![]() ![]() In Philippians 1:10 he prays for the believer that he may be "sincere and without offence till the day of Christ", where "the day of Christ" includes judgment of the believer's service. We shall find that 1 Corinthians three, four and nine, Philippians one and three, Colossians four, Hebrews twelve, and 2 Timothy four, all imply, if they do not speak of, the Judgment seat of Christ. Although the actual word bema occurs but twice in Paul's epistles, that for which it stands is found in a number of his writings. The Revised text reads "God" instead of "Christ" in Romans 14:10, but there is no essential difference between Romans 14:10 and 2 Corinthians 5:10, for all judgment will be in the hands of the Son. what he receives as an award, "be good or bad". In the sentence "whether it be good or bad", the Greek points to the award "the things done, whether it", i.e. These "things" are said to be "things done by means of the body" (2 Cor. "But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons (Col. "Whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free" (Eph. In Ephesians, the Apostle speaks of the Divine approval of "good", in Colossians of the Divine disapproval of "wrong". It is imperative that those who rejoice in the fulness of grace that is related to Ephesians and Colossians should not be ignorant of the fact that this principle applies to the church of the Mystery as to all other callings. ![]() Not that each may receive a gift, but receive the things he has done, the application of the Divine principle expressed in Galatians 6:7, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" -and these words were not addressed to unbelievers. The tribunal before which every believer must appear is a bema, not a thronos "that each may receive the things done". "He that planteth and he that watereth are one" in standing and redemption, but each "shall receive his own reward according to his own labour" at the Bema. "Scripture regards each saved soul as a runner racing, an athlete wrestling, a warrior fighting, a farmer sowing, a mason building, a fugitive flying, a besieger storming, and all this strenuous intensity rests on a fundamental of revelation that God is, and that He is a Rewarder (Heb. ![]() This lifts the subject of the bema so far as the believer is concerned, out of the context of sin, death and condemnation, into the context of award and forfeiture, prize and crown, into the context of 2 Timothy 4:7 where the word "fight" is agona translated "race" in Hebrews 12: 1, and where the word "course" is dromos, a place where contestants "run". 4:8), but this time not a judge in a court of law, not a judge who passed sentence, but a Judge who awarded a crown. That he looked forward to standing before a righteous Judge (2 Tim. Now.the Apostle ~as made it c1ear that no redeemed child of God will ever come into condemnation, he is justified, acquitted and that completely and for ever, yet the same Apostle dec1ared with Joyful expectancy We perceive therefore that some discrimination is necessary in the interpretation of the passages employing this word. The "pulpit" of Nehemiah 8:4 is in the LXX a bema. Bema is derived from baino "to ascend", which in its turn is related to the idea of a step, "a foot space", then a raised platform used both for a judge in legal matters, and for an orator, or judge at the Greek games. translation "judgment seat" in Acts 7:5, which reads "to set his foot on" (literally "foot-room"). The reader will note the one exception to the.
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