Clearly all your looking for assurance is within yourself and your own efforts, or the law. Where is the rest in peace of assurance of an eternity with God based on nothing else than the person and work of Christ alone? If it's not there, then you are still thinking that what makes difference between heaven and hell for you is not the person and work of Christ alone, but your own efforts to maintain what you deem to be a right standing with God, until you, at best, hopefully make it to be saved. Here is where we differ as far as east is from the west.
Christ does not only make a difference...he makes you different....if you have not been made into a new creature then you are the same old person taking a ride on Christ.....you think our rest in Christ is a holiday ....rest in Christ is to cease from your works for righteousness...not to cease from his works....we now have a new boss...we labour in his vineyard not laze around while he does the work....Hebrews 4:9-11King James Version (KJV)
[SUP]9 [/SUP]There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
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Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
As for me, I will look to nothing else than to the person and work of Christ alone as for my right standing with God. I will look to the true gospel conditioned solely on the atoning blood and imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ alone - never to my own efforts. In this work of Christ for me I have full assurance and guarantee formy salvation. If I slip, He will put me on track again, if I fall, He will raise me up, if I err or go astray I will be corrected, and in the end be preserved in the faith. Why? Because I am His possession, bought with a price. There is no more room for going about to establish one's own righteousness the day that we have been given divine knowledge about the righteousness of God, which is revealed in the gospel, and by the grace of God having submitting to same.
that is faith without works....you have already gone astray and will not be corrected...your actions speak of a perpetual baby...always falling ...always needing correction...no maturity from the day you have been given divine knowledge about the righteousness of God...so you stumble around in the hope that God will pick you up if and whenever you fall...so what of the things that God instructed in 2 Peter 1..that if you do them you will never fall??
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8 [/SUP]For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
[SUP]9 [/SUP]But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
[SUP]10 [/SUP]Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: