Christian martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer highlighted this difference when he compared the costly grace of Jesus Christ and His cross with the cheap grace of religious conformity and nominal Christianity. There is a tension between assurance and complacency. This glorious truth, the freedom from the fear of the wrath of God, can lead to spiritual complacency and evil complicity. We need to remain vigilant because the extraordinary comfort and assurance of eternal security in Christ can be corrupted. The Bible also teaches that believers will be rewarded based on what they have done. My attitude has been that the people who need to dread Christ’s judgment are those who refuse to respond to God’s gift of salvation.īut we must be careful. To be honest, I tend to view the Final Judgment as nothing to worry about because Christ has saved me from my sins. So then we will all give an account of ourselves to God” (Romans 14:10-12). “For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. This assurance of salvation is consistent with the fact that all believers will be held accountable for their actions. All who are in Christ have a deep assurance that the blood of Christ “rescues us from the coming wrath” and “cleanses us from all unrighteousness” (1 Thessalonians 1:10 1 John 1:9). All who believe in Jesus as the One sent from God to take away our sins have already “crossed over from death to life” (John 5:24). The Second Coming of Christ will usher in the Day of Judgment, when the risen Lord Jesus separates the wicked from the righteous. This is why the church, the body of Christ worldwide, preaches the Gospel of grace, because Jesus will come again to judge the living and the dead (Acts 10:42 2 Timothy 4:1 1 Peter 4:5). “All whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world” will be “thrown into the lake of fire” (Revelation 13:8 20:15). The Bible teaches that the curse of sin and death is overcome by unmerited divine grace received through faith in Christ.
Everyone who has ever lived-be they great or small-will be “judged according to what they had done.” The difference between eternal life and the “second death” depends on knowing Christ. The Book of Revelation describes “a great white throne” judgment at the end of history (Revelation 20:11-15).
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