“Jesus said to her, ‘Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again,
but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the
water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up
to eternal life’” (St. John 4:14).
“He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart shall
flow rivers of living water.’ Now this he said about the Spirit, which those
who believed in him were to receive.” (St. John 7:38).
“If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him,
and we will come to him and make our home with him” (St. John 14:23).
“…through these you may escape from the corruption that is in the world
because of passion, and become partakers of the divine nature” (2 Pet.
1:4).
Many Fundamentalists, etc., hold that all the saved in heaven are equal
because Christians when justified all receive the same mystical covering of
Christ’s imputed merits. However, Scripture tells us that the each of the
saved will receive a different reward and shine with a greater or lesser glory
depending on their own meritorious works done in faith:
“Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a
hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear” (St.
Matt. 13:8).
“He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his
wages according to his labor” (1 Cor 3:8).
“There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another
glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory” (1 Cor. 15:41).
“Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense, to repay every one
for what he has done” (Rev 22:12).
Our Lord spoke of those who are greater and lesser in the Kingdom of
Heaven:
“Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches
men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does
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