Dr. John Phillips, who has since gone home to be with the Lord, said about John 5:22: “The fact that the Lord Jesus is the universal judge means that He has personal knowledge of all the countless human beings in all the ages of history. He has detailed acquaintance with the endless variety of circumstances of each and every individual. He knows the character of each one of us. He knows our motives, opportunities, hidden passions, mental ability, thoughts, desires, words, and acts. He knows the lasting influence for better or for worse of our every act and look. Moreover, He has a perfect grasp of all the laws of God by which to judge the world. And He has the absolute right to pass eternal sentence, with no court of appeal and with no cases dismissed. In other words, the Lord was claiming, in no uncertain terms, to be God over all.”
Dr. Arthur Glasser quotes an anonymous rabbi who has said, “A time is coming for all men when they will be either wish they were born again, or wish they had never been born at all.”
Batesville, Arkansas, resident Johnny Harrington lost his mother in 1991. Before the funeral he threw a party for his dead mother. He propped her up in the casket and put a beer in one hand and a cigarette in her other hand. When questioned about what he had done, he simply said, “I did exactly what she told me to – and I would do it again.” Although many would not espouse to Mr. Harrington’s actions, many are adopting his trivialized view of death. Hebrews 9:27 reminds us that a beer can and a cigarette aren’t what await us after death.
No one will escape standing before the greatest of all judges. The question is: Will you stand before Him at the Judgment Seat as a believer or at the Great White Throne as a non-believer? The choice is yours.
What to do:
✞ Live your life as if the judge is watching, because He is.
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