There is a very soul dangerous heresy

that scares me very much, bantered in Protestant circles. I think that it is more dangerous than the veneration of Mary. Had I known that the issue between Protestants and Catholics was on the matter of works, I would have stayed Catholic. Those Protestants who believe that they can do as they please and just say a "sinners prayer", after and be justified before God, must be deceived, I think. Presumptuous sin is never acceptable to God or covered by the blood of Jesus. The riches of the mercies of David, promised in Amos and confirmed in Acts and continued to today is the mercy that allows you to wish and to want not to sin and to be abhorrent of the sins that still cling. This is what the apostle meant by "shall we continue in sin that grace may abound, God forbid"! The apostle would never have stated, as some do, that living the justified life means doing as you please to your brother and claim that a "sinners prayer" or "confession" or any of the mystical, supposed coverings can cleanse you from the penalty. It is clear that, if Jesus is not praying for you in heaven, your soul is not saved. Both Judas and Peter did similar things, Jesus said Satan asked for you, but I am praying for you, to Peter. That is the only difference between the both. Presumptuous, perhaps, but prayed for by Jesus. This is an agonizing effort and if we are not willing to agonize to know that our sins are not the presumptuous kind, we are not yet his. If we are continually going to God as catholic or protestant to the "confessional" or the"sinners prayer" for cleansing, we are deceived.
Only the prayer of Jesus for us, in heaven, can save us from our sins. Nothing that I do can save my soul, Horatius Bonar...
Jesus said that Peter had the keys and in that sense (the sense that Jesus prayer and continual intersession for the believer in heaven) is the only salvation for anyone's soul. There are no magic pills to swallow or mystical incantations, effective enough to cleanse sin. No matter how effective they may seem in our emotions, they are dead. We put all of these memorized verses in our pockets to try to keep us from the sins that we commit, but, when we sin, if Christ is not praying for my soul in heaven, no amount of people praying for me on earth can save or deliver. Whether works come in conjunction with sanctification or after justification, it really doesn't well matter. Jesus is the only salvation for dead works. Works will follow the believer or faith is dead.