6 At the final day of judgment7 he expects to see the disciplined offender among the Lord’s people.” 8 Thus most think that Paul is saying that an erring Christian must have his flesh destroyed by God’s temporal judgment in order for him to make it into the kingdom. 4 Morris writes, “That this means saved in the fullest sense5 is made clear by the addition, on the day of the Lord. 3 The salvation here is normally understood as kingdom entrance. When dealing with an immoral man in the church in Corinth, Paul instructs the church to “deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus” (emphasis added). When this passage is linked to other texts in First and Second Corinthians (cf. Recognition that Paul is talking about being blameless at the Judgment Seat of Christ allows this passage to make perfect sense. While not all believers will be blameless on that day, all believers will enter the kingdom. Even believers who fail to persevere in faith or good works are guaranteed to spend eternity with the Lord Jesus. Believers need not do anything in order to enter the kingdom.
THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST TIMELINE FREE
Such an interpretation is, of course, inconsistent with the free gift of eternal life. 1 Morris writes, “Christ, who has enriched the Corinthians and given them grace and every good gift, is their guarantee that right through until the end time nothing will be lacking in them… They may be assured that they will be blameless in that day.” 2 This is typically understood by commentators as a desire that they prove to be true believers who ultimately make it into the kingdom. Paul’s prayer for the believers in Corinth was that they “may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ” (emphasis added). Let’s begin by looking at two closely related expressions, the day of the Lord Jesus and the day of the Lord Jesus Christ.
THE DAY OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THE DAY OF THE LORD JESUS My thesis is that we will miss what the Lord is telling us in these various passages if we fail to recognize that the day of the Lord Jesus is His Judgment Seat. It will also show that even the single word day ( hémera in Greek) often refers to the Bema.įor years I missed the point of all these texts because I didn’t understand these important truths. This study will examine those expressions and will show that they indeed refer to the Judgment Seat of Christ. He said that the expressions the day of the Lord Jesus and the day of Christ always refer to the Judgment Seat of Christ, the Bema, and never to the Tribulation. Mayhue suggested that there are similar expressions using the words day and Lord that do not carry that meaning. He suggested that the day of the Lord has been (in the OT) and will be (in the Tribulation) a time of judgment followed by a time of blessing for Israel.Īs an aside, Dr. Richard Mayhue speak on the day of the Lord.
Several years ago at a Pre-Trib Study Group Conference I heard Dr.
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