Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
"Wood, hay, and stubble symbolize anything subversive to the truth—doctrinally or in works. A program set up through the wisdom of men, worldly ways and carnality, tends to detract from the power of the Word of God, which is the power of the Gospel that brings salvation. We are kept by the power of God; we overcome by faith, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. Therefore if Satan can substitute the wisdom and ways of men and the methods of the world for the Word, he will not only damn souls who are not born again, but he will also render worthless the believer who remains a babe in Christ, never growing in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour—for such a Christian will never become a vessel unto honor nor a good soldier of the cross."
- O.B. Green in The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
"Wood, hay, and stubble symbolize anything subversive to the truth—doctrinally or in works. A program set up through the wisdom of men, worldly ways and carnality, tends to detract from the power of the Word of God, which is the power of the Gospel that brings salvation. We are kept by the power of God; we overcome by faith, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. Therefore if Satan can substitute the wisdom and ways of men and the methods of the world for the Word, he will not only damn souls who are not born again, but he will also render worthless the believer who remains a babe in Christ, never growing in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour—for such a Christian will never become a vessel unto honor nor a good soldier of the cross."
- O.B. Green in The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
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