This week on Things Unseen, we've been thinking about the four last things.

There used to be traditional themes preached on in the four Sundays of Advent,

to help Christians prepare for Christmas, help them see how much they needed the Lord Jesus.

Yesterday we were thinking about death, and today we're going to think about judgment.

And I'm sure a verse that comes to mind is Hebrews 9 verse 27.

It is appointed to man to die once, and after that comes judgment.

I wonder if you've ever heard anyone say, I don't believe in judgment.

While psychologists tell us, as the Bible did long before there was such a profession,

that people can actually convince themselves to believe something that they knew wasn't true. Whether that's true or not,

people certainly try to do it. Remember how Paul says in Romans 1, verse 18 to 32, that we all know

God, and so we know there is a judgment. But sinners suppress that knowledge. They repress it. Eventually they deny it. It's odd

really, isn't it? But Paul goes on to say that however hard we try to repress the knowledge that

our lives will be judged, we can never finally do it. But what is that judgment of God?

It should be clear, don't you think, that if God is the judge of all the earth and does what is right, it ought to be important to us to know something about His judgment.

And He doesn't leave us in the dark.

He tells us about this judgment in His Word.

One of the fullest passages is Romans

chapter 2 verses 1 through 16, where the Apostle Paul makes a whole series of powerful points.

Let me just list them for us today. The first is that God's judgment is always righteous.

When he judges, says Paul in verse 2, we know that He judges rightly.

On the last day he adds in verse 5, God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

Second, God's judgment will assess what we have done.

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