Not everyone has been entrusted with the same amount of responsibility. This explains why teachers will face a stricter judgment ( James 3:1). For example, in the Parable of the Talents, each servant started with a different amount of money ( Matthew 25:14-30). Naturally, this contributes to a different standard of judgment among believers. Of course, it’s often ignored that our level of accountability is directly related to how much responsibility we’ve been given by God. That’s an unpleasant thought, and plenty of pastors have abused this passage to scare their parishioners into throwing some extra cash on the offering plate. In other words, a whole bunch of us are probably going to smell like smoke.
The Bible mentions that our work will be tested with fire, and “If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire” ( 1 Corinthians 3:15). Still, this talk of losing rewards is mildly unsettling. There won’t be any punishment for sin, however, because followers of Jesus are completely forgiven in Christ ( John 5:24). The Judgment Seat of Christ will be a time of rewards or loss of rewards ( 1 Corinthians 3:15). Followers of Jesus will be rewarded based upon how faithfully we served the Lord ( 1 Corinthians 3:12-15). The Bible says “we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad” ( 2 Corinthians 5:10). On the other hand, Christians will be heading to a rewards ceremony known as the Judgment Seat of Christ.
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