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may have influenced others, rightly or wrongly, will all be

reviewed. May the bearing of it just rest on our spirits, dear

brethren—“according to those things he has done, whether it

be good or evil”. I feel a lack of power to speak much about it,

but I would encourage us that the bearing of it may come

home to us now. Are we not meant to be intelligent? Are we

not meant to be able to exercise judgment? It starts in self-

judgment, in being able to distinguish in myself what is good

and right, and what is wrong. Dear brethren, it is a matter of

great sorrow that there are things that might have been solved,

but now they are left until the judgment-seat of Christ. Some

who have been wronged have gone to be with Christ; some

things cannot be repaired; they await that time when Christ will

give His view, and we shall be adjusted in view of entering into

the joy of our eternal home. Would it not have been better if

they had been adjusted now? There are things lying among

us, I say with deep respect, that we may well allow the bearing

of the judgment-seat of Christ to apply to us now, to ourselves,

our localities, the things we do, the opinions we voice so

freely, the judgments that we offer—sometimes so profusely—

are they in accord with the judgment-seat of Christ? Well, may

He have His own voice to us in that.

At the judgment-seat of Christ we shall already be in bodies of

glory. It will not be there a matter of shedding tears. It will work

out in view of the kingdom. You get some idea of it in the

parable of the kingdom in Matthew 25. The lord of the

bondmen reviewed with persons how they had used the

talents, some received praise and other suffered loss. What

did you do when the Lord spoke to you? Perhaps your

conscience was alerted. You maybe allowed somebody else’s

opinion to sway you. It will come up at the judgment-seat of

Christ. You maybe allowed yourself to be governed by

somebody else’s personality or by your links with someone

who may not have been in the full light of the truth. These

things will be reviewed at the judgment-seat of Christ. As I say,

Why not have them reviewed now, in view of praise to God?

Paul says, “we walk by faith ... we are confident, I say, and