{"id":8078,"date":"2020-08-04T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2022-01-12T17:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T17:33:42","slug":"not-heard-at-the-judgment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=8078","title":{"rendered":"Not Heard at the Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 1<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">[<strong>Note:\u00a0 <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our <strong>Brief Articles 1<\/strong>\u00a0 page.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">The Bible teaches that there will be a great Day of Judgment when Jesus Christ returns and that He will be the Judge on that Great Day:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats (Mat. 25:31\u201332).<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">He will judge us by \u201cthe Word he has spoken\u201d (John 12:48) and according to the way we have lived:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad (2 Cor. 5:10).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">In light of these statements of Scripture, we will do well to ponder some statements that will <strong>not <\/strong>be heard at the Judgment:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>\u201cI am an atheist.\u201d <\/strong>Men are free thus to claim while they live on earth, although the Bible calls them fools (Psa. 14:1). However, at the Judgment, \u201cevery tongue shall confess to God,\u201d but the atheist shall do so in vain (Rom. 14:11).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>\u201cI don\u2019t believe in Jesus.\u201d <\/strong>Men are free to reject and deny Him now (John 12:48), but all will be face to face with Him at the Judgment. He will deny and reject those who have denied and rejected Him here (Mat. 10:33).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>\u201cI don\u2019t believe the Bible is the Word of God.\u201d <\/strong>Millions believe it to be the collected works of mere men\u2014a product of literary evolution. \u201cWhy should I be bound by the words of ancient times and men?\u201d They will then understand that \u201call Scripture is inspired of God\u201d and that it is in force \u201ceven unto the end of the world\u201d (2 Tim. 3:16\u201317; Mat. 28:20).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>\u201cChristianity is not the only way to God.\u201d <\/strong>So goes the modern mantra (e.g., the \u201cCOEXIST\u201d bumper stickers). The pagans of the ancient world learned \u201cthe hard way\u201d that God\u2019s way is<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">the <strong>only <\/strong>way (Egypt, Canaan, Babylon, et al.). All will learn at the Judgment that there is\/was only <strong>one way <\/strong>to God; His Son (not Buddha, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, or some Wiccan high priest) is <strong>that one way <\/strong>(John 14:6; 1 Tim. 2:5).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>\u201cI regret that I obeyed the Gospel and lived for Jesus.\u201d <\/strong>At the Judgment, having so done is all that will matter. Jesus said, \u201cHe that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned\u201d (Mark 16:16). Only those who do the will of the Father will hear the welcome words of God\u2019s Son: \u201cWell done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord\u201d (Mat. 25:21).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\">[<strong>Note: <\/strong>I wrote this article for and it was published in the <em>Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, May 6, 2016.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><strong>Attribution:<\/strong> From <em>thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 1[Note:\u00a0 This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1\u00a0 page.] The Bible teaches that there will be a great Day of Judgment when Jesus Christ returns and that He will be the Judge on that Great Day: But when the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=8078\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span class=\"easywp-sr-only\">  Not Heard at the Judgment<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,13,381,18,15,42,311],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-second-coming","category-eschatology","category-false-teachersdoctrine","category-judgment","category-obedience","category-word-of-god","wpcat-91-id","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-381-id","wpcat-18-id","wpcat-15-id","wpcat-42-id","wpcat-311-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8078"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17503,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8078\/revisions\/17503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}