Judgment
Matthew 24:45-51 – Parable of the Faithful and Unfaithful Servant (1975) – MP3 / YouTube
Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has made ruler over his house? There is no greater incentive to faithful living then the realization that our Lord Jesus Christ may come back at any time. When that realization is lost, very much else may be lost also.
Matthew 25:14-30 – Parable of the Talents (1975) – MP3 / YouTube
Our Lord has committed to each Christian, responsibility in line with the capacity that He knows that each Christian’s possesses and in accordance with His knowledge of what each Christian is able to do for Him by His grace. There is a day of reckoning for every Christian, not to determine our eternal destiny, but to evaluate the kind of life and service that each Christian has lived here on earth. Faithful Christians may be commended, promoted and invited to share in their Lord’s joy in the kingdom to come. Other passage mentioned include 2 Corinthians 5:10.
Matthew 25:31-46 – Judgment of the Sheep and the Goats – Zane Hodges and Bob Wilkin Discussion – MP3 / YouTube
Zane Hodges and Bob Wilkin discuss the passage on the Sheep and the Goats, the Tribulation, the Millennial Kingdom and the Eternal State. Other passages discussed include: 1 Corinthians 15:50, Matthew 16:27, Matthew 19:14, and Revelation 20:7-8.
Luke 12:40-48 – Big Trouble in God’s Courtroom (December 15, 1991) – MP3 / YouTube
All born-again Christians will have a day in court that they will not be able to avoid. This day in court has nothing to do with the question of whether a Christian will go to heaven or to hell. When one believes in the Lord Jesus Christ as one’s personal Savior, that person’s destiny in heaven is guaranteed. When Jesus Christ returns, all Christians must stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ. Are you ready for your day in court? The crucial thing about the Judgment Seat of Christ is not how we have been like as Christians days ago or years ago, but what we are like as Christians when Jesus returns. Other passages mentioned: Romans 14:10-12; Acts 16:31; John 14:21; Hebrews 4:12-13; Revelation 3:4.
1 Corinthians 4:5; Luke 12:1-3 – There Are No Permanent Secrets – MP3 / YouTube
There probably isn’t a person who doesn’t have a few secrets that he wishes could remain buried forever. Even if you have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ for the free gift of everlasting life and are a dedicated follower of Jesus Christ, the fact is that there are no permanent secrets. Hypocrisy does not pay, for every secret thing and every secret word will someday be revealed. Even Christians can fall into the trap of hypocrisy, where we are more concerned about what others think of us than we are concerned about what we really are in the sight of God. Forgiving our sins is not the same as keeping those sins a secret. In the future world there will be no hypocrisy. For Christians, all secrets will be revealed when we stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Other passages mentioned: 2 Kings 11:14; 2 Samuel 11:1-12:13.
Justification: A New Covenant Blessing (August 27, 2005) – YouTube / Transcript (page 99)
In this second message given at the 2005 Grace Evangelical Society Conference, Zane discusses whether the New Covenant entailed a guarantee of regeneration and the distinction between forgiveness and justification.
What Do We Mean By Propitiation? Does It Only Count If We Accept It? – 2006 Grace Evangelical Society Conference – YouTube / Transcript (page 35)
Zane Hodges delivers a message at the 2006 Grace Evangelical Society Conference on propitiation as taught in 1 John 2:2. People are not condemned to the lake of fire because their sins have not been paid for, as Jesus is the propitiation for the sins of the whole world. Rather, according to Revelation 20:15, people go to the lake of fire there because they are not found written in the Book of Life. According to John we get that life by believing in Jesus, and in John 3:36 we see that people are “condemned” because they do not believe.
End Times (Eschatology) Questions and Answers (May 17, 2004) – MP3 / YouTube
Zane Hodges answers the following questions on the end times (eschatology) at Coast Bible Church: 4:43 Do believers receive an intermediate body when they die and go to be with the Lord until the day their physical bodies are raised out of the grave at the Rapture? 5:25 In our glorified bodies how will our relationship to time and space change? 7:20 What role will the Old Testament law have in the times following the Rapture? 9:13 Are lost people judged and condemned because they have not believed in Jesus Christ (John 3:18) or because of their works (Revelation 20:12)? 17:55 Explain Paul’s experience in 2 Corinthians 12:2-3. 19:47 When is the Judgment Seat of Christ? 22:25 Will we become part of the cloud of witnesses mentioned in Hebrews 12:1? 23:07 Will there be a literal marriage feast in the kingdom? 24:20 Does the reference to “joy in heaven over one sinner who repents” in Luke 15:7 indicate that people who are dead in heaven are interested in what is going on here? 27:26 What degree are Gentiles going to be held to the law and what is the role of the law in the Millennium? Is the law just to bring people to a knowledge of sin or does the law have a sanctification purpose in the Millennium? 33:30 Will the sacrificial system that is reinstated in the Millennium be performed with real animals? 39:28 How can it be that the most-high created being (Satan) think that he can overcome his Creator? 43:20 Will unbelievers, who remain on earth after the Rapture and go into the Tribulation, have a second chance to believe the gospel? 46:30 Will glorified believers sense of time be different during the Tribulation and Millennium? 48:05. What is your view of the “outer darkness” mentioned in the parables in Matthew?51:10 Can you explain how the looking at the serpent for healing in Numbers 21:9 is used as an analogy to illustrate believing in Jesus in John 3? 53:43 Regarding, the saints who have died and are crying out under the altar in Revelation 6:9-10, have these saints received their glorified bodies? Also, will glorified believers know what is going on during the Tribulation?