Nobody ever said that we don’t have to respond.
We are convicted of our sin and sinfulness, we repent and confess our sin and our faith in Jesus and we ARE saved.
Not hope to be. Not if we try hard enough. Not if the good works outweigh the bad works because works to not garner salvation. It is given to us FREELY. God is not an Indian giver.
We are transferred into the kingdom of the Son He loves. We are clothed with the righteousness of Christ which God sees when He looks at us instead of the filthy rags of our own righteousness that He’d see otherwise.
Once we are saved and become a child of God, He does not disown us every time we slip up and sin. A parent is certainly grieved when their child sins and the child is chastised, but NEVER disowned.
We may not get all the reward we’re entitled to in heaven, but we’re not kicked out of heaven.
Hebrews 12:4-11
In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,
“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you, because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”
Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? If you are not disciplined—and everyone undergoes discipline—then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live! They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.