No one will enter heaven because they deserve it. The population of heaven is and will be innumerable, and everyone of them will be there by the grace of God alone.
One of the best ways to keep ourselves unspotted by the world is to focus on helping others rather than doing things, including practicing religion, for our own benefit.
Too many sects of Christianity are judgmental toward God’s people and try to hold them to a standard that they themselves are not able to keep (Acts 15:10). Outward conformity to men’s standards will never justify us before a holy God.
This scene is one of the most remarkable expressions of God’s grace to be found in scripture.
God chose a certain number of people before the world began in the covenant of election. When those elect, by the regenerated spirit given them by God, do good works, we ought to glorify the covenant God of election!