Judgment Seat of Christ - Part 1 (Alternative 2) — Leonard Ravenhill

I think we call him Brother Gordon Best, inviting me to come here for the three weeks we have been here and for the very wonderful way that Brother Solon has supported and just had every interest he could have in seeing that we were comfortable and everything was kind of in order.

And as I said this morning, there are three kinds of reactions to preaching. It makes people sad, mad or glad. My preaching makes people very glad. They're glad I'm finishing tonight. We're all human and I've kept reminding you this week and I'm always reminding myself that no man has ever done God a favor.

It doesn't matter how much we sacrifice or whatever we do. And I'm a victim of my own philosophy and yet I'm a human being. You may not think that, but I am. And tonight if I could borrow the eloquence of maybe one of the greatest orators the church ever had, George Whitefield, or if I could borrow the ability of Gabriel, I might be able to put this message over.

I don't have either, but and I don't pretend to be an orator. And yet God uses the medium of words. We express ourselves and we understand and we react to words. And so tonight I do want to present two sides of this.

Eschatology and the Neglected Judgment Seat of Christ

What I think is the most sobering thing in a Christian's thought. As my brother said, there's a lot of excitement in singing, there's a lot of excitement in dramatic preaching. Will you take a seat quickly please because I want to get going.

There's a lot of excitement, but there is a section of theology which is called eschatology. Eschatology deals with that part of divine truth which is yet to be unfolded. And recently there has been a new interest in the second coming, partly of course because of what has happened in Israel.

But the most neglected part of eschatology is that part which we're going to think about tonight, about the judgment seat of Christ in two aspects. There are many judgments. There's going to be the judgment of the living nations.

And believe it or not, the day is coming when some human beings are going to be given the privilege of judging angels. There are many rewards. We'd need a lot of nights to describe them, but we can't.

But the two main aspects tonight are those of the judgment of the unsaved and again then the judgment of the believer. So we read two portions of scripture for our foundation. The 20th chapter in the book of the Revelation and reading from verse 11.

And then in the first epistle of Paul to the Corinthians in the third chapter. In the book of the Revelation chapter 20 and verse 11. And I saw a great white throne and him that sat upon it from whose faith the heavens and the earth fled away.

And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened. And another book was opened which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works.

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it. And death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them. And they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.

This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Now the judgment of the believer. First reading from verse 9. For we are laborers together with God.

Ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation and another builder thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

For on the foundation can no man lay than that is laid which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man's, any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble. Every man's work shall be made manifest for the day shall declare it.

Because it shall be revealed by fire. And the fire shall try every man's work of what thought it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned he shall suffer loss but he himself shall be saved.

Yet so as by fire. I'd like to say this is a preliminary particularly to young people here because somewhere along the line you're going to meet somebody who says that they do not believe in God and they do not believe the Bible.

Well you just tell them from me there's one way to prove it and that is to refuse to die and then you've got us all fooled. But Hebrews 9 27 makes it very clear that it is appointed unto man once to die and after this the judgment.

Living in the Light of Eternity

Some years ago I read a very brief but a very brilliant biography of one of the greatest preachers of all time. Preachers develop strange habits. This preacher was being criticized one day around the table.

Potters envy potters. Singers envy singers. Preacher envy preachers. And they were discussing this famous preacher. One of them said I heard him preach the other night he didn't preach like a man he preached like a pharaoh.

It seemed to me as though he was singing into eternity. It seemed to me as though he'd swallowed the whole dictionary. I have never been so transported in listening to a preacher as listening to that man.

And I found it difficult to reconcile that famous preacher with a habit that he has developed. Because this preacher used to carry in the right hand pocket of his coat a bunch of precious stones. A diamond, an amethyst, a sapphire, a ruby and other things, pearls.

And he would go into a park and he would sit there and take out these precious stones and select one of them. And returning the others to his pocket he would put it on his hand and then in his finger and he would elevate it and catch the gleam of the sun.

And he would smile and little children would gather around him and point their fingers to their heads. Now I don't mind people doing that. They have a right to do what they like with their own head. It's when they point at mine I get a little worried.

But they pointed at the fellow and said you know he's kind of crazy. Dr. Joey was there, one of England's greatest puppeteers. And he said you know brethren I do the same thing. Where did you get money to buy a handful of precious stones?

Well I don't do it with stone. There is a hymn that talks about the word of God. It says this, it is a golden casket where gems of truth are stored. It is the heaven-drawn picture of Christ, the living word.

And he said I go to the jewel casket of God and I select one word out of it. And I don't hold it up to the sun, I hold it up to the light of eternity and say Lord let eternity shine into this word. I suggest we do that tonight.

If I could transport you out of time into eternity I'd love to do it. You'd never forget it. You'd never be the same. You'd never be the half backslidden, prayerless, unbelieving, loveless folk who like to go to banquets and let others go to hell fire.

You once got a prospect of eternity and I trust God will give you it. And I'd say to you young people don't you be like the other Christians around, for God's sake don't. The world has rejected us, why should it reject you?

It's rejected him because he's rejected us. Because most of us are married to materialism. Again I want you to select one word out of this precious word of God. It's there by, literally it's there because he has said eternity in the heart of man.

It's there by inference. I remind you again that Harnett the great German philosopher said that Christianity is a very simple but a very sublime thing. To live in time for eternity under the eye of God and by his help.

But I ask you reverently as I shall answer the judgment bar, do you think this generation of Christians lives in the light of eternity? Forget it. We're not eternity conscious, we're money conscious, we're style conscious, position conscious, possession conscious, personality conscious.

We're as mesmerized by material as half the Christians today. We want to look at the Dow Jones averages with anxiety more than to see people perishing. And until the church again becomes eternity conscious you can do as you like but we'll never have revival.

The Great White Throne and the Universal Judgment

Now what a dreadful picture this is. Here is John the beloved disciple. You see this is the only authentic book in the whole world, I don't care how many millions there are, that lifts the curtain and shows us eternity.

And John has seen that day of all days. He's seen the great white throne, not the peacock throne of the shower of Persia and not that marvelous wonderful gold and ivory throne of Solomon. He sees the great white throne and him that sat upon it, from whose face the heavens and the earth have fled away and they've found no place for them.

You see there's going to be one dramatic moment in history when God is going to put out the lights and pull down the blinds and time has finished. And yet this word of God says that God is going to bring everybody to judgment, from the first man that lived Adam to the very last child that's born before the final trumpet blast.

Oh I wish I could sing, I can't, but I once did have a man that could sing and I love to hear him. He had a deep baritone voice and he used to sing that majestic song. I dreamed that the great judgment morning had come and the trumpets had blown.

I dreamed that the nations had gathered for judgment before the white throne. On the banks stood a bright shining angel. He stood on the land and the sea and he swore with his hand raised to heaven that time was no longer to be and all were weeping and wailing when the last heard of their fate.

They cried for the rocks and the mountains. They cried but their prayer was too late. The drunkard came to the judgment and the gambler came to the judgment and he depicts them coming there to the judgment.

Yes sir they're all going to stand. I don't know how you keep sane in a world like this unless you're dumb. The only thing that keeps me sane is this that one day there's going to be a payday and the judge of all the earth will do right and there's not a living man going to bribe him.

Whether he's a millionaire that sits at banquets or whether he's a pauper whether he was Confucius or a king it makes no odds. Oh yes sir the drunkard was there and the man who'd sold them the drink and the judge who gave them the license and in hell they forever did think and oh what a weeping and wailing when the last heard of their fate.

The moral man came to the judgment that his self-righteous rags would not do. A pauper he stood at the judgment. Yes sir his money had vanished away and there he is standing now naked in the presence of the eternal God.

Have you ever tried to visualize how many people have lived? We have what now three thousand million people in the world and if this present speed of procreation goes on we're going to have about six thousand million people in about another 25 years.

How many people have lived since the beginning of time? Did you ever think that those people you couldn't read about when you were a kid hardly the Hittites, Perizzites, Debusites, Hivites, you're going to see every one of them one day?

Everybody that was in the Roman empire, in the Medo-Persian empire, in the British empire? They're coming from every bloody battlefield in the world. When you go to the time when Alexander raped humanity or you go to this devilish mess that we have now in Vietnam where human blood is riding.

We don't write history with print. We write history with human blood and we write you human skins for parchment. We don't print history on paper. That every boy of the 42 ,000 that's given his life, everybody that died in the 1914 -18 war, the battle of Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele and all those terrible things that we had.

There's not a soldier whose body has fertilized the field that God doesn't know his name and number. Remember the word of Jesus. Oh how excited people were. You know that ministry is going to come back and you know what?

It isn't going to come with a big shop there who need a headquarters and a big staff to run it and a big fat tent. Your sons and your daughters are going to prophesy and boy they'll make us bar heads in the dust when they get the anointing of God.

Yes sir, that's going to happen. It's going to happen before very long because you see we're moving in America. I say this, I say that he will hear. I'm going to write to him about it. I saw in the newspaper last night Billy Graham is going to be the Grand Marshal of the Roses Parade in Pasadena on New Year's Day.

God help us. Could you think of the Apostle Paul being the Grand Marshal to a bunch of pretty lovely. America isn't going down the road of roses. She's in the valley of the shadow of death. We don't need a program.

We need a prophet. I've written Graham's old deal off and Oral Roberts, the whole bunch. They've had 20 years and done nothing. So what makes me think they're going to start now? They're sitting on eggs they can't hatch.

They've made prophecies for years and they've never come to pass. But I've got news for you. God is going to vindicate his holy name. He didn't die for a church that's in the mess that the church of God is in tonight.

He died for something pure, not this adulterous thing that can flirt with the world and sit at a banquet one night and sing and you give him a thousand bucks and the next night he's back in Las Vegas to hell with that kind of stuff.

That's not Christianity. It's a fabrication. It's a deception of the devil. Yes that day is coming back sir, when not merely the magic that Jesus had, but every power that Jesus had is going to be restored.

After all you get the four gospels, the fifth book is the book of Acts. The Acts is the church of God doing everything that Jesus did in the days of his flesh. And when the church of God gets back to hell, and when she gets the real anointing of the Holy Ghost, brother we're going to see pageants of God's trust.

After all I don't know how long it took to build this building up, but you know it could burn down in six hours if it caught fire. And I believe God's going to burn those bastard systems, and I'll answer at the judgment for that, the twin bastard systems of Rome, the Roman Catholic church, and communism.

He's going to burn them. And he's going to burn like a holy fire through our generation. You look for it. And I say to you young people, you watch it. Don't let anybody buy it. You're not even me, as zealous and as keen as I am for you and for God.

You want the way God's given you. If you shun immorality, and shun drink, and shun tobacco, that's more than many Christians have done. Set an example to them. They haven't set one to you, you set one to them.

They don't pray, you pray. They don't fast, you fast. They want money, score it. I sometimes wish I could live without a dime. I don't make much money. I make maybe three thousand bucks a year, and if you can live on less than that, tell me how to do it.

And you know I haven't preached it, have I preached this message this year? I don't think I have. God will not let me preach it. Do you know why? Well I'll tell you why, because you're not to cast your pearls, and finish the rest.

They ran after Jesus, and somebody said, you know what he did? He put eyes in a blind man. He unplugged deaf ears. He made, oh but yesterday he made a man, he can do wonderful things. And while they're talking, somebody flips a note to Jesus, and Jesus says, come on boys, let's go.

And they go and knock at the door, and this girl says, so you care man, and to call yourself a friend. Isn't it amazing? God never does anything on your time. He only does it in his own, huh? You've been praying for patience, and he's been keeping you awake in, and you're half mad because he won't do it.

Well why did you ask for patience? You say you're a friend of my brother. Well why didn't you come and heal him? That's what I've come to do. He's dead, he stinks. So a lot of people stink that I'm dead, but this man was dead, and he stunk too.

A lot of Christians stink, as far as that goes, as far as I'm concerned. Then Jesus says, well come on, let's go to the cemetery. Well I could go to the cemetery. You didn't love it? I did, that's why I came.

Come on, throw away the stone. And then Jesus says, you see, people say, do you literally believe what you preach? I talked with Dave Wilkerson not many months ago, I used to edit his paper, and Dave Wilkerson said, Len, do you still believe, now he says there's a revival in the country, I haven't seen it yet, but he said, do you still believe there's going to be a holy ghost revival, and I'll put brother, the greatest revival that will out, Pentecost, Pentecost is still coming up.

Nobody's going to make a fortune out of it, so some of you will back off. You mean to say that one day Jesus, yes, yes, yes, yes. Jesus said, throw away the stone. He's in a cemetery. And if he'd said come forth, what would happen?

All the cemetery would have come. And this wasn't time for, he says, he says, all right, Lazarus, come forth. You see? And he came forth. Oh, he says, don't get excited. Do you know the day is coming?

When I'm going to say, you see, the resurrection isn't a part of my philosophy or my theology. The resurrection is a person. I am the resurrection, he says. And the day is coming when Jesus is going to say a word, and everybody that's dead from earth-wide bounds and all that's in the farthest coast, they're dead at the bottom of the sea that went down with the Spanish Armada, that were destroyed in that ship, what was it, the, oh, I've forgotten the name of it, the beginning of World War II there, the Arcadia or something.

And those that went down on the Lusitania, and those that went down on the Titanic, and all those that went down when the Spanish Armada attacked England, sure, they're going to come from every battlefield.

They're going to come from every kindred and tribe and nation and people and tongue of multitudes, like the stars of heaven for multitudes, like the sands by the seashore that no man, everyone is going to come to judgment at the voice of the Son of God.

As I said the other day, I don't have to read Romans 8 .28 anymore. I did when I was a spiritual infant, and if you read it, that's where you are. You want to get something a bit tougher than that. When I see this crazy world, when I see the designs of communism, when I read tonight that they've opened another city to the troops in Canada, and they're under martial law almost, and things are getting drastically worse by every minute, the only way I can keep my chin up is to say, I know the God of all the earth's going to do right, and I know this, everything's in the hands of God.

He's running the show. The usurper has his place right now, but God's still running the show. He isn't one second behind on his timetable. Oh yes, I get excited. Let me just say it again to many of you who weren't here.

You know the first countdown was Easter morning, and when they put Jesus there on a slab of stone, and I imagine the devil said, you know we've got him. I just went in and pinched him. He's as dead and cold as anybody I've ever seen dead, and we've got him.

You know there's only one thing that's scaring me. He said that just before sunrise he'd get up and go. So do you know what we're going to do? Now we've got him there on a slab, and we've got a stone over the grave, and we've got wax over the stone, and we've got seals over the wax, and they've got soldiers guarding it, but that isn't enough for him.

You know he's desperately dangerous. Now what we'll do is roll all the sin of the world on top of him, and then as a last thing we'll bring every demon in hell. Now we've got it. He's dead, the stone is there, the wax, the seal, the soldiers, all the sin of the world is on him, and now every demon is hell, and listen we've only got about 10 seconds to go.

Can he hold it? 10 seconds, and if we can hold him there we can fill hell and ruin humanity, and all hell is nervous. And suddenly in that dramatic moment, oh I like that hymn, I wish we could really sing it, but you know that hymn that says, vainly they watch his death.

I say how stupid can these philosophers be? How do you put eternal life to death? Do you know? That's what they were trying to do, put eternal life to death. How do you find the light of the world in a grave?

Vainly they watch his death. Jesus my savior, vainly they seal the death, and then he says triumphantly, death cannot keep its prey. Jesus my savior, he tore the bars away. Jesus my lord, up from the grave here, and listen, he ascended to the far, and you know what he did?

He led captivity captive. He went to hell and told them he triumphed over them, and the devil's never going to open it. It's we who've forgotten it, not the devil. We forgot the resurrection power of the Holy Ghost.

We've forgotten the might of the Spirit. Oh Jesus said, you think that's wonderful for me to raise? Well I'm going to raise every person that ever lived from the beginning of time to the end. Isn't that going to be something?

When will it happen? Don't worry about the date. God always keeps his appointments. He's got an appointment with you. It's appointed unto you once a day, and brother you won't escape it. Well where are you going to take place?

I couldn't care less. Maybe God'll just blow the middle of the Atlantic Ocean out, and you know it goes down in steps, and we'll all be there. Millions, billions, trillions, quadrillions of people. I saw the dead small and great.

The Books of Judgment and the Record of Every Life

I've always liked history. I was going past the your famous wonderful library there in Washington. Somebody said to me, that's a great library. I said it's a fantastic library. They've just improved it.

He said I didn't know. I said sure they put five of my books in it. But you know there's a section in that library that's all history. Encyclopedia Britannica, Rollin's Ancient History of Rome, Encyclopedia Britannica, the American Encyclopedia.

All the history of the world is there. I'd like to visualize you know just opening all those books, and all those marching legions of Rome. Caesar and Alexander the Great, and you know, Tiberius Caesar, and oh Caesar Augustus, and the famous Julius Caesar, and the crazy guy that made his horse.

What did he do make his horse? A senator. I've often wondered about senators, but anyhow he made his horse into a senator or something didn't he? He had a special ordination. Isn't it going to be wonderful to see them all come to light?

I saw the dead. Oh brother the great aren't going to dodge this. I'm going to see all the kings of England, all the Caliphs of Baghdad, all the Maharajahs of India, all of the luxurious kings of France, all the Tsars of Russia, everyone in the army, navy.

They're all going to come in that day, not in their splendid shining armor. The slaves that built the pyramids, the men that cut the Suez Canal, the men that cut the Panama Canal, the men that cut the Corinth Canal, hundreds of years before Paul saw it.

They're all going to come to life one day. I saw the dead small and great stand before God. Can't you see them by the million? The red and the yellow, the black. What about the Incas? They disappeared, millions of them.

What about the millions of people again slaughtered by bombs and by disease? They're all coming. Yes sir, payday someday. It's come home boy, come on bring your bills. For every man is going to stand there and every man is going to receive his own reward.

And it says the books were open. Well if you're going to have a judgment day you must have a judge. You must have witnesses. Oh you know when people start getting differencing I got a mansion over the hilltop you know.

Oh boy hold it a minute. When you get the whoopies you know and you sing oh that will be glory. Listen you don't deserve glory, you deserve hell. It won't be glory for me. I won't sing it. I'll sing oh it will be glory for thee.

You see just before you just take up your eternal abode and relax on your sofa and angels bring you orange juice or something forever and ever. That's all most of you want, you lazy bunch anyhow. But just before you get there will you remember this?

You've one serious obstacle. My beloved wonderful friend Dr. Tozer used to say to me many times Len, I've got one problem. It isn't really that I have to go and see Jesus at the judgment for the things I've done.

It's the things I could have done that worry me. Oh sister you wish to God you'd never bought that mint coke when there are so many perishing people around and starving people. My dear wife and I mix with folk.

We do it. We love them the godly people but you know sometimes they'll just sit like this when we're at dinner and they'll have about two hundred thousand dollars worth of juice and they have their fabulous yacht and you know I don't envy them one one one little bit.

Not one bit. The judge. I had a sense to make this expression the other day. I never heard anybody emphasize it the same way but you know this man who saw this judge do you know what he did? He was the man that used to listen to the divine heartbeat.

Used to listen to the heart of eternity beating lay his head on the bosom of the Lord Jesus and when he saw him in resurrection splendor he fell at his feet as dead. Well I say reverend in God's name what do you think you're going to do?

Say hi buddy I'm glad you died for me? You've got one serious problem before you take up your eternal habitation friend. You've got to stand at the judgment seat and you oh he isn't that nice picture of Jesus you know with it looks as though he's training to be a film star and I say that reverently.

I'd like to rescue Jesus from stained glass windows and children's crying books are all so pathetic. I'm not facetious God forbid but when I see what an artist depicts Jesus he looks as though if he didn't die of crucifixion at 33 he'd die of consumption at 34 anyhow.

He's always pathetic with a lamb in his hand. Looks as though he's begging for mercy and please don't shove me around I'm very sensitive. Look look look I said to one of the most famous artists in America one day brother why don't you paint Jesus as he is because you can't that's why why don't you paint him as Isaiah sees him traveling in the greatness of his strength and his garments are red with blood from Balfour's field.

He's coming from the battle of Armageddon. John said when I saw him oh no he isn't that lovely picture of Solomon's it made a fortune but where so kind do we make a sign to how kind do we make a fortune out of Jesus for me now if you've got a chance.

Ask the evangelists they're doing it. Ask some of your big groups evangelization groups they're doing it. Biggest racket on God's earth tonight is evangelism in my mind I'm sick I wouldn't team up with them anyhow.

Most of them wouldn't want me I'd be very humble about it. Without the same token we're living in a dreadful day. I want to remind you about this Christ you're going to see. No no he isn't the Jesus of your storybook.

He isn't the picture Dore painted of him so haggard looking. The Australians when I was there showed me they're not. Beecroft I think is your artist and he has Jesus has blonde hair and bright blue eyes and my he's got a personality.

Do you know what Jesus was like when he was 30 years of age? He looked like an old worn man of 50 because they said you're not yet 50 years of age are you? Any of you ever be flattered that somebody said you must be about 50 and you're 30 huh?

You wouldn't be too flattered about it. But now this man has died. He has done what the blood of bulls and beasts could not do and all the sacrifices and all the days of atonement and everything else he's carried up all in himself and presented his blood and he's died and risen again.

And do you know what he's like? He's not a lovely Jesus. From his beautiful throne he will welcome the young. Don't believe it for a minute you'd never know. I want to believe what poets and singers say altogether nearly.

Oh you're not going to meet a buddy like that a gentle Jesus. No he's not. In fact you're not going to see your savior. I got news for you. You and I aren't going to see a savior we're going to see a judge.

You may be the rottenest sinner tonight. You could be the biggest prostitute in this town. You may be perverted. You may be another LSD. You may have had 60 trips to hell and back and you may have a criminal.

I don't care who or what you are tonight. I want to tell you that Jesus Christ tonight is on a throne of mercy and he'll save you if you ask him. But he won't be on the throne of mercy. That day he'll be on the throne of judgment.

No mercy. Mercy is gone forever. And John says when I saw him. Man this takes your breath away doesn't it? Takes mine away. Sometimes I weep over it. Sometimes I laugh. Sometimes I lay on my back and say hallelujah what a day.

I'm going to see him the king of kings and the lord of lords. And everything's going to be under his feet. And sometimes I go down on my belly as Joseph said. Len there's only one way for you and I to pray.

And men with vision lay on your belly and look at God face downward. That's the way to look at him. And when you see him that way. Oh no Jesus hasn't lovely wavy hair. He isn't blonde as the Australians say.

He hasn't black hair like Gorey says. He isn't a brunette almost like the American artist says. What is he like? Well I'll tell you the color of his hair. Let me say this. Do you remember a person in history called Mary Antoinette?

She was the darling of society. She had a skin that looked like painted enamel. She had a gorgeous hairstyle. And she became the mistress didn't she of the king of France. She became his darling. And when they were taking her through the capital city men took off their coats and rushed them under the wheels of a chariot.

And they wanted to keep the dust and said don't touch it don't touch it. And they threw their kisses. And they tore up roses and threw them at the woman. And they hailed her. They hitched the horses from a royal carriage and shoved the horses down the street.

And they pulled the chariot through singing and chanting and bowing down and making every kind of obeisance and homage that they could. And then she fell foul of the king. And he put her in the very Bastille where Madame Guillaume later went.

Told her that she would die in the morning at a certain hour. When they put her in she was a beautiful woman with a faultless face and a beautiful hairstyle. And everybody was breathless. They couldn't even believe it.

They thought she was wax. But when they went in the morning to drag her to that merciless thing called the guillotine they found her huddled in a corner. She'd heard every stroke of the clock outside.

And every time she heard the stroke of a clock it was saying death, death, death. And she'd seen some bloody disasters at the guillotine. When they went for her in the morning she was not charming, dignified, upright, poised lady.

She is a crumpled piece of derelict humanity. And you know what? In the hours she'd been living for death her hair had gone as white as snow in the night. Because of what? Suffering. And John says when I saw him his hair was as white as snow.

Why? Because of the suffering of Gethsemane. Because of the agony of the cross. Because why? It is symbol of reverence and age. And from everlasting to everlasting he's God. He was worshipped with all the affection and wonder of angels.

And it broke their heart to see him come to earth. How do you do it? An insane man kicked him around. And when John saw him his hair was as white as snow. His feet were like burnished brass. His face was like the sun in its strength.

His eyes were living coals of fire. When they're going to search you at that judgment bar on your own with nobody to support you my dear friend and read you through and through from A to Z from the very first moment you gave your heart to Christ to the last moment.

His hair was as white as snow. His feet were like burnished brass. His face was like the sun in it. And his voice majestic like the sound of many waters. And John says when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead.

What do you expect him to do? And he says the books were open. Oh have you ever heard? I've heard men say sometimes half drunk. You know when I see God I'm going to tell him my dear friend when you see Christ you're not going to see God.

You won't see God if you're saved and sanctified. Now 50 gifts of the Spirit. Nobody's ever going to see God in my judgment. He lives away in eternity. Spirit nobody will see it. We're going to see the sun.

He has committed all things into the hands of the sun. He has exalted the sun. He's given the world to the sun. He's given the glory to the sun. The sun did the job. The sun gets the glory. Can you visualize all the unholy dead standing before him?