If the Bible says that His yoke is easy and that His burden is light, why then must we strive, and also still carry a cross that goes beyond Christ taking on all of our sins, into us also having our outward man perish in the rotting of the seed, just as David also said that his life was continually in his own hands? Simplicity tends to lead away from striving into His straight and narrow gate, and make it into just trying to keep ourselves from what we think are really bad sins. Striving for the straight and narrow gate is the path unto entering in, which may seem as if things are not easy or light, and this can even more so lead into simplicity, as false light desires to be the answer to darkness. The instance that the word simplicity is used as a good thing in the NT, in the NKJV, shows that Paul wanted people to not be led astray from what they already knew was God's Word, as he commented on how Eve was deceived. However, the Greek word that gets translated as simplicity actually means that we are to do more than just rely on what is already commonly known. It means we are to still strive and be zealous, and thus sow and be grafted even more so into God. This is why simplicity is not wise, and why it is not good, right, or cleansed through the new covenant, just as it was evil in the OT.

The walk unto entering in, as we are to strive for God's oneness, through the new birth, is also a path containing perfection, and it leads unto perfection. Just as Paul said in Colossians that he labored for others' perfection, and the word in the Greek does not merely mean blamelessness, completion, or maturity. It actually gives the meaning of perfection as in having nothing that falls short, and also gives the bar and goal to include everything that is corrupted in our lives to be brought into perfection, even unto the perfect Day which is spoken of in the Proverbs. As the Bible says that the path of the just shines brighter unto the perfect Day. Our present tense worship of God, can not include the complacency which says that some corruption in our lives is acceptable, because we can not be perfect. The reason we are to strive for the straight and narrow gate, and the way that we have to do it, is to not give place anywhere in our lives where we accept and or agree that we can't be totally perfect. The only way for the Spirit of Jesus Christ to give life into our mortal flesh, and for us to actually have that in Spirit and truth, is to understand, know, and continually be led by the Spirit through believing that the foundation for our flesh is in our incorruptible born again insides which have no sin, and are perfect, and whose foundation is in Christ who is completely perfect and without sin, even bodily.

And the consolidation for the sins that we do encounter after beginning to walk like that, is found in 1 John 2, as John says that he wrote to them so that they would not sin, but that even if they did sin, Christ was the propitiation for their sins. And along with this, Jesus said that transgressions must come, but woe to whom they come through. In this way, the parable of the tares may be taken from the topographical meaning it contained in the gospels, into the things that we deal with personally, in our own lives. Therefore we aren't to plan to sin, and we are supposed to continue in Him no matter what, also concerning receiving from Him, and if we sin, it is as the parable of the tares, and Psalm 92. The foundation of lukewarmness may give the ability to not have what people think are really bad sins, but it doesn't enter in.