Good day to those reading this.❤️ I would like to share something from a youtube channel called Father Spyridon (an Orthodox channel) about a warning from Jesus. In John 15 He calls Himself the true vine, and we are the branches. We should bear fruit(or works or the outcome of one's decisions) not on our own, but in Jesus Christ the true vine. A branch cannot bear fruit on it's own and it cannot grunt and struggle to bear fruit, only when we are in Christ Jesus the true vine. And Jesus says that every branch that bears fruit will be pruned( or distractions will be cut away so that you can bear more fruit or good works) and every branch that does not bear fruit will be burned. So our works should be from abiding in Jesus Christ, and you should not be abiding in Christ and not do good. Yes, we are not saved by our works but by the grace of God with a living faith. However, faith should produce works like charity and fleeing sin and repenting, and other good works, faith without works is dead. Our salvation is in Christ and not in our works, but Once saved always Saved, i heavily think is not true. We cannot lose our salvation unwillingly, but forfeit it by willingly sinning, or stop in our faith or mortal sin or grave offense. We can however always be reconciled with God if we ask for forgiveness especially through a Priest since this is the ordinary and required way for us Catholics. Salvation can be a process of doing good works because we are saved and not because we can save ourselves. And always test ourselves like how Paul said to see whether we are in the faith, reflect and apply God's Word to our lives always and everyday. And remember, Jesus always loves you, and God bless.❤️🕊🙏❤️‍🩹

John 15:1-2, 4-5 NASB2020
[1] “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. [2] Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit.
[4] Remain in Me, and I in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit of itself but must remain in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me. [5] I am the vine, you are the branches; the one who remains in Me, and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.

Ephesians 2:8-9 NASB2020
[8] For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; [9] not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

James 2:17 NASB2020
[17] In the same way, faith also, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.

2 Corinthians 13:5 NASB2020
[5] Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test?