We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are

Acts 15:1-21

Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you cannot be saved.” This brought Paul and Barnabas into sharp dispute and debate with them. So Paul and Barnabas were appointed, along with some other believers, to go up to Jerusalem to see the apostles and elders about this question. 

The apostles and elders met to consider this question. After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear? No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.

James spoke up. “Brothers,” he said, “listen to me. Simon[has described to us how God first intervened to choose a people for his name from the Gentiles. The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written: "After this I will return and rebuild David’s fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it, that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things’—things known from long ago." (Amos 9:11-12)

It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God.

Why?

There were some Jews who kept the laws of Moses, and everyone had to accept circumcised. But Peter and James explained to them, that this is the choice of the Lord come upon the Gentiles, why have to put on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither our ancestors have not been able to bear.

The Holy Spirit is more important than circumcise, pure our heart is the more basic issue than keeping the ceremony.

Our believer is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, it is not what we have done or who I am.

The essential element is confirmed after this discussion in the first century, which confirms what we believe, and it is the grace of the Lord.

Peter mentioned that Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. Listening and believing are the keys to being a Christian.

How?

Don't make any new law or regulation to restrict the power and glory of the Lord. I am nothing and am a sinner before the Lord.