All born-again believers endure to the end; those who don't were never saved in the first place, and they came in trusting in themselves.
Jesus Christ paid for our sins with every last drop of His blood; there is no way any human could do enough good to keep their salvation. God is interested in a transformed heart that He transforms, not the feeble attempts of people to earn their salvation.
Hebrews 12:4-11
A Father’s Discipline
4 You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;
5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
“My son, do not regard the discipline of the Lord lightly,
Nor faint when you are punished by Him;
6 For whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He punishes every son whom He accepts.”
7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.
11 For the moment, all discipline seems not to be pleasant, but painful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness."
If God threw us away over sin then He would have told us how many sins lose us our salvation, how big the sin must be and the particular sins. He did not do that because when Christ changed us into a new creation when we trusted in Him, He transformed our spiritual character not our flesh.
When we die our Spirit goes to Him but our body is left behind because it is corrupted and no corruption can go in the presence of God. We are trapped in this body and must battle against the flesh.
Galatians 5:16-18 "16So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law."
Stop attempting to judge every person as saved or unsaved, if they say they are Christians than discipline them when they fail but do not judge them as unsaved, because you cannot know for sure.
Matthew 13:24-30 "The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares
24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;
25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.
26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared.
27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’
28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’
29 But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”
The roots of the tares are entangled with the wheat in the church, we could damage the wheat if we pull up the tares before the right time.
Anyone who is trusting in themselves, hoping they do enough good works, is not trusting in Christ and may not be born again.
Christ changes us when we trust in Him, we do not change ourselves. He transforms us into something opposite of what we were. We do not think the same way or like the same things, Our spirit is replaced with His Spirit.
Too many modern "Christians" are attempting to save themselves by following man's rules that God never gave, causing arrogance, proud of what they think they have done, without giving any of the glory to Christ.
When Christ does something in us He gets the glory.
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