Judgement Seat of Christ

Matthew 10:12 But going into the house you shall greet it, 13 and indeed if the house should be worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it should not be worthy, your peace must return to you. 14 And whoever would not receive you nor hear your words, going out of that house or city shake off the dust from your feet. 15 Truly I say to you, it shall be better for the land of Sodom and Gomorra in the day of judgment than for that city!

This does not mean that the Canaanites of Sodom and Gomorra are going to be resurrected and judged. Firstly, it cannot even be established that the residents of those cities at the time of Abraham and Lot were even all Canaanites. Rather, it states that for those who reject the Gospel of the Kingdom, it will be worse for them in the judgement than it was for Sodom and Gomorra.

Matthew 10:32 Therefore each who shall agree with Me before men, I shall also agree with him before My Father who is in the heavens. 33 But he who should deny Me before men, I shall also deny him before My Father who is in the heavens.

We can never deny the truth of the gospel before men – or we shall indeed suffer for it in the much greater judgement to come. Many take this to mean denying Christ Himself outright. I would think that it means something much deeper – for while many of us profess Christ with our lips, we deny Him in one word or another, because we pick-and-choose which Scriptures we want to accept, and which we want to reject. In essence, denying any part of the Gospel, is a denial of Him. At 1 Samuel 2:30 Yahweh said “... them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed”.