YOU’LL BE JUDGED ACCORDING TO YOUR DEEDS, GOOD OR EVIL

Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in WELL DOING seek for glory and honour and immortality, ETERNAL LIFE. But unto them that are contentious and DO NOT OBEY THE TRUTH, but obey unrighteousness, INDIGNATION AND WRATH – Romans 2:6-8

The apostle Paul never preached the false gospel of false grace we keep hearing today. He never preached that Christians will be judged based on ‘the finished work of the cross,’ whatever that means. He never preached that we’ll be judged based on what the Lord Jesus Christ did for us. If anything, he preached the opposite of that. He preached that each and every one of us, Christian or not, will be judged according to their deeds. If your deeds are good, you’ll receive eternal life but if your deeds are evil you’ll be rewarded with God’s wrath.

That’s because Apostle Paul was a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. He therefore preached the same gospel of the kingdom the Lord Jesus Christ preached. John 5:28-29 says, ‘Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have DONE GOOD, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE; they that have DONE EVIL, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION.’ The Lord Jesus Christ teaches that those who do good will be part of the resurrection of eternal life and those who do evil will rise at the resurrection of damnation.

In explaining what he taught, the Apostle Paul says this in Acts 26:20, ‘But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should REPENT AND TURN TO GOD, AND DO WORKS MEET FOR REPENTANCE.’ That’s what Paul preached. People need to repent of their sin and afterward do works in keeping with that repentance. And it’s those works we’ll be judged based on at the coming of our Lord. If we do good works, we’ll be rewarded with eternal life and the kingdom of God, but if we do evil works we’ll be rewarded with eternal damnation. That’s the Doctrine of Christ.

PRAYER

Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I pray that the church may renounce the false gospel of false grace. May we all submit to the Lord Jesus Christ and preach what He preached. Amen.