The Judgment Seat of Christ by Arlen L Chitwood and published by Classics.
Issues of the judgment seat will involve the activities of two dispensations - the present dispensation and the coming dispensation.
The present dispensation is one filled with trials, testings, preparation. Issues of the judgment seat will be based entirely upon Christian involvement in these activities, with a view to the coming dispensation. And in the coming dispensation - the Messianic Era - findings, decisions, and determinations previously made at the judgment seat will be brought to pass.
In the coming Messianic Era, every Christian will find himself in one of two major positions. He will either occupy a position of honour and glory or he will occupy a position of shame and disgrace. And there will be no equality among Christians in either position, for the previous findings, decisions, and determinations at the judgment seat will have resulted in a just recompense. One acting as a servant in the Lord's house, on the Lord's behalf during the present dispensation, will be recompensed for his services at a future date, during the coming dispensation.
There will be exact payment for services rendered; there will be a reaping in exact accord with the sowing. Every Christian will "receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad" (II Cor. 5:10b). This is the reason why some Christians will occupy higher positions in the kingdom than other Christians. And this is also the reason why, while some Christians will be given territorial authority, other Christians will be denied any authority at all (cf. Matt. 25:14-30; Luke 19:12-27).
