What
will be judged?
The
eternal penalty for your sin has been taken care of. When you trusted the blood of Christ at
Calvary for your sin, and you trusted him as your Saviour by faith alone, you
then have eternal life as a present possession; all your sins are forgiven; you
are eternally secure; you won’t go to hell.
Romans
6:23
For the wages of sin is
death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord.
We
have that distinction in this present dispensation by pure grace. Once we trust in the faith of Christ, his faithfulness is to give
us eternal life – God’s life. We will
live as long as God lives, which is forever.
Philippians
3:9
And be found in him, not
having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through
the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
At
Calvary he died for our sins, was buried and rose again.
1
Corinthians 15:3-4
For I delivered unto you
first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins
according to the scriptures; And that he
was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the
scriptures:
But
after salvation, our works, labour, and enduring to the end all come into
play. They are not in order to be
justified unto eternal life because we are already eternally saved. They are not so that we can stay saved
because we are saved through the faith of Jesus Christ and we are trusting in
what he did for us at Calvary.
But
our faith does play a part after
salvation. We walk by faith. We are to be active participants in our
Christian life.
Philippians
2:12
Wherefore, my beloved, as
ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my
absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
What
is that? Paul calls it the ‘work of
faith.’ He talks about three things:
1 Thessalonians
1:3
Remembering without
ceasing your [1] work of faith, and [2] labour of love, and [3] patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our
Father;
2
Thessalonians 1:3
We are bound to thank God
always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth
exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other
aboundeth;
The
love of God is manifest in all who are patient in tribulation.
2
Thessalonians 1:4
So that we ourselves
glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your
persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:
Romans 5:3
And not only so, but we
glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
The
first thing we need to do after we place our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and
what he accomplished at Calvary by his faith, is that we have to grow in faith;
grow in Christ; grow in the mystery doctrine.
We don’t just [only] get saved by listening to Paul--that is only the beginning!
Colossians
2:6-7
As ye have therefore
received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted
and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught,
abounding therein with thanksgiving.
We
received him by grace through faith. To
do that we had to have faith in his word to
us: the apostle Paul’s doctrine, the
mystery of Christ, the grace message.
Romans thru Philemon are the curriculum
for our edification that we must learn in order to be fit for the Lord’s use...now and in eternity!
To
grow in Christ, start in the book of Romans and work your way through to
Philemon. Read from Paul’s 13 books
every day. Send any questions you may
have to me or any other stablished Pauline, grace brother or sister.
You
need to build up the doctrine in your inner man by studying Paul’s
epistles. Faithful, bible-believing grace teachers will help you with
that. God doesn’t leave believers alone
without preachers and teachers to help in your understanding.
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