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Caption transcript for Thy Kingdom Come (2018): “The Judgment Seat of the Righteous” (3/12)

• 00:01 After the Lord comes to carry us to heaven,
• 00:04 what happens next?
• 00:05 I have a feeling we won't be just sitting on a cloud, although,
• 00:08 that kinda sounds nice right now to me.
• 00:11 Find out what the Bible has to say about it,
• 00:13 next, on Zola Levitt Presents.
• 00:20 Brethren, my hearts desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved,
• 00:27 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek,
• 00:30 for the same Lord over all
• 00:32 is rich unto all that call upon Him.
• 00:53 Thank you for joining us today on Zola Levitt Presents.
• 00:55 I'm David Hart.
• 00:56 I'm Kirsten Hart
• 00:57 Jeffrey Seif!
• 00:58 We are in our series "Thy Kingdom Come"
• 01:00 which first aired in 2001
• 01:02 with the teaching of Zola Levitt,
• 01:05 our namesake for the program.
• 01:07 And Dr. Seif, you are our Senior Theologian,
• 01:10 but you also worked many years with Zola.
• 01:12 Yeah, Senior Theologian just means "real old".
• 01:15 No, you're young!
• 01:17 But yeah, I was back with Zola back in the in the day,
• 01:20 and what a guy!
• 01:21 He was really the best "kitty" in the Messianic Jewish litter.
• 01:25 He took people to Israel via television.
• 01:29 Now everyone and their brother wants to go to Israel with
• 01:32 television cameras, and tell stories.
• 01:34 But he was the first, and arguably the best.
• 01:36 This program, by the way, is one
• 01:38 of the longest running programs in Christian Broadcast history.
• 01:42 Zola would take people to Israel, and of course,
• 01:45 he would dress rather Israeli too.
• 01:47 He didn't dress like this often times,
• 01:49 at least, not in Israel,
• 01:50 like my Producer makes me dress now.
• 01:53 Zola would kind of don these robes, and he
• 01:56 kinda looked like an Apostle in Jesus day.
• 02:00 And he was down to earth.
• 02:02 He spoke from a Jewish perspective.
• 02:05 He introduced people to that.
• 02:07 Plus, the world was getting introduced to Israel,
• 02:11 as it's emerging amidst turbulent passage
• 02:15 from inception through various wars, and
• 02:17 Zola was there, as an able newspaperman,
• 02:20 commentator,
• 02:21 biblical Theologian,
• 02:23 taking people to Israel and
• 02:25 giving voice of things of present and things to come.
• 02:28 And it was an honor to be with him as a junior, as a subordinate on the journey,
• 02:33 and it's an opportunity, it's an honor,
• 02:35 to step up here now with you and participate.
• 02:37 What was your role with Zola?
• 02:40 Well, I did a few things.
• 02:42 I helped him as a Theologian, as a Bible Scholar.
• 02:46 He would make programs and we'd talk about it,
• 02:49 and I'd try and give him some theological "pay dirt" to bring forth.
• 02:52 He used me like that.
• 02:54 He used me to lead tours.
• 02:57 I would go speak in a variety of churches,
• 02:59 representing Zola Levitt Ministries.
• 03:01 We have a magazine, the "Levitt Letter".
• 03:04 I actually had designed it and expanded it
• 03:07 to it's current form, with various articles.
• 03:09 It already existed in a smaller extent.
• 03:12 So he gave me an opportunity to that,
• 03:14 plus, I had this idea to start this "Institute of Jewish and Christian Studies",
• 03:19 and I really was drawing from my education at the Moody Bible Institute,
• 03:23 where I majored in Jewish Studies and
• 03:25 I wanted to turn it around and give it to people that don't go to Bible College.
• 03:28 And he got behind it philosophically and
• 03:30 someone got behind it monetarily, and the rest is history.
• 03:33 And it's still in play today.
• 03:34 So, he gave me opportunities to get started.
• 03:36 Plus, I wrote my first book with him.
• 03:38 We're going to hear more about that in just a little bit.
• 03:40 Right now, let's go to Caesarea where Zola was teaching.
• 03:45 Well, our subject today is our works.
• 03:48 Something seldom taught in the Church.
• 03:50 I'm not sure why.
• 03:51 We have things to do in this life.
• 03:54 We're not just saved to sit here and wait for the Rapture.
• 03:58 Salvation is not like a Money Market certificate
• 04:02 you hold and then cash one day.
• 04:04 Actually we work at it.
• 04:05 Now, we're here in Caesarea
• 04:07 near the Coast of Israel,
• 04:09 around the Mediterranean Coast
• 04:11 where the Romans established
• 04:13 their Capital,
• 04:14 Tremendous City,
• 04:16 and left some of their statuary here.
• 04:18 And we are going to talk about the Judgment Seat of Christ.
• 04:21 So, we have statuary representing the
• 04:23 Judgment Seat they used in the athletic games in Grecian times.
• 04:30 People come here and look at these statues,
• 04:32 still tourists walk in and out and so forth.
• 04:35 But we thought it represented
• 04:38 God sitting on His Throne,
• 04:39 or Christ on His Throne,
• 04:41 in this Judgment Seat of the Righteous.
• 04:44 2 Corinthians 5:10 tells us,
• 04:58 That is to say, He must look over the record of what he did in his works,
• 05:03 with the Lord who knows him very well, each one of us.
• 05:06 And in that manner see what kind of a job we did
• 05:11 with the gifts that He gave us.
• 05:13 1 Corinthians 3:8 says,
• 05:26 We have these different gifts,
• 05:28 and we have different jobs to do.
• 05:31 John saw the Throne Room of God.
• 05:33 You know, when the Trumpet sounds for the Rapture we are taken to Heaven.
• 05:37 And there's kind of a picture of that in Revelation 4:1-3.
• 05:42 And he saw God on His Throne,
• 06:02 The things in Revelation are the things which are,
• 06:04 the things which shall be,
• 06:06 the things hereafter.
• 06:07 And the things hereafter are prophesies of God's judgments in the next
• 06:12 15 chapters of Revelation.
• 06:15 He says,
• 06:31 So God's Throne is a beauty in Heaven,
• 06:34 and it too is eventually going to be used in a Judgment,
• 06:38 or the Great White Throne will be used at the end of the Kingdom.
• 06:42 But we're concerned here at the Rapture
• 06:44 with the immediate thing we do in Heaven.
• 06:46 Notice, there's no wings and no harps,
• 06:48 no Angels floating around
• 06:52 as we see in the popular drawings and paintings
• 06:54 but simply a magnificent Throne Room,
• 06:56 with a marvelous Throne.
• 06:58 And John is made conscious of the fact that God sits on a Throne, indeed.
• 07:02 It's a honeymoon, this Judgment Seat.
• 07:07 You might ask, How is a Judgment Seat like a honeymoon?
• 07:10 But after all, this is where the Bridegroom receives the Bride,
• 07:14 removes her veil and know her secrets,
• 07:16 and that's a honeymoon.
• 07:18 And it's at the right time for a honeymoon.
• 07:20 We're going to have the wedding in Heaven.
• 07:22 The Bride and the Groom walks in to the Bridal Chamber
• 07:25 to begin with in a Jewish wedding in the 1st Century.
• 07:30 And then afterwards comes out for
• 07:32 what is called The Marriage Supper,
• 07:34 what we would call the real wedding.
• 07:35 So it is this moment, this time, this seven days in the Bridal Chamber
• 07:40 that is likened unto this Judgment Seat of Christ.
• 07:46 Alright, Ecclesiastes 3:17
• 07:48 points out,
• 07:58 This is a judgment in particular of our works.
• 08:01 We are now the Bride of Christ.
• 08:03 After this honeymoon we'll become the Wife of Christ.
• 08:06 And so we have come here to this "Bema"
• 08:09 This Grecian Games Judgment Seat that you see behind me.
• 08:15 It really was a Reward Seat.
• 08:18 When our Tour goes into Greece
• 08:20 we go to Corinth.
• 08:21 And there is the "Bema" that Paul stood before.
• 08:25 He was judged there.
• 08:27 And it's authentic.
• 08:28 And when we show people they can stand in the footsteps of Paul.
• 08:31 But the Seat at the games was more of a seat for
• 08:36 passing out rewards to athletes that had done a fine job.
• 08:39 And so, we get rewards with what we have done.
• 08:45 And they help decide our position in the Kingdom to come.
• 08:50 Our future really is determined
• 08:52 by what we do with the gifts we have.
• 08:54 Now, not everybody has the same gifts, obviously.
• 08:57 I have the gift of teaching, we'll say.
• 09:00 So I have a television program and I teach.
• 09:03 You may have a gift of singing.
• 09:05 You may have a beautiful voice,
• 09:06 which I do not have.
• 09:07 You may have a gift, a quiet gift,
• 09:10 you know, nothing showy,
• 09:12 but a gift of intercession,
• 09:13 a gift of helps,
• 09:15 a gift of giving, without which the Church is stymied
• 09:19 without millions to do those gifts.
• 09:22 We can't have a ministry,
• 09:24 can't have a Television Program,
• 09:26 can't have anything really.
• 09:28 And so everyone in the Church
• 09:29 receives gifts with which they do these good works.
• 09:33 What is a good work?
• 09:34 Well, we can see in Luke 14:13-14
• 09:38 an example of a good work.
• 09:54 In other words,
• 09:55 doing a thing that is only rewarded in Heaven
• 09:58 is "a great work as the Bible presents it.
• 10:01 And we will receive our rewards in Heaven.
• 10:05 You know, We have many donors who are outstanding in their help to us,
• 10:10 let's put it that way.
• 10:12 And they send us money that helps us keep going.
• 10:14 When I see them, I thank them,
• 10:16 but now and then, I'm very sensitive about it because
• 10:18 some people really don't want the thanks here on earth.
• 10:21 If they turn away or just look down I just stop,
• 10:25 because they would rather have that
• 10:27 in the Judgment Seat of Christ.
• 10:29 And they have a gift for giving,
• 10:31 and the reward they will have will be from Him,
• 10:33 certainly not from me.
• 10:35 I appreciate it,
• 10:36 and will put their gift to use, but
• 10:38 the Lord ultimately will reward them for giving.
• 10:44 Well, this prepares us to be a virgin bride.
• 10:47 We're saved unto good works.
• 10:49 That's a scriptural formula.
• 10:52 You know, we're not just saved again to wait for the Lord, but
• 10:55 saved to do these things on purpose.
• 10:58 We're called "workers in an army....
• 11:00 I mean, "workers in a field", and "soldiers in an army."
• 11:02 We have jobs to do.
• 11:04 If the soldiers in the army didn't do their right jobs.
• 11:08 If the sniper drove an airplane and the pilot tried to shoot a rifle,
• 11:13 I don't know the Army would be very successful,
• 11:15 or the harvesters in the field in their specialties.
• 11:18 But if we will do with our gifts the good works that God has illustrated here
• 11:24 we will prosper.
• 11:26 2 Timothy 4:8 tells how it ends up.
• 11:42 God will ultimately judge every work.
• 11:45 There's works acceptable and works less acceptable.
• 11:50 There's good and evil to judge.
• 11:52 Ecclesiastes 12:13-14, Solomon has said,
• 11:56 "This is folly", "that is folly"
• 11:58 "What is to be done under the sun?"
• 12:02 And he comes to this conclusion,
• 12:17 Now, once again, it's not our sins that are in question here,
• 12:21 simply our works,
• 12:22 and the sins of course were paid in full at the cross.
• 12:26 There not in question at all in heaven.
• 12:28 Romans 8:1-2 stresses that no one is condemned for bad works.
• 12:35 It says,
• 12:49 Jesus at least delivers you from being judged for your sins at your death.
• 12:56 Those sins were paid for at the Cross.
• 12:58 We only have to have a judgment of our works.
• 13:01 And I'll be back with that judgment,
• 13:03 right after this.
• 13:15 Our Resource this week,
• 13:17 The "Grafted In Necklace"
• 13:19 Wearing this lovely sterling silver
• 13:21 rendition of a classic Messianic symbol
• 13:24 shows you recognize the Jewish roots
• 13:27 of your Christian faith
• 13:29 and stirs curiosities and witness opportunities
• 13:32 with this tribute to Light, the Lord and abundant Love.
• 13:37 For this Resource and more
• 13:39 call 1-800-WONDERS
• 13:41 or visit us at levitt.com
• 14:18 We have so many friends,
• 14:20 and even family,
• 14:21 that ask us when we get back from a Zola Levitt Tour,
• 14:23 What was your favorite thing?
• 14:25 And there's so much to tell them.
• 14:27 I think one of those is
• 14:29 we love singing songs that we've
• 14:31 been singing for years,in the Hymnal
• 14:33 that come to life when we're on location.
• 14:36 Didn't mean to jump on you
• 14:38 but one of the best parts, and
• 14:39 I'm excited about this,
• 14:40 is we get to have a time of worship
• 14:43 on the Sea of Galilee
• 14:44 on a Jesus Boat,
• 14:46 just like Jesus and the disciples sailed on.
• 14:48 That's part of our Tour.
• 14:49 levitt.com is our website.
• 14:51 Go click on the Tour page.
• 14:52 Information about Fall and Spring.
• 14:55 Come with us.
• 14:56 Right now, let's go to Caesarea
• 14:57 for more teaching from Zola.
• 15:01 It's simply remarkable what you can see in Israel.
• 15:04 I mean, you could make a Tour of this country
• 15:06 doing Greek and Roman ruins
• 15:08 and have quite a Tour!
• 15:10 You could go back before that.
• 15:12 At Megiddo you could Tour back through
• 15:14 20 civilizations in one site.
• 15:17 You could go back as far as Beit Shean
• 15:19 or even Jericho, the world's oldest city,
• 15:22 10,000 years old,
• 15:24 to see ancient relics.
• 15:26 Try that in the United States.
• 15:28 If you can, come on a Tour of Israel.
• 15:30 Come on, you'll be very surprised at
• 15:33 not only how much you can learn,
• 15:35 but by how peaceful it is.
• 15:37 Let's get back to this Judgment Seat of Christ.
• 15:41 I Corinthians 3:11-15
• 15:45 covers the entire subject
• 15:49 and it starts this way,
• 15:57 So first off, the only sensible life that can be lived,
• 16:01 says Paul,
• 16:02 or the foundation for your life
• 16:04 is a belief in the Lord.
• 16:06 Then he goes on,
• 16:19 There's definitely two categories here.
• 16:22 The wood, hay and stubble is almost worthless.
• 16:24 The gold, silver and precious stones is very valuable.
• 16:29 He say's
• 16:37 When you put fire to those two categories
• 16:40 they act quite different.
• 16:42 The gold, silver and precious stones are not harmed.
• 16:45 They may melt, they may change form but they're still valuable.
• 16:49 But you put fire to the wood, hay and stubble,
• 16:52 and it's burned up, it's gone, it's consumed.
• 16:55 And that is the idea.
• 16:57 Get rid of the bad works.
• 16:59 Reward the good works.
• 17:01 That's the whole idea.
• 17:03 The passage goes on in verse 14,
• 17:18 It's important, you know?
• 17:19 Nobody back out of Heaven because of the bad works.
• 17:22 And that isn't the idea.
• 17:25 This isn't a punishment.
• 17:26 It really is just a reward,
• 17:28 the accomplishments we've done with the gifts that we have in the Lord,
• 17:32 and to get rid of any memory of things we did not do well.
• 17:37 It ends with the statement,
• 17:39 "Yet so as by fire."
• 17:42 It's tested with fire which not only consumes
• 17:46 but also tempers, purifies.
• 17:49 It's used both to burn down or burn a pile of leaves.
• 17:55 It's used to temper fine steel.
• 17:57 And the passage goes on,
• 18:03 And then Paul goes on
• 18:05 to describe the Church
• 18:07 in his special terms.
• 18:09 The idea is we are going to be examined
• 18:13 for rewards and taken care of to be in shape to marry the Lord.
• 18:18 Put it that way.
• 18:20 The Judgment Seat prepares us as a "spotless Bride".
• 18:23 There are passages which celebrate the idea of the Triumphant Bride.
• 18:29 Psalm 45:13-17,
• 19:02 We, the Queen of the Kingdom to come
• 19:04 will receive praises from the people.
• 19:06 Yes we will.
• 19:08 The Bride of Christ now,
• 19:09 but the Wife of Christ in the Kingdom.
• 19:11 When you're married to the King, you receive bows as well.
• 19:15 And it will be imputed to us, this perfect righteousness,
• 19:19 to be like the King,
• 19:23 and be the object of real veneration in the Kingdom to come.
• 19:28 II Corinthians 11:2
• 19:30 Paul says,
• 19:40 And that is done by purification of the works
• 19:45 and of course the sins that were forgiven earlier at the Cross.
• 19:50 We finally end up in a white wedding dress.
• 19:53 I think all white wedding dresses come from the original.
• 19:56 We'll talk more about it in our program on "The Wedding" next week.
• 20:00 But let me say for now,
• 20:02 it says, "The Wife of Christ hath made herself ready,"
• 20:05 "And unto her was appointed fine linen, clean and white",
• 20:10 which is the righteousness of the Saints.
• 20:12 I paraphrase Revelation 19:7-8
• 20:15 This wedding dress, pure white, represents absolute true purity.
• 20:23 So this is the reward.
• 20:24 This is true Christianity.
• 20:26 The trade of world labor, works for the Lord,
• 20:30 for eternal bliss, the career as His Wife.
• 20:42 Our Resource this week,
• 20:44 The "Grafted In Necklace"
• 20:46 Wearing this lovely sterling silver
• 20:48 rendition of a classic Messianic symbol
• 20:51 shows you recognize the Jewish roots
• 20:54 of your Christian faith
• 20:56 and stirs curiosities and witness opportunities
• 20:59 with this tribute to Light, the Lord and abundant Love.
• 21:04 For this Resource and more
• 21:06 call 1-800-WONDERS
• 21:08 or visit us at levitt.com
• 21:12 Here at Zola Levitt Ministries
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• 21:52 We are so thankful to you, our viewers.
• 21:55 You keep this program on the air around the world.
• 22:00 And because of your support we are able to
• 22:03 love the Jewish people,
• 22:05 support Israel,
• 22:06 and spread a good word around this world.
• 22:09 That's what Zola was teaching on today.
• 22:12 Our good works matter.
• 22:14 Yes, and this is a really good, Good Work.
• 22:17 There's lots of good works but you know, Jesus said,
• 22:19 "As you did it for one of the least of these my brethren, you do it unto Me."
• 22:24 His brethren fare from this world behind us, and it's
• 22:29 the world we take people to literally on trips, and
• 22:32 spiritually and visually on a journey here.
• 22:35 And our Jewish friends watch it.
• 22:37 Our Christian friends get the point.
• 22:40 And it's your giving that keeps the ball rolling
• 22:45 because if you didn't do what you do,
• 22:47 we couldn't do what we do.
• 22:49 A lot of times a 30 minute program, you know,
• 22:51 20 minutes is asking for money.
• 22:53 We don't spend 2 minutes.
• 22:54 I guess we are here.
• 22:56 But we really ask you prayerfully and carefully, and gracefully
• 22:59 to get behind and help us to do this really super-good work.
• 23:04 I don't think good works comes to everyone naturally.
• 23:07 I think it does for us.
• 23:09 We love doing things for people that we love.
• 23:11 It's a cross.
• 23:13 You know, Jesus could have used every drop of blood in His own body.
• 23:16 And when He's on that Cross and all that blood is dripping out,
• 23:19 He's screaming out.
• 23:20 The word "excruciating" is from the Latin "excruciare"
• 23:23 meaning "from the cross".
• 23:25 He could have used that blood but He gave it up for humanity.
• 23:28 Now everyone of you and me,
• 23:30 we could use money in our own family systems.
• 23:33 There's bills that are crying out for attention,
• 23:35 just like the cells that are crying out for blood.
• 23:38 But the reality is, that Jesus gave it up a little.
• 23:41 And He beckons us to pick up the cross and pour out a little of what we're all about,
• 23:48 to tend to what He's all about.
• 23:50 And so giving really is a sacred religious virtue.
• 23:53 And it takes a little push to do it.
• 23:55 Most guys just want to keep the money for the new fishing boat.
• 23:59 But it's important to help the enterprise to be "Fishers of men"
• 24:03 And we're standing in front of Him one day.
• 24:05 And I know the Christian Church,...
• 24:07 this is so...
• 24:08 What I love about this program is we have
• 24:10 Jewish perspective,
• 24:12 and we have raised in Church on the pew perspective.
• 24:15 And together we know that salvation
• 24:19 is what gets us there.
• 24:20 But we really, really will stand before Him,
• 24:23 and we are accountable for what we have done in our lives
• 24:26 for His good and for His Kingdom.
• 24:28 Yes, I think if a spouse doesn't give any money to their other spouse,
• 24:34 it's hard to believe that they love them.
• 24:37 That we really do put our money where our mouth is.
• 24:39 And I think that our money is an extension of us.
• 24:41 If we make 20 dollars an hour
• 24:43 and we give 20 dollars to the Lord, we just gave an hour.
• 24:46 And I think that not giving needs to be looked at, to tell you the truth.
• 24:50 It really is holding back from the Lord.
• 24:53 I can't believe this program is over today.
• 24:55 Thank you for joining us.
• 24:57 Thank you for joining us.
• 24:58 We end this program with one of Zola's songs.
• 25:01 And we also love to end this program with,
• 25:03 Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim
• 25:06 Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.
• 25:38 ♪ You walked in the Land of Israel ♪
• 25:44 ♪ You taught us to love our Lord ♪
• 25:50 ♪ You died for us in Israel ♪
• 25:56 ♪ For us, Your blood was outpoured ♪
• 26:02 ♪ You died for us in Israel ♪
• 26:08 ♪ For us, Your blood was outpoured ♪
• 26:19 ♪ Orchestra Interlude ♪
• 26:24 ♪ For we like sheep have gone astray ♪
• 26:30 ♪ Everyone to his own way ♪
• 26:36 ♪ But You alone took the blame ♪
• 26:42 ♪ And now we ask in Your Holy Name ♪
• 26:49 ♪ For we like sheep have gone astray ♪
• 26:55 ♪ Everyone to his own way ♪
• 27:01 ♪ But You alone took the blame ♪
• 27:07 ♪ And now we ask in Your Holy Name ♪♪
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