How Good Must You Be In Order To Earn Eternal Life?
De 10:12 "And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in *ALL* His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with *ALL* your heart and with *ALL* your soul
Notice the word "ALL". It connotes the ideas of completeness and totality. God demands from us complete and total obedience from the heart. Have you obeyed God completely and totally?
Ga 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not *CONTINUE* in *ALL* things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."
Notice the words "CONTINUE" and "ALL". It means that God does not only want complete and total obedience, He also demands that we maintain complete and total obedience to Him. In other words, He demands perfect obedience continually. Have you obeyed God perfectly?
Jas 2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
Notice that the law was a unit. You break one, you are guilty of all. How many legs of a chair must you break in order to render it useless in connection to what it was made for? You break one and you have practically damaged the whole chair.
Let's answer our question: "How good must you be in order to earn eternal life?"
You'll have to maintain total and complete obedience. You'll have to obey God perfectly. But you say: "But that's impossible for anyone to do!"
Correct! None of us can obey God perfectly. We all sin. And that is why we need the Savior. That is why you must come to Christ for salvation. You cannot save yourself, you need to trust in Him who died on the cross for you.
God lets us know about His perfect standard so that we will realize that we cannot save ourselves and that we need Christ.
