Obedience is everything to God. Everyone in the church knows this, and if asked, will affirm that obedience is fundamental. But most do not obey, and the few who do, obey only partially. This is due to three main reasons. First, it is easy to follow the impulses of the heart, which by nature wants to be independent from God. Second, it is difficult to go against the current of the crowd. And finally, faithfully obeying God’s requirements causes conflicts and strong opposition within the family. That is why great blessings are reserved for the few who, despite all this, have decided to obey all the laws that God gave to the prophets in the Old Testament and to Jesus in the Gospels. | “You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.” (Psalm 119:4)
Right has become wrong and wrong has become right. Today, those who seek to obey all of God’s commandments are accused by the very leaders of rejecting the cross and heading to hell. But those who ignore the commandments the Lord gave through the prophets in the Old Testament are declared saved, because , so they say , salvation is an “unmerited favor.” What an absurdity! Was this the Lord’s message? Is salvation for the disobedient? Never! The apostles and disciples faithfully obeyed all of God’s laws, and Jesus never rebuked them for it , on the contrary, He called them blessed. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority , obey while you are alive. | Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Isaiah 5:20
When Jesus told Nicodemus that God so loved the world and therefore sent His Son, He was referring to the human race. God had compassion on us, for without His intervention, Satan would keep us enslaved. The sending of the only begotten Son, however, was not to save everyone, for God respects each one’s free will, but to save those who fulfill His two requirements: to believe and to obey. Nicodemus obeyed God’s laws, but did not accept Jesus as the Messiah. Most in churches believe in Jesus, but live in open disobedience to the laws that God gave us through the prophets in the Old Testament. The truth is that we are saved by pleasing the Father and being sent to the Son, and the Father will never send declared disobedient people to Jesus. | “Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” (Revelation 14:12)
No created being , angel or man , has authority to change even a comma of God’s Law. The mere act of imagining that someone, inside or outside the Bible, has received such power is already a direct affront to the Creator. The Father declared and the Son confirmed that His laws are eternal, and no man was prophesied with authority to alter them. However, this is exactly what most leaders teach: that someone, at some point, abolished God’s holy Law. This lie comes from the serpent, who since Eden has tried to convince humans that they can disobey and still be accepted. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority , obey while you are alive. | “For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle will by any means pass from the law until all is fulfilled.” (Matthew 5:19)
If it were true that God sent His only begotten Son to release people from the obligation to obey His laws and to be saved only by believing, surely this would be clearly prophesied. However, the reality is the opposite. In the Gospels, we see that Jesus, instead of canceling the laws that God gave us in the Old Testament, made them even more rigorous: we commit adultery just by looking, we murder by wishing evil, and if we do not forgive others, we will not be forgiven. The truth is that the gate is, indeed, narrow. Salvation is individual. No soul will ascend without seeking to follow the same laws given to Israel, laws that Jesus Himself and His apostles followed. Do not follow the majority because they are many. Obey while you are alive. | “If only they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments, that it might go well with them and with their descendants forever!” (Deuteronomy 5:29)
God directed the lineage of Adam’s son, Seth, until Abraham. After testing and approving Abraham, God set him apart, along with his descendants and the Gentiles of his household, and made with them an eternal covenant of faithfulness, sealed with circumcision. Throughout history, God made it clear that this would be the plan of salvation for both Jews and Gentiles: they should follow His laws to be part of His people and would need the sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins. Jesus never suggested that this process was changed. As Gentiles, our salvation comes by following the same laws that the Father gave to the nation chosen for His honor and glory. The Father observes our faith and courage, unites us with Israel, and leads us to Jesus. | The foreigner who joins himself to the Lord, to serve Him, thus becoming His servant… and who holds firmly to My covenant, I will also bring to My holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
Go and preach to the nations! Since Jesus returned to heaven, God has sent messengers to the Gentiles , but none of them, inside or outside the Bible, received authority to teach anything that Christ did not teach. The Savior was clear: no one comes to Him unless sent by the Father. And the Father only sends Gentiles who follow the same laws given to Israel, the people He set apart for Himself. Any message different from this does not come from heaven, but from the serpent, whose goal has always been to turn souls away from obedience. Salvation is individual. 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 of Jesus.” (Revelation 14:12)
The church will only take each of God’s wonderful commandments seriously when it abandons the fantasy that there is a shortage of human beings in the dwelling of the Most High. There is not! In heaven and on the new earth will be exactly those whom God has chosen , no more, no less. The Lord is not desperate to fill His Kingdom; He seeks only the faithful and obedient. This inflated self-esteem that dominates today’s churches was planted by the devil, to make them believe that God is so eager to save Gentiles that He no longer requires obedience to His holy laws. But this is a lie. The Father does not send disobedient people to the Son. Do not follow the majority , obey while you are alive. | “Ah! My people! Those who guide you mislead you and destroy the way of your paths.” (Isaiah 3:12)
Something that confirms that Jesus comes from God is that He never taught anything contrary to what the Father had already revealed through the prophets in the Old Testament. Not a single law was canceled by Him, no matter how small. On the contrary, Jesus reinforced and corrected the errors of the Jewish leaders. Both the Father and the Son remained faithful and consistent to what was taught from the beginning. However, millions in churches openly disobey God’s laws, without a drop of support from the words of Jesus in the four Gospels. They allowed themselves to be led by a heart inclined to sin and easily accepted doctrines of men that arose after Christ’s ascension. The Father does not send declared disobedient people to the Son. | “I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me; and they have obeyed your word [the Old Testament].” (John 17:6)
The test of obedience that we Gentiles are facing is as rigorous as the one God gave to Israel on the way to Canaan. Of the 600,000 men who crossed the Red Sea, few reached the end approved. Their test was for an earthly homeland; ours is for eternal life, but in both cases, the criterion is obedience to God’s commandments. No matter how convincing, we cannot allow ourselves to be swayed by any argument to disobey the laws of God given to His prophets in the Old Testament. This is the test that, unfortunately, millions of souls in churches have failed for centuries. They fell into the serpent’s trap and, for this reason, are not sent to Jesus for forgiveness and salvation. The Father does not send declared disobedient people to the Son. | God led you all the way in the desert 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)
