The Judgment Seat Of Christ - Acts 17:30-31

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead. - Acts 17:30-31

    Of all the misconceptions about Jesus that I hear, the one that consistently bites into my patience is the notion that Jesus is “all love and only love.” I cannot fathom for myself exactly how many people actually believe this tripe. Yes, yes, Jesus is love! However, He is not "only love!" He is also God! And God is not a one dimensional being whose only concern is for our tranquility. Our God is a God of many attributes, including both love and wrath. If our title verse doesn’t speak to this truth, nothing does!
    Was there something we missed? Maybe this will help clear the water - “And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained by God (Jesus)* to be Judge of the living and the dead.” - Acts 10:42.
    Still, there are those who resist the truth that Christ will indeed return to judge the living and the dead - “For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living. But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.” - Romans 14:9-10.
    Are there still any who believe that Jesus will not ultimately judge us all? For one to maintain that, they would have to dismiss the Holy Scriptures in their entirety. And if we can choose not to believe what Scripture tells us, then the Bible is nothing, it reveals nothing, and our faith is dead.
    But if we are to believe the Bible, then we must accept and admit that upon Christ’s second coming, He will judge both the living and the dead - “For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;(2 Peter 2:4)   then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,  and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority.”-  2 Peter 2:9-10.
    Many prefer to believe in a “Jesus” who is more of a big brother or friend than the righteous and sovereign God of creation. And to their dismay, they will one day see the error of such specious thinking - “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.” - 2 Corinthians 5:10.
    Christ is going to return, and when He does, He will  shower those who have repented in faith and believe in Him with His eternal love. Let us pray that we all repent in faith and believe that Jesus is indeed the loving, righteous, and sovereign God of creation.
    * - parenthesis mine.