[FYI – Even after you are saved, you are still a sinner. Yes, your sin has been paid but your behavior is not perfect — HE will sanctify us through HIS Word (John 17:17) — BUT you won’t be perfect until you are with JESUS.
The Christian life, contrary to most church teachings in America, is not about getting you saved and then improving your life. If they aren’t preaching the Gospel, then they aren’t even getting people saved before they improve lives.]
Because God is holy, acceptance with Him on the ground of creature doings is utterly impossible. A fallen creature could sooner create a world than produce that which would meet the approval of infinite Purity. Can darkness dwell with Light? Can the Immaculate One take pleasure in “filthy rags” (Isa. 64:6)? The best that sinful man brings forth is defiled. A corrupt tree cannot bear good fruit. God would deny Himself, vilify His perfections, were He to account as righteous and holy that which is not so in itself; and nothing is so which has the least stain upon it contrary to the nature of God. But blessed be His name, that which His holiness demanded His grace has provided in Christ Jesus our Lord. Every poor sinner who has fled to Him for refuge stands “accepted in the Beloved” (Eph. 1:6). Hallelujah! ~AW Pink~