God Keeps Us

Anyone who thinks they are keeping their salvation by being good, is missing the point entirely.

We are not saved by works nor are we kept by works. We are kept by the power of Christ because of His Work in us.

Ephesians 2:10-11
"10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."

We have nothing in us that is good or capable of being better than who we are, that's why Christ had to come and live in us.

He is continually cleansing us from sin until the day He comes for us.

1 John 1:9
"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

1 John 1:7
"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin."

Titus 3:5
"He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,"

God authored the scriptures above to believers! They were not for non-believers but for believers. The believers have already trusted Christ, they repented, (changed their mind), after salvation they needed to be pruned as one prunes grape vines or rose bushes. The vines and bushes grow more fruit when they have been pruned, but they have to be cut back drastically for this to happen.

This is why believers have trials, illnesses, financial difficulties, family problems, God is training us to become holier.

The message to non-believers was this:
Matthew 4:17 " 17 From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”

To His own Children Christ said these things:

James 1:2-8 "2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.
7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.:"

Romans 5:4-6
4 And patience produces character, and character produces hope. 5 And this hope will never disappoint us, because God has poured out his love to fill our hearts. He gave us his love through the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to us.
6 When we were unable to help ourselves, at the right time, Christ died for us, although we were living against God."