Believers works are judged

Lutero said:

Believers works are judged to determine rewards and loss of rewards and unbelievers works are judged to determine their condemnation. For some, it will be greater. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation (Matthew 23:14).

Think about what you just said. Do you number the Pharisees with the UNBELIEVERS? Yet they sit on Moses' seat.

Amen! In Christ, positionally we are righteous. Practically, in of ourselves, we are not. Apart from Christ, our righteousness is as filthy rags.

Very good.

Not ridiculous at all. Right out of the horses mouth! Salvation by faith AND WORKS. That is salvation by works.

Only if you ignore the fact that God measures faith by our deeds:
Romans 2:5-13

King James Version (KJV)
⁵But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
⁶Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
⁷To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
⁸But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
⁹Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
¹⁰But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
¹¹For there is no respect of persons with God.
¹²For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
¹³(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

If you add just one work to the cross it's still works salvation even if it's just works salvation in part.

To you, everything is an addition to the work of Christ on the Cross. Yet Scripture says:
Romans 8

¹There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
³For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
⁴That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
⁵For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
⁶For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
⁷Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
⁸So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
⁹But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
¹⁰And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
¹¹But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
¹²Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
¹³For 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.
¹⁴For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

So, all who add to the faith of Christ, the works of the Spirit, they are the ones who will be saved.


Sincerely,

De Maria