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ineffable joy of forgiving grace will swallow up all sorrow, and the
beauty of Christ will blind us to anything other than the splendor of
who he is and what he has, by grace, accomplished on our behalf.

Second, we must not be afraid that, with the exposure and evaluation
of our deeds, regret and remorse will spoil the bliss of heaven. If
there be tears of grief for opportunities squandered, or tears of shame
for sins committed, the Lord will wipe them away (Rev. 20:4a).

"Two closing comments are in order. First, our deeds do not determine
our salvation but demonstrate it. They are not the root of our
standing with God but the fruit of it, a standing already attained by
faith alone in Christ alone. The visible evidence of an invisible faith is the good deeds that will be made known at the judgment seat of Christ."

final manifestation
of his rule to bring in the new age, God has manifested his rule,
his Kingdom, to bring men in advance of the eschatological era the
blessings of his redemptive reign.3

Before the eschatological appearing of God’s Kingdom at the end of
the age, God’s Kingdom has become dynamically active among men
in Jesus’ person and mission. The Kingdom in this age is not merely
the abstract concept of God’s universal rule to which men must submit;
it is rather a dynamic power at work among men.  .  .  . Before
the apocalyptic coming of God’s Kingdom and the final manifestation

We believe in the personal, glorious, and bodily return of our Lord Jesus Christ with his holy angels, when he will be consummated. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the just and the unjust - the unjust to judgment and eternal conscious punishment in hell, as our Lord himself taught, and the just to eternal blessedness in the presence of him who sits on the throne and of the Lamb, in the new heaven and