
We see the mercies of God, and we delight in all that He’s done, everything that has been affected on our behalf. Colossians 3:23 says, “And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ”; amen? You serve the Lord Christ. We delight in the fact that this service is unto the Lord, and these are the things that are being written down of God and stored up for that day that’s going to manifest itself in each and every one of our lives.
We need to realize that in the judgments that are coming, there are two crucial books that we need to be aware of. Our names are written in the book of life; amen? When we experienced regeneration, we experienced this newness of life, each and every one of our names were written into this book. That’s the book that Jesus references when He talks to the disciples when they were coming back from their successful ministry and had been casting out devils, and they were rejoicing that the devils were subject to them, rejoicing in the power that they were experiencing, the miracles that they were seeing, and He said, “Yes, this is something tremendous to delight in, but make sure that your delight is always in this: that your names are written in heaven”; amen? That we’re a people that are recognized by God. Revelation 20:11 says, “And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away…” Think about this, the terribleness of God, the awesomeness of God. To encounter Him is to become undone; amen? Those that glimpse Him fall at His feet as dead. He is the Son of God whose eyes are as flames of fire. Can I take just a moment and let you know that when you stand at the tribunal, the judgment seat of Christ, you will not be looking into eyes of torment, eyes that would bring about fear. You’ll be looking into the eyes of a compassionate Savior who loves you as His bride; amen? Who has gone to prepare a place for you. You see, this judgment precedes us being able to be ushered into, by our great Husband, to the mansion that He’s gone to prepare for us. To fulfill the promise that so shall we ever be with the Lord; amen?
See this bema for what it is. It’s a time, yes, of judgment, but it’s not a time of judgment of our character. It’s not a time of a judgment, actually, of our sins, because as we said, they’ve already been dealt with, they’ve been blotted out, the handwriting of ordinances that was against us. It’s a judgment of our life of spiritual service. But if that’s the case, we will hear “Well done, good and faithful servant.” The Lord has spoken to us and given us indications throughout all of the Scripture that He’s looking for hearts that love Him, because to whom much is forgiven, much is required. You see, the work that we do for Jesus is just based upon how thankful we are for the forgiveness of our sins. You don’t work for Him to appease Him. The life that we’re living is the life of just reciprocating the love that God sowed. From those that have honorable hearts, that good ground that we were talking about that will bring forth thirty, sixty, and one-hundred-fold. If you love Him with all of your heart, you will break up that fallow ground, you will give Him some perfect ground to implant perfect seed, and our works will reach and change this world, and the Father will be glorified in the Son, hallelujah! What else is worth living for? What are we going to lay up treasures here? What are we going to lay up? Houses and cars and money and trips and everything that will one day, very soon, just be burned up in a moment?