What will people receive, who,

Eternal life.

Let us consider Romans 2:7 for just a moment:

To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

If we are speaking of people who have never received Christ, we are claiming that an individual can receive eternal life by good works. Is this true?

If we are speaking of people who have received Christ, we are stating that a Christian person must endure steadfastly in well-doing, continually seeking for glory and honour and immortality, if he or she is to attain eternal life. Is this true?

We Christians must—absolutely must—endure steadfastly in well-doing if we are to attain eternal life. We must choose each day to live in Christ. Eternal life does not come on the basis of a correct statement concerning the work of redemption and the lordship of Christ. Rather, eternal life comes to us as we cast ourselves on God through Christ, receiving into ourselves the Divine Life that enables us to escape the lusts of the world.