What must I do to be saved

Here is who will receive eternal life on the Day of Judgement, when we stand before Him.


But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who “will render to each one according to his deeds”: 7 eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; 8 but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath, 9 tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; 10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with God. Romans 2:5-11


God who “will render to each one according to his deeds”:

• eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality;

• but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath

Salvation is received as an end result of a life of walking in the obedience of faith.


6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, 8 whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls. 1 Peter 1:6-9

• receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.

JPT

I would say that the child of God is no longer depraved. Unsaved children of their father Adam are depraved. We have been adopted into Gods family and are now children of God whom we now address as Abba Father.

Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

For the cause of Christ
Roger

That is correct.

You are not allowed to have it again once you lose it.

In John 3:16,17 according to Thayer's Greek definition of the word WORLD is "used of believers only".

What must one do to be saved.

I believe God decides who will be saved and who won't.

There are many scriptures which support the view that we don't decide to believe in Christ, but faith in Christ is a gift that God gives only to His elect.

Most folks don't agree with the doctrine of predestination/election, because many other scriptures say things like you must obey and remain faithful to the end etc...

These two opposing views have been debated for centuries, so today we have the benefit of many good good books on the subject but have we arrived at a consensus in the Church.

I would love to see the Church unite and resolve this dividing issue. But I fear that it will continue to be an enigma for the Church. Why can't we let the Bible be the final authority and accept what it really says and unite in the truth.

And then we have the words of Jesus where He discusses a lamb that is lost and the Shepherd leaves the 99 to find the one and bring the lost back into the fold.

And the coin that is lost and is diligently searched for until it is found.

And the son who left, wasted his substance with riotous living, and was welcomed back with open arms by his father.

We know Jesus was not teaching that he always finds and returns the person who no longer believes in Christ for justification, somehow proving that 'once saved always saved' is true. The 'if' in the Matthew version of the parable of the lost sheep shows us he was not teaching that:

"If any man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go and search for the one that is straying? 13“If it turns out that he finds it, truly I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray. 14“So it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish."-Matthew 18:12-14

I capitalized “ARE” did you give pause to that. A person that has been born Again already has salvation.

By The Way,If you are going to Interpret the scripture that you are using to promote salvation b works then you will have to harmonize the scripture that you are using with the ones that I use and If you continue to have those scriptures contrary to each other then your Interpretation Is In error because GOD Is not the author of confusion.

Do you have faith in Jesus Christ for your salvation ?

This Is just my Opinion as for how a person has faith,they have to use one or more of their five senses to believe In the WORD of GOD and then GOD gives them the faith of JESUS.

Everyone deep down knows that there Is a GOD.The creation Itself declares It.
If we have the faith of a mustard seed mountains can be moved.Where we are weak HE Is strong.

God does not do your believing for you. He gives you the faith to believe, but he does not do your believing/trusting for you. You do that. And last time I checked, trusting in Christ was not listed in the works that can not justify.

Yes, that is where the security lies. So stay in the security of Christ by continuing to believe.



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It is the staying power of the gospel, the sealing power of the Spirit, the firm hands of the Saviour, the continuing holding of the Father and the remaining promises of the Bible that keeps me saved. Stay, remain, continue are descriptive words for fellowship, discipleship, and growth as a Christian never to equate them in order to be saved. I am continuing to the faith “once delivered to the saints” because I AM ALREADY SAVED.

I bet he will do that for you too. As long as you keep trusting in him, he will do that. Promise.

Believe means trust and commit to obey.

If we trust that He will lead us on the difficulty path that leads to like and we follow Him, the we are believing and trusting trusting Him.

We have to believe to the end, to receive the salvation of our soul.


that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, 8 whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls. 1 Peter 1:7-9

• receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.

JPT

The way faith comes to us, is by hearing God.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Romans 10:17


Example:



By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. Hebrews 11:8


God spoke to Abraham to get out of his fathers house, to a land He would show him.

Abraham now has faith.


However Abraham must obey the word by which he received faith, otherwise his faith is dead: dormant - inactive and unable to produce the intended divine result.


I will stop here, and let you comment.



JPT

The idiomatic expression “ receiving the end of your faith” means receiving/suffering something unpleasant when you have done nothing to deserve it.