Will you be smoking in heaven?
Stained glass at St John the Baptist's Anglican Church http://www.stjohnsashfield.org.au, Ashfield, New South Wales. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Will you be on fire for God or will you be in heaven having been through the fire with just smoke left behind? "Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is." ( 1 Corinthians 3:13 ) This key verse of Scripture gives the principle by which God will evaluate our works in that great future day when all believers will be assembled before "the judgment seat of Christ " ( Romans 14:10 ; 2 Corinthians 5:10 ). The non-believer will be judged elsewhere, while this will be a judgment of believers only, for when the purifying fire tries our works, "if any man's work abide . . . he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself...