“The Judgment Seat of Christ” is Leonard Ravenhill’s most popular sermon on sermonindex.net, with a total download of over 72,000. The following are notes on this awesome sermon:

• The Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ
• Mystery, Majesty, Misery
• Hell: “The Harvest is Passed and We’re Not Saved”
• Rev. 17, 18, 19
• Rev. 1:3
• Rev. 20:11ff
• The Lake of Fire
• Other Foundation Can No Man Lay…But Jesus Christ…
  

• The Judgment of the Sinners.
• “The Great Assize” by John Wesley
• “Payday Sunday” by Billy Sunday
• Your Day in Court
• Great preacher held precious stones in pocket.
• JUDGMENT: The Light of Eternity – cp: In Light of Eternity
• “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards
• Edwards: ‘Stamp Eternity/Judgment on My Eyeballs’
• The Miracles of Jesus
• YOU put water in the water pot–GOD turns it into wine.
• John 5:28–the Last Resurrection
• Rev 21
• That Bachelor in Rome–Pope
• All types of people in history will all stand at the judgment seat of Christ.
• Rev. 6:12ff–the wrath of the Lamb
• Fanny Crosby (blind): “Jesus’ face will be the first face I ever see.”
• All the great kings and millionaires will stand before Christ.
• No pictures of Jesus in Ravenhill’s home: no graven image (personally, I disagree).
• The Book of Revelation shows what Jesus TRULY looks like.
• “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
• Pictures of Jesus: many look so pathetically feminine.
• “Shake Hands with Jesus” – stupid new song; weak views of Jesus; He’s the JUDGE!
• “His eyes are living coals of fire.”
• 60 Minutes – Henry Kissinger; the Shah; John F. Kennedy @ Chappaquiddick; Watergate.
• Rom. 14
• All the criminals who ever lived; pornographers; pimps, Vegas at the judgment seat.
• All the saints will see the unholy dead judged.
• A. W. Tozer: the things I could have done worry me at the judgment.
• Caesars and Pontius Pilate, everyone in the Encyclopedia Britannica at the judgment.
• “the books will be opened”
• The Books of the Ten Commandments
• The Books of Memory
• The unholy dead will remember every evangelistic effort.
• Memory is eternal; it will never die!
• If you like lust and drunkenness: will have insatiable unquenchable lust for sin in Hell.
• “where their worm dieth not”
• founders of the cults at the judgment: immoral founder of Jehovah’s Witness (Russell)
• 4 year old child recited Psalm 119.
• “the wrath of the Lamb”
• “men shall seek death and shall not find it”
• “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh”
• Vile sinners, sexually immoral, one had 30 illegitimate children all over the world.
• If you repent of your sin and plead for mercy: God can forgive you–because now Jesus is on a Throne of Mercy.
• But at the judgment, Jesus is on a Throne of Justice.
• David Wilkerson: 18 preachers went to Richard Nixon, but none got through.
• Sloppy evangelism bumper stickers: this “God loves you”, “God loves you” stuff.
• the kindness and SEVERITY of GOD.
• The Wrath and Judgment of God!

• 1 Cor. 3–The Judgment of the Believers.
• What sort it is, not what size it is.
• “wood, hay, and stubble”–your life’s work
• FIRE.
• Sure, God is love.
• But GOD is a CONSUMING FIRE!
• All the saints of all the ages will be there at the judgment of the believers.
• “When the Saints Go Marching In”–they blasphemously sing it at Bourbon Street.
• Its for Christians to sing!!
• Biblical prophets and apostles will be there; we’ll see them all.
• Grace is free, but rewards are not free (good works).
• I’d love to see the prayer warriors.
• to see the missionaries
• the failures (joke).
• There’s no condemnation for PAST SINS.
• Thank God your not a drug addict, prostitute, covetousness, bad temper.
• A lot of public ministry in that Day that will go down in ashes.
• “The Book of Remembrance” – in Malachi.
• Agape, Oral Roberts–corrupt ministries: stealing from widows houses…promising them a place in Heaven!
• A lot of money is being wrongly invested.
• One of the most famous preachers called me last night: “I’m convinced God has already taken His hands off of America.”
• Imagine me (Ravenhill) standing before Christ: am I just a good showman? Or am I a real preacher? What’s my secret prayer life like?
• Your Devotional Life: the number one thing Christ will judge at the judgment.
• Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy.
• Science is the world’s substitute for God’s power.
• “I’m embarrassed to be part of the church of Jesus today, because I believe its an embarrassment to a holy God.”
• Amy Carmichael–my son Paul Ravenhill has read all her books.
• We’re overboard on laughter and happiness.
• Prayer meetings are where the heart of God is.
• Grief over the backslidden church.
• “If you’re going to get mature in God, then all the dwarfs around you will sneer at you.”
• The men who have the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional life.
• Praying through the night for a whole years.
• Charles Wesley’s hymns have been mutilated.
• “Crown Him With Many Crowns” – Matthew Bridges
• Would you like Gabriel to take the book of your devotional life and read it to this audience?
• “silver, gold, precious stones”
• breastplate of the priests in the holy place (prayer closet)
• big shot ministers with mailing lists: they don’t worry me; let me see his prayer life, and then I’ll measure him that way.
• Praying Payson–prayed at the side of his bed; intercession; with energy
• Praying John Hyde
• The Ministry of Intercession–the greatest ministry
• Charles Finney, William Booth, John Wesley–read my record to the multitude
• David Brainerd: prayed until the snow melted.
• Indians–adultery, drinking, shouting.
• “His Plan For Me” – poem
• “I used to really like cricket and running and art.”
• “depart from Me”
• “crown of righteousness”
• there’ll be great distinctions in Heaven.
• John Wesley–is going to have a much greater reward than the thief on the cross.
• “We shall all stand at the judgment seat of Christ.”
• Dr. P. T. Forsyth–he was his assistant pastor.
• We ought to live every day with the power of the other world upon us.
• Queen Elizabeth–when she was a princess; he saw her, she walked with dignity.
• Send all your kids on the mission field.
• “we shall not be ashamed at His appearing”