Sorry for the misspells - bedtime!
Our Lord Jesus Christ opened the Gate on the cross. WE GET THROUGH the gate if we MERIT it as his sheep,
Sheep who screwed up — not let in - Lord Lord? we believe but messed up our WORKA??? SORRY!! Too easy keep baaaaaaing!!!
The Lord Jesus Christ was not a divine doorman! By His shed blood, our sins are paid in full. He is our redeemer, our atonement is through Him, we access His grace through faith not by works, because by works shall NO ONE be justified. Sheep who "screw up" don't morph into goats. They remain sheep and Jesus is the good shepherd who gives his life for the sheep. He gives to us eternal life and we shall NEVER perish nor will anyone pluck us out of His hand.
"A prince, while he is a little child, is presumably as willful and as ignorant as other little children. Sometimes he may be very obedient and teachable and affectionate, and then he is happy and approved. At other times he may be unruly, self-willed, and disobedient, and then he is unhappy, and perhaps is chastised—but he is just as much a prince on the one day as on the other. It may be hoped that, as time goes on, he will learn to bring himself into willing and affectionate subjection to every right way, and then he will be more princely, but not more really a prince. He was born a prince" (C.I.Scofield, Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth).