It's Never Enough

[GrowingPains]

Originally Posted by Adino

Until a man comes to the realization that he must cease working in order to fully rest in Christ's finished work he will never truly know what it means to 'enter into Christ's rest.'

Christ did ALL that is necessary for us to be right before God. The more we depend on the sufficiency of his work, the less we depend on our own conduct. Conversely, the more we depend on being 'good enough' the less we depend on the goodness of Christ for our status before God.

Peace and assurance of salvation will only come once we accept that we can never be good enough and rest in the righteousness of Christ. Accept that we can never do enough to merit a right standing before God (in fact, all our righteousness is as filthy rags) and rest in a righteousness imputed to us by faith alone.

Our justification is founded on the work of Christ, not on our own righteous acts.

Performance based acceptance VS acceptance based performance.

LAW vs GRACE

Would it surprise you that I agree?

Howbeit, there is much in the Gospels about the believer's responsibility: Working out their own salvation, pictures of a prodigal son making up his mind and coming home, hearing the call -- and following, hearing of the promise of the father -- and making it to Jerusalem... in fact, the word repentance in the original indicates the believer's responsibility to change their direction, placing their faith in Christ.