You must be in fellowship prior to your Bible study, so that the spiritual information you receive can become a source, of blessing to your soul and produce spiritual growth.
8 This
persuasion [peismone] cometh not [ou] of [ek] him that calleth [kaleo]
you [humas]. KJV-Interlinear
8 This
persuasion did not come from Him who calls you. NASB
And now here is the bottom line. The belief that you are commanded to obey the Mosaic Law in order to obtain salvation or to improve your spiritual life, did not come from God. The bible in all of its content, never teaches salvation by the works of the Law. Never. What is does teach is that works by man are an impossibility, and that man needs something else, something greater, namely faith.
But, that faith must be in someone who is greater than this world. And that someone is Jesus Christ. Who is God, who came into this world as do all human infant babies, therefore becoming human, who actually lived the perfect life, which no one else can do.
But he did not stop there, for works is not salvation. He went to the Cross, received the punishment for the sins of the world, which paid off sin, then died a physical death being consumed by death, but then was resurrected, thus defeating death, and that is the sum total of Christ’s work, through which we receive salvation by simply believing in Him.
Christ did the work. All we have to do is believe it.
And to believe you simply say in your own mind, ‘Father (God the Father), I believe in Jesus Christ.’ And that is all that is necessary for being saved.
And how any person can live their entire life in this world, for years and years and decades and decades, always thinking some thought throughout all of those day and even nights, and still refuse to believe in Christ, is the quintessence of stubbornness and arrogance.
When you drive down the road and see an advertisement for some food or some, thing, you can’t help but read it and even think about it even just for those few brief driving moments. How can anyone live their entire life and not think about Christ, who is more than advertised throughout the entire structure of this universe, and throughout society.
Jesus Christ is the most known person throughout all of human history.
Anyone who lives their life and refuses to believe in Christ, has no excuse and cannot claim that they did not know who He was and is.
And as for works, or earning salvation by means of your own efforts, that is not taught or even supported in the Bible, but in fact is rejected.
