The Bible teaches that we must FIRST have faith or a belief in Jesus as our Savior and or in the gospel message in that Christ died for our sins, He was buried, and He was risen the third day (for our salvation) to be INITIALLY SAVED (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). We also will call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and seek forgiveness with Him (Romans 10:9) (Romans 10:13). This is a process of salvation without works. Yes, believers are changed in the new birth. But that is only if they don’t have a mindset to sin. You also have to understand that AFTER we are saved by God’s grace… as a part of being a new creature in Christ, we are told by the apostle Paul:
#1. Present your bodies as a living sacrifice unto God (Which is our reasonable service).
#2. Be not conformed to this world.
#3. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind (So that you may prove what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God is).
For Romans 12:1-2 says:
1 “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Why do you have to be concerned with becoming a new creature if it is what you said before when you said, I quote:
”Therefore, our human form of righteousness, through law keeping (atempting to be sin-free), is not and never will be equal to or better than the Righteousness of God, which is Gifted and deposited into the believer, who trusts in Christ by faith. Rev. 3:20.”
~ Quote by: Earburner.
You do realize that Revelation 3 also condemns a church because the Lord did not find their works perfect before God. They had a name that they were alive but they were dead (See: Revelation 3:1-3). In James, he talks about how works makes our faith perfect (James 2:22). James says faith without works is dead (James 2:17). James says we are justified by works and not by faith alone (James 2:24). Of course James is talking to faith lived out and not how we first get saved (i.e. Initial Salvation). Even the Lord Jesus Christ said we are to abide in Him and produce fruit. If we don’t produce fruit (By abiding in Him), we will be cut down like a branch and thrown into the fire (John 15:1-6). John the Baptist said a similar thing. He said the ax is laid to the root of the tree and cast into the fire (that does not bring forth good fruit), and he said bring forth fruits worthy of repentance (See: Matthew 3:8, and Matthew 3:10). John gives us actual examples of what we are to do (If you read the context). So while we are first saved by a Belief Alone that is not how the faith remains. Believers must enter the Sanctification Process as a part of salvation (See: 2 Thessalonians 2:13, Galatians 6:8-9, Romans 8:13).
Also, again, you are not dealing with the text in Luke 13:22-28.