1. What have we learned about rewards?

2. We are commanded to pursue rewards
We are accountable for the way we live
To get rewards we need to live a rewardable life
Our Judge is both just and merciful
Those who show mercy will receive mercy
We will be judged on how much we achieve our God-given potential
Faithful believers will rule with Christ forever

3. Which Judgment Day will you face?

4. Three Major Judgments Bema Seat? Great White Throne Sheep and Goats
Eternal State
Israel
Church Age
Tribulation
Tribulation
Kingdom OT NT
7 Years
1,000 Years

5. Dan and Cheryl - Just before Dallas Seminary - 1978
The Great White Throne

6. Follows the 1,000 reign of Christ, the Millennium (Rev. 20:1-6)
Follows the judgment of Satan (20:10)
Unbelievers are judged (with few exceptions)
No believer will take part in this
Basis of judgment is works
Anyone not in the Book of Life ends up in the Lake of Fire
Revelation
20:11-15

7. Dan and Cheryl - Just before Dallas Seminary - 1978
The Bema Seat

8. It can be the greatest Day of our lives!
As ominous as “Judgment Day” sounds…
It can be the greatest Day of our lives!

9. ‘Well done, good and faithful servant;
‘You were faithful over a few things,
I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your Lord.’

10. Basis of judgment is works, both good and bad
For believers
Basis of judgment is works, both good and bad
Creates motivation and accountability
Can result in reward
Timing is uncertain, yet must follow the rapture and precede the Kingdom Reign of Christ
2 Corinthians 5:10

11. Dan and Cheryl - Just before Dallas Seminary - 1978
The Sheep and the Goats

12. Three Groups in the Church Age
The Natural Man
This is an unbeliever who does not possess eternal life or the Holy Spirit
The Spiritual Man
This is a believer who has eternal life, possesses the Holy Spirit and lives by His power
The Carnal Man
This is also a believer who has eternal life, possesses the Holy Spirit, but lives with his focus on the flesh
Both Believers
Unbeliever
The Carnal Man is not a disciple

13. Two Groups in the Tribulation
The Natural Man
This is an unbeliever who does not possess eternal life or the Holy Spirit
The Spiritual Man
This is a believer who has eternal life, possesses the Holy Spirit and lives by His power
The Carnal Man
This is also a believer who has eternal life, possesses the Holy Spirit, but lives with his focus on the flesh
The unique conditions of the Tribulation force all believers to live like disciples.
Unbeliever

14. The judgment comes when Christ comes for the Kingdom (v. 31)
Church Age believers are now gone (1 Thess. 5:1-10; Mt. 24:36-44)
Living Gentiles (“nations”) are gathered before the Throne and placed into two groups
During the Trib, conditions are extreme and unusual (Mt. 24:22)
Matthew 25:31-44

15. Today, there are both carnal believers and spiritual believers (1 Cor
Today, there are both carnal believers and spiritual believers (1 Cor. 2:14- 3:3), but during the Trib, there are no believers who are not disciples
Many believers will collapse under the pressures and suffer the judgments of the Tribulation (Mt. 24:13)
Matthew 25:31-44

16. The “sheep” are Gentile believers who care for their Jewish “brethren”, probably primarily the Jewish missionaries who spread out to spread the gospel during this time (Rev. 12:17; 14:1-7; Mt. 24:14)
These Gentiles will be one of the only resources for survival for these men
Some of these Jews will be martyred but will later reign with Christ (Rev. 20:4)
Matthew 25:31-44

17. Now, a wonderful future waits for the “sheep”.
Since the King had sought to reach the world through the brethren, those who cared for them, cared for Him.
Now, a wonderful future waits for the “sheep”.
However, while flesh and blood can enter the Kingdom, it cannot inherit the Kingdom (1 Cor. 15:50; 1 Jn. 3:3)
Matthew 25:31-44

18. All believers have eternal life when they believe in Christ (Jn. 6:47)
However, inheritance awaits the faithful now, and these faithful believers enter eternal life with transformed bodies, just as will living Christians at the Rapture of the Church (1 Cor. 15:51-53; 1 Thess. 4:15-18)
The “goats” are unbelievers who are immediately sent to the Lake of Fire
Matthew 25:31-44

19. These Tribulation participants form a unique group whose judgment is separate from others, just as their lives have been during this unique period of judgment on the earth
This passage is not, as so many have used it, one that teaches how we live and are judged today
Not only does it produce strange theology, it’s time-frame is quite clear (Mt. 25:31-32)
Matthew 25:31-44

20. Conditions today are simply different than they are during the Tribulation the context of this passage
Many articles and sermons have been produced gauging whether or not someone is a Christian based on whether one feeds the poor or visits people in jail
Not everyone in jail or who is poor can be called Christ’s “brethren”, though they are loved by Him
Matthew 25:31-44

21. Dan and Cheryl - Just before Dallas Seminary - 1978
The Great White Throne
Unbelievers will be judged by their works.

22. Dan and Cheryl - Just before Dallas Seminary - 1978
The Bema Seat
Believers judged for their works.

23. Dan and Cheryl - Just before Dallas Seminary - 1978
The Sheep and the Goats
The judgment of Gentiles who survive the Tribulation.

24. Which Judgment Day will you face?

25. One thing is certain: No one escapes evaluation.
If you haven’t believed in Christ Great White Throne
If you have believed in Christ Bema Seat
If you live during the Tribulation Sheep and Goats
One thing is certain: No one escapes evaluation.