Is there justification in a church that requires you to do something to be saved?
No. Scripture states that by the deeds of the Law no flesh shall be justified, and that the Law can only pronounce guilt. Any church that requires something you must do to be saved offers no justification but only condemnation, because salvation is not by works religion.
Les teaches that the passage makes clear the Law was given to those under the Law—Jews, Israel—but its ramifications reached the whole human race. The purpose was that every mouth be stopped and all the world be found guilty. The Law could only pronounce guilt, never justify. Therefore, by the deeds of the Law no flesh shall be justified. Les observes that works-religion people close their eyes to this, insisting their church or religion will do it, but the Bible says it won't. He concludes that regardless of the church, if it holds you to something you must do, there is no justification in that, only condemnation.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
More Questions
Can anyone be saved or justified by doing the works of the Law?
Because all the world has become guilty by the giving of the Law, no flesh—not one human being—can be saved or justified by the deeds of the Law.
Can a person be justified by doing what the law requires?
No flesh is justified before God by the deeds of the law; the law only brings the knowledge of sin.