Newsong Church | September 5, 2010 | Steve Dyer Sermon
Atheists- truly do not believe in God
Practical atheists- say they believe in God but live as if they don’t
2 Peter 2:4-10 3:3-14
INESCAPABLE TRUTHS ABOUT JUDGMENT
- Judgment is sure
- It is known instinctively
- God is just
- Christ has endured the judgment for his own
What will be judged at the Great White Throne Judgment?
Works – Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.
What will be judged at the Judgment Seat of Christ?
Motives- 1 Corinthians 3:9-15 For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
ETERNAL JUDGMENT
Psalm 7:11 God [is] a just judge, And God is angry [with the wicked] every day.
Psalm 96:13 For He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with His truth.
Psalm 135:14 For the LORD will judge His people, And He will have compassion on His servants.
Ecclesiastes 3:17 I said in my heart, “God shall judge the righteous and the wicked, For [there is] a time there for every purpose and for every work.”
Acts 10:42 “And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained by God [to be] Judge of the living and the dead.
Acts 17:31 “because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
2 Timothy 4:1 I charge [you] therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:
Psalm 9:7 But the LORD shall endure forever; He has prepared His throne for judgment.
Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.
Jeremiah 8:7 “Even the stork in the heavens Knows her appointed times; And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow Observe the time of their coming. But My people do not know the judgment of the LORD.
Jeremiah 33:15 ’In those days and at that time I will cause to grow up to David A Branch of righteousness; He shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.
Matthew 11:24 “But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.”
Romans 14:10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things [done] in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
1 Timothy 5:24 Some men’s sins are clearly evident, preceding [them] to judgment, but those of some [men] follow later.
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
James 3:1 My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.
2 Peter 2:4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast [them] down to hell and delivered [them] into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
2 Peter 2:9 [then] the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,
2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth [which] are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Jude 1:14-15 “See the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then [I saw] the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received [his] mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.