What do wood, hay, and stubble represent in the judgment of believers' works?
Wood, hay, and stubble represent believers' works done from wrong motive and of no consequence. At the judgment seat, fire tests every work; such works burn, causing loss of reward, not loss of salvation. The believer is still saved, yet as by fire, with nothing to show.
Les explains that every believer’s work will be made manifest before the Lord Jesus on the bema seat, because the day will declare it and fire will test what sort of work it is. If the work abides, the believer receives a reward. If it is wood, hay, and stubble—works never done from the right motive and of no consequence—it will be burned. The person then suffers loss, not of salvation but of reward; he himself is saved, yet so as by fire, having nothing to show for it. Les notes this will be true of far too many believers.
If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
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What kind of work ends up as wood, hay, and stubble?
The many things we are involved in that enhance the ego will probably end up as nothing more than wood, hay, and stubble.