The Books at the Judgment

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🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Salvation is secured for all who are written in the book of life, not because of their deeds, but because Christ was slain for them.

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0:00.0	5. The books at the judgment. All who dwell on earth will worship the beast, everyone whose
0:10.3	name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of the life of
0:15.9	the Lamb who was slain, Revelation 13-8. Salvation is secured for all who are written in
0:25.9	the book of life. The reason that being written in the book of life secures our salvation, is
0:32.5	that the book is called the book of the life of the Lamb who was slain. The names in this
0:40.4	book are not saved on the basis of their deeds, they are saved on the basis of Christ being
0:47.0	slain. But John says in Revelation 20-12, I saw the dead
0:53.6	great and small standing before the throne and books were opened. Then another book was opened,
1:00.8	which is the book of life, and the dead were judged by what was written in the books according
1:09.1	to what they had done. So how then does the record of our lives contained in the books have a
1:18.6	part in our judgment if we are saved on the basis of Christ being slain? The answer is that the
1:27.8	books which record our deeds contain enough evidence of our belonging to Christ that they function
1:37.3	as a public confirmation of our faith and our union with Christ. Consider Revelation 21-27,
1:48.1	nothing unclean will ever enter the New Jerusalem, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false,
1:58.1	but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life. Here, the result of being written in
2:06.3	the book of life is not only not perishing, but also not practicing detestable sinful behaviors.
2:14.1	For example, consider the thief on the cross. Jesus said that he would enter paradise,
2:21.3	Luke 23-43. But what will judgment be like for him when the books are opened? More than 99.9%
2:32.5	of his life will be sin. His salvation will be secured by the blood of Christ. His name will be
2:43.2	in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain. Then God will open the books. First, he will use the
2:53.7	lifelong record of sin to glorify his son's supreme sacrifice. And second, God will read that last
3:03.7	page where the thief's dramatic transformation on the cross is recorded. This work of God in his
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