If we live continually in a spirit of faith, humility, and obedience to everything the Father has commanded, there will be few times when we need to cry out for God’s intervention, because those who live this way naturally remain under the constant protection of the Most High. God daily guards His faithful children, because obedience keeps the soul aligned with His will. When we seek, without exception, to fulfill each of His powerful commandments revealed by the prophets and by Jesus, we avoid many evils before they even arise. Protection does not come from desperation, but from continuous faithfulness. Salvation is individual. Obey while you are still alive. | A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you… The Most High is your dwelling place. (Psalm 91:7,9)
Many Christians accept disobedience because they heard that, in the early centuries, the primitive church stopped keeping commandments such as the Sabbath, the beard, circumcision, and the tzitzits, as if the historical error of flawed men could replace the eternal will of the Creator. What a destructive deception! Jesus obeyed everything, and the apostles and disciples who learned directly from Him obeyed everything. If others later rejected the Law, this only confirms how much the serpent works to lead humanity away from the narrow path. The standard never changed: we follow the Messiah, not the wayward. Salvation is individual. Obey while you are still alive. | “Anyone who goes too far and does not remain in the teachings of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in the teachings of Christ has both the Father and the Son.” (2 John 9)
Some people do not like the word “religion” and claim that Jesus did not have one, but this is to deny the facts. Jesus was born, lived, and died as a Jew, preaching the true faith of Israel and revealing the Father, the God of Israel. What He did not do was found a new religion for the gentiles, with new doctrines and traditions, nor teach a salvation without obedience to His Father’s laws. He taught that it is the Father who leads us to the Son, but the Father does not lead rebels to the Son. He leads only those who follow the laws He gave to the chosen nation in an eternal covenant. God does not send to the Son those who consciously disobey His laws. This plan of salvation makes sense because it is the true one. | “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God [Old Testament] and do it.” (Luke 8:21)
When we, gentiles, discover the hidden treasure in faithful obedience to God’s Law revealed in the Old Testament, we feel both joy and indignation. Joy for finally seeing the narrow path, and indignation for realizing that so many leaders hid this truth from us. But this is no surprise: as soon as Jesus returned to the Father, the devil began his plan to defame God’s powerful Law among the gentiles, spreading the lie that we do not need to obey what the Most High commanded. Since then, millions have been deceived, separated from the eternal covenant and prevented from being sent to the Lamb. Salvation is individual. Obey while you are still alive. | The gentile who joins himself to the Lord, to serve Him, thus becoming His servant… and who remains firm in My covenant, I will also bring to My holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
The Bible is filled with God’s promises for those who obey Him. There is no promise for those who ignore His laws. However, if the doctrine of “unmerited favor” were true, then God’s promises would not be for those who seek to obey Him, but for those who do not deserve it: liars, slanderers, violent people, and all who do not strive to deserve God’s goodness and salvation in Christ. In reality, many gentiles in the church ignore God’s Law based on this false doctrine. What they do not realize is that they are being deceived by the serpent and tested by God, just as happened with Adam and Eve in Eden and with the Jews in the desert. Obey while you are alive. | God led you all the way in the wilderness to humble you and to test you, to know what was in your heart and whether you would obey His commandments or not. (Deuteronomy 8:2)
To call a Pharisee someone who loves God and seeks to obey His commandments is, in fact, something demonic. Contrary to what many leaders preach in churches, Jesus never rebuked the Pharisees for obeying His Father’s Law, but because they taught and did not practice. They were not obedient , they were hypocrites. Jesus always defended obedience to the Law that His Father gave to the prophets in the Old Testament. The apostles and disciples, who learned directly from the Master, were faithful to all the Lord’s commandments, and so must we be. Do not follow the majority , obey while you are alive. | “Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith in Jesus.” (Revelation 14:12)
No gentile comes to Jesus without being approved by the Father. Jesus made this clear: the Father sends the soul to Him, and Jesus cares for it, protects it from the evil one, and applies His blood to it, returning it to the Father (“No one comes to the Father except through me”). It is the Father who decides who will be sent to the Son for salvation. If the Father is not pleased with someone, the blood of Christ cannot purify their sins. And who pleases the Father? Not the gentile who lives in open disobedience to His laws in the Old Testament, but those who follow the same laws that Jesus and His apostles followed. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority just because they are many. The end has already come! Obey while you are alive. | The gentile who joins himself to the Lord, to serve Him, thus becoming His servant… and who remains firm in My covenant, I will also bring him to My holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
The church is full of impactful words and phrases that impress , faith, love, restoration, hope , but many do not realize that, without obedience, they are just empty sounds. What we hear, sing, or repeat does not move the Most High; God has never been influenced by emotional speeches, which anyone can make, but always by physical acts of faithfulness to His powerful commandments revealed by the prophets before the Messiah and by the Messiah Himself. The soul that desires to please God needs to go beyond words and enter the path of real obedience, because only this obedience is recognized by the Father. Salvation is individual. Obey while you are still alive. | Now that you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. (John 13:17)
Contrary to what many believe, God did not send His Son into the world to found a new religion for the gentiles. Jesus came as the promised Messiah and as the sacrifice for the sins of the nation that the Father chose for His honor and glory , Israel. He Himself declared that He was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. However, any gentile can join the people of the eternal covenant by following the same laws that the Father gave to Israel. When the Lord sees this obedience and faith, He recognizes our dedication and sends us to the Son for forgiveness and salvation. This is the plan of salvation that makes sense, because it is the true one. | “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God [Old Testament] and do it” (Luke 8:21).
Lot’s wife knew the warning and knew God’s command not to look back, but she disobeyed, revealing where her heart was. Millions of Christians do the same: they know the powerful and unchanging Law of the Most High, have access to the Scriptures, but insist on looking to their rebellious leaders and despising what God has commanded. Like her, their punishment at the Final Judgment is certain. Do not follow leaders; follow Jesus, who trained His apostles to strictly obey the Law. They all obeyed the Sabbath, circumcision, forbidden meats, the use of tzitzits, the beard, and all the other statutes of the Lord. Jews or gentiles, only those who obey are purified by the Blood of the Lamb; obey while you are alive. | “The assembly must have the same laws, which will apply both to you and to the gentile who lives with you; this is a perpetual decree.” (Numbers 15:15)
