Anyone Attempting to Gain Heaven by their Own Effort is not Born Again

No authentically born-again believer will ever lose their salvation.

All born-again believers overcome and are preserved by the Spirit of Christ Who lives in them.

We cannot make ourselves saved it is a work of God and we cannot keep ourselves saved, that too is a work of God.

2 Corinthians 5:17

"17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new [a]creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."

God is the One Who changes us into a new creation, we do not do that to ourselves. After we repent and desire to be changed by Christ He comes to live in us and changes us.

Ephesians 2:10

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

We cannot undo anything God has done and we cannot do anything God can do.

Ephesians 1:13-14

"13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in [d]Him with the Holy Spirit of the promise, 14 who is a first installment of our inheritance, in regard to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory."

We get no glory for our salvation because the only part in it that we have is to repent. The thief on the cross had no works he had done to earn salvation, His only part in it was that he trusted that Christ was Who He was and did what He did in paying for our sins.

The scriptures people use to claim one can lose their salvation are taken out of context and describe non-believers who were never born again in the first place.

Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” 7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…"

God does not throw people away for sin whom He has changed into a new creation in their Spirit, He disciplines them to bring them back to obedience.

Every believer is sealed with the Holy Spirit until the day the Lord takes them home.

Ephesians 1:13-14

"13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of the promise, 14 who is a first installment of our inheritance, in regard to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory."

We belong to Christ after He changes us and no one and nothing can undo what He did in us.

John 10:27-29 "…27 My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me. 28 give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.…"

God said; "I give them life and they will NEVER perish.

In the parable of the 10 virgins, five had oil and were saved and five knew of the oil but didn't have it, they were not saved.

The oil is representative of the Holy Spirit, five had the Holy Spirit because they were saved and the other five knew about God but did not have the Holy Spirit because they were attempting to obtain salvation in their own effort. Matthew 25 1 John 2:19-20 "19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us. 20 You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.…"