People are like broken records. You talk to them in explicit detail about the plain truths of the Bible that prove its Divine origin and they simply respond, “Well, what about Mohammed and the Koran?”

You talk to them about the meaning of being a true Christian, believing in the King James Bible and not a bunch of man-made denominational systems or guru-led movements, and they say, “Well, what about Pat Robertson?”

What about Pat Robertson?! Is that what you plan to argue to God during your one-on-one at the White Throne Judgment?

I know a very active Christian here in New York (she has a Christian newspaper column and runs a large Christian singles group) who takes absolute offense to me telling her Billy Graham is an apostate teacher (To read my article detailing this, click on “Back Issues” and scroll down to “Graham Cracks,” dated July 1, 2005).

She won’t even hear what I have against him. It’s just, “No, I won’t stand for you bad-mouthing the man I’ve admired and adored all these years and who’s taught me so much.”

This woman won’t even look at what the Apostle Paul teaches if it in any way contradicts what Graham preaches. Graham wins hands-down.

I heard it said once, “It’s the truth that liberates you, not you wanting to be free.”

Here’s a sobering passage I came across recently when listening to an old sermon of my pastor’s (Richard Jordan, Shorewood Bible Church, Rolling Meadows, Ill., at www.graceimpact.org ) on cassette tape:

Paul says in Col. 1:23, “If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister.”

That passage is a reference to the fact that you’re going to face the Judgment Seat of Christ one day and, folks, the position you’ll occupy out there in the heavenly positions of rank and authority depends on the way the Lord Jesus Christ presents you to God the Father after the Rapture.

We go out at the Rapture—the day of Redemption—go from there to the Judgment Seat of Christ, where our lives and our service are reviewed and the rewards are given out.

It’s where our capacity for service is clearly identified. Paul says God “shall try every man's work of what sort it is.”

That means, “What’s the quality; what’s the capacity of soul service you have?” Christ takes His Body up into the third heaven and presents us before God the Father and it’s there that our position of service in the “ages to come” is assigned to each of us by the Father on behalf of the Son.

And my dear friend, that commissioning service and those orders—those things are all based upon the capacity that we have now! That’s why it’s so important to “rightly divide” the Word. (II Tim. 2:15)

You see if you build into your ministry and into your life now Kingdom principles—principles that are to be in operation in the future Kingdom reign of Christ on the earth—when you get out there in heaven where are you going to be able to serve? It’s going to be a problem, isn’t it?

It’s a capacity issue. There’s principalities and powers and dominions—the heavenly ranks—and then there’s “every name that’s named.”

Somebody says, “Boy, if I’m down there I won’t be happy looking up at the guy with a better position.” There won’t be any of that. When you serve up to your full capacity, aren’t you happy? Everybody has different capacities—you’ll serve to the fullest of your capacity and you’ll be eternally happy and blissful. It will be a wonderful day.

My friend, there are lots of jobs out there in eternity. I’ve described heaven to people in a lot of different ways. You know, for example, there are horses out there. You know where you keep horses? Now I’m not saying it’s that way, but I’m saying there are horses, and I get to thinking about it, and you know what you have to have when you got horses, right?

You got to have a place to keep them and, brother, if you’ve got a place to keep them, you know who you got to have around? Somebody’s got to have a shovel and a wheelbarrow.

All I’m saying is there are all kinds of jobs out there and we now, as members of the Body of Christ, need to be ever so careful. We say, “Lord, we want you to be honored and glorified, and all of our part in that might be evil spoken of here, but when the Spirit of grace and glory is upon us, in that day His honor will be there.”

(Editor’s Note: To be continued soon. . .)