• How dreadfully unwelcome, yet inescapable a judgment for those who have refused the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ! (biblecentre.org)
  • I Cor.3:11‑15 tells us, "For other foundation can no man lay besides that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. (biblecentre.org)
  • We began to see the risen Lord Jesus Christ as John was seeing him there on the Isle of Patmos. (aletheiabaptistministries.org)
  • Here we have in our text, in verse 13, we saw candlesticks and we saw the garments of the Lord Jesus Christ. (aletheiabaptistministries.org)
  • In the first chapter, Peter comments that "now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ" (1 Pet. (ssnet.org)
  • What the Church adds to this universal human wisdom - and this we could not discover without divine revelation - centers on Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (catholicinsight.com)
  • 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. (returningking.com)
  • Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. (sacred-texts.com)
  • 1:8 First I give thanks to my God, through Jesus Christ, for you all, because your faith is spoken of in the whole world. (sacred-texts.com)
  • In the case of unbelievers the judgment seat of Christ will be the great white throne (Rev.20:11‑15). (biblecentre.org)
  • Yet he too will be manifested at the judgment seat of Christ. (biblecentre.org)
  • All the effects of sin will be totally done away and we will be manifested at the judgment seat of Christ in bodies like His. (biblecentre.org)
  • The "Judgment Seat of Christ" is the designation for this judgment concerning the church. (returningking.com)
  • As the title indicates, the "judgment seat of Christ" refers to a time when the bride of Christ, the church, will undergo judgment at his investigation and oversight. (returningking.com)
  • The judgment seat of Christ, like all judgments concerning believers, is taught in scripture to be oriented toward reward rather than punishment. (returningking.com)
  • The leading idea in Enoch is that the Deluge was the first world-judgment, and that the final judgment of the world is to take place at the beginning or at the close of the Messianic kingdom. (wikipedia.org)
  • This applies not only to life as we live it but also to our final judgment. (catholicinsight.com)
  • Therefore the standard of our final judgment is Christ. (catholicinsight.com)
  • God's Word declares with absolute decision "We must all be manifested before the judgment seat of the Christ, that each may receive the things done in the body, according to those he has done, whether it be good or evil" (2 Cor.5: 10). (biblecentre.org)
  • But it seems better to regard the winds as forming part of the general description by which God's judgment is foreshadowed. (studylight.org)
  • The divine judgment described in the Testament of Abraham is one concerning all souls in the life to come. (wikipedia.org)
  • In most New Testament era usages, this platform would be a location for a governor or a judge to present a judgment in a case of law or order. (returningking.com)
  • In this final encounter, a judgement, each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of Heaven - whether through a purification - [what we refer to as Purgatory] or immediately - or immediate and everlasting damnation (1022), hell. (catholicinsight.com)
  • The doctrine of a forensic judgment in the unseen world, by which the eternal lot of departed souls is determined, was also widely prevalent in pre-Christian times. (wikipedia.org)
  • Almost the last comment in the letter also deals with the same idea: "And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to [H]is eternal glory in Christ, will [H]imself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you" (1 Pet. (ssnet.org)
  • Shall not the Judge of all the earth do righteous judgment? (wikipedia.org)
  • There is a type of judgment for the righteous and a type of judgment for the unrighteous, each having different criteria and characteristics. (returningking.com)
  • The righteous, by merit of their position in Christ as Lord and Savior of their lives have also accepted his substitutionary payment for their sins. (returningking.com)
  • Great catastrophes as Noah's flood, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the earthquake that swallowed up Korah and his followers, the plagues of Egypt and the evil that came upon other oppressors of Israel are represented in the Bible as Divine judgments. (wikipedia.org)
  • It was noted earlier that the process of resurrection is always followed by a judgment for the group which has been raised. (returningking.com)
  • Within the short epistle, there are no less than three extended passages that deal with his readers' suffering for Christ (1 Pet. (ssnet.org)
  • Divine judgment means the judgment of God or other supreme beings and deities within a religion or a spiritual belief. (wikipedia.org)
  • The end of history, therefore, was conceived to be the execution of the divine judgment upon all the nations. (wikipedia.org)
  • This divine judgment is to take place, according to the Biblical view, on earth, and is intended to be particularly a vindication of Israel. (wikipedia.org)
  • There is also a divine judgment which takes place in this world and is continual. (wikipedia.org)
  • Death puts an end to human life as the time open to either accepting or rejecting the divine grace manifested in Christ. (catholicinsight.com)
  • 7. Miraculous works of Christ as the dawn of His work of redemption, in opposition to the hardening and the reviling of His enemies: the two blind men, and the person possessed with a dumb devil. (studylight.org)
  • 2:5 But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath, and revelation of the just judgment of God. (sacred-texts.com)
  • In the presence of Christ, who is Truth itself, the truth about man's relationship with God will be laid bare (1039). (catholicinsight.com)
  • Indeed, the nature of the judgments concerning believers will be demonstrated in this section to be related to the issuance of reward rather than the punishment of one's sins. (returningking.com)
  • Judgment for reward should be understood similarly to the judgment which one may undergo in a sporting event. (returningking.com)
  • Firstly, they preach a false gospel, being antithetical to the Gospel of Christ, as an such the vast majority of "Christians" these last two millenia have not been saved. (bcbsr.com)
  • The belief of the Neo-Circumcision is disbelief in the Gospel of Christ. (bcbsr.com)
  • In Paul's usages in both Romans and 2 Corinthians, the bema is that of Christ himself. (returningking.com)
  • This Day of Judgment ("Day of the Lord") is portrayed vividly in the Book of Jubilees and particularly in Enoch. (wikipedia.org)
  • He then says that Christians should not fear those who are attacking them, but they should sanctify (revere) Christ as Lord in their hearts (1 Pet. (ssnet.org)
  • The Church gives a radically sharper focus to our instinctive but vague sense of justice by telling us about God, and specifically, Christ Our Lord. (catholicinsight.com)
  • The Angel of the Lord saved Lot and his family by removing them before judgment fell. (crosswalk.com)
  • The right-hand wing portrays scenes associated with the Last Judgement: a hellscape at its base, the resurrected awaiting judgement in the centre-ground, and a representation of Christ in Majesty flanked by a Great Deësis of saints, apostles, clergy, virgins and nobility in the upper section. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Pharaonic Egyptian idea of the judgment is set forth with great precision of detail in the "Book of the Dead", a collection of formulas designed to aid the dead in their passage through the underworld. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the Last Judgement the damned are placed in hell in the lower mid-ground while the saints and angels are positioned higher in the upper foreground. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Isaic mysteries were influenced by the traditional religion of ancient Egypt, which had symbolized the judgment of the soul through its weight on the scale of truth. (wikipedia.org)
  • 2:2 For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things. (sacred-texts.com)
  • As the church is the first group to rise, following Christ himself, they will be also the first group to receive their corresponding judgment. (returningking.com)
  • The "Book of the Dead" (Nekyia) in the Odyssey depicts judgment in the afterlife by Minos, the "radiant son of Zeus" who in his mortal life had been king of Crete. (wikipedia.org)
  • For the believer the judgment seat will be in heaven, however. (biblecentre.org)
  • In the 1420s and 1430s, when oil and panel painting were still in their infancy, vertical formats were often used for depictions of the Last Judgement, because the narrow framing particularly suited a hierarchical presentation of heaven, earth and hell. (wikipedia.org)
  • death, judgment, Heaven and hell. (catholicinsight.com)
  • Vergil's depiction of the afterlife in the Aeneid is consonant with the Homeric view as well as that of Plato, and he makes it clear that everyone faces judgment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some have mistakenly understood that this judgment of believers is a type of punitive response for their sins which goes beyond the work which Christ provided in his atonement. (returningking.com)