The sins of us, who do our sinful best, to do the works God requires, had been forgiven by God's grace from the creation of this world.
Yeshua ha'Machiach / Jesus the Messiah, who was known by God eternally, to be bringing the perfect offering, will be our advocate at judgement, as he paid the price in full, where we fell / is falling / will fall short of God's commandments.
We would not be subscribing to God's new covenant of grace, where his commandments are written on our hearts, if we view his new covenant of grace as a free pass to not keep his commandments. We endeavour at our sinful best, whilst walking in sanctification, by following Yeshua ha'Machiach / Jesus the Messiah, and to obey his commandments.
We are justified
not by faith alone.
We are justified
not by works alone.
James 2 (ESV)
24 You see
that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
Re-unitement with God cannot be attained of works alone, nor of faith alone - the atonement offering of Yeshua ha'Mashiach / Jesus the Messiah re-united us in a new covenant with God. His law / Torah / Pentateuch is now written on our hearts. Our works in love, and our walking closer and closer in the commandments of God, in which Yeshua ha'Maschiach / Jesus the Messiah walked, and taught us by example, bears witness to our faith and hope in Yeshua ha'Mashiach / Jesus the Messiah (the Alpha and Omega), son of God. As Yeshua ha'Mashiach / Jesus the Messiah walked, we must follow, and walk (and not be ignorant of his commandments) in holiness before God.
Salvation is from God to man, in his bringing to acceptance of Yeshua ha'Mashiach's payment, to his elect covenant people. His covenant people's works, in walking closer and closer to the commandments of God, day by day, in a process called sanctification, bear witness of acceptance of Yeshua ha'Mashiach's payment.
To sum up - we are
NOT SAVED (re-united with God, under Yeshua ha'Machiach's / Jesus the Messiah's new covenant)
BY WORKS ALONE, NOR BY FAITH ALONE.
WORKS of LOVE, for GOD, our NEIGHBOUR as OURSELF, in walking in, and obeying God's commandments written on our hearts, closer and closer day by day, in a process of sanctification,
will be the litmus test for GOD's JUDGEMENT, of
whether YOU TRULY HAD FAITH and is part of his new covenant people - or whether you just lied to yourself, God and others.
1 John 2 (ESV)
4 Whoever says "I know him" but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,
1 Corinthians 13 (ESV)
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Matthew 23 (NLT)
2 “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses.
3 So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach.
Matthew 22 (ESV)
36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?"
37 And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
38 This is the great and first commandment.
39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."
Matthew 7 (ESV)
21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Jeremiah 31 (ESV)
33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."