Hi Gerry,
 
I always enjoy reading your post.  I absolutely appreciate your call for us to holy, and for His bride to remain without spot or blemish. Amen!  I agree.
 
When I read your May 3rd post on 1 Cor. 3, I'm was in agreement until you said that our salvation is secure, even if the whole house burns down, for the foundation (Christ) remains. I guess it does matters how we interpret the gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, and stubble.  What the Holy Spirit has shown me is that these things represent the things of the world (the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life).  If we believe our salvation is secure, then this leaves absolutely no expectation for the believer to live according to His expectation, that is, to cease from doing the sins of the flesh.
 
The Bride of Christ are only them that have ceased from doing the sins of the flesh!  That's His expectation, for He knows what His Spirit can do!!!  "...faith that works by love" (Gal. 5: 6).
 
"Whosoever abides in Him sins not: whosover sins has not seen Him; neither known Him" (1 Jn. 3: 6).
"And he that has this hope in Him purifies himself, even as He is pure" (1 Jn. 3: 3).
 
In Christ,
Greg