Question about Judgement Day.....

[SomeonePleaseHelpMe]

I am worried about Judgement Day. I have sinned so many times in the past ( stuff that was really bad too) and I have no excuse. I have said some REALLY wrong and awful things also. What could I possibly say on Judgment Day to be forgiven for all my wrongdoing and accepted into Heaven?

 

[ForJesusChrist]

Have you asked Jesus for forgiveness of your sin and renewal? Have you accepted Jesus as your savior and Lord?

 

[BFine]

The Great White Throne is judgment of unbelievers, the Judgment
Seat of Christ is not for the purpose of condemnation.
We know that believers cannot be punished for sin because
Christ bore that punishment on the cross and "There is therefore
now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1).
Rather than a judgment of condemnation or a determiner of salvation, there are two purposes for the Bema Seat.
First, according to Romans 14:10-12, believers are to "give an account"
of ourselves to God. What kind of account will we have to give?
According to 1 Corinthians 3:10-13, we will be judged based on what we have
built upon the foundation which is Christ. We make choices throughout our
lives as to the kind of things we add to the foundation of our salvation.
Have we built upon the Rock with gold, silver and precious stones—
those things that last for eternity—or with wood, hay, and stubble which
will be burned up.

Have we rejoiced in trials so that our faith is proved genuine to the glory
of God (1 Peter 1:6-7)?
Have we escaped the "corruption that is in the world" (2 Peter 1:4) or
have we succumbed to "the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the
pride of life" that characterizes the love for this world which is passing
away (1 John 2:16-17 NIV)? Have we controlled our tongues (James 3:1-9)?
These are the kinds of things that will be exposed at the Bema Seat.

A second function of the Judgment Seat of Christ is that of God rewarding us
for our service and good deeds. Believers will receive "crowns" for different
things based on how faithfully we have served Christ. Among the crowns
we will receive are an "imperishable crown" for faithful endurance through trials (1 Corinthians 9:24-25);
a "crown of rejoicing" which Paul speaks of as the
presence in heaven of others in whom we have invested ourselves as
he did (1 Thessalonians 2:19); a "crown of righteousness" for our faith
in Him as our only source of righteousness (2 Timothy 4:8);
a "crown of glory" with which we will participate in the glory of God
(Romans 8:18; 2 Corinthians 4:17); and the "crown of life" which is the
promise of eternal life through Christ (1 John 2:25; James 1:12).

 

[spr]

No one can behave well enough to escape hell. But God himself will give us confidence in the person of Jesus Christ. It is there for the asking, and if that's is what you want I have no doubt that God will give you exactly that.

Luke11:13 "If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"

All you have to do is be persistent and continue to seek God, he will reveal himself.

Matthew 7:7 ""Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."

 

[SomeonePleaseHelpMe]

Have you asked Jesus for forgiveness of your sin and renewal? Have you accepted Jesus as your savior and Lord?

Yes to all four questions.

 

[SomeonePleaseHelpMe]

Rather than a judgment of condemnation or a determiner of salvation, there are two purposes for the Bema Seat.
First, according to Romans 14:10-12, believers are to "give an account"
of ourselves to God. What kind of account will we have to give?
According to 1 Corinthians 3:10-13, we will be judged based on what we have
built upon the foundation which is Christ.

What does it mean exactly by " we will be judged based on what we have built upon the foundation which is Christ?

 

[SomeonePleaseHelpMe]

Thanks for all the answers everyone, but still nobody has really answered my original question though, and I am still really worried and lost as to what I should/could say on Judgement Day to be forgiven for all my wrongdoing and accepted into Heaven.

 

[football5680]

I am worried about Judgement Day. I have sinned so many times in the past ( stuff that was really bad too) and I have no excuse. I have said some REALLY wrong and awful things also. What could I possibly say on Judgment Day to be forgiven for all my wrongdoing and accepted into Heaven?

If you have remorse for the sins you committed and ask God for forgiveness then you will be forgiven. You won't have to say anything about them because they have already been dealt with.

 

[Emmy]

Dear SomeonePleaseHelpMe. If You really Love the Lord and want to be forgiven, it is never too late to show Him that you Repent sincerely. The Bible tells us: " Repent," and also to " Be Born Again." In Matthew 22: 35-40:
Jesus tells a Lawyer: The first and great Commandment is: Love God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. The second is like it:
Love your neighbour as you love yourself." Jesus points out this great truth:
" On these two Commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." What to do now?? You ask God in Matthew 7: 7-10: " Tell God your deep feelings, and ask for Love and Joy. Then thank God and share all Love and Joy with your neighbour: all you know and all you meet, friends and not-friends.
God will see you, and God will approve, and Bless you. Keep asking for Love and Joy, then thank God and share all with your neighbour. You might stumble and forget at times, but then ask God to forgive you, and carry on Loving and Caring.
Love is a Christian`s strong weapon, Love will overcome all animosity and wrong behaviour. Show God that you are truly sorry for all your sins and mistakes, and want to become as God wants you to be. Jesus our Saviour
will help and guide you: JESUS IS THE WAY. You will find, that gradually you will change into a loving and caring person, and God will accept you as His own child. I say this with love, SomeonePleaseHelpMe. Greetings from Emmy, your sister in Christ.

 

[boogalaboogala]

I am worried about Judgement Day. I have sinned so many times in the past ( stuff that was really bad too) and I have no excuse. I have said some REALLY wrong and awful things also. What could I possibly say on Judgment Day to be forgiven for all my wrongdoing and accepted into Heaven?

you are right in asking what could you possibly say, that is going to make it alright on that dreadful day.. and to be honest with you.. there is nothing you can say..
Jesus took care of all that at the cross.
He payed your debt then.. in full..
so i would suggest that you make Him the your focus, and the standard for your life..
we all sin.. just because we are saved, doesn't mean that we are never going to sin again.. it does however mean that we are going to hate sin.
you really don't need anything more than God's grace friend..

 

[hedrick]

I’m not sure you have to say anything. You don’t have to convince God to love you. 1 Cor 3:12 seems to be a description of the way judgement is supposed to work. Judgement is actually a good thing. It is God’s final victory, removing sin. I think in the fire referred to in that passage, we’re all going to lose a fair chunk of our lives. Of course the goal is to live in accordance with Jesus’ teachings, so that we don’t lose anything. But some of us may find ourselves effectively reset to the adorable 3 year old we were, because nothing since mattered. Still, from the many mentions of hell in the NT it seems like not everyone is going to going through that judgement. If you really refuse to submit to God, then he can’t regenerate you, and you end up in the cosmic ash heap, because that’s the only place that’s safe for the rest of the new creation.

 

[LoricaLady]

It is fine to be asking people Qs here. I have often seen what I think is some good wisdom in these posts. But, have you been researching, yourself, the fountain of that wisdom, i.e. the Bible? Your answers are all in there, everyone of them.

A blessing comes from reading the Bible, especially if you pray each time to receive light from the Holy Spirit. It will change your life. It will answer your Qs.

It tells you there that "though your sins be red as scarlet" you will become "white as snow" through becoming a born again child of Messiah. Have you asked to be His child? Have you thanked Him for dying on the cross for you, taking the punishment for your sins? Have you asked Him to make you a born again child of His who can be with Him forever? Those Qs are perhaps the first you should be asking.

You have to confess your faith in Him with your lips and "believe in your heart He was raised from the dead." To help you with that here is a video based on the most scientifically studied, and most mind boggling, religious artifact ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BxmbIGQBX4

Praying for your salvation and for the answer to your Qs to be given to you. No matter how many answers may satisfy or not satisfy your mind, Yahushua, aka Jesus, is not so much after your mind as He is after your heart. He wants you in a love relationship with Him.

 

[Inkachu]

On Judgement Day, it's too late for last-minute haggling with the Lord. Once you give your soul to Jesus, it's a done deal, you're His, and nothing can take you out of His hand. There is nothing you would HAVE to say on Judgement Day. Your sins are paid for, once and for all.

 

[BFine]

What does it mean exactly by " we will be judged based on what we have built upon the foundation which is Christ?

*Our position in Christ is the "foundation"-- as a saved person(Ive
sought Christ for salvation) As such my position is: I'm forgiven
and there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ.
In this Christian life, I've sought to share the good news of the gospel,
stand on and uphold biblical truth, help the "least of these", honor
my parents etc.

What a saved person "builds"-- The "gold, silver and precious stones" in the lives of believers will survive God’s refining fire (1 Corinthians 3:13), and believers will be rewarded based on —how faithfully we served Christ (1 Corinthians 9:4-27), how well we obeyed the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20), how victorious we were over sin (Romans 6:1-4), how well we controlled our tongues (James 3:1-9), etc.
We will have to give an account for our actions, whether they were truly an indication of our position in Christ.

 

[Receiver]

...What could I possibly say on Judgment Day to be forgiven for all my wrongdoing and accepted into Heaven?

Obey the gospel directive to repent (admit your ways have failed, and they will fail), believe that Jesus offers you are new Life so taht you will have power over sin - better love, joy and purpose that this World can offer!

Be baptised, as a believer - buried under water, showing no faith in "the flesh"

Receive His Spirit, you will know when you do, you will speak in an unlearned prayer language - Acts 2:4, 33; 10:44-46.

Here are some video testimonies.
Here are some contacts.

 

[Quasicentennial]

What is totally unique and beyond human intelligence is that God has the ability to see future human events. What seems mysteriously mind-boggling to us is "how much" he knows with every individual born on Earth since Adam and Eve had sinned, and because of them, Jesus was destined to risk his life to prove that God the Father has the power of resurrection - to breathe new life into matter called the "spirit" so that a new mind and body of Christ will only focus on positive emotions of Christ, like Jesus himself, who can never experience depression and anxiety:.
Once you realized the root cause and where sin had came from then you allow Jesus to do all the hard work, to fight every demonic spirit that causes disease, poverty, dishonesty and violence until his future return, where there is no television campaign to warn us of his coming global victory return.:
Obviously Satan doesn't believe that his reign on Earth will be suddenly cut short from reaching his ultimate goal: to transform Earth into hell, only because he has only seen glimpses of Jesus being resurrected and his brief visit on Earth with those he knows so well:.
Patience is needed as we wait peacefully for our Lord Jesus where our Faith in him will turn into Fact once Jesus reveals his extremely victorious and invisible new mind and body of eternal youth and eternal health - and that we Christians too will have new minds and bodies of Christ that will function on powerful enthusiasm as if we are riding on a rollercoaster every second of our new socially positive lives inside our future-coming, most advanced free-for-all home accommodation city: the kingdom of God on a new Earth .;'*';.
Rev 21:2

 

[LoricaLady]

On Judgement Day, it's too late for last-minute haggling with the Lord. Once you give your soul to Jesus, it's a done deal, you're His, and nothing can take you out of His hand. There is nothing you would HAVE to say on Judgement Day. Your sins are paid for, once and for all.

There are different "camps" on whether or not one can lose one's salvation. I will put my two cents in for this OP and add that many, like me, think that simply accepting Messiah one time, and then thinking that's it, is not enough. We have to become more and more conformed in His image. We have to keep on walkin' the walk. We will all stumble, sometimes fall down, but we have to get back up, get His help, and walk more and more closely with Him all the time.

In Revelation we see congregations, 7 of them, believers, and most of them are being warned that if they don't turn around and quit sinning that they are going to lose their "Menorrahs" i.e. Lampstands, i.e. Light of the World. One is even told that the problem is that they do not have the love they had at first. A lot of people wouldn't even think that was any big deal, but Messiah thought it was infinitely serious.

We are told that "Those who persevere to to the end
will be saved."

 

[LoricaLady]

Obey the gospel directive to repent (admit your ways have failed, and they will fail), believe that Jesus offers you are new Life so taht you will have power over sin - better love, joy and purpose that this World can offer!

Be baptised, as a believer - buried under water, showing no faith in "the flesh"

Receive His Spirit, you will know when you do, you will speak in an unlearned prayer language - Acts 2:4, 33; 10:44-46.

Here are some video testimonies.
Here are some contacts.

It does not seem to me that you have to speak in an "unlearned prayer language", i.e. tongues. When talking about the gifts of the Holy Spirit we definitely are not told that everyone gets all of them. In fact the word "some" is used to describe who is getting different gifts. We are also told "Not all speak in tongues."

I speak in tongues, but I had accepted Messiah quite some time before that and did not get that gift at that time, not until years later when I asked for it. I do not believe it is in anyway a litmus test of salvation.

And btw anyone who says tongues are just for the Day of Pentecost (really the high holy day of Shavuot, which the apostles were celebrating as they did every year, and which the RCC replaced with "Pentecost" so that it never falls on the true day the Holy Spirit came down on them, Shavuot) and speaking in others' languages, well, we are told of a kind of tongues that "no man understands but we speak unto YHWH" aka God. It is a wonderful gift and I recommend it to anyone but if one doesn't get it, oh well, there are so many other wonderful gifts one can get.

 

[A New Day]

Love

and leave the decision to him​

 

[Receiver]

It does not seem to me that you have to speak in an "unlearned prayer language", i.e. tongues. When talking about the gifts of the Holy Spirit we definitely are not told that everyone gets all of them. In fact the word "some" is used to describe who is getting different gifts. We are also told "Not all speak in tongues."

That's because when talking about the gifts of the Holy Spirit Paul is referring specifically to the meetings-use, giving to the assembled church of attributes that all Christians have for private use.

If you think about the statements actually made in the passage you refer to (1 Corinthians 12) you should see this!

He specifically says "to one is given... wisdom... knowledge ...faith ...etc"
In meetings, only "one" should speak at once to avoid confusion. If he were talking about what different people get when they become Christians you would have the ridiculous doctrine that only one, or perhaps only some, get knowledge (the rest know nothing?), only some have faith etc!!

If you read back to chapter 11 to get the context of this passage you should clearly see that he is talking about what God wants in meetings.

If you zoom out further and start at the beginning of the letter you find Paul affirming: "I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge" (1:4-5)

i.e. all that have Jesus within have all his attributes! You cannot have Jesus without his mind, heart etc.

If it was true that only some Christians spoke in tongues, Paul would not have to write to them reasoning for them not to all do so when they meet, the problem could never arise!!

So, 1 Corinthians 12 affirms what Acts and other passages teach - all speak in tongues when they become Christian in the original sense by receiving Christ's Spirit (Romans 8:8-9).

Every time you pray in tongues you show the need and you give the lie to the idea that someone else doesn't.