Many in the church like to say they do not deserve to be saved, using this phrase to project an image of great humility. They act as if they obey God’s laws, but still believe they could do more to please Him. The truth, however, is that almost always they have never even tried to obey the holy and eternal laws that God gave to the prophets and to Jesus. They continue to ignore God’s commandments, believing that their false humility impresses the Lord. But the Father searches hearts and knows the real motivation of each one. God does not send the disobedient to His Son. | “You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently.” (Psalm 119:4)
On Judgment Day, what today seems “normal” in churches will be revealed as rebellion. Ignoring the powerful and eternal Law of the Father while using the name of Jesus has serious consequences. Leaders will be exposed as false teachers, and those who followed them will accuse them with hatred, but it will be too late, for they traded the voice of the Lord for the doctrines of men. In none of the four Gospels did the Savior teach salvation without obedience; He trained His disciples to obey God in everything. Jews or Gentiles, we must live as they did, keeping the Sabbath, circumcision, forbidden meats, tzitzits, beard, and all the other statutes of the Lord. Salvation is individual: 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)
The truth that we, Gentiles, need to obey the commandments revealed by the prophets in the Old Testament so that the Father may send us to Jesus and grant us salvation is radical, unpopular, and extremely hard for most , but it is absolutely undeniable. Few accept this reality, while many prefer to follow the masses toward perdition, comforted by human doctrines that never came from the lips of Christ. But fact is fact, the Father searches hearts, and only the obedient are sent to the Son. This is how the prophets lived, this is how the apostles and disciples lived , and this is also how all who truly desire eternal life must live. Do not follow the majority , 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 them to My holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
Every leader who diverts Gentiles from obedience to the holy Law of God , the same revealed in the Old Testament and confirmed by Jesus in the four Gospels , is heading straight for the lake of fire. He not only rejects the Lord’s commandments but drags others with him. In judgment, both the leader and the Gentile who listened to him will suffer eternally, but the leader will bear greater guilt and suffer more, for he deceived those who trusted him. Salvation is individual. Do not follow the majority , obey while you are alive. | “Ah! My people! Those who lead you mislead you and destroy the way of your paths.” Isa 3:13
Enoch, Moses, and Elijah: three men whom God chose to take to heaven before the final judgment. The Lord observed their lives: their faithfulness to the laws, sacrifices, faith, and dedication. To say that the way they lived did not influence God’s decision to take them is absurd, but that is what the false doctrine of “unmerited favor” suggests: that nothing man does contributes to his salvation. The popularity of this doctrine lies in the false security that someone can keep enjoying the world, without obeying God’s laws, and still go up with Christ. This will not happen! We are saved by pleasing the Father and being sent to the Son, and the Father will never send declared disobedient people to Jesus. | “The Lord guides with unfailing love and constancy all who keep His covenant and obey His requirements.” (Psalm 25:10)
If anyone really had the power to abolish the powerful and unchangeable Law of God, they would have to be greater than the very God of the Scriptures , and that is impossible, because there is only one God, the Father of Jesus and our Father. When leaders say that the Law was annulled, whether for Jews or Gentiles, they teach something that neither the prophets who came before the Messiah nor the Messiah Himself taught. The apostles and disciples, who learned from the lips of Christ, were faithful to the commandments of the Most High: Sabbath, circumcision, forbidden meats, tzitzits, beard, and everything the Lord commanded. 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 in Jesus.” (Revelation 14:12)
Nowhere in the Old Testament or in the words of Jesus in the Gospels is it written that men only needed to obey God’s Law until the Messiah was sent and died for sins, as some churches teach. What qualifies a soul to receive the benefit of Christ’s sacrifice is precisely the pursuit of obeying God’s Law. Without this, there would be no criteria, and all souls would be saved. What Jesus taught is that it is the Father who 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 an everlasting covenant. God observes us and, seeing our obedience even in the face of opposition, He unites us to Israel and delivers us to Jesus. | “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:44)
When God made the covenant of faithfulness with Abraham, He ordered that all the men of his household, his descendants, and the Gentiles be circumcised as a physical sign of this covenant. Whoever was not circumcised would not be part of the covenant and would be without the promised divine protection. Jesus, His relatives, friends, apostles, and disciples were all circumcised according to this command of God. Nowhere in the Gospels did Jesus suggest that Gentiles were exempt from this eternal law because the Messiah came into the world, nor did He authorize any man, inside or outside the Bible, to change this commandment for the Gentiles. Just like Abraham, be approved in this test of faith and do not follow the majority just because they are many. | 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 them to My holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
Gentiles have always been part of the plan of salvation, but it was through the descendants of Abraham that the Lord designed this eternal plan. God did open the doors, yes , but He opened them **through Israel**, the people He set apart for Himself with an everlasting covenant. Any Gentile can join the people of God and be welcomed, but will have to keep the same commandments that the prophets, the apostles, and Jesus Himself kept, because the Father did not establish different laws for different peoples. The way has always been the same: obey what He commanded and then be sent to the Son for forgiveness and salvation. 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 them to My holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
God is not lacking Gentiles in heaven. Those He has already sealed are sufficient, for God, being the omnipotent Creator, does not need any human being. If the Gentiles accepted this fact, something surprising would happen in the churches: they would lose that inflated self-esteem, humble themselves, repent of years of open disobedience, and begin to seek to faithfully obey all the laws that God gave to the prophets of the Old Testament and to Jesus in the Gospels. The Lord would heal them and send them to the Son for forgiveness and salvation. 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 them to My holy mountain. (Isaiah 56:6-7)
