" Holy than thou theology" Is our personal holiness a condition of present or final salvation?

Many individuals and churches believe that we need to help Jesus to save us by personal effort of personal holiness or righteousness and if we will not do it... or maintain it... we end in hell.

Salvation by receiving and accepting Christ by faith after repentance that all our efforts and merits are worthless to save us thus we need Christ alone to save us that is the complete salvation. They will add then that this free salvation be maintained by personal holiness and righteousness. This belief which may have originated from the ignorance and fear that salvation be abused. And the motive to hold the members faithfulness by fear that they may lost their salvation and the money involved by forcing tithes and offerings through church faithfulness. Good works is motivated by selfish motive of self salvation rather than genuine love for God. They are faithful not because they love and want to serve God but because they want to save themselves, not realizing that salvation is a gift and totally free. We are changed and do righteousness because of Christ that dwells in us and we need to only to surrender to His will and direction through the Holy Spirit. And all our good works will result to rewards in heaven never salvation.

They have never considered that God has a system of loving discipline to His erring children to correct and prevent abuse and to let them voluntarily surrender realizing His love and grace rather than fear to lost the eternal relationship of sonship. They try to look holy and very judgmental to other people. They try to be very emotional sometimes without reason. They even want to force to speak in tongues to be holier in a higher level and those who can not speak in tongues, they despise and say speaking in tongues is a sign of salvation.

1. They are blind.

"Who is blind as he that is perfect?" Isa. 42:19. God says the man who claims to be perfect is blind. That is the reason he does not see his own sins.

2. They are deceived.

"If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves" 1 John 1:8.

3. They are destitute of truth.

"If we say we have no sin... the truth is not in us"  1 John 1:8.
Terrific indictment is that. The only other people that God says there is no truth in, besides those who say they do not sin, are hypocrites (1 John 2:4) and the devil (John 8:44).

4. Liars or make God a liar.

"If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us" (1 John 1:10).

God says: "There is not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sinneth not." Our holiness friends of all varieties say they do not sin. God's indictment here i two-fold. He says that they are liars. That is one charge. And then He says their claim makes God out a liar, for He says they do sin and they say they do not. The second charge is more grievous that the first under this count. To charge God with being a liar is to be guilty of contempt of the judge of all the earth, to be guilty of sacrilege, of attempting to set aside God and His word as the law by which man shall be judged.

5. They are Spiritual Bastards.

"If ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards and not sons" Heb. 12:8.

If God whips them it proves they sin; if He doesn't whip them it doesn't prove that they live without sin; but it proves that they are bastards, that they call God their Father, when they are not His sons. Mark you, God says He chastises all sons, which proves that all God's children sin and have to be whipped for it at times.

6. They are filthy.

"There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes and yet is not washed from their own filthiness" Prov. 30:12.

Even their good works are filthy. "All or righteousness are as filthy rags." Filthier still does Paul say they are. He says that all good works of men, even if blameless in men's eyes, are "as dung" in the eyes of Holy God. Phil. 3:6-9.

7. They are ignorant.

"Being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God" Rom. 10:3. Their ignorance is the kind described be Paul: "Being alienated from the life of God through ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart." Ignorance, especially when willful, is no excuse in the eyes of the law.

8. They are accursed.

"As many as are of the works of law are under the curse: for it is written, cursed is every one that continueth not in all the things which are written in the book of the law to do them" Gal. 3:10.

The law says: Do and live. All who trying to get to heaven by doing God's commands are under the law. God says that all of them are accursed, because none of them have done all that God commanded.

9. They are boastful.

That thing proves that they are not saved. For God plainly says: "Not of works lest any man should boast" Eph. 2:9. "Where then is boasting? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? Nay: but by the law of faith" Rom. 3:27.

10. They are destitute of the Holy Spirit.

"These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit" Jude 19.

Their rolling, jumping, and appeal to physical excitement all mark them as sensuous and sensual; and Jude said that such folks are destitute of the Holy Spirit.
If they were spiritual they would obey God's plain command about women keeping silence in the churches that they even made women pastors (1 Cor. 14:33-37).

11. They are rejectors of God's counsel against themselves.

They are true self-righteous forefathers, the Pharisees who claimed to be better than others, whom the Lord Jesus called hypocrites.

"But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him (i.e., of John the Baptist)" Luke 7:30.

In rejecting Baptist baptism all modern holiness sects follow in the wake of the self-righteous heretics of Bible days, who boasted of their good works and thought themselves better than Christ and His apostles and the Baptists of that day. Jesus pronounced the most terrific series of woes against them in Matt. 23:13-39 that ever fell from His lips. Those woes rest on all modern Holiness sects, for the same reasons exactly that they did upon the Pharisees.

12. They preach the doctrine of the devil.

All Holiness sects of whatever name preach the possibility of apostasy. So do all others who teach salvation by works. The first preacher of apostasy was Satan. In the oldest book of the Bible, the devil preached that lie. In Job 1:11 and 2:4-5, Satan told God he could make Job apostatize. God told him to try his hand. He did his best and failed. It will be so clean to the end.

The Master said: "All that the Father giveth Me shall come unto Me: and him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out" John 6:35.

That proves that no one ever saved by Christ will ever be lost.

"He that believeth is not condemned."

"He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life."