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destruction" which will be the doom of all who shall be arraigned before the "Great White Throne," but
points to that other Judgment-seat before which the redeemed must stand, and to "the Father’s" judgment
now and here. (See 2 Corinthians 5:8-11 (the passage must be read in the R.V.), and 1 Peter 1:17)
There are few passages more needed today, and few that are more misunderstood. For while the old
theology tends to minimize and obscure the great truth that eternal life is the gift of God, assured to all
who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the theology of the revival - exulting in that truth, and recognizing
that, as regards the supreme issue of life or death, the believer "shall not come into the judgment" - is
prone to belittle the reality of "the judgment-seat of Christ," and the solemnity of the Christian’s life on
earth in view of that judgment.
The concluding words of the Chapter are intended, not to lessen the Christian’s confidence, "which
hath great recompense of reward," (Chap. 10:35) but to deepen his reverence for God. They are
addressed to us as "receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved." And this is the basis of the exhortation
which follows: "Let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and awe, for
our God is a consuming fire." The reference is to the God of Sinai, (Exodus 24:17; Deuteronomy 4:24)
but it is as our God that we know Him. 4
Footnotes
1) The Gospels indicate that some demons were of this type, and exercised a brutalizing influence upon
their victims. But they were a distinct class. The disciples could cast out other demons, but as to "this
kind," the Lord told them, they were dependent on prayer to God (Mark 9:29). If anathartos implied
moral pollution demoniacs would not have been allowed to enter the synagogue, and not even the Lord
bitterest enemy would have charged Him with having a demon.
2) In all the Epistles of the Apostle Paul there are but sixteen passages in which the Lord is named
"Jesus," and in each of these there is either a special emphasis, or a doctrinal significance, in the use of
the name of His humiliation. But Christians speak and write about the Lord of Glory just as euphony or
whim may suggest. On this subject, and also as regards the significance of the title Son of Man, the
author would refer to His book, The Lord from Heaven.
3) See Chap. 2 of The Lord from Heaven, published by Kregel Publications, 1978.
4) As so much has been written upon verses 22-24, they have been here passed by unnoticed. Two
points, however, claim attention. It is strange that any Protestant expositor should accept the view that
"the church of the first-born" is the Professing Church of Christendom. Indeed it is amazing in the case
of such a writer as Dean Alford who has such clear thoughts, and uses such plain words, about that
superstition: see ex. gr. his exposition of Matthew 12:43-45, quoted earlier in this work. The New
Testament references to the Professing Church of this dispensation are mainly by way of warnings of its
apostasy. Were it not for the added clause, "the spirits of just men made perfect," no one perhaps would
question that "the church of the first-born ones enrolled in heaven" means the whole company of the
redeemed. And if that clause be held to bar such a view, the only tenable alternative is the spiritual unity