1. what must I do to inherit eternal life?

2.  “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’”
28 “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”

3. what must I do …

4. … all … are under the power of sin. 10 As it is written:
“There is no one righteous, not even one; 11     there is no one who understands;     there is no one who seeks God. 12 All have turned away,     they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good,     not even one.”
Romans 3:9-18

5. 13 “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit
13 “Their throats are open graves;     their tongues practice deceit.” “The poison of vipers is on their lips.” 14     “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” 15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16     ruin and misery mark their ways, 17 and the way of peace they do not know.” 18     “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Romans 3:9-18

6. … no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin
Romans 3:20
… the law does not exist to help me identify what I must do … it exists to expose who I really am

7. what must I do …

8. You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
John 5:39-40

9. Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh … Romans 8:1-3

10. The Christ life …
Christ living his life in you and enabling you to be and to do what, in your own strength, you never could accomplish
… it is not personal character slowly attained, but union with the Lord Jesus
… we have not to climb by slow and painful ascent the heights of holiness, but to receive the Holy One himself
A.B. Simpson