Those who are believers in the Savior (not writing Him off as mere chance-giver) can sing with me:
His grace has planned it all;
Tis mine but to believe;
And recognize His work of love,
and Christ receive;
For me, He died;
For me, He lives;
And everlasting life & light He freely gives.
As Jonah said, Salvation is of YHWH.
I need no other argument;
I need no other plea;
It is enough that Jesus died,
& that He died for me.
Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for
He shall save His people from their sins.
Those who have downgraded the Lord Jesus to mere chance-giver,
denying He is the Savior,
are urged to repent & actually trust Him to do the saving.
The filthy rags of your righteousness will only condemn you.
The only thing you can do to "save yourself," is to stop trying to save yourself, and rest in the finished work of Christ.
7 Wherefore, even as the Holy Spirit saith,
To-day if ye shall hear his voice,
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation,
Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tried me by proving me,
And saw my works forty years.
10 Wherefore I was displeased with this generation,
And said, They do always err in their heart:
But they did not know my ways;
11 As I sware in my wrath,
They shall not enter into my rest.
12 Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, . . .
To-day if ye shall hear his voice,
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
. . . to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that were disobedient? 19 And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
4:1 Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it. 2 For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.
3 For we who have believed do enter into that rest; even as he hath said,
As I sware in my wrath,
They shall not enter into my rest:
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he hath said somewhere of the seventh day on this wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works; 5 and in this place again,
They shall not enter into my rest.
. . .
To-day if ye shall hear his voice,
Harden not your hearts.
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day. 9 There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For
he that is entered into his rest
hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. 11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.