What happens if I do things to show people how much I can accomplish?
When actions are done to show people how much you can accomplish, they count for nothing. Such works are described as nothing more than wood, hay, and stubble. The judgment seat of Christ evaluates believers, and reward depends not on the amount done but on the motivation behind it.
Les explains that believers come before Him to be judged for what they have done during their earthly sojourn. The issue is not so much how much has been done, but the motivation behind it. If the only reason a person taught was to show people what he knows, it would count for nothing. Everything must be done with the right motive: because we love the Lord and so He will receive the glory. Then it will count for reward. But if we are doing things to show people how much we can accomplish, it will count for nothing—nothing more than wood, hay, and stubble. This connects with II Corinthians 5:10, where every believer must appear before the judgment seat of Christ to receive what was done in the body, whether good or bad.
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;