Do Not Pass Judgment on One Another
So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Rom 14:12
every one of... Jesus will judge us one at a time. Whether your mother or dad was saved will not matter. You will stand or fall by the decision you made about what you would do about Jesus.
2Tim. 4:1 “I charge [thee] therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;”
give account of... All believers in Christ will stand before His Throne in heaven.
Rev. 7:9 “After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;”
These in white robes are the Christians who have been washed in the blood of the Lamb.
At
that event each believer will give an account (lit., “a word”) of
himself to God. Since Paul was writing to the Christians in Rome
(Rom. 1:7) and included himself with them in the first personal
plural pronoun and verb (“we
will all stand,” Rom. 14:10), “God’s judgment seat” is only
for believers in the Lord. What is here called God’s
judgment seat is the judgment seat of Christ in 2Cor. 5:10. Because
God judges through His Son (John 5:22, 5:27), this judgment seat can
be said to belong to both the Father and the Son. The issue of the
believer’s eternal destiny will not be at stake; that was settled
by his faith in Christ (cf. Rom. 8:1). Each believer’s life of
service will be under review in which some loss will be experienced
(cf. 1Cor. 3:12-15), but he will be rewarded for what endures (cf.
1Cor. 4:4-5). This judgment of believers climatically demonstrates
God’s lordship.
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