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Robert Jeffress - Jesus The Judge (Part 1)

April 8, 2025 | S25:E168

Robert Jeffress - Jesus The Judge (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Jesus The Judge (Part 1) | April 8, 2025
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  • Announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with dr.
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  • Robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • We must all stand before a judge at some point in life, whether
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  • For a traffic violation or a more serious offense.
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  • But did you know there's a much more significant court date in
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  • Your future?
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  • One day every person who has ever lived will stand before
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  • Jesus christ, the ultimate judge.
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  • The question is, are you prepared for your appointment
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  • Before heaven's supreme court?
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  • My message is titled "jesus the judge" on today's edition of
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  • "pathway to victory."
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  • Understand both his first and his second coming.
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  • Jeffress: what is the highest court in the world?
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  • Most people would answer the international court of justice,
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  • Known as the icj.
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  • Some people refer to it as the world court.
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  • It was established after world war ii as an encouragement to
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  • Countries to settle their disputes by the law rather than
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  • By war.
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  • Today the world court consists of 15 judges from around
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  • The world.
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  • They sit in an ornate palace known as the peace palace in the
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  • Hague, netherlands.
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  • In 1986 the country of nicaragua accused the united states of
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  • Supporting rebel forces in their country.
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  • They sued our nation in the world court.
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  • The world court found us guilty and ordered us to pay a
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  • Huge fine.
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  • Guess how much we paid.
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  • Zero dollars.
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  • We have paid nothing to the world court because their
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  • Authority is a bogus.
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  • It is a make-believe authority.
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  • We are not under the authority of the world court.
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  • But there is another court coming one day, another kind of
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  • World court that will consist not of 15 judges but of 1 judge,
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  • And he is a perfect judge, and he is one to whom everyone,
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  • Christian and non-christian alike, will be forced to
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  • Submit to.
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  • Who is that judge over the future world court?
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  • Paul identified him in acts 17:31 in his sermon on
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  • Mars hill.
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  • He said, "god has fixed a day in which he will judge the world in
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  • Righteousness through a man whom he has appointed--" well, who is
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  • That man?
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  • "having furnished proof to all men by raising him from
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  • The dead."
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  • There's only one judge who meets that qualification, one judge
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  • Who's come back from the dead.
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  • His name is jesus christ.
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  • And we're going to discover today how the end times reveal
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  • Another one of jesus's roles.
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  • Not only did the end times reveal jesus as messiah and
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  • Prophet and king, they reveal him to be the true judge of all
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  • Of the world, the judge of the living and the dead.
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  • Now, that goes against the popular strain of understanding
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  • Many people have about jesus.
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  • When the average person today thinks about jesus, they see him
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  • As that tiny baby in the feeding trough wrapped in swaddling
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  • Cloths, or they see him as a good teacher or rabbi sitting on
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  • The hillside teaching the sermon on the mount, or they see him as
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  • The benevolent physician going about healing those who are
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  • Afflicted, but nobody, very few people see him as a judge.
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  • After all, wasn't it jesus who said judge not lest you
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  • Be judged?
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  • Most people don't believe jesus would ever judge anyone, but as
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  • We're going to see today, the fact is jesus is going to
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  • Judge everyone.
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  • And that everyone includes you and me, christians and
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  • Non-christians alike.
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  • Today in our message "jesus the judge," we're going to look at
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  • Five judgments in the end times over which jesus is going
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  • To preside.
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  • The best way to look at these judgments was in the
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  • Chronological order in which they occur during the end times.
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  • The first judgment is the one you and i are going to face one
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  • Day by jesus.
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  • We call it the judgment seat of christ.
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  • And apparently there's no scripture that actually says it,
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  • But apparently it occurs after the rapture, because when we get
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  • To the tribulation we see in revelation 4 and 5 the church
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  • Has already been crowned and rewarded.
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  • So this is the first judgment and the one we face, the
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  • Judgment seat of christ.
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  • The scripture verse, one of many that talks about it, is 2
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  • Corinthians 5, verse 10.
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  • Paul wrote, "for we must all appear before the judgment seat
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  • Of christ, that each one of us may be rewarded for what we have
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  • Done in the body, whether it be good or bad."
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  • That greek word translated judgment seat is the word bema.
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  • Not bima, bema, the judgment seat of christ.
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  • Sometimes this bema, it was really a raised platform, was
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  • Used in the athletic realm.
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  • We saw that in the olympics when a winner was brought to the
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  • Raised platform and given a gold medal.
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  • That actually came from paul's day.
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  • The winner in athletic contest were brought to a raised
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  • Platform where they received a crown made of leaves, really a
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  • Wreath of leaves.
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  • Who'd say--you'd say, "who gets excited about that?"
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  • It's not just the crown of leaves, it's what
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  • It represented.
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  • They had won.
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  • And there were real tangible benefits to winning the races in
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  • Paul's day.
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  • You got exempted from paying income tax to the government for
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  • At least a year or more.
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  • You had other privileges.
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  • Well, paul says we're all going to appear before a judgment
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  • Seat, not to be condemned.
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  • This is not a judgment that determines whether we go to
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  • Heaven or hell.
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  • That's decided when we trust in christ.
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  • This is an award of commendation.
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  • But there's also a negative aspect to the judgment seat
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  • Of christ.
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  • The bema was also used in the judicial system.
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  • It was used in corinth.
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  • For example, in acts 18 we find the story of paul's ministry
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  • In corinth.
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  • Some jews got mad at him, were jealous.
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  • They trumped up some charges and brought him before the
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  • Proconsul gallio.
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  • And gallio, acts 18 says, was seated on the bema, the
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  • Judgment seat.
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  • By the way, archaeologists have uncovered that.
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  • Many of us have been to corinth and seen the judgment seat on
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  • Which gallio sat.
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  • And paul stood there, looking at gallio.
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  • Gallio threatened him.
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  • Paul never flinched once.
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  • Why was he so courageous?
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  • Because he realized that one day he would be standing before
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  • Another judge on another judgment seat, that judge was
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  • Jesus christ, and he would have to give an account of his life,
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  • And he was much more fearful of what christ could do to him than
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  • What gallio could do to him.
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  • And it's interesting that paul used that experience in corinth
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  • To write back to the corinthians this word in 2 corinthians 5:10.
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  • "just like i stood before a judgment seat, we must all
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  • Appear before the judgment seat of christ that each one of us
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  • May be rewarded for what we have done."
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  • What is it that jesus is going to judge?
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  • Three things.
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  • First of all, he's going to judge our actions, our works, if
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  • You will.
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  • You know, we who are evangelical christians, we make a big
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  • Mistake in de-emphasizing the importance of works.
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  • We're so anxious to make sure people understand we're not
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  • Saved by good works, we act like our works don't matter.
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  • Now, listen to this.
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  • Our good works are worthless before we are saved, but our
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  • Good works are priceless after we have been saved.
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  • We're not saved by good works, we're saved for good works.
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  • That's god's plan.
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  • And god is going to reward us according to our works.
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  • Works matter to god.
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  • In psalm 62, verse 12, the psalmist said, "you, god,
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  • Recompense a man according to his work."
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  • Doesn't that makes sense?
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  • It just makes sense that our works make a difference.
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  • They do make a difference.
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  • In matthew 16:27, jesus said, "for the son of man is going to
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  • Come in the glory of his father and with his angels and he will
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  • Then repay every man according to his deeds."
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  • Secondly, jesus will judge us according to our words.
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  • What we say, what we post on social media one day is going to
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  • Be judged.
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  • Did you know every word we speak will be judged?
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  • Matthew 12:36 to 37, jesus said, "i tell you that every careless
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  • Word that people speak, they will give an accounting for in
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  • The day of judgment.
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  • For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you
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  • Will be condemned."
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  • Thirdly, jesus will judge our thoughts.
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  • In jeremiah 17:10, god says, "for i search the heart, i test
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  • The mind even to give each man according to his ways, according
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  • To the results of what his deeds are."
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  • Sometimes why we do something is just as important as what we do.
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  • And i think he's referring to here our motives.
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  • Not just the careless thoughts we have or wrong thoughts, he's
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  • Talking about our motives.
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  • Those are going to be revealed.
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  • What is the result of the judgment seat?
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  • He said we're going to stand there that each one of us may be
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  • Rewarded for what we have done, whether it is good or bad,
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  • Is what the english translation says.
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  • But that word bad doesn't mean morally wrong.
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  • The word bad, phaulos in greek means worthless.
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  • We're going to be judged and rewarded according to what kind
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  • Of life we have lived.
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  • What am i talking about?
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  • If you have your bibles, turn over to 1 corinthians chapter 3,
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  • Verses 11 to 15 where paul talks about this in more detail.
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  • He compares living our life to building a house.
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  • He says, "for no man can lay a foundation other than that which
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  • Is laid, which is in christ jesus."
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  • Now, if you're saved, you have the same foundation as all
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  • Christians, jesus christ, but we choose what kind of life to
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  • Build on that foundation.
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  • We're all given a different amount of time, treasure,
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  • And talent.
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  • We get to decide what kind of life, what kind of house we're
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  • Going to build.
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  • And he goes on to say, "now, if any man builds on the foundation
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  • With gold, silver, and precious stones or wood, hay, and straw,
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  • Each man's work will become evident; for the day is to show
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  • It, for it will be revealed by fire," in other words, we can
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  • Build our life with those things that are eternal, that have
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  • Lasting value, or we can build our lives around trivial
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  • Pursuits, temporal pursuits.
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  • And how will that be revealed?
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  • At this judgment.
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  • It'll be like a fire that will reveal what kind of life we have
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  • Really lived.
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  • Now, have you ever heard people say, "oh, i don't care
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  • About rewards?
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  • Just as long as i make it to heaven, that'll be enough."
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  • Think again.
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  • Verse 14 and 15, paul says, "if any man's work which he has
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  • Built on it remains, he will receive a reward, but if any
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  • Man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss."
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  • Underline that, he will suffer loss.
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  • "even though he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire."
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  • We don't know what these rewards are.
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  • I've said in other messages they may be special privileges
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  • In heaven.
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  • Did you know heaven's not going to be the same for everybody,
  • 00:13:14.116 --> 00:13:16.285
  • The bible teaches?
  • 00:13:16.285 --> 00:13:17.853
  • Special privileges, special positions of authority, who is
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  • Faithful in little will be given much, if we endure with him,
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  • We'll reign with him, and certain words of praise will
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  • Come from jesus that others will not receive.
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  • "well done, good and faithful servant."
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  • But whatever these rewards are, paul says they are worth working
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  • For and sacrificing for.
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  • Because the fact is if our life is judged by jesus christ, they
  • 00:13:42.945 --> 00:13:47.316
  • Have no eternal value.
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  • If we were living and spending and managing for ourselves
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  • Rather than for god's kingdom, what happens?
  • 00:13:53.289 --> 00:13:56.525
  • Our life is burned up, so to speak, and we will suffer loss.
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  • I believe heaven is a place of great joy, but yes, there'll be
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  • Some regret in heaven too.
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  • That's what the bible says.
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  • We will suffer loss, real measurable loss as we see what
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  • Could have been ours had we been more faithful to jesus christ.
  • 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:21.850
  • That's the judgment seat of christ.
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  • The second judgment jesus will preside over is the judgment of
  • 00:14:24.954 --> 00:14:29.525
  • The tribulation martyrs, and it takes place right after the
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  • Tribulation, at the end of the tribulation.
  • 00:14:35.064 --> 00:14:38.834
  • "what do you mean the tribulation martyrs?"
  • 00:14:38.834 --> 00:14:41.537
  • Remember that all christians get raptured at the rapture.
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  • We get caught away to meet the lord in the air.
  • 00:14:46.508 --> 00:14:49.345
  • So at the beginning of the seven year tribulation, there
  • 00:14:49.345 --> 00:14:51.647
  • Are no christians on earth, but at the beginning of the
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  • Tribulation, revelation 6 says god will save 144,000 jews,
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  • 12,000 from each tribe.
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  • They will be saved by jesus christ, and they will have a
  • 00:15:03.592 --> 00:15:06.895
  • Supernatural seal that protects them, and they will go through
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  • The world witnessing and evangelizing, and through their
  • 00:15:10.933 --> 00:15:14.169
  • Witness, many will come to know christ as savior during
  • 00:15:14.169 --> 00:15:17.406
  • The tribulation.
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  • Many of those believers, jews and gentiles alike, will be
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  • Martyred because of their faith.
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  • And so they will be--at the end of the tribulation, those
  • 00:15:25.681 --> 00:15:29.218
  • Tribulation martyrs, they will be raised from the dead and
  • 00:15:29.218 --> 00:15:33.789
  • Receive their new bodies and they will be rewarded.
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  • The reason, it's for their vindication, the vindication of
  • 00:15:37.659 --> 00:15:41.463
  • The martyrs.
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  • Listen to revelation 6:9 and 10.
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  • "when the lamb broke the fifth seal, i saw underneath the altar
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  • The souls of those who had been slain because of the word of
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  • God, because of the testimony which had been maintained."
  • 00:15:53.742 --> 00:15:58.080
  • Now, this is toward the beginning of the tribulation.
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  • "and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'how long, o
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  • Lord, holy and true, will you refrain from judges and avenging
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  • Our blood on those who dwell on the earth?'"
  • 00:16:10.059 --> 00:16:13.429
  • Translation, "how long, god, are you going to let these ungodly
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  • People on earth who killed us, how long are you going to allow
  • 00:16:17.099 --> 00:16:20.302
  • Them to keep doing evil and rebelling against
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  • Your authority?"
  • 00:16:23.205 --> 00:16:25.074
  • Now, you know what that tells me?
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  • Have you ever heard the question, do people in heaven
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  • Know what's happening on earth?
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  • Here is a clear answer to that.
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  • The souls of those who had been killed during the tribulation,
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  • They are in heaven with jesus.
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  • They're able to look down and see that evil is still going on.
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  • They're able to see that god is being blasphemed, and they're
  • 00:16:45.694 --> 00:16:49.331
  • Saying, "lord, why are you waiting to punish them?"
  • 00:16:49.331 --> 00:16:53.435
  • Yes, people in heaven can see what is happening on earth.
  • 00:16:53.435 --> 00:16:58.140
  • Now, when i used to hear that as a little boy, i hate to tell you
  • 00:16:58.140 --> 00:17:01.477
  • What my first thought was.
  • 00:17:01.477 --> 00:17:04.213
  • Now, i'm going to go ahead and say it.
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  • My first thought was, "you mean people in heaven can see me
  • 00:17:07.116 --> 00:17:10.152
  • Going to the bathroom?"
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  • Oh, dear, you've had--you've wondered the same thing.
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  • Come on.
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  • Now, if you ever have children that ask you that question,
  • 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:20.162
  • Here's what you can say to them.
  • 00:17:20.162 --> 00:17:22.364
  • "yes, they probably can see you going to the bathroom.
  • 00:17:22.364 --> 00:17:25.134
  • But why would they want to?"
  • 00:17:25.134 --> 00:17:28.036
  • I mean, the fact is people in heaven are going to be
  • 00:17:28.036 --> 00:17:30.539
  • Preoccupied with much more important things than the
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  • Everyday stuff we're doing, but they are aware of what's
  • 00:17:34.676 --> 00:17:38.647
  • Happening on earth, and they want to be vindicated.
  • 00:17:38.647 --> 00:17:41.750
  • Well, that's what is going to happen at the end of
  • 00:17:41.750 --> 00:17:44.219
  • The tribulation.
  • 00:17:44.219 --> 00:17:45.587
  • Revelation 20, verse 4 tells us, "then i saw thrones, and those
  • 00:17:45.587 --> 00:17:50.259
  • Who sat upon them, and judgment," ruling, "was given
  • 00:17:50.259 --> 00:17:53.896
  • To them.
  • 00:17:53.896 --> 00:17:55.264
  • And i saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the
  • 00:17:55.264 --> 00:17:59.034
  • Testimony of jesus and because of the word of god, and those
  • 00:17:59.034 --> 00:18:02.938
  • Who had not worshiped the beast or his image or had not received
  • 00:18:02.938 --> 00:18:06.074
  • The mark on their forehead and on the hand; and they came to
  • 00:18:06.074 --> 00:18:10.546
  • Life and they reigned with christ for a thousand years."
  • 00:18:10.546 --> 00:18:14.550
  • What is the reward for the tribulation martyrs?
  • 00:18:14.550 --> 00:18:17.553
  • It is that they are resurrected, they get their new bodies, but
  • 00:18:17.553 --> 00:18:22.491
  • They're also reigning with christ for a thousand years.
  • 00:18:22.491 --> 00:18:27.329
  • By the way, something interesting i noticed in my
  • 00:18:27.329 --> 00:18:29.898
  • Study this week, there is not one case of people who are
  • 00:18:29.898 --> 00:18:34.469
  • Judged by christ without a body.
  • 00:18:34.469 --> 00:18:37.272
  • Did you know that?
  • 00:18:37.272 --> 00:18:39.007
  • We are not just bodyless spirits.
  • 00:18:39.007 --> 00:18:42.978
  • We are more than spirits.
  • 00:18:42.978 --> 00:18:44.980
  • We are spirit, soul, and body.
  • 00:18:44.980 --> 00:18:47.983
  • And before each of these five judgments that we're looking at,
  • 00:18:47.983 --> 00:18:51.954
  • People get a new body.
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  • They get a body.
  • 00:18:53.789 --> 00:18:55.123
  • And in the case of unbelievers, they get another body, but
  • 00:18:55.123 --> 00:18:57.859
  • They're raised up in their bodies to be judged.
  • 00:18:57.859 --> 00:19:01.897
  • This is the judgment of the tribulation martyrs.
  • 00:19:01.897 --> 00:19:05.167
  • There's a third judgment, the judgment of israel.
  • 00:19:05.167 --> 00:19:08.170
  • It happens during the 75 days.
  • 00:19:08.170 --> 00:19:11.173
  • Remember the 40 plus 35 days that occur right before
  • 00:19:11.173 --> 00:19:15.210
  • The millennium.
  • 00:19:15.210 --> 00:19:16.578
  • The judgment of israel.
  • 00:19:16.578 --> 00:19:19.114
  • And the bible, the old testament is filled with prophecies about
  • 00:19:19.114 --> 00:19:23.852
  • This judgment.
  • 00:19:23.852 --> 00:19:25.220
  • Isaiah 11:12 says, "he will lift up a standard," god will lift up
  • 00:19:25.220 --> 00:19:30.993
  • A standard, "for the nations and assemble the banished ones of
  • 00:19:30.993 --> 00:19:35.330
  • Israel, and will gather the dispersed of judah from the four
  • 00:19:35.330 --> 00:19:39.334
  • Corners of the earth."
  • 00:19:39.334 --> 00:19:41.503
  • Remember that during the tribulation there are many jews
  • 00:19:41.503 --> 00:19:45.440
  • Who will be saved, many who aren't saved, but in the last
  • 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:49.211
  • Three and a half years of the tribulation, satan the dragon in
  • 00:19:49.211 --> 00:19:53.382
  • Concert with the beast, the antichrist, goes after
  • 00:19:53.382 --> 00:19:56.852
  • Christians and jews alike, and many of them flee into the
  • 00:19:56.852 --> 00:20:00.422
  • Wilderness and they escape death, but they can't escape the
  • 00:20:00.422 --> 00:20:04.426
  • Judgment of god.
  • 00:20:04.426 --> 00:20:06.161
  • He is bringing back all of the jews at this time for
  • 00:20:06.161 --> 00:20:09.564
  • A judgment.
  • 00:20:09.564 --> 00:20:10.966
  • And what is that judgment?
  • 00:20:10.966 --> 00:20:12.367
  • It is according to a standard he will lift up, and that standard
  • 00:20:12.367 --> 00:20:17.239
  • Is jesus christ.
  • 00:20:17.239 --> 00:20:19.041
  • Acts 17:31 says god has appointed a man by whom the
  • 00:20:19.041 --> 00:20:23.111
  • World will be judged.
  • 00:20:23.111 --> 00:20:24.846
  • Now, listen to this because a lot of christians in today's
  • 00:20:24.846 --> 00:20:27.716
  • World are confused about this.
  • 00:20:27.716 --> 00:20:29.851
  • You don't go to heaven for being a jew.
  • 00:20:29.851 --> 00:20:32.854
  • Being a jew is not enough to get you into heaven.
  • 00:20:32.854 --> 00:20:35.891
  • There's some false teachers among christians teaching all
  • 00:20:35.891 --> 00:20:39.161
  • You have to do is be a jew to go to heaven.
  • 00:20:39.161 --> 00:20:41.063
  • No. there's one way to heaven.
  • 00:20:41.063 --> 00:20:42.764
  • It is through faith in jesus christ.
  • 00:20:42.764 --> 00:20:45.667
  • And so before the millennium, it is important to separate
  • 00:20:45.667 --> 00:20:50.138
  • Righteous jews, those who have trusted in christ, and the
  • 00:20:50.138 --> 00:20:54.109
  • Unrighteous rebels that need to be judged, those who have
  • 00:20:54.109 --> 00:20:57.479
  • Opposed the messiah.
  • 00:20:57.479 --> 00:20:59.448
  • And that's what happens during the judgment of israel.
  • 00:20:59.448 --> 00:21:02.551
  • It is a time to separate the righteous from the unrighteous.
  • 00:21:02.551 --> 00:21:07.522
  • I could point to many scriptures.
  • 00:21:07.522 --> 00:21:10.359
  • Isaiah was one.
  • 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:11.727
  • Another one is ezekiel 20, verses 37 to 38.
  • 00:21:11.727 --> 00:21:15.897
  • God's talking to israel.
  • 00:21:15.897 --> 00:21:17.232
  • He said, "i will make you pass under the rod, i will bring you
  • 00:21:17.232 --> 00:21:21.603
  • Into the bond of the covenant."
  • 00:21:21.603 --> 00:21:23.972
  • In other words, they're outside the covenant if they're jews and
  • 00:21:23.972 --> 00:21:27.442
  • Not believers.
  • 00:21:27.442 --> 00:21:29.111
  • Abrahamic covenant, that was for believing jews.
  • 00:21:29.111 --> 00:21:32.814
  • Not for every jew, for believing jews.
  • 00:21:32.814 --> 00:21:36.418
  • Paul said not all those who claim to be israel are
  • 00:21:36.418 --> 00:21:39.388
  • Really israel.
  • 00:21:39.388 --> 00:21:40.722
  • The only way you can be a true israelite is to believe in
  • 00:21:40.722 --> 00:21:45.026
  • Christ and be a descendant of abraham.
  • 00:21:45.026 --> 00:21:47.596
  • But he's saying here, "i will make you pass under the rod, and
  • 00:21:47.596 --> 00:21:51.066
  • I will purge you from the rebels, those who transgress
  • 00:21:51.066 --> 00:21:54.302
  • Against me, and i will bring them out of the land where they
  • 00:21:54.302 --> 00:21:57.672
  • Sojourn, but they will not enter the land of israel."
  • 00:21:57.672 --> 00:22:02.577
  • Here's a group of jews who will not enter the land, and it's
  • 00:22:02.577 --> 00:22:06.515
  • Those who have rebelled against the gospel.
  • 00:22:06.515 --> 00:22:09.418
  • "i will bring them out of the land where they sojourn.
  • 00:22:09.418 --> 00:22:11.620
  • They will not enter israel.
  • 00:22:11.620 --> 00:22:13.188
  • Thus you will know that i am the lord."
  • 00:22:13.188 --> 00:22:16.558
  • Jeremiah 23, verse 6, "in his days judah will be saved, and
  • 00:22:16.558 --> 00:22:22.664
  • Israel will dwell securely."
  • 00:22:22.664 --> 00:22:25.000
  • That's believing judah.
  • 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:26.701
  • Believing israel will dwell securely.
  • 00:22:26.701 --> 00:22:29.538
  • "and this is his name by which he should be called, the lord
  • 00:22:29.538 --> 00:22:33.108
  • Of righteousness."
  • 00:22:33.108 --> 00:22:34.943
  • And that closely fits in with the fourth judgment.
  • 00:22:34.943 --> 00:22:37.846
  • Not only will israel, not only will the jews who
  • 00:22:37.846 --> 00:22:41.416
  • Survive the tribulation be judged to separate the
  • 00:22:41.416 --> 00:22:45.353
  • Righteous from the unrighteous, the gentiles
  • 00:22:45.353 --> 00:22:48.056
  • Will be judged at this time as well. the judgment of the
  • 00:22:48.056 --> 00:22:52.093
  • Gentiles; in many ways similar to the judgment of
  • 00:22:52.093 --> 00:22:57.866
  • Israel; and that is, it occurs in the interim period
  • 00:22:57.866 --> 00:23:01.670
  • Before the millennium, and it's a way of separating the
  • 00:23:01.670 --> 00:23:05.207
  • Righteous from the unrighteous. only the
  • 00:23:05.207 --> 00:23:07.309
  • Righteous will enter into the millennium.
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  • Jeffress: one day every one of us will stand before the perfect
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  • Gratefully, for those who have trusted in christ, this judgment
  • 00:23:21.089 --> 00:23:24.726
  • Isn't one of condemnation but of commendation.
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  • As we conclude today's message, i want to share an encouraging
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  • Note from mr. and mrs. hudson in california.
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  • Next time we'll explore the sobering reality of the great
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  • White throne judgment and discover why jesus spoke more
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  • About hell than he did about heaven.
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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  • Series "jesus revealed in the end times."
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  • Jeffress: you know, we have a compassionate savior named jesus
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  • Christ who loved you and me so much he voluntarily came and
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  • Gave his life for the forgiveness of our sins.
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  • He's a compassionate savior, but he's always a just judge as
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  • Well, and one day he's coming to render justice to everyone who
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  • Doesn't know christ as savior.
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for part two of the
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  • Message "jesus the judge" here on "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪ music ♪
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