How Do You Measure Yourself?
The Bucket List
1. Jack Nicholson (Edward Cole), Morgan Freeman (Carter Chambers),
A. You measure yourself by the people that measure themselves by you.
B. One man learns that in spite of what little he's experienced in his life, he's always had all he ever wanted.
C. The other has everything, only to discover he has nothing.
2. The "Bema seat" (or judgment seat) was an elevated seat, located in Corinth.
A. If a person is unsaved and dies in their sin, they will be judged at the "great white throne judgment" following the Millennium.
B. how will we be judged? and for what will we be judged?
At this judgment, we must give an account of our life.
HEBREWS 9:27 And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this `cometh' judgment;
REVELATION 20:12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.
1CORINTHIANS 4:5 wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men's hearts; and then each man's praise will come to him from God.
MATTHEW 12:36 And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
LUKE 12:3 So, whatever you have said in the dark, will come to men's hearing in the light, and what you have said secretly inside the house, will be made public from the house-tops.
PSALMS 1:5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
MATTHEW 25:21 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant: you have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things; enter into the joy of your lord.
PHILIPPIANS 3:8 Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,
MATtHEW 7:2 "For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.