At the Judgment Seat of Christ, each Christian will either receive rewards or suffer loss. I Cor. 3:12-15 - "Now if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward; If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire."

All our works (after we are saved) will be tested by fire.

Hay - wood - and stubble will be burned up. All those things we have done in the energy of the flesh, for self pleasure, self gain, for the praise of men. 

Gold - silver - and precious stones, stand the test of fire and remain. 

(1) Gold- Gold stands for God. Therefore anything we do for His honor and glory shall remain. 

(2) Silver - Silver stands for redemption. Anything we do for the salvation of souls, from leading a soul to Christ to giving out a Gospel tract to a cup of water given in Christ's name all remain. 

(3) Precious Stones - Christian graces - anything we do that enables us to be a better Christian, or help someone else to become a stronger Christian, lasts for eternity. 

We don't work to earn our salvation; that is a free gift, but after we are saved, we work because we are saved! Because we love Him; because we don't want to see others go to Hell - so that we won't be ashamed when we stand before Him. 

4. The fourth great Judgment the Bible tells us about is also future. This is "The Judgment of Nations." This takes place at the close of the tribulation period, after the Battle of Armeggedon; when Christ sets up His millennial Kingdom. Here is the scripture for this Judgment: Matt. 24:29-31 "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from Heaven, and the powers of the Heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in Heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of Heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of Heaven to the other."

Matt. 25:31-34 - "When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory. And before Him shall be gathered all the nations; and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats. And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on His left. Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."
  

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