H2o Church
In this talk, we're going to deconstruct what we think about the final judgment of believers, and we're going to see how relevant it is to real life.
1. ALL will face final judgment.
Revelation 20:11-12 ESV
Daniel Webster was once asked “what is the single greatest thought that has occupied your mind?” He responded, “That I, will one day give an account of my life to God.”
“A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death – the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders, we are not going to be judged.” ~Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz What’s so Great about Christianity?
2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV
2. Jesus is the Judge.
John 5:22 ESV
3. The purpose is to REWARD, not punish, believers.
1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV
Hebrews 6:10 ESV
Romans 8:1 ESV
1 Corinthians 3:15 ESV
4. Final Judgment imparts passion for TODAY.
“I had rather walk, as I do, in daily terror of eternity, than feel that this was only a children’s game in which all the contestants would get equally worthless prizes in the end.” T.S. Eliot
“if you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next… It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Aim at Heaven and you get Earth ‘thrown in’: aim at earth and you will get neither.” C.S. Lewis
5. Final Judgment teaches us about Jesus.
Revelation 4:10-11 ESV
Matthew 25:21 ESV