The doctrine of “unmerited favor” sounds beautiful, full of incredible details, and according to this teaching, we gentiles can ignore the laws that God gave us through the prophets of the Old Testament, and still receive a welcome in heaven. It seems perfect. The only problem is that in none of the four gospels did Jesus teach this absurdity, nor did He say that any human being would come after Him with authority to create such a doctrine. It is clearly a false doctrine, and yet the majority rely on it to blatantly disobey God’s laws. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority just because they are many. The end has already come! Obey while you are alive. | “You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.” (Psalm 119:4)
God rescues and protects daily those who prove they love Him by obeying His commandments. We often weaken, worry, doubt, and stumble. The Lord sees that we are needy and flawed, but He never abandons His faithful children. In a short time, we see His mighty hand lift us up and encourage us to move forward. Many in churches desire this kind of relationship with God, but cannot achieve it because they were taught by leaders that it is not necessary to obey the Most High’s laws to please Him. Do not accept this lie of the serpent. The apostles and disciples of Jesus obeyed all the commandments of God revealed in the Old Testament. | “If only they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments. Then it would go well with them and with their descendants forever!” (Deuteronomy 5:29)
A fatal error among gentiles is to imagine that Jesus is accessible to anyone without first passing through the approval of Jesus’ Father. When a gentile expresses the desire to receive forgiveness, blessings, and salvation, God examines that individual’s heart to see if the desire is genuine. That gentile is then subjected to the test of obedience to the laws that were given to the nation that God set apart for Himself with a perpetual covenant. If approved, the Father integrates him into Israel, blesses him, and sends him to the Son. This plan of salvation makes sense because it is the true one. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority because they are many. The end has already come! Obey while you are alive. | “That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted by the Father.” (John 6:65)
To sin is not to do what God commands or to do what He forbids. Millions of gentiles are being taught that they can, indeed, ignore the laws that God gave us through the prophets in the Old Testament and still inherit eternal life. This will not happen. The leaders who teach this lie are false and will be personally responsible for every soul led to disobedience and eternal death. The Father only sends to the Son those who, with all their heart, seek to obey all His holy commandments, just as the apostles and disciples of Jesus obeyed. | “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)
Many use the phrase “if the Law saved, Jesus would not have needed to come” to justify their own disobedience, but this phrase never belonged to the gospel of Christ. Neither the prophets nor Jesus taught that the Law saves; they taught that obedience to the Law brings the sinner closer to the Lamb, and only the blood of the Lamb grants forgiveness. Since ancient Israel, the principle has been the same: only the obedient received purification in the temple. Today the Father continues to send to His Son those who honor His Law. All the apostles and disciples obeyed God’s powerful laws. Salvation is individual. Obey while you are still alive. | “Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith in Jesus.” (Revelation 14:12)
God gave us His powerful commandments through the prophets in the Old Testament and through Jesus in the four Gospels because He knew this would be our only protection against the enemy’s deceptions. The serpent is cunning, much more intelligent than any human being, and its main strategy is to draw souls away from obedience. Whoever turns aside to the right or to the left, even if only a little, loses divine protection and, without realizing it, begins to stray from the path of salvation. Only total faithfulness to the Law of the Lord keeps the soul safe under the Father’s care. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority , obey while you are alive. | “Be very careful to act as the Lord your God has commanded you. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left.” (Deuteronomy 5:32)
God did not set apart for Himself a “nation of gentiles,” only the nation of Israel. The idea present in churches that gentiles have a separate plan of salvation from Israel, in which they do not need to obey the powerful and eternal Law of God to be saved, is a doctrine of men. In none of the four gospels did Jesus preach this heresy. The Father only sends to Jesus the gentiles who follow the same laws given to the nation He chose for Himself with an eternal covenant. For more than three years, Jesus trained apostles and disciples to obey the Father. Jews or gentiles, we must live as they did, keeping the Sabbath, circumcision, forbidden meats, tzitzits, the beard, and all the other statutes of the Lord. Salvation is individual; obey while you are alive. | “The assembly shall 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)
The teaching that someone can be blessed and saved without obeying the laws of God revealed in the Old Testament has no support whatsoever in the words of Jesus. In none of the four Gospels did the Messiah say that the sinner could reject any commandment of the Father and still inherit eternal life. This popular doctrine is, in fact, part of the serpent’s strategy against the gentiles, started soon after the ascension of Christ. The devil inspired eloquent men to create and spread this comfortable lie, which to this day dominates most churches. But the truth remains: only those who seek to obey the Law of the Lord are sent by the Father to the Lamb for forgiveness and salvation. 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)
When the soul decides, with all its strength, to faithfully obey the laws of God as given to the prophets in the Old Testament, even if the whole world opposes, it enters a sealed environment reserved only for itself and the Almighty. In this intimate place, the Lord will instruct, strengthen, and send it into the world with His blessings and continuous protection. God becomes the true Father of those who are faithful to Him and sends them to Jesus for forgiveness and salvation. Do not be deceived by the serpent’s lies. There is no other way to approach the Father and the Son except through obedience to His holy and eternal Law. | “If only they had such a heart as this always, to fear me and to keep all my commandments. Then it would go well with them and with their descendants forever!” (Deuteronomy 5:29)
The serpent sowed one of its greatest lies by claiming that God, in His desire to save the gentiles in the churches, no longer requires obedience to His laws as He did in the past. Many have accepted this false idea that the Father recognized the difficulty of following His laws and decided to make it easier for the gentiles by sending His Son into the world. This misleading idea has no basis in the words of Jesus in the Gospels. All the laws that God gave us in the Old Testament are wonderful and easy to follow for those who truly love and fear Him. God needs no one, especially those who blatantly ignore His laws. Whoever lives in this illusion will bitterly discover the truth at the final judgment. | Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked… But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. Psalm 1:1-2
