When Jesus said that everyone who believes in Him will be saved, He was speaking to Nicodemus, a Jewish leader. Just like many Jews in Jesus’ time, Nicodemus strictly followed the laws of Israel, but he lacked acceptance that Jesus was the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, thus fulfilling the two divine requirements for salvation: to believe and to obey. For today’s gentiles, the opposite happens. They accept the authority of Christ but refuse to obey the laws of God revealed to the prophets in the Old Testament. The Father does not send the disobedient to the Son. 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 holds firmly to my covenant, I will also bring them to my holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
When God gave His commandments, the expectation was clear: that they would be obeyed. To reinforce this, God warned His people about the consequences of disobedience, promising blessings if they obeyed and curses if not. However, the false doctrine of “unmerited favor” has completely distorted the Scriptures. According to this teaching popular in many churches, obeying the commandments is seen as a risk, for the individual may be trying to ”deserve” salvation and end up condemned. On the other hand, ignoring the commandments would be proof that the person recognizes they do not deserve it and so salvation is guaranteed. 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)
The basis of the relationship with God has always been obedience to His laws. Praying, fasting, and reading the Bible have their value, but are useless if the person does not first and foremost seek to obey with all their strength each of the holy laws that God gave us through the prophets in the Old Testament and Jesus in the Gospels. Access to the Throne of God remains blocked while the soul lives in open disobedience. However, when the individual decides to obey all of God’s Law, no matter the cost, he gains access to the Almighty, who will guide him and send him to Jesus for forgiveness and salvation. 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)
All writings that appeared after the ascension of Jesus, whether inside or outside the Bible, should be considered auxiliary and secondary, for there are no prophecies about the coming of any man with the mission to teach us something that Jesus did not teach. Any doctrine that is not in line with the words of Jesus in the four Gospels must be rejected as false, regardless of its origin, duration, or popularity. The doctrine of “unmerited favor” has no basis in the words of Jesus and is therefore false. What Jesus taught is that the Father sends us to the Son, and the Father only sends those who follow the same laws given to the nation He set apart for Himself with a perpetual covenant, laws that Jesus Himself and His apostles followed. | “Do not add to or subtract from the commandments I give you. Simply obey the commandments of the Lord your God.” (Deuteronomy 4:2)
Millions of gentiles in churches imagine it is something small and inconsequential to live in open disobedience to the holy laws that God gave to the prophets of the Old Testament and to Jesus in the Gospels. They have been carried away by the inclinations of the flesh and have gladly accepted the false doctrine of “unmerited favor,” because it is through this teaching that they deceive themselves, thinking they will be received with open arms in heaven, even though they blatantly ignore God’s Law. Jesus never taught such a doctrine, nor did He commission any man, inside or outside the Bible, with this task. 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 has always made it clear that the promise made to Abraham, of blessings and salvation, would extend to other peoples. Jesus confirmed this promise by sending His apostles into the world to teach everything they learned from Him. It was never said, neither in the Old Testament nor in the words of Jesus in the gospels, that the calling of the gentiles would be separate from Israel, the nation chosen by God with a perpetual covenant. Jesus never hinted that He was founding a new religion for the gentiles, with new doctrines, traditions, and without the holy laws that He and His followers always obeyed. 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 holds firmly to my covenant, I will also bring to my holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
We know that neither in the Old Testament nor in the words of Jesus in the four gospels is there any support for the idea that God’s plan of salvation is to save the knowingly disobedient, those who do not deserve to be saved, as the doctrine of “unmerited favor” teaches. The reason why many gentiles gladly accept this false doctrine is that it creates the illusion that they do not need to worry about God’s laws to attain eternal life. They follow their routines, not realizing that this is a trap of the serpent and a test from God. That is why Jesus warned us that few find the narrow gate. Do not follow the majority just because they are many! Obey while you are alive! | “You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.” (Psalm 119:4)
Heaven does not recognize two chosen peoples nor two paths of salvation. God chose Israel and sealed an eternal covenant, and any gentile who desires access to the Lamb must join this people by obedience to the powerful and eternal Law of God. The serpent invented a nonexistent shortcut, saying that gentiles do not need to obey as Israel did. This heresy did not come from the lips of Jesus in the four gospels. 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 must have the same laws, which will apply both to you and to the gentile living among you; this is a perpetual decree.” (Numbers 15:15)
Do not be deceived: the voice of the serpent is always pleasing to the ears of those who listen to it. The more it speaks, the more the person is enchanted and wants to hear what it has to say. For centuries, millions of people who claim to be followers of Jesus hear and follow teachings that Jesus never taught: teachings of mortal beings, inspired by the serpent, that arose years after the Savior returned to the Father. Jew or gentile, the true follower of Christ lives as His apostles and disciples lived. All of them obeyed the commandment of the Sabbath, circumcision, forbidden meats, the use of tzitzits, the beard, and all the other statutes of the Lord. Only those who obey are purified by the Blood of the Lamb; obey while you are alive. | “Whoever says: I know Him, and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” (1 John 2:4)
There are many people in church who live in constant suffering. If they are in church, it shouldn’t be this way, but it is. The reason is that they were led to believe the lie that they do not need to obey the holy and eternal Law of God to be in communion with the Lord. But the truth is that they are not well. God made it clear that blessings, protection, deliverance, and salvation are for His faithful children, who strive to follow His laws revealed in the Old Testament and in the Gospels by Jesus. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority just because they are many. The end has already come! Obey while you are alive. | “If only they had such a heart to fear me and to obey all my commandments always. Then it would go well with them and with their descendants forever!” (Deuteronomy 5:29)
