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"If anyone's work is burned..."

Text: 1 Corinthians 3:15

RESULTS OF BEING TESTED BY FIRE

As may be expected, two results may be expected, one positive, the other negative.

“If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures,
he will receive a reward.
If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss;
but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.”
1 Corinthians 3:14-15

1. “If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures”

a) Work that endures

i) Time

ii) Testing

iii) Scrutiny

b) That person is a wise master builder.

i) He will receive a crown of life (James 1:12).

ii) He will receive a crown of righteousness from the Lord (2 Timothy 4:8).

2. “If anyone’s work is burned”

a) That work does not stand up to the test of fire.

b) Thus, the work put in is burned up.

3. “He will suffer loss”

a) In that, all his efforts go to waste.

b) He will not be commended by the Lord.

c) There is no reward.

4. “But he himself will be saved”

a) Salvation is a free gift from the Lord.

b) Salvation is eternal.

c) This is truly the great grace of God.

5. “Yet so as through fire”

a) The dross will be burned away.

b) The person is “barely saved”.

c) He is a brand plucked from the fire.