Home Essay Series Salvation Discipleship and Reward
This complete ten-part KJV Bible study separates salvation, discipleship, and reward—three connected truths religion continually mixes together. The series establishes salvation as the free gift of God received through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ, discipleship as the believer’s costly walk of self-denial and cross-bearing, and reward as Christ’s future recompense for faithful service. Through detailed Scripture exposition, it distinguishes Calvary’s sin-bearing cross from the Christian’s cross, places good works after salvation rather than inside the gospel, explains how believers may lose their earthly lives or future rewards without losing eternal life, and examines the relationship between suffering and reigning with Christ. The study also explores the Judgment Seat of Christ, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, the five New Testament crowns, kingdom inheritance, and the possibility of being saved “yet so as by fire.” Readers will understand how eternal security and Christian accountability stand together, why salvation cannot be earned, and why a blood-bought believer must not waste the life Christ saved.