John Piper addresses misconceptions of how God will judge Christians upon their death

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Christians who experience moral failures or mental decline late in life will not forfeit rewards stored up from earlier acts of faithful service, theologian and author John Piper said in a May 5 episode of his “Ask Pastor John” podcast.

Responding to a listener’s question rooted in 2 Corinthians 5:10 — which declares, “We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil” — Piper, chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota, challenged the misconception that Heaven can be lost due to future sin or diminished capacity.

“My answer, and I’ll try to show that it’s biblical, is no,” Piper said. “The good works of a true Christian will never be canceled out, not by anything. The good deeds will always have their reward that God considered fitting when we did them.”

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John Piper addresses misconceptions of how God will judge Christians upon their death

Christians who experience moral failures or mental decline late in life will not forfeit rewards stored up from earlier acts of faithful service, theologian and author John Piper said in a recent

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Baloney,. believers who fall away are still born again children of God. This, if a person falls away from faith was never actually a true believer. Is a false way of addressing the falling away of believers.

And they (born again children) can and will lose rewards as the verses state. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

Plus believers are not judged until they face the bema seat judgment and that judgment does not happen at death.

When Is the Judgment Seat of Christ? – Grace Evangelical Society

Will Every Believer Be Praised by Jesus at the Bema? — 1 Corinthians 4:5i – Grace Evangelical Society