Excellent summery Maximus.
We agree with what you have said.
Faith is the water pump at the water well, nothing will happen, or get the water out, unless you put it into action ( works, working, action ) into it, actually pump the water pump.
Works, action, is actually putting what God has said, his orders, his will, his commamd of what he has told us what to do accordingly to his will or purpose collectively or personally in out lives.
We never said that works were not important, or want to ommit them, it’s that our salvation, our redemption, sanctification, our entry into the Kingdom of God and heaven does not hang on it, or hang in the balance over it, our works.
But of course we all fall and fail, where God is always faithful, his mercy is new every morning.
God has got our back and has got us covered.
I think obedience is very much a part of sanctification. It is still a miraculous work (gift) of God in our hearts. But it is obedience to God’s moral law. “Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” His sheep hear His voice and obey. It does not save us. But it is evidence of His work in our hearts. If it is absent, our faith is a fraud. That does not mean we won’t stumble. It does mean that His law is still to be obeyed and true believers will want to obey it because they love it as they love Him.
Absolutely. I hang desperately onto I Jn 1:9.