It is our point of view, and we believe there is supporting Scripture, that our position in the Kingdom is governed largely by predestination. It is not our responsibility to strive to be a great one in the Kingdom of God but to press toward the mark that has been set for us as an individual. We will not find perfect fulfillment and joy if we undershoot or seek to overshoot that mark. We will be most happy if we are content with our calling and are diligent in fulfilling it.

In every case, the believer in Christ who is doing all he knows to do, obeying God according to his knowledge, is absolutely without condemnation. He is not on probation because of not having attained perfection.

The blood of Jesus Christ is not a ticket to Heaven, it is a provision God has made so that sinful people can enter the program of re-creation. Whoever would seek to play games with God, live in sin, and then "plead the blood" for protection against God's judgment, will find God to be an expert game-player and will always lose. He takes the wise in their craftiness!

There is a negative side of redemption which is the removal of the guilt, power, presence, and results of sin from us.

There is a positive side of redemption which is the recreation of our personality and our entrance into the rest of God. Included is the gift of a body that reflects in itself the type of Christian life we have lived.

The idea that every individual who has taken the four steps of salvation will receive a body like that of Christ is not scriptural. Our body will reflect the things we have done in this world. As we sow we shall reap.

Some members of the Kingdom of God will reap Christ a hundredfold. Some, sixtyfold. Some, thirtyfold. The hundred, sixty, and thirty are multipliers, not percentages.

There will be greatest and least in the Kingdom, and the determining factor is the practice and teaching of the commandments given by Christ.

A naked spirit or an oak of righteousness. All true Christians build on the one foundation, Jesus Christ. On this foundation they build gold, silver, precious stones, or wood, hay, and straw. One of the differences among these materials is their response to God's fire.

Every person's work will be revealed by the test of fire. Our God is a consuming fire. That which is wrought in Christ is made more precious by the fire of God. That which is wrought in the lusts and ambitions of the flesh is burned away by fire.

If in the day of fire a believer's works stand the test of fire, he or she shall be rewarded with glory, honor, authority, power, and nearness to God in the Kingdom.

If a believer's works are burned up by the Presence of God, he or she will suffer a staggering loss of inheritance.

The Apostle Paul delivered a sinning Christian over to Satan that his flesh might be destroyed, the idea being that his spirit could be saved in the Day of Christ.

To be continued.