"For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil."
the conclusion of this chapter, of the book and of life itself. What a fitting verse to conclude all that has been presented in this book of 'observation'. the previous verse gave us our directive of what to do toward the Lord in our daily living. Now we read of the day of the end. For God shall bring every work into judgment - God shall do this complete, final judgment over every event in life; Who else could do such a thing but God? None. Who else can bring into judgment every thought, every word, every action, every intent of billions of souls for over 6000 years of history? 'For God shall bring every work' to be answered for. I have been raised to know the belief of 'eternal security'. oh, how many Baptists linger to this to excuse their lifestyle, to forget their actions of decades of life. I have heard and seen the actions of many 'professing Chrisitans' 'to continue in sin' because of this lack of understanding of such verses as this. Yes, I beleive the blood cleanses; Yes, I beleive that God is able to erase the judgments of my sins. I know this to be true, because the cross teaches me why Christ died and why it was such a painful, bloody death. My sins, past, present and future was laid on Him for the remission (removing) of sins. His holy, pefect, atoning blood cleanses me; purges me from all my sin.
My mind, my heart and my soul must examine to see how great is my offences since I first had a mind to know right and wrong. And this is to remind me of how precious is Christ to me and every believer. And that He already knew every sin, every transgression and every iniquity that you and i would do. He died for all, knowing who was His' and who was not. And that these choices, these actions done, though pardoned, are brought to light. Yea, the hidden things of shadows and darkness to be manifest before the throne. There laid out, my sin, my failures, my wrongness, my evil laid at the judgment bar. And there you and I stand, quilty before heaven and hell. Ownership fo these things that are done must be claimed. 'Yes', I shall answer, "I am guilty of all.' And then to Christ I shall look and wait. Christ shall stand and say, 'Yes, I bore his guil on Calvary's tree for the forgiveness of these sins.' Brought to light? Yes. Made known? Yes. Atoned for? Yes. Every work shall be made known, and every work weighed in the balances of 'what sort it is'. some works will be defined as wood, hay and stubble; only to be burned in the fire. Other works shall be shown to be precious - gold, silver and precious stones that shall endure. 'Every work brought into judgment' - yes, we know this to be true. Now then, how much more shall your works then be that which is pleasing to Him? Let all your life and seconds be made up of that which shall not bring you shame and reproach on tha day, but glory unto His great Name. With every secret thing - the thought of many men, women and children is the though of Satan's lies, 'that nobody will ever know what I did'; When we read the
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