When All Men Shall Be Judged, Where Will Christ Be Then?

There is a day coming when all men shall be judged. 

• The sea shall give up the dead which are in it, 
• and death and hell shall deliver up the dead which are in them. 
• All that sleep in the grave shall awake and come forth, 
• and all shall be judged according to their works (Revelation 20:13; Daniel 12:2). 
• And where will Christ be then?

Christ Himself will be the Judge. 

• “The Father...hath committed all judgment unto the Son.” 
• “When the Son of man shall come in his glory…then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory 
• and before him shall be gathered all nations: 
• and he shall separate them one from another, 
• as a shepherd divides the sheep from the goats.” 

We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; 

• that every one may receive the things done in his body, 
• according to that he hath done, 
• whether it be good or bad (John 5:22; Matthew 25:31-32; 2Corinthians 5:10).

Now, if any reader thinks little of Christ, 

• let him know this day that he is very unlike God! 
• You are of one mind, and God is of another. 
• You are of one judgment, and God is of another. 

You think it enough to give Christ a little honor, a little reverence, a little respect. 

• But in all the eternal counsels of God the Father, 
• in creation, redemption, restitution, and judgment—
• in all these, Christ is “all.”

Surely we shall do well to consider these things. 

• Surely it is not written in vain, 
• “He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father which hath sent him” (John 5:23).

Adapted Excerpt From

Christ is All

J.C. Ryle