The Judgement Seat of Christ - Part 3

The multimillionaires, the billionaires, they're all going to stand one day, can you imagine it? At the judgment seat of Christ to give an account for the deeds done in the body. Well of course, if you have a judgment you must have a judge. I do not have any pictures of Christ in my home because I don't think you should make any greatness, likeness of any graven image and nobody knows what Christ was like. You see pictures of Jesus as a baby, you see him as a young man, you see him sometimes on the back of an animal riding into Jerusalem, that there's a picture I've only ever seen once and it was so grotesque I didn't look a second time. The voice and the Son of God, they're all going to rise and face the eternal judge. What will he be like? In Australia they show me the picture that they have, Beechcroft or somebody, Beecher, painted a picture of Christ in Australia. He's got lovely blonde hair and bright blue eyes and a lovely flaxen beard. Well I don't think that was a picture of Jesus and the Chinese have an interpretation of Christ through their artists and there are some dreadful pictures I think that have been given by the great masters so-called and they've given us pictures of Jesus but I'll tell you what, it's a very different picture in the Word of God. I believe that the church of Jesus Christ needs a new revelation of the majesty of God. This is what? This is the King of Kings and he's the judge of judges and it's the tribunal of tribunals and there's no court of appeal after it. The verdict is final. There'll be no biased judgment. Two people at least have said to me this week, there is no justice in the earth today. Maybe there isn't. But I hang on to a word that says, shall not the judge of all the earth do right? The apostle Paul got a picture of Jesus not with a lamb in his arms, not like the stained glass windows in our so-called cathedrals where Jesus looks pathetically feminine. He sees Jesus and he says here he is, he's the King immortal, invisible, the only wise God to whom be praise and glory forever. So we're going to see the King of Kings, he's the judge of judges in the courts of courts. In the final tribunal there is no tribunal after this. This is finished and when I hear people singing, you know, put your hand in the hand of him that walks on the water, forget it. Or the new son that's out, shake hands with Jesus. Listen, when you see Jesus you're not going up and say, hey buddy I'm glad you died for me. When you see Jesus you'll be almost paralyzed with fear unless you had a glorified body and a glorified mind. Who is writing the book? This is a revelation to a man on an island, on a devil's island. The worst place, the gathering of the scum of the earth and here he is. And if you'd gone to him that morning and seen him sitting on a rock contemplating you might have said to him, well John I didn't expect to find you in this hellhole with all these demon-possessed men and here you are in the isle of Patmos. He said, no I'm not, where are you? He says, I'm in the spirit. He was in the spirit when this enormous revelation was given to him. The picture of Jesus here is not the picture of a pathetic individual pushed around by anybody who wants to push him around. I think sometimes we think we're going to march up and say, well you know Jesus in how many years I served you and how many souls I won for you and how many sermons I preached for you. Oh no, no, no, no, no. Well what will he be like in heaven? Well I'll tell you what the book says he'll be like. It says his hair is as white as snow, his feet are like burnished grass, his face is like the sun in its strength, his eyes are living coals of fire, his tongue is a sharp threading sword. And here is John who used to lean his head on the bosom of Jesus and hear that divine heartbeat. The man that I believe knew more about Jesus than anyone else and when he saw Jesus there on his throne in his majesty with his face brighter than the sun, with his feet like burnished grass, with his eyes like flames of fire, with his tongue majestic and his voice like the sound of many waters. John the man who had walked with him and talked with him for three years says that when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead. What do you think you and I are going to do? We see there the judge in all his awesome majesty, in all his glory. And we have a picture here of the unholy dead, small and great, standing before God. And when they see him in his awesome majesty, no they don't worship it, they're terrified. This is great exposure. Someone called me last night and said be sure you listen to 60 Minutes tomorrow night. Because you see the Shah was interviewed I believe by 60 Minutes and he said I'll tell you everything that Henry Kissinger told to me. And Henry Kissinger says to the ABC or whoever organizes the 60 Minutes, if you put that on I'll sue you for I don't know how many million dollars. But he said instead of that let me come on the 20 Minutes and you can interview me. And so they said all right, but this week in Reming he said he won't come. And I understand tonight they're going to tell us what the Shah said and the agreements he made. Oh yes Mr Kennedy got away with it whatever happened at Chappaquiddick. The little girl that was drowned or was she murdered or was she pregnant and snuffed away. But Mr Kennedy forgot one thing he's going to be exposed at the judgment seat of Christ. They couldn't find the 18 Minutes on the tapes of Mr Nixon. Well I'll tell you he's got a perfect record of them. And they're going to be read out one day before millions. You say Mr Raymond I couldn't stand up there or anywhere else I'm so nervous. If a few people look at me I want to tell you something there'll be a thousand million or trillion people when you stand there at the judgment seat without your wife to lean on or your husband or your preacher or a friend. And Paul is writing in the 14th chapter of Romans and he says we so he writes on even to believers at the judgment seat. We must all there's no exception. We must stand at the judgment seat of Christ. You can't send your lawyer. You can't send a representative. You can't send a preacher who says well I understand this person who's always falling up and down and in and out and I'll explain it to you. And the Lord says you won't do anything of the kind. Can you see those millions of unholy dead? All the criminals that ever lived? Every prostitute that ever went on the on the tour? Can you think of all the men who make millions out of pornography? Can you think of the pimps who pollute those little girls that go to west 44th west 42nd street in New York and they go to all the hell holes? Can you imagine when God takes all the history and empties it? Will every man that ever walked the streets of ancient Babylon with all its lust? Or Corinth which was just one colossal cesspool of impurity? All that happened at Last Davis last night is going to be thrown on the screen in eternity? Every judge that sits in the high court is going to be judged one day by an infallible judge? How long will it take? I don't know and I don't care because we're not going anywhere. I think one of the joys of eternity will be that the redeemed will see all the unholy dead judged, but the unholy won't see the holy people judged. They won't be there. It says the books were open. What books? You say, well Mr Raynard I won't be in serious trouble because you know I don't have a good memory. Well I'll tell you what you'll have one that day. I didn't find the statistic because in one sense I didn't have time but in Montreal a few years ago they put a kind of little electric gadget on the mind of a man and they began to turn his mind back back back and he could recite everything from about the day was seven years of age. It was all stored up there in the