"The Judgment Seat of Christ” is Leonard Ravenhill’s most popular sermon on sermonindex.net, with a total download of over 72,000. The following are some notes on this awesome sermon:
â—¾The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ
â—¾Mystery, Majesty, Misery
â—¾Hell: "The Harvest is Passed and We’re Not Saved”
â—¾Rev. 17, 18, 19
â—¾Rev. 1:3
â—¾Rev. 20:11ff
â—¾The Lake of Fire
â—¾Other Foundation Can No Man Lay…But Jesus Christ…
â—¾The Judgment of the Sinners.
â—¾"The Great Assize” by John Wesley
â—¾"Payday Sunday” by Billy Sunday
â—¾Your Day in Court
â—¾Great preacher held precious stones in pocket.
â—¾JUDGMENT: The Light of Eternity ”“ cp: In Light of Eternity
â—¾"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards
â—¾Edwards: ‘Stamp Eternity/Judgment on My Eyeballs’
â—¾The Miracles of Jesus
â—¾YOU put water in the water pot”“GOD turns it into wine.
â—¾John 5:28”“the Last Resurrection
â—¾Rev 21
â—¾That Bachelor in Rome”“the Pope
â—¾All types of people in history will all stand at the judgment seat of Christ.
â—¾Rev. 6:12ff”“the wrath of the Lamb
â—¾Fanny Crosby (blind): "Jesus’ face will be the first face I ever see.”
â—¾All the great kings and millionaires will stand before Christ.
â—¾The Book of Revelation shows what Jesus TRULY looks like.
â—¾"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
â—¾Pictures of Jesus: many look so pathetically feminine.
â—¾"Shake Hands with Jesus” ”“ stupid new song; weak views of Jesus; He’s the JUDGE!
â—¾"His eyes are living coals of fire.”
â—¾60 Minutes ”“ Henry Kissinger; the Shah; John F. Kennedy @ Chappaquiddick; Watergate.
â—¾Rom. 14
â—¾All the criminals who ever lived; pornographers; pimps, Vegas at the judgment seat.
â—¾All the saints will see the unholy dead judged.
â—¾A. W. Tozer: the things I could have done worry me at the judgment.
â—¾Caesars and Pontius Pilate, everyone in the Encyclopedia Britannica at the judgment.
â—¾"the books will be opened”
â—¾The Books of the Ten Commandments
â—¾The Books of Memory
â—¾The unholy dead will remember every evangelistic effort.
â—¾Memory is eternal; it will never die!
â—¾If you like lust and drunkenness: will have insatiable unquenchable lust for sin in Hell.
â—¾"where their worm dieth not”
â—¾founders of the cults at the judgment: immoral founder of Jehovah’s Witness (Russell)
â—¾4 year old child recited Psalm 119.
â—¾"the wrath of the Lamb”
â—¾"men shall seek death and shall not find it”
â—¾"He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh”
â—¾Vile sinners, sexually immoral, one had 30 illegitimate children all over the world.
â—¾If you repent of your sin and plead for mercy: God can forgive you”“because now Jesus is on a Throne of Mercy.
â—¾But at the judgment, Jesus is on a Throne of Justice.
â—¾David Wilkerson: 18 preachers went to Richard Nixon, but none got through.
â—¾Sloppy evangelism bumper stickers: this "God loves you”, "God loves you” stuff.
â—¾the kindness and SEVERITY of GOD.
â—¾The Wrath and Judgment of God!
â—¾1 Cor. 3”“The Judgment of the Believers.
â—¾What sort it is, not what size it is.
â—¾"wood, hay, and stubble””“your life’s work
â—¾FIRE.
â—¾Sure, God is love.
â—¾But GOD is a CONSUMING FIRE!
â—¾All the saints of all the ages will be there at the judgment of the believers.
â—¾"When the Saints Go Marching In””“they blasphemously sing it at Bourbon Street.
â—¾Its for Christians to sing!!
â—¾Biblical prophets and apostles will be there; we’ll see them all.
â—¾Grace is free, but rewards are not free (good works).
â—¾I’d love to see the prayer warriors.
â—¾to see the missionaries
â—¾the failures (joke).
â—¾There’s no condemnation for PAST SINS.
â—¾A lot of public ministry in that Day that will go down in ashes.
â—¾"The Book of Remembrance” ”“ in Malachi.
â—¾Agape, Oral Roberts”“corrupt ministry (Ravenhill scoffed at Roberts): stealing from widows houses…promising them a place in Heaven!
â—¾A lot of money is being wrongly invested.
â—¾One of the most famous preachers called me last night: "I’m convinced God has already taken His hands off of America.”
â—¾Imagine me (Ravenhill) standing before Christ: am I just a good showman? Or am I a real preacher? What’s my secret prayer life like?
â—¾Your Devotional Life: the number one thing Christ will judge at the judgment.
â—¾Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy.
â—¾Science is the world’s substitute for God’s power (medical vs. divine healing?).
â—¾"I’m embarrassed to be part of the church of Jesus today, because I believe its an embarrassment to a holy God.”
â—¾Amy Carmichael”“my son Paul Ravenhill has read all her books.
â—¾We’re overboard on laughter and happiness.
â—¾Prayer meetings are where the heart of God is.
â—¾Grief over the backslidden church.
â—¾"If you’re going to get mature in God, then all the dwarfs around you will sneer at you.”
â—¾The men who have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional life.
â—¾Praying through the night for years.
â—¾Charles Wesley’s hymns have been mutilated.
â—¾"Crown Him With Many Crowns” ”“ Matthew Bridges
â—¾Would you like Gabriel to take the book of your devotional life and read it to this audience?
â—¾"silver, gold, precious stones”
â—¾breastplate of the priests in the holy place (prayer closet)
â—¾big shot ministers with mailing lists: they don’t worry me; let me see his prayer life, and then I’ll measure him that way.
â—¾Praying Payson”“prayed at the side of his bed; intercession; with energy
â—¾Praying John Hyde
â—¾The Ministry of Intercession”“the greatest ministry
â—¾Charles Finney, William Booth, John Wesley”“read my record to the multitude
â—¾David Brainerd: prayed until the snow melted.
â—¾Indians”“adultery, drinking, shouting.
â—¾"His Plan For Me” ”“ poem
â—¾"I used to really like cricket and running and art.”
â—¾"depart from Me”
â—¾"crown of righteousness”
â—¾there’ll be great distinctions in Heaven.
â—¾John Wesley”“is going to have a much greater reward than the thief on the cross.
â—¾"We shall all stand at the judgment seat of Christ.”
â—¾Dr. P. T. Forsyth”“he was his assistant pastor.
â—¾We ought to live every day with the power of the other world upon us.
â—¾Queen Elizabeth”“when she was a princess; he saw her, she walked with dignity.
â—¾Send all your kids on the mission field.
â—¾"we shall not be ashamed at His appearing”