As i have mentioned to you, heaven is not the purpose of faith in God. Its a consequence that you are only focussing on.
To the Jew, faith is the now, on earth. Our faith is messih Jesus is for living and being light in this dark world, and reflecting His glory.

Works is not required for salvation. Faith in Messiah Jesus is.
Yet Faith encompasses works. Therefore Faith demands works. That is the understanding of faith (Aman) by Jews and explained by James.

Remember James pointed to the faith of devils too. This is ungodly faith. i guess it does not save?

Of course I'm talking about the end result and no where did I suggest Faith is not in the living now.
We need to establish correctly how you get Salvation which is by faith in Christ and by God's Grace which is the Gospel at the core because if we don't, the rest will be faulty. That is why knowing the consequence is important. The bible says those who have this hope, purifies himself. (1 John 3:3)

You're just too negative of your view of what I say and what I believe in, that is the problem.

That leads You to always think I'm always suggesting disobedience or suggest licentious lifestyle.

Haih prophetjul.

So that settles it, What you're talking is what I'm talking.

I've always strongly preach that Faith in Christ is what saves us, not works. So whether you have enough work, lack of it, fallen short, at the end of the day we ALL still appeal to Christ,
NEVER our works. With that being said.......

The works or the fruits are the work of God so we should not preach Me Me Me I I I need to do this or that, We need to preach God, IE CHRIST because only God is able to change the person. Else we can't really work out our Salvation. There is no way.

The focus of this has been WRONG all the while. We keep preaching you must repent, YOU must work, YOU must show fruit..when we should be preaching Look to Christ the person who IS GRACE that is the root and power of life so that repentance can come. That is the Gospel IMO.

What does the scripture say?

John 3 King James Version (KJV)
3 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
2  Corinthians 5

15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
It is clear from the above verses that Jesus Himself declared the we must be born again in the Spirit.
And when we are born again in the Spirit, Paul declares we are a new creation.

But the question remains.

How is one born again?

I think Paul made it plain in Acts 16

Acts 16:25-40 New King James Version (NKJV)
The Philippian Jailer Saved
25 But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed. 27 And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself. 28 But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, “Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.”

29 Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. 30 And he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

31 So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Let me ask you, did you cause your own physical birth?

Bro,

Of course not. What I was trying to imply with that was, if only all of us was born again of the Spirit of God, there would be much rejoicing. 😊

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.  For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.  Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Romans 8:28‭-‬30 KJV
https://bible.com/bible/1/rom.8.28-30.KJV

After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, “Lord, are You washing my feet?” Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.” Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.” Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.”
John 13:5‭-‬10 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/jhn.13.5-10.NKJV

Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.
John 17:17 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/jhn.17.17.NKJV

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
II Corinthians 3:18 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/2co.3.18.NKJV

Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?
Galatians 3:3 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/gal.3.3.NKJV

I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Galatians 5:16‭-‬18 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/gal.5.16-18.NKJV

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Colossians 3:16 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/col.3.16.NKJV

Of course, but back to your original question on how to be born again, the answer is you can't.

Just as you did not caused anything for your physical birth, you cannot cause anything for your spiritual birth. God does that.

It is the Holy Spirit's ministry to cause regeneration.

In the modern evangelical churches, sound expositional preaching of the Word has been replaced by experience, feel good sermons, motivation talks, lovey dovey messages.

The preaching of the Word is where believers should sit under and is a main channel of sanctification.

Believers are drinking kool aid instead of real food of the Word.

That's one of the greatest grieve I have for these churches today.

In the modern evangelical churches, sound expositional preaching of the Word has been replaced by experience, feel good sermons, motivation talks, lovey dovey messages.

The preaching of the Word is where believers should sit under and is a main channel of sanctification.

Believers are drinking kool aid instead of real food of the Word.

That's one of the greatest grieve I have for these churches today.

However before that happens, we must prove ourselves to be worthy of His Holy Spirit by the full repentance from our hearts and once a student has completed the training, one is ready to do the will of God, good works all for His glory.

I think the bottom line of the discussion between prophetjul and unknownwarrior is not on salvation, (we all agree that salvation is based on the merits of Christ, not our own, ie our works), but the doctrine of sanctification.

Or more specifically, who causes a believer's sanctification?

To fail to recognise justification and sanctification, we will end up messing up the gospel itself, like what happened to the catholic church.

When we try to sanctify ourselves by our own might, we will always tend to impugn the finished works of Christ, and we will fall into thinking that we are doing anything to contribute to our salvation.
This has been called the golden chain of salvation. We see that salvation is predestinated, initiated, and completed by God. No one takes credit for his salvation, and no salvation will lost by anyone.

What about sanctification? How and who does it? Let's look at a helpful illustration by our Lord himself.
What is this washing of feet by Jesus that Peter did not understand that time?

Break it down into points:
1) All who have taken a bath is already clean
2) There's some dirt that have been picked up by the feet, only needs their feet cleaned.
3) Jesus does the cleaning.
4) Who they do not let Jesus clean them, they have to part in Him.

This is an illustration by Jesus sanctifying His believers. Jesus Himself does the cleaning. It doesn't mean that they have lost their salvation when they picked up some dirt with their feet.

So how does Jesus sanctify His believers?
We are sanctified by the Word of God. Only when we know His word, the Holy Spirit can do His ministry of sanctification.

Or in humanly words, the Spirit binds our conscience with the truth, and gives us the internal restraint to refrain from the works of the flesh.
Jesus sanctifies the believers when they dwell in His word and walk in the Spirit.

There are much more that can be said, I'll save it for next time.

May the peace of the Lord be with us all.

Anyway. What you have written looks good. You are on the right track by using the kjb and the "nkjb". But there is a reason why ppl are still using the kjb despite the "nkjb" is the easier to read version. You can easily find out by yourself.

Anyway just to share this with you.
http://www.av1611.org/nkjv.html

Just to let  you know. There is a difference between being saved and is saved. Being saved is a process. Is saved means saved at the instant. The newer version says being saved including NKJV. KJV says are saved. You decide for yourself which is more "acceptable"

https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/1-18.htm

Anyway I apologize for the above post but then it does serve as a reference for the others.

hehe, add one more, 'will be saved'.

welcome to soteriology.

hmm....ok.... let me ask more, just want to make sure on your understanding on salvation.

When you said repentance, does it mean cooperation of sinner with divine grace in order to achieve salvation? When you say repentance, what does it mean?