The scripture says a persons work can be totally burned up yet still saved.
Yes, that portion of scripture is dealing with a person's ministry works in this life where if all the things did for the Lord failed that does not disqualify them from entering God's Kingdom. Other scriptures tell us there are things that can and will disqualify people from entering His Kingdom.
Some in their defense of sinful behavior claim that 1 Corinthians 3:15 is saying even if a person were to live in sin they will still be saved. That is not true. They make it sounds like God's warnings are meaningless which is exactly what the enemy is trying to accomplish with the line of thinking he's gotten people to accept.
We now are judged on our works
Correct and if one walks after the flesh they are in sin and are separated from the Lord because they have turned from Him having denied Him in order to walk after the flesh which is living in sin.
Romans 8:13 - For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
James 4:17 - Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
2 Timothy 2:12 - If we deny Him, He also will deny us
1 John 1:6 - If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
So, two questions for you.
1. How do you account for someone having all their works burned up yet still saved?
2. Why are you judging on the basis of sin when Christ has dealt with our sin?
#1 already answered above
God's kingdom functions on seedtime and harvest.
Mark 4:26 (see Genesis 1:11 also) - And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground.
Gal 6 - God is not mocked, what we sow is what we reap.
After a person is born again if they sow to the flesh (turn away from the Lord) then they become separated from the Lord by their own choosing (2 Timothy 2:12). God does not accept sinful behavior. He can't because there's no darkness in Him and sin is walking in darkness having turned away from the Lord refusing to be led by His Spirit.
This is the whole problem with modern day churches and preachers is that they are telling people that living in sin is a non issue now. It is not. The wages of sin is still death which is speaking of spiritual death as in being separated from the Lord. Some claim it's physical death but it's not as we see all these people living in sin and they are still alive walking around.
The wages of sin is not to be rewarded with Heaven. That's the devil flipping the script tricking people in to believing the exact opposite of what the Lord said. He did this in the garden and he's doing it now like with Romans 8:13 where he's telling people if they live after the flesh they will not die spiritually and be separated from the Lord. That's the opposite of what the Lord said:
Romans 8:13 - For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
If we choose to walk in the flesh which is walking in sin, then we are walking in death which is not abiding in Christ.
If we choose to walk in obedience after the Spirit then we are walking in life which is abiding in Christ
Romans 6:16 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
1 John 1:6 - If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
Matthew 13:41,42 - The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
No condemnation can only be found when we abide in Christ in obedience unto righteousness.
Romans 8:1 - There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Anybody making the claim that we can walk after the flesh and still be righteous is claiming the Lord accepts sin making Him out to be a minister of sin
Galatians 2:17 - But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
This is the deception con the devil has ruin on mankind to get people to sow to the flesh turning away from the Lord while still believing they are in right standing with the Lord.
1 John 1:9 is telling us that sin makes one unrighteous which is why we are told to confess our sin so we can be cleansed of all unrighteous. Some seem to think 1 John 1:9 is not true. The enemy has tricked many in to believing they are still in right standing with the Lord as they continue in sin.
That's not true because God cannot be mocked, what we sow is what we reap and if we sow to the flesh we are turning away from the Lord in order to do so. No two ways about it.
The bigger question is why are so many defending sin?
