The will of the father in Matthew 7:21-23.

[Neostarwcc]

In Matthew 7:21-23 Jesus paints a very scary very real picture for Christians. “Only those who do the will of my Father will enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Well what is the will of the Father? Luckily, Jesus didn’t leave us guessing what the will of the Father is. He explains what the will of the Father is in John 6:39-40. In John 6:39-40 Jesus says:

“And this is the will of Him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that He has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

So we learn straight from the mouth of Jesus that the unsaved in Matthew 7:21-23 are “believers” who were not given to the Father and were not regenerated and therefore were not saved. They are “believers” who did not have true saving faith, trusted in their own works to save them, were lazy hypocrites who did not have the Holy Spirit living inside of them.

They were “believers” who were unrepentant, lived in sin, either only cared about themselves or believed in themselves to save them. Godless people. Such people will NEVER enter the kingdom of heaven and will be denied by Jesus on the last day.

And that is what Jesus meant in Matthew 7:21-23 and passages like it. It was not a passage that says you can lose your salvation or that salvation can be lost. No. When Christ died, He died for the elect once for all.

It means that if you do not have the Holy Spirit living inside of you, then you have no hope at salvation. None. Because it takes the Holy Spirit’s transformative power to save. But the hope that Christians have is that God died for them and they are eternally secure from before the foundation of the world.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

In Matthew 7:21-23 Jesus paints a very scary very real picture for Christians. “Only those who do the will of my Father will enter the kingdom of heaven.”

No need to be too paranoid about it. According to the other things said about the Father, only the Father knows the will of the Father.

It's just a reinforcement that people cannot do it themselves, they must be born again.

 

[SabbathBlessings]

Jesus told us His will- He wrote it, He spoke it, He numbered them and placed them in the ark of His covenant in the Most Holy of His Temple. His own Testimony that sadly most do not believe. Deut 4:13 Exo 34:28 Exo 31:18 Exo 20:6

Psa 40:8 I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart.”

Which is in context to Mat 7:21-23

Mat 7:23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Rev 22:14 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.

God bless!

 

[timothyu]

The will of the Father has always been put His will ahead of our own, self-serving brats that we be. He said to love all as self, not self. People like to look at Jesus but ignore how He lived and what He taught. That is our will once again suiting ourselves while trying to claim salvation. Believing and living in how He lived , doing only the Will of the Father and living , it is how we are saved through Him. After all, even the Adversary believed who Jesus was but it’s downfall was rejection of the Will of the Father.

 

[Guojing]

In Matthew 7:21-23 Jesus paints a very scary very real picture for Christians. “Only those who do the will of my Father will enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Well what is the will of the Father? Luckily, Jesus didn’t leave us guessing what the will of the Father is. He explains what the will of the Father is in John 6:39-40. In John 6:39-40 Jesus says:

“And this is the will of Him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that He has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

So we learn straight from the mouth of Jesus that the unsaved in Matthew 7:21-23 are “believers” who were not given to the Father and were not regenerated and therefore were not saved. They are “believers” who did not have true saving faith, trusted in their own works to save them, were lazy hypocrites who did not have the Holy Spirit living inside of them.

They were “believers” who were unrepentant, lived in sin, either only cared about themselves or believed in themselves to save them. Godless people. Such people will NEVER enter the kingdom of heaven and will be denied by Jesus on the last day.

And that is what Jesus meant in Matthew 7:21-23 and passages like it. It was not a passage that says you can lose your salvation or that salvation can be lost. No. When Christ died, He died for the elect once for all.

Jesus was not even speaking to gentiles during his first coming (Matthew 10:5, Matthew 15:24)

If you want to follow the will of the Father today, listen to the apostle Paul (1 Corinthians 11:1, Romans 11:13)

And FYI, the elect refers to Jacob's descendants (Romans 9:10-13), not you.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

The will of the Father:

John 6:37-40 KJV
37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

 

[Soyeong]

In Matthew 7:21-23 Jesus paints a very scary very real picture for Christians. “Only those who do the will of my Father will enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Well what is the will of the Father? Luckily, Jesus didn’t leave us guessing what the will of the Father is. He explains what the will of the Father is in John 6:39-40. In John 6:39-40 Jesus says:

“And this is the will of Him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that He has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

So we learn straight from the mouth of Jesus that the unsaved in Matthew 7:21-23 are “believers” who were not given to the Father and were not regenerated and therefore were not saved. They are “believers” who did not have true saving faith, trusted in their own works to save them, were lazy hypocrites who did not have the Holy Spirit living inside of them.

They were “believers” who were unrepentant, lived in sin, either only cared about themselves or believed in themselves to save them. Godless people. Such people will NEVER enter the kingdom of heaven and will be denied by Jesus on the last day.

And that is what Jesus meant in Matthew 7:21-23 and passages like it. It was not a passage that says you can lose your salvation or that salvation can be lost. No. When Christ died, He died for the elect once for all.

It means that if you do not have the Holy Spirit living inside of you, then you have no hope at salvation. None. Because it takes the Holy Spirit’s transformative power to save. But the hope that Christians have is that God died for them and they are eternally secure from before the foundation of the world.

In Matthew 7:21-23, Jesus said that only those who do the will of the Father will enter the Kingdom of Heaven in contrast with saying that that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so there is no need to jump to another book in order to figure out that it is the will of the Father for us to be workers of lawfulness and it is dishonest to act like John 6:39-40 means that it is not the will of the Father for us to be workers of lawfulness, especially because God's law is His instructions for how to believe in the Son.

We embody what we believe about God through our works, such as with James 2:18 saying that he would show his faith through is works. In other words, the way to believe in God is by embodying His likeness through being a doer of His character traits. For example, by being a doer of good works in obedience to God's law we are embodying God's goodness, which is why our good works bring glory to Him (Matthew 5:16), and by embodying God's goodness we are also expressing the belief that God is good. Likewise, the way to believe that God is a doer of justice is by embodying His likeness through being a doer of justice, the way to believe that God is holy is by being a doer of His instructions for how to be holy as He is holy, and so forth. This is exactly the same as the way to believe in the Son, who is the radiance of God's glory and the exact likeness of His character (Hebrews 1:3), which he embodied through his works by setting a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to God's law.

This is also why the Bible repeatedly connects our belief in God with our obedience to Him, such as with Revelation 14:12 where those who kept faith in Jesus are the same as those who kept God's commandments. Moreover, the reason why there are many verses that say that the way to have eternal life is by believing in the Son and many verses that say that the way to have eternal life is by obeying God's commandments is because obedience to God's commandments is the way to believe in the Son.

 

[Aaron112]

Jesus paints a very scary very real picture for Christians.

As written, yes: Be Terrified lest any one of you (so-called 'Christians') falls short. Forgot what chapter and verse.

 

[ARBITER01]

In Matthew 7:21-23 Jesus paints a very scary very real picture for Christians. “Only those who do the will of my Father will enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Well what is the will of the Father? Luckily, Jesus didn’t leave us guessing what the will of the Father is. He explains what the will of the Father is in John 6:39-40. In John 6:39-40 Jesus says:

“And this is the will of Him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that He has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

So we learn straight from the mouth of Jesus that the unsaved in Matthew 7:21-23 are “believers” who were not given to the Father and were not regenerated and therefore were not saved. They are “believers” who did not have true saving faith, trusted in their own works to save them, were lazy hypocrites who did not have the Holy Spirit living inside of them.

They were “believers” who were unrepentant, lived in sin, either only cared about themselves or believed in themselves to save them. Godless people. Such people will NEVER enter the kingdom of heaven and will be denied by Jesus on the last day.

And that is what Jesus meant in Matthew 7:21-23 and passages like it. It was not a passage that says you can lose your salvation or that salvation can be lost. No. When Christ died, He died for the elect once for all.

It means that if you do not have the Holy Spirit living inside of you, then you have no hope at salvation. None. Because it takes the Holy Spirit’s transformative power to save. But the hope that Christians have is that God died for them and they are eternally secure from before the foundation of the world.

9 And being perfected, He became The Author of Eternal Salvation unto all those obeying Him,


Everything begins with a relationship with Jesus.

 

[ARBITER01]

As written, yes: Be Terrified lest any one of you (so-called 'Christians') falls short. Forgot what chapter and verse.

LET us fear therefore, lest a promise being left of entering into HIS rest, anyone out of thee may seem to fall short thereof.

Hebrews 4:1

 

[Clare73]

In Matthew 7:21-23, Jesus said that only those who do the will of the Father will enter the Kingdom of Heaven in contrast with saying that that he would tell those who are workers of lawlessness to depart from him because he never knew them, so there is no need to jump to another book in order to figure out that it is the will of the Father for us to be workers of lawfulness and it is dishonest to act like John 6:39-40 means that it is not the will of the Father for us to be workers of lawfulness, especially because God's law is His instructions for how to believe in the Son.
We embody what we believe about God through our works, such as with James 2:18 saying that he would show his faith through is works. In other words, the way to believe in God is by embodying His likeness through being a doer of His character traits. For example, by being a doer of good works in obedience to God's law we are embodying God's goodness, which is why our good works bring glory to Him (Matthew 5:16), and by embodying God's goodness we are also expressing the belief that God is good. Likewise, the way to believe that God is a doer of justice is by embodying His likeness through being a doer of justice, the way to believe that God is holy is by being a doer of His instructions for how to be holy as He is holy, and so forth. This is exactly the same as the way to believe in the Son, who is the radiance of God's glory and the exact likeness of His character (Hebrews 1:3), which he embodied through his works by setting a sinless example for us to follow of how to walk in obedience to God's law.

This is also why the Bible repeatedly connects our belief in God with our obedience to Him, such as with Revelation 14:12 where those who kept faith in Jesus are the same as those who kept God's commandments. Moreover, the reason why there are many verses that say that the way to have eternal life is by believing in the Son and many verses that say that the way to have eternal life is by obeying God's commandments is because obedience to God's commandments is the way to believe in the Son.

No. . .obedience to God's commandments is the result of believing in the Son, not the way or cause of believing in the Son.
No obedience means no faith.

The cause of believing in the Son is no more and no less than rebirth by the sovereign choice (as unaccountable as the wind, Jn 3:6-8) of the Holy Spirit (Jn 3:3-5).

 

[Soyeong]

No. . .obedience to God's commandments is the result of believing in the Son, not the way or cause of believing in the Son.
No obedience means no faith.

The cause of believing in the Son is no more and no less than rebirth by the sovereign choice (as unaccountable as the wind, Jn 3:6-8) of the Holy Spirit (Jn 3:3-5).

James said that he would show his faith through his works, so we embody what we believe through our works and everyone who is a doer of the same works as James believes in the Son. If you came across a rope bridge that someone told you was safe, then the way to believe that it is safe is by crossing the bridge. Someone who is born again is someone who embodies God’s likeness through being a doer of His character traits, which is why those who are not doers of righteous works in obedience to the Mosaic Law are not children of God (1 John 3:4) and why Paul contrasted those who are born of the Spirit with those who have minds set on the flesh who are enemies of God who refuse to submit to the Mosaic Law (Romans 8:4-14).

 

[Clare73]

No obedience means no faith.

The cause of believing in the Son is no more and no less than rebirth by the sovereign choice (as unaccountable as the wind, Jn 3:6-8) of the Holy Spirit (Jn 3:3-5).

James said that he would show his faith through his works, so we embody what we believe through our works and everyone who is a doer of the same works as James believes in the Son. If you came across a rope bridge that someone told you was safe, then the way to believe that it is safe is by crossing the bridge. Someone who is born again is someone who embodies God’s likeness through being a doer of His character traits, which is why those who are not doers of righteous works in obedience to the Mosaic Law are not children of God (1 John 3:4) and why Paul contrasted those who are born of the Spirit with those who have minds set on the flesh who are enemies of God who refuse to submit to the Mosaic Law (Romans 8:4-14).

Are you agreeing or disagreeing?

 

[Soyeong]

Are you agreeing or disagreeing?

If you’re disagreeing with me, then I explained why you are wrong.

 

[Clare73]

If you’re disagreeing with me,

So, you don't know?

 

[SavedByGrace3]

An unregenerate person cannot successfully repent, i.e., "turn from all sin."
If they could, they would not have to be saved because they passed the "sin test."

Romans 3:20 KJV
(CEV) God doesn't accept people simply because they obey the Law. No, indeed! All the Law does is to point out our sin.

That is why you have to be born again. Your spirit becomes a new creation with a divine nature.
If you walk according to the inclinations of your born-again nature, you cannot sin because all those inclinations are godly, and there is no sin in your reborn spirit.

1 John 3:9
(LITV) Everyone who has been begotten of God does not sin, because His seed abides in him, and he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God.

Rebirth comes first, then comes righteous walk.