No one can Pay for their Own Sinful Nature

It is silliness that declares the brutal death on the cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was not enough and that fallen human beings who cannot be in the presence of God the Father would be able to help the work of Christ in salvation.

We do work because we are saved not to become saved. Those who think they can help Christ in securing their salvation through their good deeds do not understand that all their good deeds are as filthy rags, God cannot even look upon their good deeds because they are covered in the sinful nature.

When Christ changes us into a new creation because we believe and trust in Him, we can never go back to the old again. It was a work of God that no man can undo. Christ merely gives us what we want when we repent and trust in Him. If someone does not want to be changed by Christ He will not change them into a new creation.

No one can make themselves acceptable enough to go to heaven that's why Christ had to die a brutal death to pay for our sinful nature, it's not just for sins, it's for our entire nature of sin. We cannot earn our way to heaven nor can we earn keeping it.

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."

2 Corinthians 5:17

"17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!"

Notice the "old is gone", it cannot come back.

When Christ changes us we are a completely different people, we don't think the same way anymore. We hate sin but are trapped in this body of sin so we have to battle it every day through the power of Christ. No child of God keeps on sinning, they confess to be cleansed.

Romans 7:23-25 "…23 But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.…"

1 John 3:9-10 "9 Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10 By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.…"

If one of God's children sins He does not throw them away, He disciplines them to return to obedience.

Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5And 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.” 7Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…"

Those who sin willfully who are not sorry and even defend their sin have never been born again. They came in of their own power not the power of Christ. Their mindset is the same as it was before because Christ will not change anyone who doesn't want to be changed into a new creation by Him. These people thought they could make themselves acceptable to God, but they cannot no matter how good they think they are, they will never measure up to God's holiness.

Matthew 7:21-23

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’"

There are many if not most pretenders in the apostate church today who look just like the world because they are the world.

James 4:4 "4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God. "

John 15:18-20 "18 If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. 19 If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. 20 Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.…"