Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but [only] he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Mat 7:21
Jesus never said you could be saved if you say the sinners’ prayer, or be baptized with water, or eat bread and drink grape juice; this is just heathenish ritual of micro, dead works — the wide and broad way that leads to destruction. The deficit sects of Christendom have totally lost the narrow, true way that few will find; there is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. Proverbs 14:12,16:25,21:2.
Jesus clearly tells us the only way: only he who does the will of the Father shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Mat 7:21. (See Lawlessness for his complete teaching of this.) Every time we repeat the Lord’s Prayer, praying to the Father, “thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven,” we ignorantly proceed to do our own wills, hoping we are somehow pleasing to the Father. But what does doing someone else’s will really mean? To do the Father’s will is to stop making decisions for yourself, your will; and only do what the Father tells you to do, his will. This is exactly what Jesus told us that he did, and he only did; many, many times:
I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him. John 8:26the Father, who sent me, gave me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak. John 12:49-50the Son is able to do nothing of Himself (of His own accord); but He [the son] is able to do only what He sees the Father doing, for whatever the Father does is what the Son does in the same way. John 5:19I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is righteous, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the Father who sent Me. John 5:30The world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. John 14:31He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. John 14:24
Even when he would have preferred another way, He did the Father’s will, even to dying on the cross: And He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will.” Mark 14:36. Notice, his will was that he would not be beaten, scourged, and crucified on the cross. But he said, not what I will, but what you will.
Some would say, well that was Jesus, but we can’t be expected to do what he did. Yet, Jesus said the same applies to you and me: whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother. Mat 12:50. And, realize that he told us six times that we too must deny ourselves and pick up our cross daily — long before he went to the cross himself. So he went to the horrible death of the cross as an example to us of the obedience necessary to slay our selfish spirit so that we could be reconciled to God: The world must learn that I love the Father and that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me. John 14:31. He went to the cross to teach us that if we love God, we must obey completely. Whoever does not pick up his cross daily is not worthy of him. Mat 10:38. Jesus showed us what it means to obey his command to “daily deny yourself, pick up your cross, and follow me:” to do the will of God by denying your own will and following His commands that you wait for, listen for, and hear — the inward cross of self-denial.
So, to do the will of the Father, which is necessary to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, we must do exactly like Jesus: we must only say what the Father tells us to say, we must do only what we see the Father do, we must judge only as we hear from the Father.
Then there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, “This is My Son, My Chosen One or My Beloved; listen to and yield to and obey Him!” Luk 9:35 So you must come to Jesus, silently listen, hear him speak to you, and then obey what he commands you to do.
But the anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you do not need any man to teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him. 1 John 2:27
To be a servant, one does not read about other servants, quoting their words. To be a servant, you must hear what your master orders you to do, and then you must obey; everything else is presumptive service. Think about it; would you want to employ someone who cannot hear your orders, and who only does what he assumes you want done? Even worse is many servants doing whatever they presume you want done — no one following directions — everyone following their own ideas. To follow Jesus is to hear and obey His spoken-to-you commands. Only when you hear Him tell you what to do, when to do it, and what words to speak, can you serve God.
If we diligently and humbly, go to him, listen to him, and obey him, Jesus will change us so that he truly is our Lord, with the Father through him telling us what to say and do. This requires a radical, total change in us; (but remember, it is necessary to enter the Kingdom.) To do the will of the Father is impossible with our own mind, because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. Rom 8:7. Our carnal mind is part of our sinful nature, the nature of death: For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Rom 8:6.