When we are in eternity there is no works,
Eternal Life begins today! John 8:51-52
[51] Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man
keep my saying,
he shall never see death. [52] Then said the Jews unto him,
Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest
, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
John 11:25-26 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live: [26] And whosoever liveth and believeth in me
shall never die. Believest thou this?
So there is no entering in until when?
Fruits of the spirit is our works, as you stated in the scripture you posted "let us also walk in the Spirit"
Fruit of the Spirit IS not the works of the natural man. But that which is born of the Spirit of God. Walk in the flesh...our own works=death.
Walk in the Spirit...bear Spiritual fruit (given from above)unto God=Life. Where the Spirit of God is ...there is Life. Where there is no Spirit of God ...there is no Life.
ven as Paul says in
1 Corinthians 13, we can do all the works in the world but if it is not done with love then it is void. Not that works are void, but works done with an evil heart or selfish intentions.
without the Spirit of God ...it is void...vain...unprofitable...comes to nothing. He is charity. Even says this in James. James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works (of God)is dead also.
Vain faith. Faith minus the resurrection power of the Spirit.
As far as entering into His Rest...then what did Jesus Christ mean when He said to take up the cross and follow Him?
To enter in? Hebrews 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath
ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Ceased from his
own works...he who looses his life will find Life. Luke 17:32-33 Remember Lot's wife. [33] Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall
preserve it.
Ceased from his own works: 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: [15] And that he died for all, that they which live
should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Enter into His rest and ceased from his own (dead)works unto death...to serve the living God and bear spiritual fruit unto Life. Hebrews 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
How do you pull out of the Word that Spiritual fruit is man’s works???? And not God’s work? Prepared before the foundation of the world that we should walk in the good works of walking in the Spirit of God....even going as far as in the OT saying God sets the children in the resurrection power of His steps...
Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
^sure sounds like Paul entered into God’s Rest and ceased from his own works...to live from there forth, not unto himself but unto Him which died and rose again.