Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

We're in a series called Good News, and we've talked about how the Gospel, the word gospel, means Good News,

and how because Jesus came, He takes words that were bad news before and changes them to Good News.

For instance, the word condemnation. We talked about that first week, which means a death sentence.

There is now no death sentence for believers. Last week, we talked about repentance and how people see

that as a bad word that Jesus came saying, you know, repent, started with that word, so did John the

Baptist, and sometimes we think that means, you know, you dirty rotten sinners, stop living the way

you're on start living the right way, and it didn't mean that at all. He said, repent for heaven is at hand.

What he was saying is there's a way to get to heaven that's not through works, but it's through grace.

That's Good News. So I'm going to do the very same thing this week. Take a word that seems to be a bad

news word and show you how it actually comes Good News when you put your faith in Christ, right?

So the word is judgment. And probably when you think of it, you think, okay, you got your hands

full this week, Pastor Robert, and you know, no clue how you're going to change judgment into a good

word. And even with a verse like this, Hebrews 9.27, it is appointed for men to die once.

And then after this, the judgment. It just didn't sound that good to me, you know.

Just want you to know you're all going to die. And after you die, the judgment, you're going to go

to the judgment, you know. So again, it doesn't seem the way. It kind of reminds me when my mother used

to say to me, just wait till your father gets home. You know, judgment is coming and it's going to

be in the house of the Lord. It's coming. And so of course, I would go and just pray that he had

had a good day at work that day and would come home and just say, you know, because God's been so good

to me, I'll just give you grace and mercy and didn't happen very often. But anyway, that was my prayer.

So, all right. So here are my three things about judgment and we'll get around to good things,

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