To be a judge is to listen to the evidence, evaluate the arguments, assess presentation, and pronounce a decision. We are judges of some things – big or small. Some of us are judges of inconsequential cases or questions. Others make very important judgments every day. But we all practice the skill of judgement and we all struggle with it. Do we have all the evidence? Should we extend mercy? Should we only consider the facts? How will our decision be received? How will our judgment affect the judged? And because we are human, we don’t always make the right call. We let outside pressures influence us. We let our internal voices guide us. We let self interest over take us. We don’t have all the facts. We just can’t be perfect at it.
But there is one who is the perfect judge. Jehovah. King David repeated calls God the perfect and righteous judge (Psalm 7, Psalm 18, Psalm 75). He excuses His decisions perfectly and full of rightness. He has all the facts. Knows every detail. And isn’t pressured for external or internal factors.
Over 1000 years later, while preaching to the Gentiles Peter declared that God had appointed Jesus to serve as the judge over the living and the dead for God (Acts 10:42). Why was Jesus afforded this position? Because He fulfilled God’s mission and will to die for our sins and to give the world God’s message of redemption. So, God has given Him the judgment seat. His words are what God will use to judge us. Jesus will pronounce to God if someone belongs to Him or doesn’t. And God will Jesus’ judgment of us to decide our eternal fate. We will either be welcomed home to be reunited with God and the saved or we will be cast into the eternal pit of fire which is the second death.
And since Jesus was appointed by God to judge He too is a perfect and righteous judge. He will extend mercy to those who yield their will and lives to His words. He will stand with them before Jehovah in the end. He will make the perfect judgment of how you’ve lived your life in accordance to the words He spoke which came directly from Jehovah.
There will be no middle ground. You will either be gathered like the wheat into the barns of Jehovah or you will be considered like the weeds in the field and be pulled up and destroyed. God will only save those who Jesus presents to Him as being judged as a righteous person. Jesus’ judgment of your life will be perfect. God’s judgment of your soul will be perfect and just. And both judgments will be final.
So make your case now. Build up your evidence. Because one day the Judge will issue His verdict of your life and your soul’s fate hinges on His judgment.
Adonai's Appeal 