As believers, our judgment is sealed. It is finished. It is done. So why are we still talking about judgment? In this episode, we continue our series on eternity by working through the judgments that are still coming — not for your salvation, which is already settled, but for nations, and for how believers actually lived.
We trace the judgment of the nations through Joel 3, Isaiah 2, and Matthew 25’s sheep and the goats, and carefully unpack a hard teaching: that nations and generations will answer for how they treated God’s people, without that changing the truth that salvation is by grace through faith alone. Dr. Abidan Shah uses Martin Luther’s own late-life writings against the Jewish people as a sobering warning, and Ananias and Sapphira as a picture of how seriously God takes what we do with what we’ve been given. The episode closes at the Bema seat, the judgment seat of Christ, where believers will be rewarded not based on resources but faithfulness — the same lesson Jesus drew from a widow’s two mites.