1. The Judgment Seat of Christ
2 Corinthians 5:9-10
Cornel Rasor, Pastor

2. Col 1:9-10  For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,  (10)  so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Rom 14:7-8  For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself;  (8)  for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.
Rom 12:1-2  Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.  (2)  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
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3. 1Pe 2:24  and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.
Heb 10:12  but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD,
Eph 1:7  In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
Heb 10:17-18  "AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO MORE."  (18)  Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.
Col 2:13  When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,
Act 13:38-39  "Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through Him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,  (39)  and through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses.
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4. 1) of good constitution or nature 2) useful, salutary
ἀγαθός
agathos
1) of good constitution or nature
2) useful, salutary
3) good, pleasant, agreeable, joyful, happy
4) excellent, distinguished
5) upright, honourable
agathos: good
Original Word: ἀγαθός, ή, όν Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: agathos Phonetic Spelling: (ag-ath-os') Short Definition: good Definition: intrinsically good, good in nature, good whether it be seen to be so or not, the widest and most colorless of all words with this meaning.
18 agathós – inherently (intrinsically) good; as to the believer, 18 (agathós) describes what originates from God and is empowered by Him in their life, through faith.
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5. 1) easy, slight, ordinary, mean, worthless, of no account
bad
φαῦλος
phaulos
1) easy, slight, ordinary, mean, worthless, of no account
2) ethically, bad, base, wicked
phaulos: worthless, bad
Original Word: φαῦλος, η, ον Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: phaulos Phonetic Spelling: (fow'-los) Short Definition: worthless, wicked, base Definition: worthless, wicked, base.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin a prim. word Definition worthless, bad NASB Translation bad (3), evil (3).
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6. 1Co 3:11-15  For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.  (12)  Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,  (13)  each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work.  (14)  If any man's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.  (15)  If any man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
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7. “The judgment seat of Christ might be compared to a commencement ceremony. At graduation there is some measure of disappointment and remorse that one did not do better and work harder. However, at such an event the overwhelming emotion is joy, not remorse. The graduates do not leave the auditorium weeping because they did not earn better grades. Rather, they are thankful that they have been graduated, and they are grateful for what they did achieve. To overdo the sorrow aspect of the judgment seat of Christ is to make heaven hell. To underdo the sorrow aspect is to make faithfulness inconsequential.”
“. . . because much is required of those to whom much has been given, the thought of the judgment seat of Christ has for the Christian a peculiar solemnity. It is not meant to cloud his prospect of future blessedness, but to act as a stimulus, as strong a stimulus as the most imperious of human ambitions; for the word philotimoumetha, translated we labour (RV ‘we make it our aim’), means literally ‘we are ambitious’.”
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8. This passage follows very directly on the one that has gone before
This passage follows very directly on the one that has gone before. Paul had just spoken of standing at the judgment tribunal of Christ. All his life is lived with that kept in view. It is not so much the terror of Christ he really talks about. It is rather awe and reverence that he means. The Old Testament is full of the thought of a cleansing fear. Job speaks of "the fear of the Lord that is wisdom." (Job 28:28). "What does the Lord your God require of you?" asks the writer of Deuteronomy, and the first item on his answer is, "to fear the Lord your God." (Deuteronomy 10:12). "The fear of the Lord," says Proverbs, "is the beginning of knowledge." (Proverbs 1:7 compare Proverbs 9:10). "By the fear of the Lord a man avoids evil." (Proverbs 16:6). This does not describe the fear of a dog who waits for a whipping or of a cowed child. It is that which keeps even a thoughtless man from desecrating a holy place. It is that which keeps a man from doing things which would break the heart of someone whom he loves. "The fear of the Lord," said the psalmist, "is clean." (Psalms 19:9). There is a cleansing fear without which a man cannot live the life he ought.
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9. Act 26:19-25  "So, King Agrippa, I did not prove disobedient to the heavenly vision,  (20)  but kept declaring both to those of Damascus first, and also at Jerusalem and then throughout all the region of Judea, and even to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds appropriate to repentance.  (21)  "For this reason some Jews seized me in the temple and tried to put me to death.  (22)  "So, having obtained help from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, stating nothing but what the Prophets and Moses said was going to take place;  (23)  that the Christ was to suffer, and that by reason of His resurrection from the dead He would be the first to proclaim light both to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles."  (24)  While Paul was saying this in his defense, Festus *said in a loud voice, "Paul, you are out of your mind! Your great learning is driving you mad."  (25)  But Paul *said, "I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth.
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10. As the sin of Adam was legally and effectively the sin of his race; so the death of Christ was legally and effectively the death of his people. This doctrine underlies the whole scheme of redemption. It is, so to speak, the generic idea of the Epistle to the Romans. The apostle shows that man, ruined by the sin of Adam, is restored by the work of Christ. His people are so united to him that his death is their death, and his life is their life. “If we be dead with him, we shall also live with him,” Romans 6:8. Hence believers are said to be crucified with Christ, to rise with him, to reign with him. Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 2:5, 6. The simple meaning of the words, “If one died for all, then all died,” therefore is, that Christ’s death was the death of his people. This as we have seen is according to the analogy of Scripture; and is also entirely pertinent to the design of this passage.
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11. Act 4:17-21  "But so that it will not spread any further among the people, let us warn them to speak no longer to any man in this name."  (18)  And when they had summoned them, they commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.  (19)  But Peter and John answered and said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge;  (20)  for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard."  (21)  When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God for what had happened;
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12. Rom 6:4-5  Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.  (5)  For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
Rom 6:8  Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
Rom 6:10-11  For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.  (11)  Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Rom 14:7-9  For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself;  (8)  for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.  (9)  For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Gal 2:19-20  "For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.  (20)  "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Col 3:3-4  For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.  (4)  When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
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