Prepare To Meet Your God In Judgment

Prepare to Meet Your God in Judgment

Introduction

A. Series: Ways to Meet God, Preparation, Judgment, Afterlife

B. Amos 4:12 – Israel Met God in Judgment.

C. We Encounter the Holy God through Worship, Helping Others, Death, and the Second Coming of Christ. Today: Judgment.

D. Judgment Evokes Many Scary Images, but for the Christian, Judgment will be a time for Rejoicing (Psalm 96:10-13)

1. Judgment is a Description of God Setting Everything Right.

2. A time of Justice: Wicked Dealt with, Creation Restored.

3. In One Sense, Judged upon Death. Final Judgment either a Time of Pronouncement, Giving of Reward, or Both.

I. Principles of Judgment: Accountability

What we do in this Life Matters (2 Corinthians 5:10; Romans 14:12).

II. Principles of Judgment: Consequences

A. We will Reap what we Sow (Galatians 6:7-9).

B. We will Reap more than What we Sow (Galatians 6:7-9).

C. We will Reap in Proportion to What we Sow (2 Corinthians 9:6).

III. Principles of Judgment: Restoration

God’s Final Judgment is Him Setting Everything Right (Revelation 21:1-8, 27; Revelation 20-21; Matthew 24).

Applications:

A. One Day we Will Meet God (Hebrews 9:27).

B. We will Give an Account of Everything we Do.

C. There will be Consequences – Temporal & Eternal.

D. We Prepare by Giving our Lives to Christ.

E. We Prepare by Sowing to the Spirit.

F. We Prepare by Good Works (Revelation 14:13).

G. Are You Prepared to Meet God in the Final Judgment?