In the same way the Christian will be judged- not for sin as that was settled in Christ- but for our faithfulness. If you did not run according to the rules you do not get the prize. The Bema was a judicial place where an athlete who had competed in the games- the Isthmian games- had to stand before the judge and attest that he had “competed according to the rules”- rules of diet, training, and moral purity. The term Judgment Seat or Bema was well known to those in Corinth, the church where Paul introduced the term “the Bema.” It occurs at the beginning of our 7 year honeymoon in glory with our Bridegroom in the house He has prepared for us, the New Jerusalem. The Bema occurs after the Rapture and before the 2nd Coming. Maybe it’s because we as Christians are so delighted to know that we have escaped judgment through Christ who removed our judgment that the notion that we still will be judged for our “works”- not sin, mind you, but what we did with our Christian lives- is unnerving to us. It’s not because its teaching is not known in the Bible but it is just not taught. It is called the Bema or the Judgment Seat of Christ and is, in my opinion, the most untaught area of Christology. “For we shall all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each of us may be recompensed for his deeds in the body whether good or bad.” 2 Cor.
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