Many religious persons presume that they are made righteous to God, and assuredly destined for Glory, simply by and/or by believing that the blood of Jesus shed on some cross forgives all their past and present sins, and that that atones for them and redeems them, saves and justifies and sanctifies them.

No urgency about anything else, with nonchalant smugness. "We'll all be raptured out of trouble before it even begins." They think they've got it made. Sin and guilt are long since gone - a long-forgotten thing of the past, and don't dare to mention the sordid details of it ever again. Happy to continue porno-mopheaded in general public view, baring their nude legs with shorts and shortened skirts, showing off naked painted toenails in soxless sandals. Merrily roaming around and trotting along in self-deluded complacency and hideous deception, trying to be polite by imposing their non-thinking quasi-insane semi-indecent exposure with impunity to hapless non-soliciting male victims in insidiously-assaultive "friendliness" whenever and wherever to whoever they sadistically target.

Such presumption was never correct, is not now correct, and never will be correct -- because it is not completely true.

Before you the reader fly off the handle, or anyone else flies off the handle in an arrogant huff, I will cut right to the chase by informing all aroused exact what does save, or at least is a crucial, mandatory, vital, and required component qualifying them to enter into Heaven after their earthly demise:

Deuteronomy 11:13 And if you will obey my commandments [not "suggestions" or "advice"] which I order you to do this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 11:14 He will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the later rain, that you may gather in your grain and your [fermented-and-potentially-intoxicating] wine [not merely "grape juice" which you could never get drunk on] and your oil.

Deuteronomy 28:15 "But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you this day, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you."

Joshua 24:19 But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve the LORD; because He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will NOT forgive your transgressions or your sins.

Job 9:2 Truly I know that it is so: But how can a person be just before God?

Psalm 51:17 The sacrifice acceptable to God is [mere belief and trust in the gospel of Jesus Christ? No way!] a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, God, you will not despise.

Speaking of sacrifices, some purport that there will be another jewish temple built in Jerusalem, within which the beast-and-false-prophet Antichrist would take their seat, proclaim themselves to be God, and thus set up the "abomination of desolation" therein.

But:

First Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit resides in you?
First Corinthians 3:17 If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.

Perhaps somewhat confusing, two Antichrists (e.g. The Beast and the additional False Prophet, mentioned in Revelation chapter 13) appear to someday exist instead a singular-person Antichrist, mentioned within both the Old-Testament book of Daniel and in the New-Testament book of Second Thessalonians:

Daniel 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and hey, a fourth beast, terrible and dreadful and exceedingly strong; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
8 I considered the horns, and hey, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots; and hey, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
9 As I looked, thrones were placed and one who was Ancient of Days took His seat; His clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head like pure wool; His throne was fiery flames, its wheels were burning fire.
10 A stream of fire issued and came forth from before Him; a thousand thousands served Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened.
11 I looked then because of the sound of the great words which the horn was speaking. And as I looked, the beast was slain, and its body destroyed and given over to be burned with fire.

Daniel 8:9 Out of one of them came forth a little horn, which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the glorious land.
10 It grew great, even to the host of heaven; and some of the host of the stars it cast down to the ground, and trampled upon them.
11 It magnified itself, even up to the Prince of the host; and the continual burnt offering was taken away from him, and the place of his sanctuary was overthrown.
12 And the host was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through transgression; and truth was cast down to the ground, and the horn acted and prospered.
20 As for the ram which you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia.
21 And the he-goat is the king of Greece; and the great horn between his eyes is the first king.
22 As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others rose up, four kingdoms shall rise up from his nation, but not with his power.
23 And at the latter end of their rule, when the transgressors have reached their full measure, a king of bold countenance [sounds somewhat like Obama], one who understands riddles, shall rise up.
24 His power shall be great, and he shall cause fearful destruction, and shall succeed in what he does, and destroy mighty men and the people of the saints.
25 By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in his own mind he shall magnify himself. Without warning he shall destroy many; and he shall even rise up against the Prince of princes; but, by no human hand, he shall be broken.
26 The vision of the evenings and the mornings which has been told is true; but seal up the vision, for it pertains to many days from now."

Daniel 11:21 In his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given; he shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
11:22 Armies shall be utterly swept away before him and broken, and the prince of the covenant also.
11:23 And from the time that an alliance is made with him he shall act deceitfully; and he shall become strong with a small people.
11:24 Without warning he shall come into the richest parts of the province; and he shall do what neither his fathers nor his fathers' fathers have done, scattering among them plunder, spoil, and goods. He shall devise plans against strongholds, but only for a time.
11:30 For ships of Kittim ["Kittim?"] shall come against him, and he shall be afraid and withdraw, and shall turn back and be enraged and take action against the holy covenant. He shall turn back and give heed to those who forsake the holy covenant [sort of sounds like Obamanites].
11:31 Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.
11:32 He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant; but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.
11:33 And those among the people who are wise shall make many understand, though they shall fall by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder, for some days.
11:34 When they fall, they shall receive a little help. And many [including wimpy republicans?] shall join themselves to them with flattery;
11:35 and some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine and to cleanse them and to make them white, until the time of the end, for it is yet for the time appointed.
11:36 "And the king shall do according to his will; he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god [that of the Catholic crusaders, and the al-lah of ISIS?], and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is determined shall be done.
11:37 He shall give no heed to the gods of his fathers, or to the [against-abortion-homicide] One beloved by women; he shall not give heed to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all.
11:38 He shall honor the god of fortresses instead of these; a god whom his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts.
11:39 He shall deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god; those who acknowledge him he shall magnify with honor. He shall make them rulers over many and shall divide the land for a price.
11:41 He shall come into the glorious land. And tens of thousands shall fall, but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom and Moab and the main part of the Ammonites.
11:42 He shall stretch out his hand against the countries, and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
11:43 He shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and of silver, and all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall follow in his train.
11:44 But news from the east and the north shall alarm him, and he shall go forth with great fury to exterminate and utterly destroy many.
11:45 And he shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, with none to help him.

and:

Second Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and The Man of Lawlessness ["we don't need to obey the Law, because we're saved by grace through faith, not by works, and that not of our own doing"] is revealed, the son of perdition,
2:4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
2:5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you this?
2:6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time.
2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains it will do so until He is out of the way. [due in part to the suppression against and death of senior saints, plus anti-Christians/anti-Christianity activism of the ACLU, PAW, SPLC, AUSCS, FFRF, homo-and-atheist activists, pro-homo anti-good-works mainline-"church" heretics, etc.]
2:8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, and the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of His mouth and destroy him by His appearing and his coming.
2:9 The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders,
2:10 and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

They go to state that animal sacrifices will resume within that purported temple-to-come, as described in the last chapters of the Old-Testament book of Ezekiel.

That, with all disregard against:

First Corinthians 5:7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed.

And they fail to point out that that temple described in the last chapters of Ezekiel was built (it took 46 years to do it) and was existing at the time Jesus walked Earth during His brief ministry in the flesh here on this planet, and within which He Himself taught.

Actually, what would probably happen instead of animal sacrifices commencing in some supposed new temple in the future, is that the Duo-Combo Antichrist(s) would take it upon themselves to declare such animal sacrifices irrelevant and unnecessary as they themselves assert that they are the substitute in place of such, declaring themselves [the antithesis against] the Trinitarian God Themselves. Thus, the infamous "desolating sacrilege."

But, animal sacrifices, even back in post-deportation Old-Testament times, were admittedly considered inadequate (and thus unnecessary and even worthless, if not a blasphemous substitute, for trying to obtain atonement and redemption):

Micah 6:6 With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
6:7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
6:8 He has showed you, human, what is good; and what the LORD requires of you: to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God.

Ecclesiastes 7:20 Surely there is not a righteous person on earth who does good and never sins.

Matthew 15:8 'This [mopheaded-and-more, especially during warmer-weather] people honors me with their "saved-by-grace' lips, but their [sometimes-or-never-obey burka/hijab-modesty] heart is far from me...

Mark 7:6 And He said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This warmer-weather-indecently-exposed people honors me with their "I've-been-washed-in-the-blood-of-the-Lamb" lips, but their heart is far from me....'"

Luke 6:46 "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do [the good works of] what I tell you?

John 3:36 He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he/she who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him or her.

Romans 3:28 For we maintain that a person is justified by faith [in God and neither themselves nor Satan] apart from works of law [of attempting to atone for or redeem oneself by trying to obey some or all of the Law and/or actually obeying as much of the Law as they do].

Romans 3:31 Do we then overthrow the Law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the Law. [and you'd better, with police around and nearby who are intently watching and ready to pounce at the slightest infraction].

Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

Second Corinthians 6:1 Working [not merely "believing" nor "trusting"] together with Him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain.

Galatians 5:4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by [presuming that you can self-atone then even self-redeem yourselves by trying to obey part or all of] the law [and actually occasionally succeeding in obeying part of it]; you have fallen away from grace [of God saving you freely in accord with your penitent attitude of never ever wanting to do sins again, and instead wanting to be saved, be atoned for, and even be redeemed by Him relating to His bloody gospel abrogating your filthy sins].

Galatians 5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. [whatever the hell that means]
Galatians 5:26 Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another. [Oh oh! Referring to the Mosaic and other moral Law, again!].

If Paul was so much gung-ho on replacing law with grace, why does he repeatedly refer back to the Mosaic and other moral Law?

Why did Jesus keep referring back to the Mosaic and other moral Law in the gospels?

Is obedience to the moral law a take-it-or-leave-it option....or instead mandatory and required? Is it an option for the true Christian to "live like the Devil" without minding rules and regulations of Scripture?

Let's see if Paul keeps referring back to the Mosaic and other moral law to define and qualify what the abstraction called "living by the Spirit" actually involves and means.

To prove a point, I add a single word into a Bible verse which does not belong there. Assuming that you, the reader, are not dull of mind, you should immediately detect what it is:

Hebrews 5:7 Christ, in the days of His sinful flesh, when He had offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, was heard in that He feared.

Did you notice the word sinful above? And what was that, in the verse, about "fear?" Some presume that "perfect love casts out fear" per:

First John 4:18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love.

I guess not:(?)

Ecclesiastes 12:13 The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear [not merely "respect" but rather: be afraid of] God, and keep [doing, not merely let your unopened Bible lay around and gather dust] His commandments; for this is the whole duty of humans.

And, for the sake of clarity, I am going to replace the word "flesh" with the word "law" in the passage below - just for shts and giggles. Notice how weird, goofy, and dead wrong it will seem:

Galatians 5:13 For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the "law", but through love be servants of one another.
5:14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
5:15 But if you bite and devour one another take heed that you are not consumed by one another. [Oh Oh. Referring back to the Mosaic and other moral law again!]
5:16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and do not gratify the desires of the "law".
5:17 For the desires of the "law" are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the "law"; for these are opposed to each other, to prevent you from doing what you would.
5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit you are not under Law. [and make sure you tell that to a squad-car cop next time you use your liberty and freedom in "the Spirit" to run a red stoplight right in front of him]
5:19 Now the works of the "law" are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness, [Oh Oh. Referring back to the Mosaic and other moral law again!]
5:20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, [Oh Oh. Referring back to the Mosaic and other moral law again!]
5:21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. [Oh Oh. Referring back to the Mosaic and other moral law again!]
5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, [Oh Oh. Referring back to the Mosaic and other moral law again!]
5:23 gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law. [Oh Oh. Referring back to the Mosaic and other moral law again!]
5:24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the "law" with its passions and desires. [Oh Oh. Referring back to the Mosaic and other moral law again!]
5:25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
5:26 Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another. [Oh Oh. Referring back to the Mosaic and other moral law again!]

Titus 1:16 They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

Hebrews 12:14 Strive for peace [not simply belief or faith in the grace of God or gospel?] with all humans, and for the holiness [does that obviously involve doing good works and not simply even-the-demons-believe-and-shudder belief or faith to live like the Devil using gospel as an excuse to do sinful actions?] without which no one will see the Lord.

James 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar?
James 2:24 You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
James 2:26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.

First Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.

First John 1:6 If we say we have fellowship with Him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth;
First John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
First John 1:10 If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.

First John 2:4 He who says "I know him" but disobeys His commandments, is a liar - and the truth is not in him...

Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, [righteous and wicked, as proverbial 'sheep' with proverbial 'goats' per Matthew chapter 25:31-46] great and small, standing before The Throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is The Book of Life. And the dead [both righteous "sheep" and wicked "goats"] were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.

Or, maybe instead:

Second Timothy 4:3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings...

....professors and pastors and reverends and bishops serenely saying: "Let it slide. God loves you anyway."

Works righteousness?

What does it look like? Is it not obvious to see?

Matthew 25:31 "When the Son of Man comes [returns] in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne.
25:32 Before Him will be gathered all the nations, and He will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats,
25:33 and He will place the sheep at His right hand, but the goats at the left.
25:34 Then the King will say to those at His right hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
25:35 for I was hungry and you [did the good work, with or without reliably-perfect-trusting faith, of giving me] food, I was thirsty and you [did the good work, with or without reliably-perfect-trusting faith, of giving me] drink, I was a stranger and you [did the good work, with or without reliably-perfect-trusting faith, of welcoming me],
25:36 I was naked and you [did the good work, with or without reliably-perfect-trusting faith, of clothing me], I was sick and you [did the good work, with or without reliably-perfect-trusting faith, of visiting me], I was in prison and you [did the good work, with or without reliably-perfect-trusting faith, of coming to me].'
25:41 Then He will say to those at his left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into The Eternal Fire prepared for The Devil and his angels/demons;
25:42 for I was in various types of need and you never did the good work, with or without reliably-perfect-trusting faith, of ministering to me.
25:44 Then they also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not do the good works, with or without reliably-perfect-trusting faith, of ministering to you?'
25:45 Then he will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did not do the good works to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.'
25:46 And they will go away into Eternal Punishment, but the righteous into Eternal Life."

When the intention and actual doing of performing good works is in fact really done, then the following applies for salvation to the worker:

Romans 5:9 Being, therefore, we are now justified by His blood, much more shall we be saved by Him from the wrath of God.

Revelation 1:4 ....Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from The Seven Spirits who are before His throne,
Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and The Ruler of kings on earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood.... [toast, with uplifted cup, and cheers!]

Works count!

Revelation 21:8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion shall be in The Lake that burns with Fire and Brimstone, which is The Second Death."

Condemned by bad works - whether faith and/or faithlessness was partly or completely involved, or not?

So is the Law of Moses abrogated, thrown out, discarded, to be ignored, to be merely thought of as an optional take-it-or-leave-it "guide?"

Psalm 7:12 If a person does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.

Or get ISIS to do it for Him.

Matthew 5:48 You, therefore, must be perfect [in both the intangible abstraction of "faith" and the tangible reality of actions], as your heavenly Father is perfect.

We can all "AH" to that, in the blessed name of YAY-zeus, the Benevolent - messianically speaking.

One final thought. [Yes, Lt Columbo?] The sovereign will of Creator God, and the sovereign will of made-in-the-image-of-God humans, can be (and sometimes are) in agreement with each other. More often than not, they instead they can be (and frequently are) diametrically opposed to each other.

Can, and sometimes does, God force persons to obey, or say that they believe Him? But of course.

Can, and sometimes does, God force a person to like to obey, or like to say that they believe Him? Of course not.

Does the Lord force individuals to believe in and trust Him? Beyond that, does He force individuals to like to believe in and trust Him?

A point to ponder, and food for thought. Sacred-Harp/Shape-Note Singing . . .

The Glory of the Cross (#1) = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_qOFBvke3c

The Glory of the Cross (#2) = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUJZnoPodU

Nearer My God To Thee = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh4iDY95cCE

Oriental Chanting = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_DX2g7xIMw