Angelic Conflict part 331: Future work of Christ –1Co 3:12-15; 2Co 5:1-10; Mat 6:19-24; Joh 15:1-17; .

Title: Angelic Conflict part 331: Future work of Christ -1CO 3:12-15; 2CO 5:1-10; MAT 6:19-24; JOH 15:1-17; .

 

Announcements/opening prayer: 

 

3. The judgment of all classes of moral creatures (angels and men).

 

In addition to His present work of administering chastening and disciplinary judgments in the life of the believer, Christ will also be the final Judge of all moral creatures, whether men or angels.

 

These judg­ments can be itemized as referring:

 

a. The church:

 

1CO 3:12 Now if any man builds upon the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

 

1CO 3:13 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.

 

1CO 3:14 If any man's work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward.

 

1CO 3:15 If any man's work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as through fire.

 

2CO 5:1 For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

 

2CO 5:2 For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven;

 

2CO 5:3 inasmuch as we, having put it on, shall not be found naked.

 

2CO 5:4 For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

 

2CO 5:5 Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.

 

2CO 5:6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord 

 

2CO 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight — 

 

2CO 5:8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

 

2CO 5:9 Therefore also we have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.

 

2CO 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat [bema] of Christ, that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

 

 “judgment seat” - Bema = a step, a footroom, a raised platform reached by steps. The believer is never judged, but his deeds are evaluated as either divine good or of the flesh.

 

good - avgaqo,j[agathos] = only God is good. Divine good is prefabricated by God, EPH 2:10, and is the fruit of the believer who is filled with the Spirit and doctrine in thinking, word, and action.

 

MAR 10:18

And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone.

 

In the scripture we are to perform good, cling to it, follow after it, imitate it, and overcome evil with it.

 

The Bible makes clear that only God is good and so humans are unable to perform it without God performing it through them, so then it is not an option for an unbeliever or a carnal believer.

 

Divine good can only be performed as a result of spiritual growth and it is never the means.

 

bad - kako,jor fau/loj[kakos or phaulos] = bad, evil, worthless. It includes all sin and the "good" that is performed in the flesh and not from God within. The latter is in view in vs. 10.

 

Sin is bad but sin is not judged in heaven since all sin was judged in Christ. The unbeliever known as the wicked dead will be judged for one sin, because they did not believe in Christ as Savior.

 

Generally it is sinful motivation or intent that produces dead works, and dead works likely produce more sins, hence dead works and sin can feed off each other.

 

Sinful motivation results from a priority of self and earthly treasures. The Pharisees had this motivation while they were overtly performing the Mosaic Law and so they thought they were good. This is the good of the flesh. The good of the flesh is ritualistic and selfishly motivated.

 

The Christian who is perfected forever, being in Christ, has, nevertheless, a life of imperfection to live so long as he is in this world. The new problem which he confronts, as several times before stated, is not one of how he should live that he might be accepted and perfected before God, but rather of how he, an accepted and perfected person, should live after these stupendous realities are accomplished by the grace and power of God.

 

True motivation for divine good production begins with a full understanding and faith in positional truth.

 

Until this vital distinction is comprehended and received, there will be no progress made in the extensive field of truth which directs the Christian’s life and service. Every believer is in full time Christian service whether they know it or not.