SERMON 144: YOU SHALL BE JUDGED BY MESSIAH
Germaine Charles Lockwood

Hebrews 11:27: And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment. Hebrews 11:27.

As certain as death, there shall come the day of judgment. We know that we shall die. We can also know that Almighty God has set a day of judgment. God has told us about the coming day of judgment in His word, the Bible. We live on this earth only once. We each die only once. But after this the judgment. Hebrews 11:27. There is no reincarnation,

But who shall be our judge? Let us look at the word of God, the Bible. In the book of Daniel we read about the judgment in Daniel chapter 7. The prophet of God, Daniel recorded what he was shown about the future. The Son of Man would come before the Ancient of Days, Almighty God. God would give the Son of Man dominion and glory and a kingdom. Daniel 7:14. The kingdom of the Son of Man would be everlasting, an eternal kingdom. The Son of Man is also called Messiah in Daniel 9:24-27. 

We read in Daniel 7:14: “until the Ancient of Days came, and a judgment was made . . .”
We read also in Daniel 7:26: ‘But the court shall be seated . . .” Listen to: 

Daniel 12:2: And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt. Daniel 12:2.

Yes, there shall be a day of judgment. The Son of Man has dominion. He is the king, the Messiah. His kingdom is everlasting.

The Hebrew scriptures teach that the day of judgment is coming. Listen to:

Psalm 96:13: For He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth. He shall judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with His truth. Psalm 96:13.

And:

Ecclesiastes 12:13: Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether it is good or whether it is evil. Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14.

Yes, the Hebrew scriptures teach clearly that there will be a day of judgment. 

Let us read now what Messiah said, which is recorded in:
 
Matthew 16:27: For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works. Matthew 16:27.

It is the Son of Man who will come to reward each according to his works. It is Messiah who will be our judge. He will come in the glory of His Father with His angels. Listen to:

Matthew 25:31, 32: When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. Matthew 25:31, 32.

Yes, it is the Son of Man, Messiah who will be our judge. Listen to what Messiah said in: 

John 5:22: For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son. John 5:22.

The Apostle Paul spoke to the philosophers in Athens that they should seek the living God rather than worshiping dead idols. Listen to what he said about the judgment day in: 
Acts 17:30, 31: Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” Acts 17:30, 31.

Messiah was raised from the dead. This is the assurance that we will be judged by Messiah. Yes, God has given this proof to us. (Acts 10:40-42.)

It is God who will judge us by Messiah Jesus, Yehusa HaMashiakh. It is written in: 

Romans 2:16: in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. Romans 2:16. (Romans 14:10.)

Listen to:

2 Corinthians 5:10: For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:10. (2 Timothy 4:1, 2, 8.)

Yes, you will appear before the judgment seat of Messiah. We will be judged according to what deeds we had done in the body, whether good or bad.

God told Moses that He would raise up a prophet like Moses. Listen to:

Deuteronomy 18:18, 19: I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him. Deuteronomy 18:18, 19. 

Who is this prophet that God raised up and has given us the word of God? It is Messiah Jesus. If you do not hear His words, God will require it of you. Listen to what Messiah said in:

John 12:48: He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him - the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day. John 12:48.

We will be judged according to the New Covenant, the New Testament of the Bible.
 
James 2:12: So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty. James 2:12.

There is good news for us today. Jesus the Messiah died for our sins according to the scriptures. He was buried. Jesus the Messiah rose the third day according to the scriptures. You can have the forgiveness of your sins, in Messiah Jesus. Listen to:

2 Corinthians 5:21: For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Corinthians 5:21. 

And it is written in:

Romans 3:23-25: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth to be the propitiation by His blood, through faith . . . Romans 3:21-25. 

Yes, by the propitiation of the blood of Messiah, through the redemption in Messiah
you can be justified, forgiven, released from the penalty of your sin and restored as
righteous. This by His grace through faith. How can you come into Messiah Jesus through faith? Listen to:

Romans 6:3: Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Romans 6:3. 

Notice also:

Galatians 3:26, 27: For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Galatians 3:26, 27.

Yes, through faith a person is baptized into Christ. Redemption is in Christ. The believer is baptized into Christ. Jesus said, “He who believes and is baptized will be saved; . . .” Mark 16:16. Do you believe in Jesus Messiah the Son of God?

If you believe, then you can be buried with Christ, immersed, baptized into Him for the forgiveness of your sins.

Now is the time to prepare for the day of judgment. Now is the time to repent, to change, to turn from sin to righteousness. Confess your faith in Him and be baptized in His name!

Amen!