Obedience and covenant valor are prerequisites to entering into the kingdom of heaven. “He also explained how that higher life might be secured. ‘If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.’ ‘He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life.’ This is the ancient message to every man. To win happiness, he must conform to eternal law” (John A. Widtsoe, An Understandable Religion [Independence, Mo.: Zion’s Printing and Publishing Co., 1944], 211).