God’s judgement is holistic with respect to the human essence. What makes a human a human? Abstract thoughts that mold our hearts. Real emotions from the heart that fuel our words and direct our actions. Almost like the near-perfect Japanese railways system working in tandem through the year. Too complicated, intricate and downright impossible for it to be attributed to chance – but only meticulous planning and oversight. Neurons firing in our brain producing enough electricity to power a small light bulb. Complex chemicals that drive our state of emotions, that just a minute imbalance measured in nanograms can cause external havoc on our state of life. Like the guitar string when plucked causes chaos to the air molecules around it. This chaos though when controlled produces a beautiful and harmonious note to the ear. The complex nature of the auditory system in itself is a miracle. Maybe all it takes is the right-orientation of our hearts to see the miracle we are or the larger system of the universe is. To see the subtlety of intelligence beyond measure in us and in nature all around us. Like the whole world which exists in observable order. For all the order around us – etched into the very fabric of substance. There yet exists an uncontrolled chaos – deep within the human substance. What the Bible would term ‘sin.’ And judgement can be thought of simply as God restoring this lost order through sin. The sins of our thoughts and words – of which we have read in the first two parts. Lastly, it is about our actions (or deeds) which simply is an external manifestation of the whole internal state-of-being.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. – 2 Corinthians 5:10

The final judgement is not going to be a protracted court-hearing, with long discourses between God and man. All our deeds are going to be simply being categorized as good or bad. On the basis of God’s Word in us (John 12:48, Romans 2:12-16). Deeds are a undeniable product of our knowledge, experiences, words, beliefs. Of which the brother of Jesus, James, writes in James 2:18: But someone may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” There exists no bifurcation between faith and works. Faith can/will/does not exist without works. Works are not for salvation. But serve as a reliable indicator of true saving faith in us. The confluence of faith and works has created heretical doctrines and therefore must be carefully understood through revelation of the Holy Spirit and not doctrines doctored by religious men. For…whatever is not from faith is sin (Romans 14:23).

31 “But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; 33 and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left. – Matthew 25:31-33

The sheep, the right side of the Son of Man. All these become obvious signs to us of who are destined for God’s eternal kingdom and who are not. We find out how the sheep and goats are being categorized on the Day of Judgement further down in Matthew 25:34-46 – based on their deeds from faith. Which is why they are being called righteous (v37). As the patriarch Abraham was called – on the basis of faith alone (Galatians 3:6-9). The righteous do not remember their many good deeds, because it is second-nature to them. This is the pervasive and transformative effect of faith that is alive. They do not keep a tab. They do not seek the honor of men. They do not do it simply because of a mandate. They do not do it for a reward or a bigger mansion in Heaven. They do it only in view of Christ and His love bubbling in them. It is not burdensome. It just feels like the right-thing to do. Importantly they also endure in such good works to which they have been called by God (Hebrews 10:36). 

The third and final servant who had received just one talent from his master, in the parable of talents in Matthew 25:14-30, would not enter into God’s rest. The sole reason? He knew about his master (v24) but yet did nothing with the talent that had been given to him. The crucial lesson for us? Faith without fail multiplies, what God has deposited in our lives. And God, even though just a single-talent, always deposits something in each of us. It takes faith to believe this and works to show that you truly believe it.

“Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done. – Revelation 22:12