Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
The apostle Paul said ... Gal. 5 ... 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
People who do various works thinking these works to justify them, are fallen away from grace.
Galatians 3:3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
We are not born again by baptism. We are baptized because we are born again. Thus, we believed God (as did Abraham) and it was counted unto us for righteousness. Romans 4:3
We did not come to God by works ... We are not justified by works, though we do works by faith in God.
If we are really of God, we came to God by faith, not by our "good" works.
Paul was out there capturing Christians that they could be killed when God revealed HIMSELF to Paul on the road to Damascus ...
Acts 9 ... 1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, 2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. 3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus:and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. 6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?
We begin not by our works but by God revealing HIMSELF to us, though many in church groups think to be religious by their works and put themselves into the church groups without having the Spirit. We read of this in Jude ... 17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18 How that they told you there should be mockers (those who try to imitate the real people of God) in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
But when we do have the Spirit of God, we are not perfected then by fleshly "good" works. We continue in the Spirit, doing various works when the Spirit of God leads us to do them.