Working For Your Salvation Is Not The Gospel

Romans 4:3-5, “For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”

Working for your salvation in any shape or form is NOT the Gospel. The repentant thief on the cross had no works, no efforts, no water baptism, no behavioral changes, no self reformation, no sacraments and rituals, no church membership, no speaking in tongues, no slain in the Spirit, no sign gift of breakthrough, no goodness to offer God; he just simply BELIEVED on the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal Savior.

What exactly is the true Gospel? 1st Corinthians 15:1-4 clearly defines 'THE GOSPEL" as Christ's blood-shed sacrificial DEATH on the Cross, His BURIAL and then His physical bodily RESURRECTION three days later for our justification. The Bible teaches that salvation in Christ alone is by grace through faith, apart from religious works or performances of the law—plus nothing minus nothing. Period!