Saved vs striving to be saved??

[Truthseeker]

Originally Posted by Luke

I am saved yet striving to stay saved.

How much striving does it take to stay saved? How do you know if your presently striving enough to say "I am saved"?

[Pliny]

Originally Posted by Truthseeker

How much striving does it take to stay saved? How do you know if your presently striving enough to say "I am saved"?

The mature have this mindset:
Php 3:8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
Php 3:9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith--
Php 3:10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
Php 3:11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
Php 3:12 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
Php 3:13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
Php 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Php 3:15 Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.

[Luke]

Originally Posted by Truthseeker

How much striving does it take to stay saved? How do you know if your presently striving enough to say "I am saved"?

Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

1 John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

[Truthseeker]

Originally Posted by Luke

Micah 6:8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

1 John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

Do you consider your self completely sin free?

[Luke]

Originally Posted by Truthseeker

Do you consider your self completely sin free?

Yes

[Truthseeker]

Originally Posted by Luke

Yes

Wow, first one ever to answer yes. You walk in complete submission to God bearing fruit of the Spirit? You never get angry when shouldn't? Love at all times? Etc....

[Luke]

Originally Posted by Truthseeker

Wow, first one ever to answer yes. You walk in complete submission to God bearing fruit of the Spirit? You never get angry when shouldn't? Love at all times? Etc....

I haven't always but now through Jesus I can say yes.

Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Jude 1:24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

[Truthseeker]

Originally Posted by Luke

I haven't always but now through Jesus I can say yes.

Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Jude 1:24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,

So it's through Christ you can say yes, I agree. But i am asking in behavior/actions. Most will.say no they are not sin free. This why we need a savior.