Foundations: Part 6 - Judgement
April 24, 2017
David Young
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The final lesson on the six fundamentals of the faith given in Hebrews 6 about the sixth fundamental: Judgement. Because God is a good God, He is a just God. If God were not a just God, He would not be a good God. He gives what the people of the world decide that they want. Those who refuse Christ will get what they want: eternity without him. Those who follow Christ will get what they want: eternity with Him, and each of us is guilty of capital crimes, but if you trust Christ, you have the world's best attorney. He has paid your price.
1. The Good News: God is a just God.
2. God has appointed a day in which He will judge everyone.
3. The Best News: God is a merciful God.
2 Timothy 4:1-8
"In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead,and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
For I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time for my departure is near. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing."
(NIV)