Will preachers be judges?

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What’s your question? for April 6, 2011

Paul said God has appointed a day in which He will judge the world by Christ, and “has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead” (Acts 17:31). Matthew said, when Jesus comes again “all nations will be gathered before Him,” and He will separate the sheep from the goats (Mt. 25:31-33). When preachers consign people to heaven, or to hell, because they were on a desert and could not be baptized, they are presuming to be judges. Jesus said “He who believes and is baptized will be saved” (Mk. 16:16). He did not say infants who are baptized will later believe, nor did He say one who is saved by faith will later be baptized. When preachers presume to make exceptions to what God said, they need to be reminded that the Judge was resurrected!