Salvation and Rewards
Blood-washed believers will be spotless in God’s sight, but not all will have the same service record. God is after obedience. Salvation gets us to heaven, but works determine what we do after we get there. -C.S. Lovett Any discussion of rewards raises a host of questions, and we will seek to answer them in the pages that follow. But the most important issue is how good works for rewards and salvation by grace fit together. To state the issue simply: What is the relationship between faith and works, or redemption and rewards? Avoiding any confusion about these two lines of truth is essential. We could call faith (salvation) and works the two master keys of the law or principle of rewards. Faith and works determine everything about your eternal existence and mine. Understanding what the Bible says about these truths is crucial. These two master keys are basic, yet supremely significant. Here’s the simplest way I know to express these twin truths. Key #1: Yo...