Titus 3 v 5 reads,'He saved us,not because of righteous things we had done,but because of unrighteous things we have done, but beause of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.Consider those words as regards salvation,God rules out completly any works of righteousness,any. In Matthew 7 v 21-23,our Saviour tells that on Judgement day there will be those who will call him Lord and will say they had prophesized,cast out demons,and performed miracles,in His name,and they will be rejected.What they done was only a cover up,they worked outside the will of God the Father,and were considered evil doers.Salvation only comes by God's grace when a person truly repents of their sin and seeks Jesus as their Saviour.Matthew Henry writes,'Grace will bring a man to heaven without working miracles,but working miracles will never bring a man to heaven without grace'. Miracles ,prophesying has nothing to with our salvation absolutely nothing,but grace and mercy has everything to do with it.There will be no boasters in heaven (Ephesians 2 v 9) A hymn by James M. Gray sums it up.
'Naught have I gotten but what I received
Grace hath bestowed it since I believed
Boasting excluded, pride I abase,
I'm only a sinner saved by grace'
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