If salvation is based on our performance on what we do then it is not by grace. Our salvation is based on what Jesus Christ did. Our part is simply to receive the gift!  Salvation cannot be a free gift and also be something we must earn. Either we earn it, or it is a gift. It cannot be a mixture of the two.  If you claim to give me a gift, but you ask me for any payment  no matter how small then it is not a gift but something I am buying for a reduced price. Buying something on sale does not make it a gift. If there is any payment involved, by definition, it is not a gift.  Today, just as in Bible times, there are those who teach that
being right with God can only be achieved by keeping their list of rules. But this is not the true teaching of the New Covenant.Those who present a plan of salvation based on your performance are not rightly dividing the Word. Yes, many Scriptures give instruction on what we are to do. But they are instructions for
how to live, not how to be saved and enter the family of God. Will there be rewards and consequences for our actions? Yes! Scripture makes that clear. But our entrance into God's family and our home in Heaven is not based on our performance, but on our faith in what Jesus performed.





 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
 Not of works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8-9).