This free telling of all will be when we list our sins to the Lord and yet, in the greatest paradox, this will be our confidence before Him. 2:28 speaks of our being able to have "confidence" at the day of judgment but the Greek parresia means literally 'a saying of all'. This is the evil of causing offence, stumbling, making another to fall down.ġ Jn. In all the pressures of these last days it is so terribly easy to cause each other to stumble, to fall, with the ultimate consequence that they will not be stood up at the judgment. ![]() Our faith and our community of believers is fragile, more fragile than we may think. ![]() And why? Because they will have been made to fall by their brethren. Some at the last day will not be ‘stood up’, they will remain prostrate and then slink away. In passing, note how Paul warns in this context that we can cause our brother to fall down or stumble (Rom. For if we have no right to condemn our brethren we must surely assume they will be accepted. 4:12)- or at least, Paul is saying, that's how you should look at your brethren, as if they too will be accepted. We will all have to be made stand by God's grace. We will all be "set at nought" then that's the implication. Don't "set at nought" your brother- because the judgment seat of Christ is coming for you too (Rom. We will all be in the position of the weak brother. Paul speaks of us all standing before the judgment seat of Christ after first of all casting ourselves down and this in the context of saying that God is able to make the weak brother stand in His sight (Rom. To fall down before the Lord Jesus is to be accepted of Him. 42:2 of a supplication being “accepted”, or ‘to fall down before’ (RVmg.). It is so fitting that the angel who is with us now in our every situation, will be with us in that supreme moment too. 1:5 can now take on a literal aspect: "The ungodly shall not stand in the judgment". This creates the picture of our guardian angel literally standing us up in acceptance before our Lord, as happened to Daniel. 21:36 further fills out the place of the angels in our judgment: "Pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy.to be stood before the Son of man". Angelic appearances to men have so often included an encouragement to "fear not" that we have every reason to imagine that those same words will be repeated to us when the angel calls. Such a seizing up with dumbness and desire to be on our knees before our Lord, averting his gaze ("my face toward the ground") will need the repeated assurance of our guardian angels to overcome. ![]() death).an (angelic) hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.I stood trembling.I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.(the angel) touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spake, and said.how can the servant of my Lord talk with this my Lord?.then there came again (an angel), and he strengthened me, and said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong" (v.9-19). Having been "in a deep sleep on my face (cp. 10 describes what was effectively a figurative resurrection of Daniel. In Biblical terms, this would appear to be realistic.ĭan. 68:1-3 speak of how the rejected will be chased away, but the righteous will "be glad" and "exult before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice", after the pattern of Israel's ecstasy after their deliverance at the Red Sea.Ī realistic imagination of our coming before the judgment seat of Christ must surely involve the feeling that we will cast ourselves down prostrate on the ground before the glorious majesty of the Lord Jesus. We will burst out, mentally and physically, like stalled calves given freedom for the first time (Mal. It is possible to build up a detailed picture of that moment of victory and complete spiritual triumph. As we struggle in our daily battle with the flesh, it is necessary to keep our eye on that split-second moment of total acceptance by our Lord.
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