on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Christ Jesus, as proclaimed by my gospel.in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.
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all, they've been entrusted with the very words of God. But what if some do not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God's faithfulness? Not at all. As it's written, let God be true, and every man a liar. As it's written, so you may be proved right when you speak, and prevail when you judge. But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what should we say then? That God is unjust and bringing his wrath on us? I'm using a human argument. Certainly not. If that was so, how could God judge the world? But someone might argue, if my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and increases his glory, then why are we still condemned as sinners? Why not say, as we are being slandered, this report is saying, let's do evil that good may result. Their condemnation is deserved. What should we conclude then? Are we any better? Not at all. We've already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all in their sin. …
… bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus. According to this text, there are three things that are true of every one of you in this room. Three things. And not only are these three things true for every single person, this side of the pulpit and on that side of the pulpit, but these three things are true for every person you will meet this week, every person you encountered in this last week, every person you see at work, every person you see at school, every person in your family. These three things are true. They may not know that they're true. They may have a different explanation for why they are true, but these three things are true of everyone everywhere. And it is really important as Christians to understand the things that are true of all people at all times and in all places. And this text gives us three really important facts. …
It will be inquired concerning every one, both righteous and wicked, whether the law stands against him, or whether he hath a fulfilment of the law to show. As to the righteous, they will have fulfilment to show; they will have it to plead, that the judge himself hath fulfilled the law for them; that he hath both satisfied for their sins, and fulfilled the righteousness of the law for them: Rom. x. 4. “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” But as to the wicked, when it shall be found, by the book of God’s remembrance, that they have broken the law, and have no fulfilment of it to plead, the sentence of the law shall be pronounced upon them. A secondary rule of judgment will be the gospel, or the covenant of grace, wherein it is said, “He that believeth shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned:’’ Rom. ii. 16. “In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.” By the gospel, or covenant of grace, eternal blessedness will be adjudged to believers. When it shall be found that the law hinders not, and that the curse and condemnation of the law stands not against them, the reward of eternal life shall be given them, according to the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ. …