Obedience to Enter Heaven

Entering heaven is solely through believing in Jesus. You shall not perish but have everlasting life, says Jesus. As simple as that. Paul also wrote how salvation is by grace through faith alone. Not of works. Yet, we almost forget that it's also through obedience. Faith and obedience are one flesh, joined together by God, and no one should separate them. 

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I very seldom hear (or probably never heard) anyone in church preach on this. They pressed on our minds that works were unnecesary--works cannot save you--and works followed after salvation by grace. But Jesus said otherwise. He said salvation is determined by how we do the will of his Father. 

Matthew 7.21: Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

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And it's not about doing just any church work. It's about doing "the will of my Father" in heaven. Church has invented a lot of so-called "ministries" it passed off as the will of God that we must do, but are really nothing but adulterated versions of it. Like evangelism and church planting. They have the form of godliness but deny its power. The Gospel is the power of God for salvation, but modern churches use it to extend their denominational influence and widen their territorial grab. It's corrupted evangelism when it is used for self promotion, not Kingdom designs. 

Matthew 15.13: Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.

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You may think you're deep into preaching the Gospel and making disciples of nations, but you're really just working hard to propagate the empire of your church denomination. Yes, it may produce Christians now and then because the Word of God is active and alive. But if these Christians remain in your church doing man's will (though using God's Word) they will eventually function as the worldly church under the Babylon system. 

Do the Father's Will

The Father's will is first, to believe in Jesus. "Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life." Believing is impossible with men, but with God, all things are possible. So it's by grace through faith. Not through works of men's religion. Faith is what God puts in you. This faith is accompanied by obedience. They come together as one endowment of grace. Obedience does not come after faith is established. It comes together with it. Like the fruit of the Spirit. All 9 fruits are one fruit. They happen together as one.

True faith does not produce obedience but goes together with it as one. 

When faith is birthed in you, you become obedient. This is why you repent and believe. You search the Scripture and make it your daily life. This is why a claim to faith without spiritual hunger to search the Word, meditate it day and night, and obey is highly questionable. Jesus didn't say, "Not everyone who calls me 'Lord, Lord' will enter heaven but only those who believe in me." He specifically said "only those who do the will of the Father" will enter heaven. It's not a contradiction. Doing the will is believing, and we cannot separate them. Doing his will is how the Father wants us to believe. Not just mere mental assent.

Imagine how many in church today were made to believe mental assent and being active in church is what the Father wants.

Fruit is the Father's Will

If we go by context, we'd see that the passages before Matthew 7.21 are about Kingdom character, specifically the Beatitudes, especially on how we treat our fellow. The immediate context is how wolves dress as sheep, and how a good tree bears good fruit. Doing the will of the Father is about having Jesus' character, bearing good fruit, not what we do or accomplish in ministry--although ministry that does with Jesus did is important.

This obedience--obeying Jesus teachings--is the will of the Father. Your "Lord, Lord" can only help you if you obey Jesus, live the kind of life and character he wants, and produce the fruit. If not, everything you do for God is garbage.

JESUS' 11 MUST TEACHINGS ON HOW TO BE SAVED AND ENTER HEAVEN 

1. Whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. [John 3.16] 

2. Receive Jesus. [John 1.12] 

3. Be born of water and Spirit to enter the Kingdom of God. [John 3.3-8] 

4. Deny self, pick up your cross and follow Him. [Matthew 16.24] 

5. Give up everything you have. [Luke 14.33] 

6. Sell all you have and give to the poor. [Matthew 19.21] 

7. Do good to the needy, hungry, thirsty and the stranger. [Matthew 25.34-46] 

8. Obedience [Matthew 7.21] 

9. Enter the narrow door. [Luke 13.24] 

10. Become like little children. [Matthew 18.3] 

11. Relationship with Jesus. [John 14.6] 

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