# Matthew 7:21 Meaning "The Will of the Father?" **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [October 17, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/t/matthew-7-21-meaning-the-will-of-the-father/1793 "2026-10-17T13:51:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nevergiveuo](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/user_avatar/forum.victoriousinprayer.com/nevergiveuo/32/1298_2.png) [@Nevergiveuo](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/u/Nevergiveuo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2026, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/t/matthew-7-21-meaning-the-will-of-the-father/1793/1 "2026-10-17T13:51:12Z")
I’m a little confused by this passage. > Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. What is Matthew 7:21 telling us? ---
**Author:** ![GladInTheLord](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/user_avatar/forum.victoriousinprayer.com/gladinthelord/32/1222_2.png) [@GladInTheLord](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/u/GladInTheLord)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/t/matthew-7-21-meaning-the-will-of-the-father/1793/2 "2026-10-18T02:10:08Z")
Jesus is calling out people whose faith is words, you can say “Lord, Lord” and sound sincere and _still_ never submit to God. John 6:40, the will of the Father includes believing in the Son. ---
**Author:** ![solebricks](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/user_avatar/forum.victoriousinprayer.com/solebricks/32/951_2.png) [@solebricks](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/u/solebricks)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/t/matthew-7-21-meaning-the-will-of-the-father/1793/3 "2026-10-18T03:07:48Z")
It’s about _doing_ what the Father wants. Look at the next few verses, people who prophesied and cast out demons in his name still get told “I never knew you.” Jesus has spent 3 chapters spelling it out in the Sermon on the Mount. Forgive people, don’t judge harshly, love your enemies, trust God instead of worrying. Read Matthew 5 through 7 in one sitting this week, then pick one thing from it to practice. ---
**Author:** ![nickel\_and\_dime](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/user_avatar/forum.victoriousinprayer.com/nickel_and_dime/32/1424_2.png) [@nickel\_and\_dime](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/u/nickel_and_dime)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/t/matthew-7-21-meaning-the-will-of-the-father/1793/4 "2026-10-18T03:24:46Z")
The 2 houses right after. The one still standing belongs to the person who heard his words and did them before the rain showed up, so doing the will of the Father means _acting_ on it. ---
**Author:** ![quietvespers](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/ba8739/32.png) [@quietvespers](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/u/quietvespers)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 6:04am UTC](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/t/matthew-7-21-meaning-the-will-of-the-father/1793/5 "2026-10-18T06:04:30Z")
I hadn’t put that together with John 6:40 before. Matthew 7:21 can sound like a list of things to perform well enough, and ‘doing the will of the Father’ turns into scorekeeping. If the will of the Father is first to believe in the Son, then the doing comes out of a trust that’s already there. The people saying ‘Lord, Lord’ seem to mean it in the moment. The words never settled into anything underneath. I know that gap in myself. Saying the right things at church, then holding the reins pretty tightly the rest of the week. So the belief in John 6 has to be the kind that submits, like trusting a doctor enough to take the medicine. ---
**Author:** ![Armor\_Of\_God](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/user_avatar/forum.victoriousinprayer.com/armor_of_god/32/37_2.png) [@Armor\_Of\_God](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/u/Armor_Of_God)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/t/matthew-7-21-meaning-the-will-of-the-father/1793/6 "2026-10-18T15:30:23Z")
John 6:40. The Father wants us believing in Jesus for real, saying Lord Lord is easy peasy ---
**Author:** ![Bible-Blurbs](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/user_avatar/forum.victoriousinprayer.com/bible-blurbs/32/162_2.png) [@Bible-Blurbs](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/u/Bible-Blurbs)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.victoriousinprayer.com/t/matthew-7-21-meaning-the-will-of-the-father/1793/7 "2026-10-18T17:30:21Z")
> [@nickel\_and\_dime](#): > > The 2 houses right after. The one still standing belongs to the person who heard his words and did them before the rain showed up, so doing the will of the Father means acting on it. A miracle worker can still be living in a cardboard house. The rain shows which house was built properly but that was settled long before, by hearing and obeying So ‘acting on it’ means years of discipleship.