Well, we get a regular flow of email questions about eternal rewards, and rightly so.

And today's question comes to us from Song, who asks this, Pastor John, regarding 1 Corinthians

3 verses 10 to 15, what does this mean that our work done in Christ will be tested by fire

and will get rewarded accordingly?

What of our works will burn up?

What's the difference between what this burning leaves unburnt and what is consumed?

How would you answer these questions?

It's probably important that we read this.

In fact, maybe go back a little farther than verse 10, because the context here matters

to get things oriented correctly.

This text, people can test this now when I read it, is not first or mainly about the

general good works of all believers, though I think the implication is going to be there,

but it's first and mainly about service in the Word to the church and how she is built

up, putting stones in place and building the church with right teaching.

So let me read it and you look for that, whether or not some teachings are combustible

straw and some teachings are precious stones.

I'm going to start at verse 5, not verse 10 of 1 Corinthians 3.

What then is a Paulus?

What is Paul?

Servants through whom you believed as the Lord assigned to each.

I planted a Paulus watered, but God gave the growth.

So come in.

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