I am saved and I am being sanctified as I grow in Christ ..that will not be complete until I am glorified ...
>>But you will be judged according to your works. I don’t believe you are saved. Salvation happens after you die.
Once saved, always saved is an error that even many Protestants have a hard time with.
Why should I care about your definition of assurance? It’s Western legalism.
I believe in the preservation of the saints... that is God preserves us..He keeps us..
Just as I could never save myself..I could never keep myself..he keeps me by His grace ..That is why Christ called it 'ETERNAL life"
Jhn 10:26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
Jhn 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,neither shall any [man] pluck them out of my hand.
Jhn 10:29 My Father, which gave [them] me, is greater than all; and no [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father's hand.
Jhn 10:30 I and [my] Father are one.
“Once saved, always saved is an error that even many Protestants have a hard time with.”
Ephesians 1:13:
And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit.
1 Peter 1:23
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
2 Corinthians 1:22
Set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
And is it even possible to achieve sufficient enought works to earn salvation? The answer is no:
Isaiah 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.