Faith and Perseverance

"...anyone who sees a contradiction between the doctrine of perseverance and the numberless admonitions of the Holy Scriptures has abstracted perseverance from faith. Faith itself can do nothing else than listen to those admonitions and so travel the road of abiding in Him. For admonition distinguishes the true confidence, which looks for everything from grace, and the other 'possibility,' which is rejected on the basis of Christ and the Church. So admonition is at the same time both a remembrance and a calling. It points out the way of error to those who travel the way of salvation, and it exhorts them to keep going only in the true way." (G. C. Berkouwer)