You can run from the police. You can run from your pasta, you
can even run from prison, but you cannot run from God.
Most people think that this is going to happen by round of
applause. How many y'all think if the
world were to end right now? Clap.
If you think you'd go to heaven, the reality is God has to
Serious judgments which affect every single person who can hear
my voice right now. So you would be very wise to pay
close attention. Oh, y'all ain't going to No
Heaven. Okay, firstly, the baima
judgment and this judgment is for Christine's only.
Make sure, you know that as you listen to this verse the Bible
says for, we must all appear before the Judgment seat of
Christ. That each one may receive.
Leave the things done in the body, according to what he has
done, whether good or bad, this judgment seat is described 12
times in the Bible and it's used by this one word.
They mo now, a baby mama was a platform a seat where a judge
would sit. And then people would come
before that judge and they would bring their disputes and the
church would judge fairly. It was also a seed that was
featured in the Olympics, a platform where the contest judge
would sit and then all of the successful, Competitors would
stand and would receive their Awards.
When you stood before the bema seats, there was no faking it,
everything was exposed all of your hard work that have been
done in secret would be rewarded, but likewise those
athletes whose heart was not in it, who had been slacking their
training, who had not really run as they should have.
They also would stand there and would not receive the reward
because everything was revealed. When you stood before that,
judge on the baima. Hey it is super important.
It's in to emphasize right now. But the bema seat has nothing to
do with salvation. It's only to do with your
Awards. There is nothing we can do to
earn our Salvation. There is no work that we can
give to contribute to our forgiveness of sins.
Now, the only reason were saved is because of the one who sits
on the bay, Mercy Christ Jesus himself, died on the cross, he
gives us his righteousness and he forgives us of all our sins.
But at the same time, just like a man who can smell fire
downstairs. So he jumps out Of his bedroom
window. He lands safely but they're in
front of him. He watches his house burned to
Pieces, he suffers loss. I think, on that day, there will
be mixed emotions for some of us.
Perhaps some of us will think. Yes.
Oh, thank you God, thank you that I'm saved.
Thank you that my life is saved in, Jesus died for me but the
same time. Oh, how?
I wish, I did not live for a flea things.
How I wish I built a treasure in heaven.
How I wish I didn't keep returning.
It's that same sin over and over again because now I would be
rewarded with a greater blessing.
I think that's how many of us will feel on that day.
There was once an Indian beggar who used to sit on a street by a
busy road with a bowl of rice and passers-by would throw a few
meager scraps of rice into the bowl so that the beggar might
have something to eat one day. Is he sitting there?
He notices, this beautiful Grand chariots and the beggar sort of
Praise or I hope I hope that the Chariot stops and the man Inside
gives me something. And what do you think happened?
The Chariot stopped and out stepped from The Chariot that
Prince of India. Now as the Indian Prince looked
at the bakery said to him, I want you to give me some of your
eyes and the beggar. Almost speechless thought you
the rich man, want me. The poor man to give you some
rice but he did. He gave him one grain of rice so
then the prince said, come on. Now give me some more of your
rice. Is that all you've got and now
the back is getting angry, but again, Greedy gave him one piece
of rice, and then the prince said, I want you to see how much
out of your rice. You can afford to give me, give
me some more of your eyes and the beggar.
Almost fuming. Now, pulls out one, final piece
of rice and says that's enough. So the beggar looks up at the
sky and almost disbelief. And then notices, The Chariot is
left as he leaves. He looks down at his bowl and
notice is there 12 Three pieces of gold in his bowl and suddenly
it clicks. If only I gave the prince more
of my rice, he would have given me more gold and my dear
friends. That's exactly the same
principle for us. We give the prince Jesus Christ,
Our rice. It might not be much, but in
heaven, he promises to reward us with his gold, okay?
Over to you. I want you to think now of a
famous preacher. Have you got someone in your
mind, right? I want you to imagine that
preacher stands before the Judgment seat of Christ.
And then you also stand before the Judgment seat of Christ.
Who do you think will get a bigger reward them or you?
Well, this might surprise you, but I wonder if you might just
get a bigger reward. Why do I say that?
Because Jesus warned those who have a public ministry, that's
their reward. They have their reward in this
life. So the man, the preacher who
sells a million copies of his book, The Man Who has a viral
Video, the man who passed as a megachurch okay.
It might be glorious. It might be glamorous now, but
that is, as good as it gets, but on the flip side, however, the
woman who in her twenties leaves, her comfortable, home,
and goes, and becomes a missionary in a tribe.
Somewhere in a forgotten jungle. She spends a whole lie.
Single Lonely No. Children lives in a less than
perfect house. She has no pension and she
doesn't even come home for a furlough that woman.
Does it all for the Lord? Jesus Christ and the whole
Doesn't care when that woman dies, but God cares.
And God knows her name. Even though the rest of the
world has forgotten about her. When she stands before the bay
Mercy Seat, she will receive a spiritual gold medal.
The many of these preachers who you think are so great.
So wonderful will be right at the back of the line.
Jesus did warn us that whenever we seek to do a good work when
we fast, when we pray, when we tithe, when we give out the
gospel, the good news don't announce it with the trumpets,
don't announce it. So that men and women Women
might praise us because you will have a reward.
People will praise you. If I post a video of me street,
preaching people will say, oh, Joe is amazing.
You do that? But that's the only reward I
will get, but if we do things in secret, we won't get a pat on
the back in this life but we'll get a pat on the back in the
next life in heaven. Here is the second judgment,
Which is far more severe than the first.
The Bible says, then I saw a great white throne and him Who
sat on it and anyone not found written in the Book of Life was
cast into the Lake of Fire. So here, the Apostle John
stands, thousands of years ago and this is what is so
incredible. He sees every single unbeliever
who has ever lived. That means he sees our mothers,
our fathers, our grandchildren, our parents, our brothers, our
sisters, our friends, down the street, our neighbors, all
those, who rejected the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Apostle John saw thousands of years ago.
But I'll tell you one thing, you didn't see, he did not see one
single believer because when Christ Jesus sits on the great
white Throne judgment, it's not a judgment for believers.
It is a judgment solely, Braum Believers but John saw something
else which I hope you will never forget this image.
He saw the largest books that you could ever imagine far
bigger than the world's largest book, right now, these books, An
account held a record of every single sin that the unbeliever
had committed. That means, every single lie was
written down. Every single blasphemy was
written down, all of the Internet, history of all the
unclean things, all the selfish thoughts, Every Idle Word, every
fit of rage, every bit of Pride, and selfishness was written in
these books and the books, go on and on page.
After page, with this vast big debt that every single
unbeliever owes friends, I meet People.
And they say to me, when I get to heaven, I'm going to give God
a piece of my mind. I'm going to say to him.
How can you not? Let me into your Heaven just
because I've not been born again, just because I've not
received the Forgiveness of sins that Jesus gives you should let
me and I'm a good person know when you stand before God and
you see those books opened and you see the Colossal weight of
your sin, you will not utter a word because you know that
Justice will be done. You know?
That it is fair and it is right for you to be cast.
The Lake of Fire because you have done such wicked things
against the holy righteous God, there was another book that John
saw. He saw the Book of Life in that
book is written every single believer who has ever lived.
All those who have believed that God raised him from the dead and
have trusted in the risen savior Christ Jesus himself, all those
people are eternally secure and I suppose the only question I
need to ask you right now is imagine we go to heaven and we
Open that book. WE peer in, would we find your
name written in that book of life?
Will you one day stand in front of the Lord Jesus Christ at the
Judgment seat of Christ. Awaiting a reward from the one
who has saved you or will you stand in front of the great
white Throne, where your books have been opened?
Your debt is there in front of you and you will be punished
eternally because you rejected the one who sits on that Throne.
Today. This very day you have a chance
Choice. You can either Let Jesus Christ.
Take your enormous book and toss it, to the bottom of the ocean,
because he dealt with your sin when he died on the cross or you
can continue to add chapters to this book today, this very day,
you can either choose to receive the love of God, where Christ
was punished in fullness for every syllable that was written
in that book. Or you can receive the
punishment yourself and pay for it when you see Christ at the
great white Throne. Today this very day you Can
either choose to Bow, the knee to the author of the book of
life, or you can accept the consequences of self-publishing.
The other bull friends, there is no judge like this.
Judge other judges, have sinned, other judges have done wrong
things, but Christ Jesus has never done anything wrong and
although Christ Jesus sits on the Judgment seat and he looks
down at the criminals Christ. Jesus is the only church to step
down from that judgment seat to take off his Of righteousness
and to wrap the criminal in it, to say I will pay your fine.
I will take your punishment that you deserve because I died on
the cross and that criminal has a choice.
They can either gladly receive the mercy of the church, they
can gladly receive that forgiveness.
Or they can choose to receive the punishment themselves and be
sent to hell for all of eternity.
I'm going to pray that many unbelievers, watch this video
and realize that they have a massive big book of all of the
the records of all of their sin that they have committed and
that they would ask the Lord Jesus Christ to have that book
of sin transferred to his account and forgiving and dealt
with. But not only that, I'm going to
pray that the book of life gets a little bit longer gets a
little bit bigger because true. Sinners repent, turn from their
sins, and put their trust in the Lord.
Jesus Christ after watching this because the Bible says, there is
much rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents and I
hope Maybe just one, just one name today will be written in
the Lamb's Book of Life, because they've received the Lord Jesus
Christ as their lord. And savior, would you pray that
prayer with me? And if you are an unbeliever,
and you still don't realize just how serious your sin is.
Please watch this video. I think it might change your
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God bless you all. And thank you for watching.