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Judgment Seat of Christ Judgment Seat Of Christ A Study Concerning the Future Judgment of All Christians, with a Particular Emphasis on Revelation 1-4 Arlen L. Chitwood Introduction i Judgment Seat Of Christ i ii JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done in his body, accord- ing to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men…” (II Cor. 5:10, 11a). Cover Photograph: The California Pacific Coast, Winter, 2006 ii Introduction iii Judgment Seat Of Christ by Arlen L. Chitwood The Lamp Broadcast, Inc. 2629 Wyandotte Way Norman, Okla. 73071 www.lampbroadcast.org 2011 Third Printing (Revised) First Printing, 1986 iii iv JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST By the Same Author — HAD YE BELIEVED MOSES THE MOST HIGH RULETH FROM ACTS TO THE EPISTLES IN THE LORD’S DAY FROM EGYPT TO CANAAN LET US GO ON REDEEMED FOR A PURPOSE RUN TO WIN MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM THE BRIDE IN GENESIS SEARCH FOR THE BRIDE SEVEN, TEN GENERATIONS GOD’S FIRSTBORN SONS THE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE SALVATION BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH PROPHECY ON MOUNT OLIVET THE TIME OF THE END SO GREAT SALVATION THE SPIRITUAL WARFARE BROUGHT FORTH FROM ABOVE THE STUDY OF SCRIPTURE SIGNS IN JOHN’S GOSPEL SALVATION OF THE SOUL JUDE RUTH ESTHER iv Introduction v CONTENTS FOREWORD . vii I. ETERNALLY SAVED, BUT . 1 II. WE MUST ALL APPEAR . 17 III. THAT EVERYONE MAY RECEIVE . 35 IV. TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH . 53 V. THE TREE OF LIFE . 69 VI. THE SECOND DEATH . 89 VII. THE HIDDEN MANNA, WHITE STONE . 105 VIII. POWER OVER THE NATIONS . 119 IX. CLOTHED IN WHITE RAIMENT . 133 X. A PILLAR, A CITY . 147 XI. SEATED ON THE THRONE . 161 XII. CROWNED RULERS . 177 XIII. KINGS OF THE KINGDOM . 193 XIV. A ROD OF IRON . 209 XV. YOU CAN RULE AND REIGN . 225 XVI. WHEN HE IS APPROVED . 239 APPENDIX . 257 THE OUTER DARKNESS SCRIPTURE INDEX . 275 v vi JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST Introduction vii FOREWORD The judgment seat of Christ will be operable in one realm alone — man’s actions, following his salvation. That which will come under review in that day will be “works” emanating out of either faithfulness or unfaithfulness — works comparable to “gold, silver, precious stones,” or works comparable to “wood, hay, stubble” (I Cor. 3:12, 13). Nothing pertaining to man’s eternal salvation (based entirely upon that which Christ has done) can come into view at this judgment, for God has already judged sin in the person of His Son at Calvary. And God is satisfied with His Son’s finished work. In this respect, all judgment relative to eternal salvation is past and can never again be brought up as an issue. “He that believeth on him [Christ] is not condemned [Gk., krino; lit., ‘is not judged,’ i.e., the one who has believed on Christ can never be brought into judg- ment at any future time (for judgment has already occurred in past time)]…” (John 3:18a). And this is what bothers some Christians about thoughts sur- rounding the judgment seat of Christ. Scriptures such as John 3:18 clearly state that no Christian can ever be brought into judgment. Yet, Scriptures such as II Cor. 5:10 — “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ…” — also clearly state that judgment awaits all Christians. This can become quite confusing unless one recognizes that two entirely different matters are being dealt with. One has to do with God’s judgment upon sin, based upon His Son’s finished work at Calvary, with eternal salvation in view. And the other has to do with God’s subsequent judgment upon His household servants relative to their faithfulness or unfaithfulness as servants in the Lord’s house, with the Messianic Era in view. vii viii JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST The former judgment — a past judgment upon sin, based on the Son’s finished work at Calvary — in actuality, has to donot only with saved man but with unsaved man as well. Note the complete verse in John 3:18: “He that believeth on him is not condemned [‘is not judged’]: but he that believeth not is condemned already [‘has already been judged’ (a perfect tense in the Greek text, referring to a judgment which oc- curred in past time — a judgment no longer occurring during present time, for the matter has been finished)], because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” Judgment for the sin question (sin brought into existence through Adam’s fall in Genesis chapter three) has already occurred. It occurred in past time for both the saved and the unsaved — for the saved, with respect to belief; for the unsaved, with respect to unbelief. For the former (the saved), they have been judged in past time, through a Substitute. They have believed, and a Substitute (Christ) has paid sin’s penalty (death) on their behalf. For the latter (the unsaved), they have been judged in past time as well, but apart from a Substitute. They have not believed, and there, consequently, is no Substitute to pay sin’s penalty (death) on their behalf. They will have to pay the penalty themselves. Judgment itself has already occurred, but the payment for sin’s penalty awaits. And, at any future judgment — whether a judgment of the saved or a judgment of the unsaved (all are to be judged at times in the future, in separate judgments) —the issue of the sin question and eternal salvation or eternal damnation can never resurface. Once an individual moves beyond this life — beyond the point where he can either believe or not believe, whether he is saved or unsaved — it is a finished matter; his eternal salvation is sealed; he has already been judged in this respect, for it is all inseparably connected with Christ’s past finished work on the cross and God’s past judgment relative to this finished work. This is the reason that any future judgment of man, whether saved or unsaved, is always seen to be on the basis of the works of the individual being judged — works emanating out of faithfulness (one viii Foreword ix class of the saved), out of unfaithfulness (another class of the saved), or out of no faith (the unsaved). For a judgment of the saved with respect to works, refer to I Cor. 3:11-15; for a judgment of the unsaved with respect to works, refer to Rev. 20:11-15. “Every man’s work shall be made manifest…” (I Cor. 3:13a). “…and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works” (Rev. 20:12b). But, calling attention to things surrounding the saved alone through- out the remainder of this foreword, the difference between past and future judgments could be compared to the distance between the east and the west. It is only because of the former (God’s past judgment relative to the sin question, based entirely on Christ’s finished work) that the latter can occur (judgment on the basis of works emanating out of faithfulness or unfaithfulness); and the latter can have nothing to do with the former in the sense of nullifying, adding to, taking from, etc. The two are completely separate in this respect. Once a person has believed on the Lord Jesus Christ — has passed “from death unto life” — that individual comes into a relationship with God which heretofore did not exist in his life. He becomes a new creation “in Christ,” part of the family of God; and he then finds himself among household servants who are being dealt with accordingly. Following an individual believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, God deals with that individual on an entirely different plane — as a house- hold servant, with a view to the Messianic Era lying out ahead. The individual is never again dealt with (during present or future time, or at a future judgment) on the basis of that which is past — Christ’s finished work, effecting his eternal salvation. Everything having to do with God’s judgment in this respect is past. The person has already been judged (via God’s judgment upon a Substitute, upon His Son at Calvary, Who paid the penalty for sin on the person’s behalf). And this fact alone should put to rest any thought that saved man could ever one day become unsaved, lost again. How could he? Such would be impossible, for God never deals with saved man on x JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST this basis (and this would be aside from the fact that man’s salvation is not based on anything which he has done to begin with, but on that which Christ alone has done). But that which numerous Christians fail to recognize is the fact that they are directly responsible, as household servants, to the One Who sent His Son to die in their stead. And, as household servants, they will one day stand before their Saviour (to Whom God has committed all judgment) to give an account relative to faithfulness or unfaithful- ness in the Lord’s house. The judgment seat of Christ will be operable in this realm alone, and decisions and determinations emanating from findings at the judgment seat will result in two things: 1) Reward on the one hand. 2) Loss on the other hand. And both will have to do with the Messianic Era, not with eternal life.
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