In addition, the Father judges no one. Instead, he has given the Son absolute authority to judge, so that everyone will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son is certainly not honoring the Father who sent him. John 5:22-23

 

Ever been in a courtroom when the bailiff called out, “All rise?”

Why do we stand when a judge enters a courtroom?  Some claim it’s because under the old English common law judges carried a Bible into the courtroom and the Bible was the source of law.  Around the world today, people generally rise when a judge enters or leaves a courtroom as a sign of respect.

There is one judge that all of humanity will one day stand before. You may not have thought about it, but a judge is one of the things that Jesus Christ claimed to be.  In the Bible book of John, Jesus claims to be God, He claims to be the giver of life and says that He will be the final judge of all humanity.

Jesus will act in accordance with the plan that God set into motion when He sent Jesus to earth to take care of all the crimes of man ever committed. To take care of our sin. Jesus said, “… I judge as God tells me.  Therefore my judgment is just, because I carry out the will of the one who sent me, not my own will” (John 5:30).

But Jesus has skin in this judgment game. He is the judge Who put off His robes, came down from the bar and stood in your place when your death sentence was given. Today, and until the moment of the final call of “All rise,” Jesus is offering pardons to all who will turn to Him in repentance. There’s a fixed day of judgement and Jesus says, “All who reject me and my message will be judged” but Jesus followers can rest securely in His mercy, grace and forgiveness (John 12:48).