Provision was even made for my continuing sin. The application of the blessings were complete at my conversion. A perfect Savior provides a perfect salvation that gives perfect assurance. No one will be able to find my sins (Psalm 103:12).Īren’t the provisions of salvation wonderful. The issue is not eternal salvation but service and handling of given Christian responsibility. All that will be examined will be my stewardship as a believer. So please excuse me at the Judgment seat of Christ. My believing was contrasted to works (Rom. All that God would accept was a simple believing in what had been done by God for me. All of mankind’s works and righteousness have been exposed as not only insufficient, but only mounting up debt in unrighteous judgment. Whatever doubts I may have had along the way have been perfectly cleared up by Paul in the book of Romans. My cost was based on Grace (the principle of gift). The cost however was great and terrible to Jesus Christ. I was declared justified before God so that I had peace with Him since 1959 and also rejoice in the hope of Glory to come (Rom. His righteous life was imputed to me and my sins were imputed to Him. I was seen as actually being crucified with him historically and eternally (Gal. I was united with Him and His death, burial, and resurrection (Rom. According to a simple promise, I believed in HIM and escaped any condemnation (John 3:16-18). However in 1959 I was miraculously united with a person called Jesus Christ. When did all this happen? It happened outside Jerusalem. My conduct was looked at and declared perfect. I was also given a declaration that stated I had perfect performance in my life and lived a life as good as God. Because of that, I have been given an exemption that declared all sins not just forgiven but paid for. I actually paid the price for them by hanging on a cross and going through the experience of physical and spiritual death. I was already judged and punished for all my sins. Does his position elicit any sort of fear at all? Also, we will suffer loss at the judgment seat, and we are to live in fear of it. It is what he is not saying (“everything will be evaluated”) that bothers me. So those two truths need to be harmonized, and the position presented does not do that (it is not wrong, just incomplete). Yet we know that our sins are remembered no more. I think it does an injustice to the teaching that everything will be evaluated. The viewpoint of your speaker is an old, seasoned one. Misuse of parables can be compared to a pastor preaching a sermon, and people remember an illustration or joke but not the point of the sermon. The idea is to focus on the point, not the details of the story. Although some parables are allegories (like the sower), most of them make one main point. (He likened it to an employment review prior to a promotion.) Would that be a valid use of the passages?I am with the majority of interpreters on this: parables usually make one main point. Our work will be reviewed for the purpose of determining the service for which we will be qualified in the Kingdom to come. His application was that the parable was an illustration of what will happen at the Judgement Seat of Christ. The missionary who spoke last week compared the 2Co 5:10 concept to the Mat 25:14 ff Parable of the Three Servants.
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