This gift of salvation is not something that has to be opened up or maintained. It is imputed to the believer without works. Imputed means that God has put it on the believer's account when they believed.
John 10:28 'And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand'. If Paul Washer studied this verse alone in the Greek, with all of the tenses, moods and voices that are involved with the verbs alone, he would have to change his entire message.
How many of us, who believed, were perfect and without sin when we received the salvation of God, which is the forgiveness and cleansing of all sin? NONE! How many of us were righteous? NONE! How many of us did good? NONE! How many are perfect and without sin when they die and are absent from the body and present with the Lord? NONE! It says in (Col 2:10) that we are complete in Him. That has to do with our position in Christ but not our experience. We are perfect in Christ positionally before the Father but not experientially because there is a work going on to form Christ in us (Phil 1:6, Gal 4:19).We need to grow in grace and knowledge of Christ (2Pt 3:18) and let the plan of God put us through trials so that our experience becomes what we are positionally little by little (1Pt 1:3-9).
We are becoming what God has already made us to be. When the believer dies, all his sins have been paid for by Christ whether he has repented of all of them or not. Jesus Christ paid for every sin of the believer (including the ones that were not repented of before the believer dies). If Jesus Christ has put away all sin, then the believer can't die in their sin because He has put it away and they are dead to it (Rom 6:2,11). The righteousness of God and grace does not advocate that any believer live in sin, God forbid (Titus 2:12, Rom 6:1,2)! If a believer was living in sin when they died, they were not receiving grace so they did not have grace to die or they died without dying grace. There sin won't keep them from heaven because God will not impute sin but has imputed His righteousness to them when they believed (Rom 4:8-24, James 2:23). Will they be judged by God for the sin they were living in when they died, NO! Because that sin was already judged and paid for by the death of Christ. The believer will be judged according to his works not his sin. However, his sin could have kept him from the good works that he could have been rewarded for, but instead will suffer loss (1Cor 3:9-12, 2Cor 5:10).
He died for us when we were sinners, He saved us when we were dead in trespasses and sins (Eph 2:1, Col 2:13) and all that was by grace, but for some reason, according to some of you, if we have a problem with any sin after we have believed upon Christ and we die, there will be no grace to receive us and we will be rejected. So God accepted us as sinners when we believed because of what His Son did for us, but now He is going to ignore what His Son did for us and reject us based upon a problem with sin? Who can be saved then? I guarantee you that there is sin your life (and Paul Washer's) right now and the love of God is covering that sin (James 5:20, 1Pt 4:8) and if you died with that unrepented sin that God is covering, you would die in your sin and go to hell according to some of you but not according to grace that is based upon what Christ did to that sin on your behalf before you even committed it. You and others have rejected that kind of grace because you want something to do with your own salvation instead of it totally being of the Lord and through the merits of what Christ did on Calvary.
Mercy and grace is totally from God and has nothing to do with you or your faith except to receive it. Faith gives us access to mercy and grace (Rom 5:2). Mercy has taken away what we deserve because of sin and grace gives us what we don't deserve when we sin (Rom 5:15,17,20). No one can say they will never sin because the old sin nature is still with us and we won't be rid of it until we get our new glorified bodies (Phil 3:21). As a believer, your sin can not separate you from God in terms of salvation or from God's righteousness or from eternal life, because they were a gift from God imputed to you without works when you believed upon the name of the only begotten Son of God. Your sin can separate you from your fellowship with God, but you have an advocate in those cases through Jesus Christ (1John 2:1) and you can receive grace and confess your sin and be restored instantly in your fellowship with the Father and the Son with no works and no probation, just faith.
If you do not understand what has been said in this post it is because it is not in your heart and to get it there you have to mix faith and believe (Rom 10:17, Heb 4:2). If any man have the Holy Spirit, the Spirit will testify and witness the truth in your heart.
1Jn 5:6-11 'This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son'.
If any man resist the truth then they are resisting the Holy Spirit (Acts 7:51). I give you the verses and you don't look them up because you think you know them, that is familiarity. Those verses are given to us as Spirit and life (John 6:63). I am preaching and you better believe it, because some of you are all messed up and you are offending and causing others to stumble and to question the grace of God. Others that don't like what I have said I suggest that you check out the scriptures and take it to God and ask Him if I am telling the truth or if I am lying. Because if I am lying to you, then I am lying to the Holy Spirit that is in you and that would not be good for me as it was not good for the victims of (Acts 5). If I am telling you the truth, the Spirit (along with the water of the word and the blood of Christ) will bear witness of the truth and that no lie is of the truth (1Jn 2:21). Satan is the father of all lies from the beginning and there is no truth in him (John 8:44-47). If I have lied to you then that lie has come from him and I have no truth in me (1Jn 2:4). I wonder if Paul Washer and those that preach as he does are willing to risk that they are not of the truth because of the message they preach! What if the message they preach is one that has fallen from grace and blasphemed the Son and the finished work of Christ? You and the Holy Spirit through the grace of God will have to be the judge of that.