The Judgment Seat of Christ (Part One) 4-7-25

This mini-series is written in three parts, because it is important that the readers have a clear understanding pertaining to the Judgment Seat of Christ. Your rewards and rulership with Jesus depend upon it.

It is more to salvation than just being saved; if salvation were all that was necessary, the Lord would have saved us and taken us straight to heaven. The emphasis today will be why God has left us on this earth, and for what are we here.

There are certain scriptures that some scholars use to say that the people went to hell. Today, I am going to do a comparison to prove what Jesus meant when He said things to people and see what it really meant.

Lord we did this in Your name - “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.  Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 

And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ (Matthew 7:21-23). The Lord never knew their works; they disregarded what they were told to do.  

Jesus could not have been talking to unsaved people. One can be saved and still does allow Jesus to take ownership because they do whatever they want to. These people were not doing what they were called to do.

This meant that they would not have rulership in the kingdom of heaven. If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us (2 Timothy 2:12). It takes being totally committed; suffering comes when we are “Sold Out”

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 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. (1 Corinthians 3:11-15).

If you deny me before men – Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.  But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 10:32-33)

Peter denied Jesus three times (Matthew 26:69-75). Not only that, how could this statement not be a contradiction when the Word of God was written by holy men of God. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation,  for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:20-21).

I will continue to remind the readers of Paul calling himself the chief among sinners; how could he write more books than anyone in the Bible? If he was still a sinner, there was no way possible that he wrote so many books or any book at all.

Next- The Judgment Seat of Christ (Part Two)

His handmaiden, Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org