God will judge all the unregenerate BECAUSE of their sin.. The sin of the unregenerate condemn them
However The saved have already been forgiven and washed of their sin..they will stand before God IN CHRIST..seen by the Father as clean and guiltless, because Christ already took the punishment we deserve
Romans 5:6-10 says, "For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His love toward us, in that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life".
"The severity of divine justice does not render good according to works which are not perfectly good. But Christ in the final judgment will render to every one, and so to the saints also, according to their works. Therefore the works of the saints are so perfect that they will in themselves stand in the judgment of God.
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There are here four terms; because the major must be understood of a legal reward of works, whilst the minor must be understood of a reward that is evangelical; or to express it differently, we may say that the justice of God does not render good according to works which are imperfect, if he judges according to the covenant of perfect obedience to the law.
But Christ, in rewarding the works of the saints, will not judge according to the covenant of perfect works, but accordin-, to the covenant of faith, or of his own righteousness imputed and applied to them by faith; and yet he will judge them according to their works, as according to. the evidences of their faith, from which their works have proceeded, and which they, as the fruits of this faith, declare to be in them.
URSINUS, COMMENTARY ON THE HEIDELBERG CATECHISM, page 610
However The saved have already been forgiven and washed of their sin..they will stand before God IN CHRIST..seen by the Father as clean and guiltless, because Christ already took the punishment we deserve
AMEN! That is the Good News of the Gospel.
Christians will be chastised and tempered by God to strengthen our faith and trust in Him alone, but we will never be punished by God because we have already been forgiven for our sins...every one of them.
It should have been named the Hindenburg Catechism because its a big flaming gasbag!