Salvation from what?
Salvation is a free gift through our belief in the Son of Elohim - Yeshua the Messiah.
However, once we have this belief in the Messiah, our works prove our faith.
Salvation is not a license to sin.
Sin is anti-law, anti-Torah.
Salvation requires our constant effort.
If we do slip up and sin, we have an advocate on our side.
- And I saw a great white throne and Him who was sitting on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before the throne, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged from what was written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and She’ol gave up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. And Death and She’ol were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And if anyone was not found written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:11-15)
Salvation is a free gift through our belief in the Son of Elohim - Yeshua the Messiah.
- For by favor you have been saved, through belief, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of Elohim, it is not by works, so that no one should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
However, once we have this belief in the Messiah, our works prove our faith.
- So also belief, if it does not have works, is in itself dead. But someone might say, “You have belief, and I have works.” Show me your belief without your works, and I shall show you my belief by my works. You believe that Elohim is one. You do well. The demons also believe – and shudder! But do you wish to know, O foolish man, that the belief without the works is dead? Was not Avraham our father declared right by works when he offered Yitsḥaq his son on the slaughter-place? Do you see that the belief was working with his works, and by the works the belief was perfected? And the Scripture was filled which says, “Avraham believed Elohim, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.” And He called him, “he who loves Elohim.” You see, then, that a man is declared right by works, and not by belief alone. In the same way, was not Raḥaḇ the whore also declared right by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also the belief is dead without the works. (James 2:17-26)
Salvation is not a license to sin.
- For sin shall not rule over you, for you are not under the law but under favor. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under Torah but under favor? Let it not be! Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, you are servants of the one whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? (Romans 6:14-15)
Sin is anti-law, anti-Torah.
- Everyone doing sin also does lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. (1 John 3:4)
Salvation requires our constant effort.
- But he who shall have endured to the end shall be saved. (Matthew 24:13)
- But Messiah as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the boldness and the boasting of the expectation firm to the end. (Hebrews 3:6)
- And he who overcomes, and guards My works until the end, to him I shall give authority over the nations (Revelation 2:26)
- For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Set-apart Spirit, and have tasted the good Word of Elohim and the powers of the age to come, and fall away, to renew them again to repentance – having impaled for themselves the Son of Elohim again, and put Him to open shame. (Hebrews 6:4-6)
- For if we sin purposely after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a slaughter offering for sins, but some fearsome anticipation of judgment, and a fierce fire which is about to consume the opponents. (Hebrews 10:26-27)
If we do slip up and sin, we have an advocate on our side.
- My little children, I write this to you, so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Intercessor with the Father, Yeshua Messiah, a righteous One. And He Himself is an atoning offering for our sins, and not for ours only but also for all the world. (1 John 2:1-2)