Warren
Puritan Board Freshman
I can't find it. Is this treasure it?
Matthew 6:19-21
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Everlasting Life is my treasure in heaven. I'm told by others I respect and befriend this is basic, and I should aspire to do well with my minas wages, because rewards await.
In all honesty, this is grotesque and smacks of an arrogant caste system. That doesn't sound like adoption, brotherhood, and sonship. If I'm wrong, please help me understand.
1 Corinthians 3:12-15
Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
Is Paul saying teachers, though their teaching (work) has flaws, will emerge justified like us? Or is he saying, because of their errors, their work is for naught, and they'll barely make it to heaven?
I think the point is good teaching - whether from Paul or Silas, or Barnabas, or Apollos - is refined during Christ's judgment on the last Day, when we will see with new eyes, and the bad teaching is burned up with the refuse of this world. It seems consistent, but I don't know if that's right...
Thanks!
Matthew 6:19-21
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Everlasting Life is my treasure in heaven. I'm told by others I respect and befriend this is basic, and I should aspire to do well with my minas wages, because rewards await.
In all honesty, this is grotesque and smacks of an arrogant caste system. That doesn't sound like adoption, brotherhood, and sonship. If I'm wrong, please help me understand.
1 Corinthians 3:12-15
Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
Is Paul saying teachers, though their teaching (work) has flaws, will emerge justified like us? Or is he saying, because of their errors, their work is for naught, and they'll barely make it to heaven?
I think the point is good teaching - whether from Paul or Silas, or Barnabas, or Apollos - is refined during Christ's judgment on the last Day, when we will see with new eyes, and the bad teaching is burned up with the refuse of this world. It seems consistent, but I don't know if that's right...
Thanks!