Those that know Him, love Him and love others because they love Him. We do it for LOVE for our Lord not out of duty - [dead works]. Even those who helped "the least of these" asked when He was sick...etc, they were just doing because they belong to Him and love Him not out of a sense of earning salvation.
In the scriptures below Jesus says "I never knew you". They were never saved. It is not what they did or did not do that saved them, they were already saved or not saved.
Mat 7:20 "So then, you will know them by their fruits. Mat 7:21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Mat 7:22 "Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' Mat 7:23 "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'
No works >>>>>
John 17:3 "This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; Eph 2:9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
If you are trying to earn your way to heaven you will miss it. Enter into relationship with Christ by faith in His finished work for you. He was punished in your place. If you will rest your faith in that alone you will not have to pay the punishment yourself. If not, you will have to pay the punishment for your sins. The decision is yours and it is here you have to make it not after this life here.
Enter into relationship with Christ by faith in His finished work for you. He was punished in your place. If you will rest your faith in that alone you will not have to pay the punishment yourself.
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If not, you will have to pay the punishment for your sins.
Which no sinful man can ever do.
The decision is yours and it is here you have to make it not after this life here.
10-4 - with the proviso that who makes the decision is sometimes hard to figure. When I fell in love, did I decide to or was I swept up in mhy lover's wooing? Pretty much both.