Life After Death

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Life After Death

• The Judgment

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Review

• Jesus is coming
• The dead will rise
• Small and great
• Good and evil
• Judgment will take place
• What do we know about the final judgment?

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Why have a judgment?

• Lk 1622-23
• Apparently ones eternal destiny is determined by
  the time one dies
• If so, then what purpose does the judgment serve?

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The purpose of the judgment

• A human trial tries to determine truth
• God knows the truth
• 2 Cor 510
• A publication and execution of sentence
• 2 Thes 17-10
• A vindication of Gods justice
• A glorification of God for His grace

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The time of the judgment

• Premillenialists believe in a series of judgments
  over time
• Last lesson, one resurrection followed by
  judgment Heb 927
• At the end of the age 2 Pet 37-13
• When this world is destroyed Heb 110-12
• At a time of Gods choosing

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Who will be the Judge?

• John 522, 26-27
• Jesus claimed He would be the Judge
• Acts 1731
• Paul said it would be Jesus

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Who and what will be judged?

• Who?
• Angels 2 Pet 24
• All humans Rom 24-8
• What?
• All deeds (Rom 24-8)
• All words Mt 1236-37
• All thoughts 1 Cor 45

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By what standard?

• Jn 1248
• The words of Jesus
• Rev 2011-15
• Only those written in the Book of Life
• Rev 2127 The Lambs Book of Life
• Rev 35
• Only by overcoming and persevering

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Conclusion

• Therefore having overlooked the times of
  ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all
  people everywhere should repent, because He has
  fixed a day in which He will judge the world in
  righteousness through a Man whom He has
  appointed, having furnished proof to all men by
  raising Him from the dead." Acts
  1730-31

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