Wow....just wow.
Read MT 7:13-29 in context. Pay special attention to v23. It is the key verse.
Look up the word lawlessness in the Greek along with practice. You will see these are people who want nothing to do with God or His Law.
Then read MT 11:25-30.....key focus on 28-30:
Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 29“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. 30“For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
What was the yoke the people were toiling under?
The Law and the interpretation of the Law by the Pharisees with all of their rules to keep people from breaking the Law.
Imagine the burden the people were under wondering if they'd perhaps broken the Law in some way.
Jesus came to free people from that burden.
Does it require faith in Him? Yes.
Do we produce fruit as a result? Yes
What get us into Heaven? The faith....or the fruit?
Now if you say both, what if you have fruit but no faith?
There are lots of "good" people who do lots of "good" things but have no faith.
Are those people saved?
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Sorry to hit your weak spot so hard! (just a wild guess)
There are no “key verses” anywhere in scripture. That is how heresy is born. The bare minimum to begin to understand scripture is to always read at lease the whole chapter, and if the chapter begins with a conjunctive word like therefore, wherefore, etc, then also read the preceding chapter first.
Lawlessness in English bibles usually comes from “anomia” in the Greek, which is “being without Torah.”
Yes, you are correct that they want nothing to do with his laws. The problems partly stem from the “unbearable” burden of the Pharisees false oral laws, but that is not the end of it. Most people don’t want any laws or restrictions on their lives, so they reject the loving laws of Torah too.
They only want his “grace” but they won’t let him write his Torah on their hearts, without which grace is useless, because deliberate sin continues.
Yeshua plainly said in Matthew 24 that we must endure in faith and love to the end to be saved. Those that lose their commitment lose eternal life. Hebrews 6, and 2Peter 2 both tell the same story about such individuals.
Yeshua in Matthew 7 is speaking of the same people as Peter spoke of in his second epistle, those that had tasted of the Holy Spirit, but turned back. Not unlike the wealthy young man that Yeshua told to give away his wealth, and because he loved that wealth more than anything, he turned away.
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