What is God's will and what are His works that we must work?

Many people think: "Saved just by simply believing and not by doing God's will and His works? That is too cheap a gospel." 

 Such people say "Jesus Himself said in Matthew 7:21  that “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.""

This is the TRUTH: Without doing God's will, no one shall enter the kingdom of heaven. 

But such people who quote this verse in this context never tell you what exactly the will of God is or what the works are that He wants us to do. At best, they say it is keeping the Law and doing good, but "the Law is not of faith" and "without faith it is impossible to please God." According to Galatians 5:4:-

 "For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace."

But do we really for one moment think that oour heavenly Father would make His will and His work that He wants us to do that are so crucial to our salvation vague in any way? Certainly not!

So what is God's will? What are the works that God wants us to do? Some people asked our Saviour Jesus this question in John 6. No better answer or explanation of God's will and His works that we must do than that which comes from our Saviour Jesus Himself!

28 "Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” 29 "Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent."

Again, in the same John 6, Christ tells us plainly what God's will is:

39 "This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. 40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Believers, according to our Lord Jesus Christ, this is the work of God that we must do: believe in our Lord Jesus Christ.

This is God's will according to our Lord Jesus Christ: "that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

For the New Covenant believer, believing in our Saviour Jesus Christ is obedience. When the believing is right, right living will follow. We GET to do God's work. Under the New covenant, there is only the obedience of faith, not the Law. The Law is not of faith and without faith, it is impossible to please God. 

Our salvation in Christ is a finished work. For all who truly believe, there is nothing for us to do -from our being called to Christ (see John 6:44- Our Abba Father called us) to our bodily redemption (the Rapture) in Him; yet we do exploits because "it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me."

Believe Right and you will Live Right.

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