Dear God's Grace, the dead branches are burned dosent mean the soul is lost, they will be saved but as through fire, the dead branches are dead works or branches not bearing fruit, you know in the fall the vine dresser is ruthless with the vine and strangely enough the root is practically all that is left, if we had been relying on our works to bring someone closer to the light and there is no fruit it goes through the fire but you shall not be burned, and yes your safe in his hands as I'm told and even by those with no works, no branches, where can the fruit be. But the good thing about the vine, branches keep growing so fast and that's why it has to be pruned so that were nor all branches no fruit. fruit is in time alone in prayer.
Saved but as through fire...
You're thinking of 1 Corinthians 3:4-15
Here it is:
4For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not
mere men?
5What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave
opportunity to each one.
6I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.
7So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.
8Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
9For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
10According to the
grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it.
But each man must be careful how he builds on it.
11For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12Now
if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
13each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work.
14If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.
15If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.
Here are some questions:
1. Who is this scripture speaking about?
2. Who is building upon the foundation laid by Jesus?
3. Is it the same persons this scripture is speaking about?
4. Whose works will be tested?
5. What will be received for the works of gold, silver and precious stones?
6. What will happen to the WORKS of hay and straw?
7. What exactly are those works?
IOW, Who is the scripture about
and What were their works?
This scripture is not speaking about us believers...
but about those who teach us.