A Study Guide for the Book of First Corinthians

If salvation were a ticket to Heaven, being saved as by fire would not be so bad after all.
It would mean merely that, while we did not receive the crown of royal authority, we still would go to Paradise.
In actuality, to be saved as by fire is to have most of our personality, as well as our inheritance, burned away so that we enter the Kingdom of God as a naked spirit.
It is an awesome loss, an incredible disaster—perhaps an eternal shame.
If the present doctrine of lawless grace were a true representation of the new covenant there would be no need to deliver an incestuous believer to Satan so his spirit would be saved in the Day of the Lord.
Why be concerned about incest? Doesn’t God see the immoral believer as holy because of his identification with Christ?
As in all his other writings, the Apostle Paul stresses the need for righteous, holy behavior if the believer is to possess the Kingdom of God.