While I agree that it is not a lost man's strivings to be good will get him saved is true. All men are commanded to repent and believe, can a lost man do this by himself? No. At the hearing of the gospel God convicts a man's heart of sin. Man realises his wickedness and that he has sinned against a Holy God. In a sense, he sees his own life through God's eyes. As the Holy Spirit testifies to the goodness of God and the own man's evil he repents. Now I don't believe repenting means saying ok, I need to straighten my act up, many through misunderstanding do this to their own destruction and have not done the will of God,for they have not called on the name of the Lord to save them, instead relying on their own good works. Repentance is a changing of the mind, a turning away from, of sin.

Now to call on the name of the Lord, what does that mean? What is He saving you from? God saves you from yourself. He puts His spirit in you and makes you His own.

Every tree that bears bad fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

God doesn't have mercy on a sinner that He may continue in his sins. Those that are His He breaks them of their sin, to be made into the image of His Son. This He does for His name sake. I don't know if you meant to imply this but the title makes it sound like we are saving people which is not the case. God saves, and His salvation poured out on a man changes this man.

A person can have a belief in Jesus and not be saved because they refuse to repent, you can't love the light and the darkness. If you love the things of the world, lusts of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life, then the love of the Father is not in you.

Not all who confess with their lips shall be saved, but those that do the will of the father in heaven shall be(repent).

Bottom line is, a true believer is God's workmanship. God is the one that produces the fruit in our lives, not us.

Look in 1John to see if your in the faith. Anyone is Christ is a new creature, and with patience will bear good fruit. If a man has a new relationship with God then he will also have a new relationship with sin.

If you asked Jesus in your heart and didn't notice a difference in your life with relation to sin(a sensitivity) you need to repent and believe in God, call out for Him to save you from yourself.