TRAITORS
Revelation 22:14 says, “Blessed [are] those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city.”
Blessed are those who do what? God said blessed are those who do His commandments. Can we be blessed if we read only His commandments? No, we could not. Can we be blessed if we hear only His commandments? No, we could not either! Why not? Because heaven is reserved only for law-abiding citizens who do His commandments! Only law-abiding citizens can enter heaven, and no one else. That’s why Jesus said in John 14:15, "If you love Me, keep My commandments.” When we keep His commandments (laws), that is evidence that we are law-abiding citizens.
God wants only people who love Him to keep Him company in heaven, and no one else! Why? Because Christians who don’t love Him can and will betray Him, like Judas Iscariot, Adam and Eve, and the millions or billions of angels who also betrayed God.
They like to argue with God for the reasons why they should do, or not do, what God wants them to do. When I see someone like that, I know that sooner than later, that individual will betray his or her Maker.
There are millions of Christians who are not law-abiding citizens who are today still faithful to God because they have food on their tables and roofs over their heads, and not because they truly love God
Jesus said, "Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, `Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare to them, `I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'” Matthew 7:21-23. Jesus rejects anyone who disobeyed His laws and commandments. He doesn’t want traitors to live with Him in heaven. He had seen all kinds of traitors while He was on earth.
Why could we not do His commandments?
We could not do them because it is part of our custom or culture to disobey God’s laws and commandments that we have acquired from our teachers in school, from our parents, husbands, wives, or from our teachers in church since we were kids.
We do not believe that His commandments were still valid today when He died on the cross. We believed that when Jesus died on the cross, His Laws and Commandments also expired with Him on the cross. We were also taught by our pastors and church leaders that we cannot sin.
How can we sin if we have violated laws and commandments that have expired? We have violated none of His commandments and laws, they cleverly argued.
As long as we abide in Jesus, we cannot sin, so the “grace” believers say.
How can we abide in Jesus when we do not do what He tells us to do? What does the word “abide” mean? The dictionary defines it as “accept or act in accordance with (a rule, a decision, or recommendation).
Context Christians have accepted nothing. The only thing that they have accepted is money and donations from people who got their ears tickled by them.
The Apostle Paul says, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, [because] they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn [their] ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4.
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