Fear of Judgement Day Should lead you to Repentance.

As Christians in the 21st century, we are told not to judge. Some even have quoted our own Bible to us, “Judge not, lest ye be judged” (Matthew 7:1-3). But what is this fear that is motivating sinners to pronounce their own judgment upon those who take the Bible seriously? I believe it’s their own fear of standing before a holy God themselves and being ultimately accountable for their own sins and rejection of Jesus Christ after they die!

For the Christian our judge will be our Saviour, so we don’t fear going to hell precisely because we have trusted in him, and we are forgiven, but for those who haven’t entrusted their lives to Jesus Christ, they have everything to fear because the God they have rejected will ultimately condemn them, unless they truly repent before they die.

Not wanting to be judged in this life would make our particular judgment after death extremely terrifying. Some people who think like this have an extremely distorted view of the Bible and Christian theology. They tend to make up their own theology about salvation and the judgment, betting that their is no hell, and possibly no heaven at all. Most live their lives for hedonistic pursuits, looking to chance and betting that if there is a Heaven, somehow they will be accepted. However the Bible teaches that anyone who goes to Heaven, first must admit they are sinners, (Romans 3:23).

When we come to God in this way, (Spiritually bankrupt) we then are able to abandon our own self efforts and trust Jesus Christ alone for our salvation. God doesn’t want us trusting in ourselves because His plan of salvation includes a Saviour, and we are not our own Saviour, we are sinners. To deny Original Sin by saying we never died spiritually as a human race or individually, is to deny biblical theology, and the nature and character of God in human history. It creates a false narrative and a false religion by denying the old and new covenant. It denies the existence of the God of the Bible and makes you a denier of God, the Bible, and the Holy Trinity and also a heretic.

To deny Original Sin is to deny reality. However this is precisely what some people think, that by denying biblical truths, they can silence the God of the Bible, their own conscience and ultimately their own judgment after they die! This is Mike.

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