“once saved, always saved.” The biblical teaching of salvation by faith requires an investigative judgment of all who profess faith in Christ. We are justified by faith. But it is also true, according to the Bible, that we will be judged by our works—the evidence of our faith lived out in daily life (Jas 2:26). The essence of the biblical view is that the justification of a true believer accompanies him/her all the way into the investigative phase of final judgment where its reality and vitality are