Q&R: Chains, Stains & Jesus’ Judgment – Brad Jersak

Question: "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad." - 2 Corinthians 5:10 I wanted to ask how is it that we will be judged as believers if we have already been forgiven for our sins? If we are forgiven, why are our sins brought up again at the judgment seat? Response: Great question. That could almost sound like a contradiction! There is a very real and important sense that we were all forgiven for all our sins at the Cross. Jesus said, "It is finished," after all. Yet I wonder...&...