"Many don’t want a salvation they can’t work for and prove themselves worthy of."
And a far, far, greater number want a salvation that doesn't inconvenience them by requiring them to take up their cross and follow Christ.
Such folks rely on a few magic words and thereafter seem to enjoy mocking those who believe a Christian should try and live like Christ and bragging about their own freedom to "go along to get along" without bothering with details like how they live their life.
You won’t find me mocking a believer who wants to “live godly in Christ Jesus”! I want to. You want to. But we are heirs of the Promise, not the Law. The Law was added because of transgressions, and did not set aside the Promise. Paul spells this out in Romans.
“The power of sin is the Law”. Grace is the only option for believers, and I suggest again that, just as many Israelites bizarrely refused to look at the lifted up serpent, so do many today refuse to look to Christ ALONE. He did the work. Resting in that finished work allows a person to freely “work hard in The Lord” without falling under the curse of the Law.
A typical straw man which many like to beat.
So to dispense with such...If we love Christ we will do what He told us to do. We do what He told us to because of His Grace we have passed from darkness into light.