The Work of Salvation

The perseverance of saints consists in keeping God’s commandments and faith in Jesus Christ ^[202]. The person who stands firm to the end will be saved ^[203]. God is the guarantee of this faithfulness, since nothing can separate God’s child from God the Father’s love ^[204]. However, a number of biblical texts warn: the regenerated man who separates himself from Christ can fall away from grace ^[205], if he wants to be justified by law ^[206] or out of carelessness ^[207], if his mind is set on the flesh, since he puts up resistance to God ^[208]. Such a situation which shocks the mind, prompts the believer who receives Christ, the author and perfecter of our faith ^[209], to expect everything from God, to base his hope only on Him and to walk fearing God “working out his salvation with fear and trembling ^[210]”.