The document discusses how salvation can be viewed as both judicial and relational. It is commonly seen as a judicial process where God acts as an angry judge, but it is also important to view God as our disappointed Father who disciplines us. Both the judicial and relational aspects are reflected in scripture. God will judge us for our sins but he did so through sending his Son, and we are called to be God's children. The judgment seat of Christ reflects both that we will be judged for our actions, but that Jesus obeys the Father as the perfect Son.

1. Our Father, The Judge
1 Peter 1:17

2. How do you picture
the judgment?

3. For we must all appear before the
judgment seat of Christ,
so that each one may receive
what is due for what he has done
in the body, whether good or evil.
2 Corinthians 5:10

4. How do you picture
the judgment?

5. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL

6. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Law

7. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
LawRules

8. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
LawRules
You shall walk after Jehovah
your God and fear him and keep
his commandments and obey his
voice, and you shall serve him
and hold fast to him.
Deuteronomy 13:4

9. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
LawRules Character of God

10. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
LawRules Character of God
Great commandment of the law?
Matthew 22:36-40
Love the Lord your God
Love your neighbor
1 John 4:8
God is love

11. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
LawRules Character of God
By this we know that we
love the children of God,
when we love God and obey
his commandments.
1 John 5:2

12. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Sin

13. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Sin
“to miss the mark”

14. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Sin
“to miss the mark”
What mark?

15. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
SinPerfect Obedience
“to miss the mark”
What mark?

16. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
SinPerfect Obedience
“to miss the mark”
for all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God,
Romans 3:23
What mark?

17. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Sin Image of GodPerfect Obedience
“to miss the mark”
for all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God,
Romans 3:23
What mark?

18. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Sin Image of GodPerfect Obedience
“to miss the mark”
for all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God,
Romans 3:23
and have put on the new
self, which is being renewed
in knowledge after the
image of its creator.
Colossians 3:10
What mark?

19. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Sin Image of GodPerfect Obedience
“to miss the mark”
for all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God,
Romans 3:23
and have put on the new
self, which is being renewed
in knowledge after the
image of its creator.
Colossians 3:10
What mark?

20. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
God

21. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
GodAngry Judge

22. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
GodAngry Judge
God is a righteous judge, and
a God who feels indignation
every day.
Psalm 7:11

23. JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
GodAngry Judge
They will suffer the
punishment of eternal
destruction
2 Thessalonians 1:9
punishment

24. punishment
JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
God Disappointed FatherAngry Judge

25. punishment
JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
God Disappointed FatherAngry Judge
When Israel was a child, I loved him ...
The more they were called, the more they went away
Hosea 11:1-2

26. punishment
JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
God Disappointed Father
discipline
Angry Judge
It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as
sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
Hebrews 12:7

27. punishment
JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Law
Sin
God
Rules Character of God
Image of GodPerfect Obedience
Disappointed Father
discipline
Angry Judge

28. punishment
JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Law
Sin
God
Rules Character of God
Image of GodPerfect Obedience
Disappointed Father
discipline
Angry Judge
Jesus

29. punishment
JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Law
Sin
God
Rules Character of God
Image of GodPerfect Obedience
Disappointed Father
discipline
Angry Judge
JesusPerfect obedience
For our sake he made him to
be sin who knew no sin
2 Corinthians 5:21
YES!

30. punishment
JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Law
Sin
God
Rules Character of God
Image of GodPerfect Obedience
Disappointed Father
discipline
Angry Judge
JesusPerfect obedience Son
For our sake he made him to
be sin who knew no sin
2 Corinthians 5:21
YES!
“This is my beloved Son, with
whom I am well pleased;
listen to him.”
Matthew 17:5
YES!

31. punishment
JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Law
Sin
God
Rules Character of God
Image of GodPerfect Obedience
Disappointed Father
discipline
Angry Judge

32. God, the Judge
God is a righteous judge,
and a God who feels
indignation every day.
Psalm 7:11

33. God, the JudgeGod, the Judge
for all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God
Romans 3:23

34. God, the JudgeGod, the Judge
For there is one God, and there
is one mediator between God
and men, the man Christ Jesus,
1 Timothy 2:5

35. God, the Judge
For we must all appear
before the judgment seat of
Christ, so that each one may
receive what is due for what
he has done in the body,
whether good or evil.
2 Corinthians 5:10

36. punishment
JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Law
Sin
God
Rules Character of God
Image of GodPerfect Obedience
Disappointed Father
discipline
Angry Judge

37. God, our Father

38. God, our Father
And I will walk among you and will be your
God, and you shall be my people.
Leviticus 26:12

39. God, our Father
for I Jehovah your God am a jealous God,
Exodus 20:5

40. God, our Father

41. God, our Father
you have received the Spirit of adoption as
sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Romans 8:15

42. God, our Father
For those whom he foreknew he also
predestined to be conformed to the image of
his Son, in order that he might be the
firstborn among many brothers.
Romans 8:29

43. God, our Father
See what kind of love the Father has given to
us, that we should be called children of God
1 John 3:1

44. God, our Father
we shall be like him
1 John 3:2

45. punishment
JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Law
Sin
God
Rules Character of God
Image of GodPerfect Obedience
Disappointed Father
discipline
Angry Judge
BOTH

46. punishment
JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Law
Sin
God
Rules Character of God
Image of GodPerfect Obedience
Disappointed Father
discipline
Angry Judge
Our Father
the Judge

47. punishment
JUDICIAL RELATIONAL
Law
Sin
God
Rules Character of God
Image of GodPerfect Obedience
Disappointed Father
discipline
Angry Judge
Our Father
the Judge
And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially
according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with
fear throughout the time of your exile,
1 Peter 1:17

48. We implore you on
behalf of Christ,
be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:20

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50. Understanding our Salvation
#07
Our Father the Judge
1 Peter 1:17
Compiled and Presented by:
Dave Stewart
14 December, 2014
www.churchofchristmiranda.com
Synopsis: Most tend to think of our salvation (sin, salvation, atonement and judgment) as being primarily
judicial. In this lesson we will see that it is vital to also see our salvation as relational.
Based on thoughts from Jim McGuiggan, The Dragon Slayer, Page(s): 208-210.
“Let all that you do be done with love.”
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