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Regarding your position on works.....how many are needed? Do you do just those in Matthew 25? How do you know you’ve done them correct?

It's not about a count. It's about a pattern. It's a witness to God of our obedience. The more we are obedient to God the closer we grow to God.

Until eventually,
Job 1
8 And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Because eventually God will pronounce us perfect. And bless us in the next life to be a join-heir with Christ. To receive everything the Father has. Notice that once Job was pronounced perfect, the devil couldn't touch Job with out God's permission. Because Job was truly God's own at that point. And Job was blessed in this life. This is an eternal law.

Gen 22
18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

Same thing with Abraham. Abraham was blessed because the Lord said he "obeyed my voice". In other words, he was obedient.
Now obedience is important... however, it's only half the picture. The goal is to develop a Christ like character. Christ was perfectly obedient to the Father. We have to develop a Christ like character in order to live with the Father. If we don't, we can't.

Belief alone doesn't get you there. By serving others and through Church service we lose ourselves in the service of God. We start putting off the natural man and start taking on the divine attributes of God. When you serve people you can begin to love them.

Honestly, that's the goal of all the works. It's not a numbers game. It's not about obedience just the law either. It's about becoming like Christ so that we can actually live with God.

How do you know you're doing the right thing? Well if you're following a true prophet, you know like those John saw in the last days in Rev 11, then you're on the right path. If you don't know them, you're on the wrong path. Pretty simple.