The Judged Man

In the face of gross sin in others, the tendency may be to see none of it in ourselves. We try to deceive ourselves, but this possibility of deception is removed when we face this scripture. Chapter 1, natural creation of the world and natural character of man. In chapter 2, it is no longer a universal matter, it is individuality. We have a tendency to condemn others and condone ourselves, but God has us looking at ourselves here. Personal records are what God is keeping. In chapter 3 we stand in the justification of God.

God puts in nature a perfect balance. Destroy it and it will destroy you. The same is true in the mortal world, so in the spiritual world. Gain on one hand, loss on the other. Reward and retribution. So, it is with God's judgment, destroy the requirements and it will destroy you.

Ten items of fact in God’s judgment. Acts 17:30, Hebrews 9:27, no exclusions or exceptions.

I. Personal Guilt

1. Verse 1

2. Judging others is judging yourself.

3. 1 Corinthians 11:31, only time we are permitted.

4. Sin of sinning ourselves.

5. If a person is honest with God and himself, he does not need to fear malicious criticism.

II. God’s Judgment According to Truth.

1. Verse 2

2. Verse 1, judgment of man, in verse 2, the judgment of God.

3. Your life can’t be right if you disregard the truth, John 12:47

III. Judgment is Inescapable in its Effects.

1. Verse 3

2. Ecclesiastes 11:1, for the good and the bad alike.

3. Galatians 6:7-8, individual basis.

IV. Judgment According to God’s Available Goodness.

1. Verse 4

2. A cross not a club

V. Judgment is Future as Well as Present.

1. Verse 5

2. A misspent life, rejecting

VI. Judgment Based Upon Divine Justice.

1. Verse 6

2. Justice based on our deeds.

a. Hypocrisy

b. Absenteeism

VII. Judgment Has Rewards and Regrets.

1. Verses 7-10

2. 1 Corinthians 3:1

3. Verse 7, continuance: right doing, reward.

4. Verse 8, contentious: wrong doing, regrets.

VIII. Judgment is Impartial

1. Verse 11

2. Not who are you, but what have you done with the life I gave you?

IX. Judgment is Universal in its Scope.

1. Verses 12 – 15

2. Verse 12, those who have sinned either in or out of law.

3. Ephesians 1:20, Men’s inexcusableness.

4. Verse 13, law a standard not a salvation.

5. Man’s responsibility in or out of the law.

6. What he had done with it.

7. Doing not hearing.

8. Verse 14

X. Judgment According to Secrets of Men’s Hearts.

1. What law began, the gospel ends.

2. Law equals death.

3. Gospel equals life.

4. Matthew 10:26

a. Nothing covered, that shall not be revealed: and hid, that shall not be known.

b. Psalm 139