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33 3Embrace the good news as powerfor salvationRom . 1 :16 "For I am notashamed of the good news ; it is,in fact God's power for salvationto everyone having faith, to theJew first as well as to the Greek ."Share in making a public declarationof the good newsRom . 10 :10 "For with the heartone exercises faith for righteousness,but with the mouth onemakes public declaration for salvation,"Pray for salvationPhil . 1 :19 "For I know this willresult in my salvation throughyour supplication ."Rom . 10 :1 "Brothers, the goodwillof my heart and my supplicationto God for them are, indeed,for their salvation ."Obedience to Christ necessaryHeb . 5 :9 "He became responsiblefor everlasting salvation toall those obeying him."Repentance necessary for mistakesmade2 Cor. 7 :9, 10 "Now I rejoice,not because you were just saddened,but because you were saddenedinto repenting, for youwere saddened in a godly way,that you might suffer no damagein anything due to us . For sadnessin a godly way makes forrepentance to salvation which isnot to be regretted ."Keep Awake as Salvation NearsRom. 13 :11 "Do this, too, becauseyou know the season, thatit is already the hour for youto awake from sleep, for now oursalvation is nearer than at thetime when we became believers ."Keep Shielding the Mind withHope of Salvation1 Thess. 5 :8 "But as for us whobelong to the day, let us keepour senses and have on thebreastplate of faith and love andSalvationas a helmet the hope of salvation."Eph . 6 :17 "Also accept the helmetof salvation, and the swordof the spirit, that is, God's word ."Work Out Salvation with Fearand TremblingPhil. 2 :12 "My beloved ones . . .now much more readily duringmy absence, keep working outyour own salvation with fear andtrembling ."Study of Scriptures Necessaryfor Salvation2 Tim . 3 :15 "From infancy youhave known the holy writingswhich are able to make you wisefor salvation through the faith inconnection with Christ Jesus ."Self-Salvation or Self-RighteousnessImpossible, a FallacyRom . 3 :10 "There is not arighteous man, not even one ."Luke 16 :15 [Jesus speaking tothe Pharisees] "He said to them :`You are those who declare yourselvesrighteous before men, butGod knows your hearts ; becausewhat is lofty among men is adisgusting thing in God's sight .' "God Reproves Job for Self-RighteousnessJob 32 :1 ; 40 :6, 8 "So thesethree men ceased to answer Job,because he was righteous in hisown eyes ." "Then Jehovah answeredJob out of the whirlwind,and said . . . . Wilt thou condemnme, that thou mayest be justified?"Salvation or Righteousness byWorks of Character DevelopmentImpossible. This IsHypocrisyMatt . 23 :27, 28 "Woe to you,scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!because you resemble whitewashedgraves, which outwardlyindeed appear beautiful but insideare full of dead men's bonesand of every kind of uncleanness .In that way you also, outwardlyindeed, appear righteous to men,