I have written about
this many times. Here however, we have
Paul saying the same thing I've been saying and it is all in one place.
To recap, we are
saved by grace so that none may boast but our rewards in Heaven are based on
the amount of service we provide to God.
So not everybody gets the same reward in Heaven which shoots the claims
that God is a Socialist in the foot.
1 Corinthians 3:5-15(NKJV)
Who then is Paul,
and who is Apollos, but ministers
through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one?
I planted, Apollos
watered, but God gave the increase.
So then neither he
who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the
increase.
Now he who plants and he who
waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own
labor.
For we are God’s
fellow workers; you are God’s field, you
are God’s building.
According to the
grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the
foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds
on it.
For no other
foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Now if anyone builds
on this foundation with gold,
silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
each one’s work will
become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire;
and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is.
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.
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