AN: Obey the commandments, deny self, give what you have to the poor, take up your cross and follow Christ.
I gave you the Scripture that answers the question and you don't even note which verse you're quoting.
The response is found throughout the Scriptures.
John 6:29 Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent."
Why does the simplicity of the answer not seem to be enough?
Why does the simplicity of the answer not seem to be enough?
Because some people desire to be tethered and bound to this world by their own work and their own struggle. Somehow they don't seem to really, truly trust God, and so they have to add to what He did on the cross.
As if they ever could.
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." -- Galatians 2:20-21"I am crucified with Christ: neverthless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Because of this passage, for example:
12 All things therefore whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.[...]
21 Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity. 24 Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, 25 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock. 26 And every one that heareth these my words, and doth them not, shall be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand, 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.
(Matthew 7)
Altar calls don't cut it: to do the will of the Father is work. It is, naturally, work done out of love for God and neighbor but work it is.