Not according to the context in Matthew...What is it a person is supposed to endure??? Persecution...And for how long??? Till a certain event takes place...NOT the end of your life...It's right there in the context...
6. Jesus will judge you based on your works, which is indicator of your faith.
That is not at all what the apostle Paul teaches us...He teaches us that 'our works' get judged...Not us...And then the bad works are burned up..Expunged from our record so we can go to heaven with a clean slate...
7. Works do not save you. Jesus Christ saves you. But in order for Him to grant salvation you have to prove where your faith lies.
Jesus doesn't judge our works...He judges our heart...We don't have to prove anything...
Jesus said multiple times that in reality, among the believers and religionist, only a few would actually be saved. Probably because the vast majority went around claiming they didn’t have to do anything for their salvation...
The truth is exactly the opposite...It is the people who think Jesus didn't do enough to save us that are in danger...There is absolutely nothing we can contribute to our salvation...To take even the slightest credit away from Jesus and attribute it to yourself only angers Jesus...
8. Matt 25:32-46 is direct and explicit. How can anyone deny this? Ask yourself this, based on Matt 25, are the righteous separated from the wicked based on what they believed or what they did? Or... didn’t do?
I, a dispensationalist agree with you...Clearly teaches a works salvation...But not for Christians...There's not a Christian in that bunch anywhere...
A distinction without a difference, as in judging what manner of workmanship one built the church with, then the Lord is judging the worker as to whether he/she is fit to be rewarded or suffer loss of rewards, though i do not think it is an either/or situation.
Jesus doesn't judge our works...He judges our heart...We don't have to prove anything...
Which contradicts your previous statement, but the Lord certainly does judge our heart - by our works, as is clearly seen, such as in His critique of the 7 churches of Asia.
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: (Revelation 2:2)
We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted [well-approved] of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences. (2 Corinthians 5:8-11)
And then the bad works are burned up..Expunged from our record so we can go to heaven with a clean slate...
There is nothing here in 1Co. 3:8ff about works being expunged from our record so we can go to heaven with a clean slate, as the judgment is in order to reward believers, not to purify them so they can enter Heaven (which is akin to Roman Catholicism), and they are already with the Lord at His return. Combustible building material will be burned up, resulting in loss of rewards and the grievous disapproval of the Lord, but one is saved despite the loss of such, not because of them.
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. (1 Corinthians 3:15)