The hard truth is that millions of souls love the doctrine of “unmerited favor” because, even though it is illusory, it gives them a false permission to love this world and still receive a welcome in heaven. Unfortunately, Jesus did not even remotely teach that such a possibility exists. If they really want to inherit eternal life, they need to set aside this fanciful gospel and cling only to what Jesus actually taught. What Jesus taught is that no one comes to the Son unless the Father sends him, but the Father does not send declared disobedient people to Jesus; He sends those who seek to follow His laws, given to Israel, laws that Jesus Himself and His apostles followed. Do not follow the majority just 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)
On Judgment Day, many Christians will realize too late that they were led by their leaders down the path of disobedience and eternal perdition. The hatred for the leadership will be great, but it will not erase the sentence, because they chose to follow men instead of Christ. Jesus never created a religion for Gentiles without faithfulness to the powerful and eternal Law of God; this does not exist in the four gospels. There is only one plan: to please the Father through obedience and be sent to the Son. The Savior spent years training apostles and disciples in the pattern of total obedience. 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 is to have the same laws for you and for the foreigner residing among you; this is a lasting ordinance.” (Numbers 15:15)
It is common to hear in churches: “If we had kept the Law, Jesus would not have needed to die,” but this statement never came from the mouths of the prophets nor from the mouth of the Messiah. The Law never had the role of saving; it reveals sin and leads man to the Lamb who saves. It has always been this way: only those who sought to obey the commandments could benefit from the blood of the lamb in ancient Israel. And today, in the same way, only those who seek to obey the same Law are led by the Father to the blood of the true Lamb. The soul that knows God’s laws and decides not to obey will never benefit from the cross. Jesus did not die to save declared rebels. Obey while you are still alive. | “Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.” (Revelation 14:12)
The packaging is attractive, but the content is deceptive and deadly. The confused and contradictory theology that so many leaders preach today is one of the serpent’s tactics to keep souls away from what God really requires: to obey all His commandments revealed by the prophets who came before the Messiah and by the Messiah Himself. Only these does the Father send to the Son for forgiveness and salvation. While many are enchanted by beautiful words, the enemy keeps them far from the faithfulness that moves the Father’s heart. God did not ask for doctrinal creativity, He asked for obedience. 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 of Jesus.” (Revelation 14:12)
The claim that God created a separate plan of salvation for the Gentiles because the Jews rejected Christ is false. The first churches were made up of Messianic Jews. Joseph, Mary, Peter, James, John, Matthew, and all the apostles and disciples were Jews who believed in Jesus as the Messiah. None of them abandoned faith in Christ after the crucifixion, and to this day there are Jews who follow Jesus. There have always been rebels in Israel, but God never broke the eternal covenant with Abraham. We Gentiles are united to Israel by being faithful to the same laws given to Abraham’s descendants, laws that Jesus and His apostles also followed. Do not follow the majority just because they are many! | The foreigner who joins himself to the Lord, to serve Him, thus becoming His servant… and who holds fast to my covenant, I will also bring to my holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
Many do not know that between Abraham and Jesus there was an interval of about two thousand years, the same period between Jesus and the present. There were many social changes over the time from the day God established the covenant with Abraham until Christ, but despite this, Jesus, His family, friends, and apostles remained obedient to the laws the Father gave to His people. In none of the Gospels did Jesus teach that Gentiles who believed in Him would be saved without following the same laws that He and His apostles followed, nor did He prophesy that someone would come after Him to teach a plan of salvation without His Father’s laws. Do not follow the majority because they are many. The end has already come! Obey God’s laws while you are alive. | “Blessed are those who hear the word of God [Old Testament] and obey it.” (Luke 11:28)
It is a very grave mistake to put words in Jesus’ mouth and preach what He never preached, but that is exactly what so many churches do when they invent a “plan of salvation for Gentiles” in which obedience to the powerful and eternal Law of the Father would be dispensable. During all the days the Messiah walked among the people, He never prophesied that, after Him, someone would arise, inside or outside the Bible, with authority to design a different plan of salvation from the one that always existed. What we see instead is Jesus and His apostles setting an example for all human beings, obeying the entire Law: Sabbath, circumcision, forbidden meats, tzitzits, beard, and all the other statutes of the Lord. Salvation is individual; obey while you are alive. | “The assembly is to have the same laws for you and for the foreigner residing among you; this is a lasting ordinance.” (Numbers 15:15)
There is no limit to what we can present to the Most High. Whether in the area of physical or emotional health, finances, or relationships, God gets involved with power in the lives of those who please Him. But the Father does not pour out His interventions on those who live rejecting His commandments. Protection, healing, and help belong to those who seek to faithfully obey the Law He gave us in the Old Testament and that Jesus and His apostles lived every day. When the soul proves its faithfulness, God moves heaven and earth on its behalf. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority, obey while you are alive. | “We receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.” (1 John 3:22)
To disobey God’s Law is to rebel against Him. The devil started this rebellion in heaven, passed through Eden, through the Jews, and now has reached us, the Gentiles. Many teach that if we believe in Christ, disobeying the Law does not affect salvation, but Jesus never taught such a thing. This lie is part of the devil’s plan against the Gentiles, begun right after Jesus returned to the Father. People forget that the serpent is determined to convince the entire human race of the same lie he used with Adam and Eve: that nothing bad happens to those who disobey God. Salvation is individual. No Gentile 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 just because they are many. | “Ah! My people! Those who guide you mislead you and destroy the way of your paths.” (Isaiah 3:12)
Feelings have never been a thermometer to measure whether God is pleased with us. Feeling happy or joyful does not mean divine approval, just as sadness does not mean rejection. What defines our position before God is obedience. Sad or joyful, we are right with the Lord when we honor Him through obedience. God made an eternal covenant with His people, and we Gentiles are not part of this covenant because of emotions, but because of obedience. When the Father sees this faithfulness, He pours out His love, unites us to Israel, and sends us to the Son for forgiveness and salvation. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority, obey while you are alive. | Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord! will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven (Matthew 7:21)
