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Robert Jeffress - Jesus, The Judge (Part 1)

October 27, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - Jesus, The Judge (Part 1)
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Jesus, The Judge (Part 1) | October 27, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church of
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  • Dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory" with dr.
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  • Robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • We must all stand before a judge at some point in life, whether
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  • For a traffic violation or a more serious offense.
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  • But did you know there's a much more significant court date in
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  • Your future?
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  • One day every person who has ever lived will stand before
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  • Jesus christ, the ultimate judge.
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  • The question is, are you prepared for your appointment
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  • Before heaven's supreme court?
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  • My message is titled "jesus the judge" on today's edition of
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  • "pathway to victory."
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  • Jeffress: what is the highest court in the world?
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  • Most people would answer the international court of justice,
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  • Known as the icj.
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  • Some people refer to it as the world court.
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  • It was established after world war ii as an encouragement to
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  • Countries to settle their disputes by the law rather than
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  • By war.
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  • Today the world court consists of 15 judges from around
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  • The world.
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  • They sit in an ornate palace known as the peace palace in the
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  • Hague, netherlands.
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  • In 1986 the country of nicaragua accused the united states of
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  • Supporting rebel forces in their country.
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  • They sued our nation in the world court.
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  • The world court found us guilty and ordered us to pay
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  • A huge fine.
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  • Guess how much we paid.
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  • Zero dollars.
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  • We have paid nothing to the world court because their
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  • Authority is a bogus.
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  • It is a make-believe authority.
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  • We are not under the authority of the world court.
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  • But there is another court coming one day, another kind of
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  • World court that will consist not of 15 judges but of 1 judge,
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  • And he is a perfect judge, and he is one to whom everyone,
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  • Christian and non-christian alike, will be forced to
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  • Submit to.
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  • Who is that judge over the future world court?
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  • Paul identified him in acts 17:31 in his sermon on
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  • Mars hill.
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  • He said, "god has fixed a day in which he will judge the world in
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  • Righteousness through a man whom he has appointed--" well, who is
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  • That man?
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  • "having furnished proof to all men by raising him from
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  • The dead."
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  • There's only one judge who meets that qualification, one judge
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  • Who's come back from the dead.
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  • His name is jesus christ.
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  • And we're going to discover today how the end times reveal
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  • Another one of jesus's roles.
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  • Not only did the end times reveal jesus as messiah and
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  • Prophet and king, they reveal him to be the true judge of all
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  • Of the world, the judge of the living and the dead.
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  • Now, that goes against the popular strain of understanding
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  • Many people have about jesus.
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  • When the average person today thinks about jesus, they see him
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  • As that tiny baby in the feeding trough wrapped in swaddling
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  • Cloths, or they see him as a good teacher or rabbi sitting on
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  • The hillside teaching the sermon on the mount, or they see him as
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  • The benevolent physician going about healing those who are
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  • Afflicted, but nobody, very few people see him as a judge.
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  • After all, wasn't it jesus who said judge not lest you
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  • Be judged?
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  • Most people don't believe jesus would ever judge anyone, but as
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  • We're going to see today, the fact is jesus is going to
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  • Judge everyone.
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  • And that everyone includes you and me, christians and
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  • Non-christians alike.
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  • Today in our message "jesus the judge," we're going to look at
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  • Five judgments in the end times over which jesus is going
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  • To preside.
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  • The best way to look at these judgments was in the
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  • Chronological order in which they occur during the end times.
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  • The first judgment is the one you and i are going to face one
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  • Day by jesus.
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  • We call it the judgment seat of christ.
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  • And apparently there's no scripture that actually says it,
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  • But apparently it occurs after the rapture, because when we get
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  • To the tribulation we see in revelation 4 and 5 the church
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  • Has already been crowned and rewarded.
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  • So this is the first judgment and the one we face, the
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  • Judgment seat of christ.
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  • The scripture verse, one of many that talks about it, is 2
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  • Corinthians 5, verse 10.
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  • Paul wrote, "for we must all appear before the judgment seat
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  • Of christ, that each one of us may be rewarded for what we have
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  • Done in the body, whether it be good or bad."
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  • That greek word translated judgment seat is the word bema.
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  • Not bima, bema, the judgment seat of christ.
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  • Sometimes this bema, it was really a raised platform, was
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  • Used in the athletic realm.
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  • We saw that in the olympics when a winner was brought to the
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  • Raised platform and given a gold medal.
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  • That actually came from paul's day.
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  • The winner in athletic contest were brought to a raised
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  • Platform where they received a crown made of leaves, really a
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  • Wreath of leaves.
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  • Who'd say--you'd say, "who gets excited about that?"
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  • It's not just the crown of leaves, it's what
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  • It represented.
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  • They had won.
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  • And there were real tangible benefits to winning the races in
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  • Paul's day.
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  • You got exempted from paying income tax to the government for
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  • At least a year or more.
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  • You had other privileges.
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  • Well, paul says we're all going to appear before a judgment
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  • Seat, not to be condemned.
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  • This is not a judgment that determines whether we go to
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  • Heaven or hell.
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  • That's decided when we trust in christ.
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  • This is an award of commendation.
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  • But there's also a negative aspect to the judgment seat
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  • Of christ.
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  • The bema was also used in the judicial system.
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  • It was used in corinth.
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  • For example, in acts 18 we find the story of paul's ministry
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  • In corinth.
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  • Some jews got mad at him, were jealous.
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  • They trumped up some charges and brought him before the
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  • Proconsul gallio.
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  • And gallio, acts 18 says, was seated on the bema, the
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  • Judgment seat.
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  • By the way, archaeologists have uncovered that.
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  • Many of us have been to corinth and seen the judgment seat on
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  • Which gallio sat.
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  • And paul stood there, looking at gallio.
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  • Gallio threatened him.
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  • Paul never flinched once.
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  • Why was he so courageous?
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  • Because he realized that one day he would be standing before
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  • Another judge on another judgment seat, that judge was
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  • Jesus christ, and he would have to give an account of his life,
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  • And he was much more fearful of what christ could do to him than
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  • What gallio could do to him.
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  • And it's interesting that paul used that experience in corinth
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  • To write back to the corinthians this word in 2 corinthians 5:10.
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  • "just like i stood before a judgment seat, we must all
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  • Appear before the judgment seat of christ that each one of us
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  • May be rewarded for what we have done."
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  • What is it that jesus is going to judge?
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  • Three things.
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  • First of all, he's going to judge our actions, our works, if
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  • You will.
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  • You know, we who are evangelical christians, we make a big
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  • Mistake in de-emphasizing the importance of works.
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  • We're so anxious to make sure people understand we're not
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  • Saved by good works, we act like our works don't matter.
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  • Now, listen to this.
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  • Our good works are worthless before we are saved, but our
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  • Good works are priceless after we have been saved.
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  • We're not saved by good works, we're saved for good works.
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  • That's god's plan.
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  • And god is going to reward us according to our works.
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  • Works matter to god.
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  • In psalm 62, verse 12, the psalmist said, "you, god,
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  • Recompense a man according to his work."
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  • Doesn't that makes sense?
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  • It just makes sense that our works make a difference.
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  • They do make a difference.
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  • In matthew 16:27, jesus said, "for the son of man is going to
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  • Come in the glory of his father and with his angels and he will
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  • Then repay every man according to his deeds."
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  • Secondly, jesus will judge us according to our words.
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  • What we say, what we post on social media one day is going to
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  • Be judged.
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  • Did you know every word we speak will be judged?
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  • Matthew 12:36 to 37, jesus said, "i tell you that every careless
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  • Word that people speak, they will give an accounting for in
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  • The day of judgment.
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  • For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you
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  • Will be condemned."
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  • Thirdly, jesus will judge our thoughts.
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  • In jeremiah 17:10, god says, "for i search the heart, i test
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  • The mind even to give each man according to his ways, according
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  • To the results of what his deeds are."
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  • Sometimes why we do something is just as important as what we do.
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  • And i think he's referring to here our motives.
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  • Not just the careless thoughts we have or wrong thoughts, he's
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  • Talking about our motives.
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  • Those are going to be revealed.
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  • What is the result of the judgment seat?
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  • He said we're going to stand there that each one of us may be
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  • Rewarded for what we have done, whether it is good or bad,
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  • Is what the english translation says.
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  • But that word bad doesn't mean morally wrong.
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  • The word bad, phaulos in greek means worthless.
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  • We're going to be judged and rewarded according to what kind
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  • Of life we have lived.
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  • What am i talking about?
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  • If you have your bibles, turn over to 1 corinthians chapter 3,
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  • Verses 11 to 15 where paul talks about this in more detail.
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  • He compares living our life to building a house.
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  • He says, "for no man can lay a foundation other than that which
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  • Is laid, which is in christ jesus."
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  • Now, if you're saved, you have the same foundation as all
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  • Christians, jesus christ, but we choose what kind of life to
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  • Build on that foundation.
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  • We're all given a different amount of time, treasure,
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  • And talent.
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  • We get to decide what kind of life, what kind of house we're
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  • Going to build.
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  • And he goes on to say, "now, if any man builds on the foundation
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  • With gold, silver, and precious stones or wood, hay, and straw,
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  • Each man's work will become evident; for the day is to show
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  • It, for it will be revealed by fire," in other words, we can
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  • Build our life with those things that are eternal, that have
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  • Lasting value, or we can build our lives around trivial
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  • Pursuits, temporal pursuits.
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  • And how will that be revealed?
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  • At this judgment.
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  • It'll be like a fire that will reveal what kind of life we have
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  • Really lived.
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  • Now, have you ever heard people say, "oh, i don't care
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  • About rewards?
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  • Just as long as i make it to heaven, that'll be enough."
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  • Think again.
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  • Verse 14 and 15, paul says, "if any man's work which he has
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  • Built on it remains, he will receive a reward, but if any
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  • Man's work is burned up, he will suffer loss."
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  • Underline that, he will suffer loss.
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  • "even though he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire."
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  • We don't know what these rewards are.
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  • I've said in other messages they may be special privileges
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  • In heaven.
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  • Did you know heaven's not going to be the same for everybody,
  • 00:13:13.415 --> 00:13:15.584
  • The bible teaches?
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  • Special privileges, special positions of authority, who is
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  • Faithful in little will be given much, if we endure with him,
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  • We'll reign with him, and certain words of praise will
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  • Come from jesus that others will not receive.
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  • "well done, good and faithful servant."
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  • But whatever these rewards are, paul says they are worth working
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  • For and sacrificing for.
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  • Because the fact is if our life is judged by jesus christ, they
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  • Have no eternal value.
  • 00:13:46.615 --> 00:13:48.384
  • If we were living and spending and managing for ourselves
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  • Rather than for god's kingdom, what happens?
  • 00:13:52.588 --> 00:13:55.824
  • Our life is burned up, so to speak, and we will suffer loss.
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  • I believe heaven is a place of great joy, but yes, there'll be
  • 00:14:01.864 --> 00:14:06.035
  • Some regret in heaven too.
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  • That's what the bible says.
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  • We will suffer loss, real measurable loss as we see what
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  • Could have been ours had we been more faithful to jesus christ.
  • 00:14:16.578 --> 00:14:21.150
  • That's the judgment seat of christ.
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  • The second judgment jesus will preside over is the judgment of
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  • The tribulation martyrs, and it takes place right after the
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  • Tribulation, at the end of the tribulation.
  • 00:14:34.363 --> 00:14:38.133
  • "what do you mean the tribulation martyrs?"
  • 00:14:38.133 --> 00:14:40.836
  • Remember that all christians get raptured at the rapture.
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  • We get caught away to meet the lord in the air.
  • 00:14:45.808 --> 00:14:48.644
  • So at the beginning of the seven year tribulation, there
  • 00:14:48.644 --> 00:14:50.946
  • Are no christians on earth, but at the beginning of the
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  • Tribulation, revelation 6 says god will save 144,000 jews,
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  • 12,000 from each tribe.
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  • They will be saved by jesus christ, and they will have a
  • 00:15:02.891 --> 00:15:06.195
  • Supernatural seal that protects them, and they will go through
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  • The world witnessing and evangelizing, and through their
  • 00:15:10.232 --> 00:15:13.469
  • Witness, many will come to know christ as savior during
  • 00:15:13.469 --> 00:15:16.705
  • The tribulation.
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  • Many of those believers, jews and gentiles alike, will be
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  • Martyred because of their faith.
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  • And so they will be--at the end of the tribulation, those
  • 00:15:24.980 --> 00:15:28.517
  • Tribulation martyrs, they will be raised from the dead and
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  • Receive their new bodies and they will be rewarded.
  • 00:15:33.088 --> 00:15:36.959
  • The reason, it's for their vindication, the vindication of
  • 00:15:36.959 --> 00:15:40.763
  • The martyrs.
  • 00:15:40.763 --> 00:15:42.097
  • Listen to revelation 6:9 and 10.
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  • "when the lamb broke the fifth seal, i saw underneath the altar
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  • The souls of those who had been slain because of the word of
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  • God, because of the testimony which had been maintained."
  • 00:15:53.042 --> 00:15:57.379
  • Now, this is toward the beginning of the tribulation.
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  • "and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'how long, o
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  • Lord, holy and true, will you refrain from judges and avenging
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  • Our blood on those who dwell on the earth?'"
  • 00:16:09.358 --> 00:16:12.728
  • Translation, "how long, god, are you going to let these ungodly
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  • People on earth who killed us, how long are you going to allow
  • 00:16:16.398 --> 00:16:19.601
  • Them to keep doing evil and rebelling against
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  • Your authority?"
  • 00:16:22.504 --> 00:16:24.373
  • Now, you know what that tells me?
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  • Have you ever heard the question, do people in heaven
  • 00:16:27.576 --> 00:16:29.812
  • Know what's happening on earth?
  • 00:16:29.812 --> 00:16:31.914
  • Here is a clear answer to that.
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  • The souls of those who had been killed during the tribulation,
  • 00:16:34.383 --> 00:16:37.786
  • They are in heaven with jesus.
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  • They're able to look down and see that evil is still going on.
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  • They're able to see that god is being blasphemed, and they're
  • 00:16:44.993 --> 00:16:48.630
  • Saying, "lord, why are you waiting to punish them?"
  • 00:16:48.630 --> 00:16:52.734
  • Yes, people in heaven can see what is happening on earth.
  • 00:16:52.734 --> 00:16:57.439
  • Now, when i used to hear that as a little boy, i hate to tell you
  • 00:16:57.439 --> 00:17:00.776
  • What my first thought was.
  • 00:17:00.776 --> 00:17:03.512
  • Now, i'm going to go ahead and say it.
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  • My first thought was, "you mean people in heaven can see me
  • 00:17:06.415 --> 00:17:09.451
  • Going to the bathroom?"
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  • Oh, dear, you've had--you've wondered the same thing.
  • 00:17:12.955 --> 00:17:15.457
  • Come on.
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  • Now, if you ever have children that ask you that question,
  • 00:17:16.859 --> 00:17:19.461
  • Here's what you can say to them.
  • 00:17:19.461 --> 00:17:21.663
  • "yes, they probably can see you going to the bathroom.
  • 00:17:21.663 --> 00:17:24.433
  • But why would they want to?"
  • 00:17:24.433 --> 00:17:27.336
  • I mean, the fact is people in heaven are going to be
  • 00:17:27.336 --> 00:17:29.838
  • Preoccupied with much more important things than the
  • 00:17:29.838 --> 00:17:33.976
  • Everyday stuff we're doing, but they are aware of what's
  • 00:17:33.976 --> 00:17:37.946
  • Happening on earth, and they want to be vindicated.
  • 00:17:37.946 --> 00:17:41.049
  • Well, that's what is going to happen at the end of
  • 00:17:41.049 --> 00:17:43.519
  • The tribulation.
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  • Revelation 20, verse 4 tells us, "then i saw thrones, and those
  • 00:17:44.887 --> 00:17:49.558
  • Who sat upon them, and judgment," ruling, "was given
  • 00:17:49.558 --> 00:17:53.195
  • To them.
  • 00:17:53.195 --> 00:17:54.563
  • And i saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the
  • 00:17:54.563 --> 00:17:58.333
  • Testimony of jesus and because of the word of god, and those
  • 00:17:58.333 --> 00:18:02.237
  • Who had not worshiped the beast or his image or had not received
  • 00:18:02.237 --> 00:18:05.374
  • The mark on their forehead and on the hand; and they came to
  • 00:18:05.374 --> 00:18:09.845
  • Life and they reigned with christ for a thousand years."
  • 00:18:09.845 --> 00:18:13.849
  • What is the reward for the tribulation martyrs?
  • 00:18:13.849 --> 00:18:16.852
  • It is that they are resurrected, they get their new bodies, but
  • 00:18:16.852 --> 00:18:21.790
  • They're also reigning with christ for a thousand years.
  • 00:18:21.790 --> 00:18:26.628
  • By the way, something interesting i noticed in my
  • 00:18:26.628 --> 00:18:29.198
  • Study this week, there is not one case of people who are
  • 00:18:29.198 --> 00:18:33.769
  • Judged by christ without a body.
  • 00:18:33.769 --> 00:18:36.572
  • Did you know that?
  • 00:18:36.572 --> 00:18:38.307
  • We are not just body-less spirits.
  • 00:18:38.307 --> 00:18:42.277
  • We are more than spirits.
  • 00:18:42.277 --> 00:18:44.279
  • We are spirit, soul, and body.
  • 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:47.282
  • And before each of these five judgments that we're looking at,
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  • People get a new body.
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  • They get a body.
  • 00:18:53.088 --> 00:18:54.423
  • And in the case of unbelievers, they get another body, but
  • 00:18:54.423 --> 00:18:57.159
  • They're raised up in their bodies to be judged.
  • 00:18:57.159 --> 00:19:01.196
  • This is the judgment of the tribulation martyrs.
  • 00:19:01.196 --> 00:19:04.466
  • There's a third judgment, the judgment of israel.
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  • It happens during the 75 days.
  • 00:19:07.469 --> 00:19:10.472
  • Remember the 40 plus 35 days that occur right before
  • 00:19:10.472 --> 00:19:14.509
  • The millennium.
  • 00:19:14.509 --> 00:19:15.877
  • The judgment of israel.
  • 00:19:15.877 --> 00:19:18.413
  • And the bible, the old testament is filled with prophecies about
  • 00:19:18.413 --> 00:19:23.151
  • This judgment.
  • 00:19:23.151 --> 00:19:24.519
  • Isaiah 11:12 says, "he will lift up a standard," god will lift up
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  • A standard, "for the nations and assemble the banished ones of
  • 00:19:30.292 --> 00:19:34.630
  • Israel, and will gather the dispersed of judah from the four
  • 00:19:34.630 --> 00:19:38.634
  • Corners of the earth."
  • 00:19:38.634 --> 00:19:40.802
  • Remember that during the tribulation there are many jews
  • 00:19:40.802 --> 00:19:44.740
  • Who will be saved, many who aren't saved, but in the last
  • 00:19:44.740 --> 00:19:48.510
  • Three and a half years of the tribulation, satan the dragon in
  • 00:19:48.510 --> 00:19:52.681
  • Concert with the beast, the antichrist, goes after
  • 00:19:52.681 --> 00:19:56.151
  • Christians and jews alike, and many of them flee into the
  • 00:19:56.151 --> 00:19:59.721
  • Wilderness and they escape death, but they can't escape the
  • 00:19:59.721 --> 00:20:03.725
  • Judgment of god.
  • 00:20:03.725 --> 00:20:05.460
  • He is bringing back all of the jews at this time for
  • 00:20:05.460 --> 00:20:08.864
  • A judgment.
  • 00:20:08.864 --> 00:20:10.265
  • And what is that judgment?
  • 00:20:10.265 --> 00:20:11.667
  • It is according to a standard he will lift up, and that standard
  • 00:20:11.667 --> 00:20:16.538
  • Is jesus christ.
  • 00:20:16.538 --> 00:20:18.340
  • Acts 17:31 says god has appointed a man by whom the
  • 00:20:18.340 --> 00:20:22.411
  • World will be judged.
  • 00:20:22.411 --> 00:20:24.146
  • Now, listen to this because a lot of christians in today's
  • 00:20:24.146 --> 00:20:27.015
  • World are confused about this.
  • 00:20:27.015 --> 00:20:29.151
  • You don't go to heaven for being a jew.
  • 00:20:29.151 --> 00:20:32.154
  • Being a jew is not enough to get you into heaven.
  • 00:20:32.154 --> 00:20:35.190
  • There's some false teachers among christians teaching all
  • 00:20:35.190 --> 00:20:38.460
  • You have to do is be a jew to go to heaven.
  • 00:20:38.460 --> 00:20:40.362
  • No. there's one way to heaven.
  • 00:20:40.362 --> 00:20:42.064
  • It is through faith in jesus christ.
  • 00:20:42.064 --> 00:20:44.966
  • And so before the millennium, it is important to separate
  • 00:20:44.966 --> 00:20:49.438
  • Righteous jews, those who have trusted in christ, and the
  • 00:20:49.438 --> 00:20:53.408
  • Unrighteous rebels that need to be judged, those who have
  • 00:20:53.408 --> 00:20:56.778
  • Opposed the messiah.
  • 00:20:56.778 --> 00:20:58.747
  • And that's what happens during the judgment of israel.
  • 00:20:58.747 --> 00:21:01.850
  • It is a time to separate the righteous from the unrighteous.
  • 00:21:01.850 --> 00:21:06.822
  • I could point to many scriptures.
  • 00:21:06.822 --> 00:21:09.658
  • Isaiah was one.
  • 00:21:09.658 --> 00:21:11.026
  • Another one is ezekiel 20, verses 37 to 38.
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  • God's talking to israel.
  • 00:21:15.197 --> 00:21:16.531
  • He said, "i will make you pass under the rod, i will bring you
  • 00:21:16.531 --> 00:21:20.902
  • Into the bond of the covenant."
  • 00:21:20.902 --> 00:21:23.271
  • In other words, they're outside the covenant if they're jews and
  • 00:21:23.271 --> 00:21:26.742
  • Not believers.
  • 00:21:26.742 --> 00:21:28.410
  • Abrahamic covenant, that was for believing jews.
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  • Not for every jew, for believing jews.
  • 00:21:32.114 --> 00:21:35.717
  • Paul said not all those who claim to be israel are
  • 00:21:35.717 --> 00:21:38.687
  • Really israel.
  • 00:21:38.687 --> 00:21:40.021
  • The only way you can be a true israelite is to believe in
  • 00:21:40.021 --> 00:21:44.326
  • Christ and be a descendant of abraham.
  • 00:21:44.326 --> 00:21:46.895
  • But he's saying here, "i will make you pass under the rod, and
  • 00:21:46.895 --> 00:21:50.365
  • I will purge you from the rebels, those who transgress
  • 00:21:50.365 --> 00:21:53.602
  • Against me, and i will bring them out of the land where they
  • 00:21:53.602 --> 00:21:56.972
  • Sojourn, but they will not enter the land of israel."
  • 00:21:56.972 --> 00:22:01.877
  • Here's a group of jews who will not enter the land, and it's
  • 00:22:01.877 --> 00:22:05.814
  • Those who have rebelled against the gospel.
  • 00:22:05.814 --> 00:22:08.717
  • "i will bring them out of the land where they sojourn.
  • 00:22:08.717 --> 00:22:10.919
  • They will not enter israel.
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  • Thus you will know that i am the lord."
  • 00:22:12.487 --> 00:22:15.857
  • Jeremiah 23, verse 6, "in his days judah will be saved, and
  • 00:22:15.857 --> 00:22:21.963
  • Israel will dwell securely."
  • 00:22:21.963 --> 00:22:24.299
  • That's believing judah.
  • 00:22:24.299 --> 00:22:26.001
  • Believing israel will dwell securely.
  • 00:22:26.001 --> 00:22:28.837
  • "and this is his name by which he should be called, the lord
  • 00:22:28.837 --> 00:22:32.407
  • Of righteousness."
  • 00:22:32.407 --> 00:22:34.776
  • Jeffress: one day every one of us will stand before the perfect
  • 00:22:38.980 --> 00:22:41.850
  • And ultimate judge.
  • 00:22:41.850 --> 00:22:43.852
  • Gratefully, for those who have trusted in christ, this judgment
  • 00:22:43.852 --> 00:22:47.489
  • Isn't one of condemnation but of commendation.
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  • As we conclude today's message, i want to share an encouraging
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  • Note from mr. and mrs. hudson in california.
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  • They wrote, "my husband and i watch at least one of your
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  • Sermons every day on 'pathway to victory' and never cease to be
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  • Greatly blessed.
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  • Time when the world is in an unprecedented state of chaos.
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  • Your messages are like springs of living water to us.
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  • Please continue to preach the unaltered truth of the word and
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  • Do not waver.
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  • It is a beacon of light to a dark and sinful world."
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  • Thanks so much.
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  • Those words mean so much to me and they remind me of why we do
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  • What we do here at "pathway to victory."
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next in our
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  • Series "jesus revealed in the end times."
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  • Jeffress: you know, we have a compassionate savior named jesus
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  • Christ who loved you and me so much he voluntarily came and
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  • Gave his life for the forgiveness of our sins.
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  • He's a compassionate savior, but he's always a just judge as
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  • Well, and one day he's coming to render justice to everyone who
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  • Doesn't know christ as savior.
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  • Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for part two of the
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  • Message "jesus the judge" here on "pathway to victory."
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  • Announcer: take the journey through alaska's awe-inspiring
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  • Wilderness on the 2026 pathway to victory cruise to alaska with
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  • Dr. robert jeffress aboard holland america's
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  • Magnificent koningsdam.
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  • Share laughter with dennis swanberg, be inspired
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  • By award-wining musician michael o'brien's powerful worship.
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  • Make plans to set sail for an unforgettable week of adventure
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  • June 13 through 20, 2026.
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  • Call...
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  • Or visit ptv.org.
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