Concerning the rich young ruler (Matthew 19), the Law, Messiah’s dialogue…a response,

The young ruler had asked Jesus what he must do to inherit or earn eternal life and Jesus responded (under the Law) to keep the Commandments; this, in response to the young man’s self-righteousness thinking himself sufficiently “good” to enter the Kingdom…Jesus reminded the young man that no one is good but God…Jesus at this point asked the young man if he recognized Jesus as God as this would have been key to salvation…but the young man insisted that he was sufficiently righteous to earn his own salvation…then…Jesus pointed out the hypocrisy and sin of the young man by commanding him to follow Jesus and sell all that he had and give it to the poor…the young man could not obey because the young man loved his wealth, his money and possessions more than God thereby violating the Greatest Commandment of all.

Jesus knows that we cannot keep the Law sufficiently to earn our own salvation as the Law mandates perfection (James 2:10; Galatians 3:10; Deuteronomy 27:26) and we’re under the condemnation of sin as we’re all sinners (Romans 3:20-23) and Jesus understood that only by trusting in Him as Messiah would the young man find righteousness (a right standing) with the Father and eternal life (John 3:16-28;14:6).

Jesus provided the young man no less than two-opportunities to find eternal life through Him, Jesus as Messiah, but the young man did as most Jews and Christian cults do today, they trust in their own righteousness to save them and deny the righteousness of Christ offered them by faith in Him as their Messiah who died for them (2 Corinthians 5:21).

My statements are under girded by commonsense, natural law, God’s law, experiential relevance by observation, 31-years of policing and policing the homosexual community on four-different shifts. LGBTQ is a vile and demonically-based spiritual and mental illness that destroys mind, body, soul, within the Realm of Time and in Eternity…it is the fool and naive individual deluded by destructive liberalism, narcissism, ignorance, that will not see this truism. God does not create a homosexual or a lesbian or a trans or a queer…God created human kind as male and female and though there are rare cases of genetic malformations concerning the sexual genitalia, 99+% of mankind is born male or female (physiologically and psychologically)…and to subvert God’s will is sin and arrogance and deception and lest one repent of this immoral nastiness and trust only in Jesus Christ as Lord, they will die in their sin (John 8:24) and die the “second death” in Hell (Rev 20:11-15).

COVID is CONTROL…it’s a flu variant manufactured by Globalists/Elites to CONTROL YOU and masks/vaccines are just tools/a means to an end. Canada/Australia are Socialist strongholds and America is next…we’re there…it’s time for war, it’s time to fight and live or die free! God blessed America…don’t surrendered it to the Communists in our Oval Office, Senate, House, SCOTUS, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Globalists.

Pelosi and democratic supporters – not concerned about COVID…they know the truth: https://twitter.com/i/status/1429496477638750208

Works v. Faith (Justification?)

Far too many participating in these religious oriented groups continue to live a lie of the devil that will result in death in Hell by believing that they can somehow honor God and find life, relationship, with the Father through obedience to a Law or being a good person, seeking to live a moral, honest, life of integrity. This is the Devil’s deceit and his strategy aimed at taking your eyes off of Messiah Jesus and His sole sufficiency to save you from your sin by grace (unmerited favor you cannot earn) through faith (believing-trusting) in Jesus’ blood atonement at the Cross, alone. ONLY by receiving the imputed righteousness of Jesus by faith in Him as Messiah earned for you at the Cross will you find favor, blessing and relationship with God the Father (John 3:16; 2 Corinthians 5:21; John 14:6).

What about our good works?

Faith alone in Jesus manifests in Covenant relationship with the Father and once that Covenant relationship has been sealed and guaranteed by the presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Eph 1:13-14), the new life, the born again life (2 Corinthians 5:17), lived in the Spirit through sanctification (Galatians 5:16) validates one’s faith as true and legitimate…but…works, behavior, obedience to a Law, does NOT establish Covenant relationship…you cannot “work” yourself into God’s favor…ONLY by believing in what God did for you through Jesus Christ will you find life in eternity. It is your obedience to the Holy Spirit SUBSEQUENT to FIRST establishing Covenant relationship with the Father that is credited as good works and those good works will be judged for authenticity at the BEMA Judgment of believers works (2 Corinthians 5:10; Romans 14:10; Psalm 62:12; Matthew 16:27; Ephesians 6:8; 1 Corinthians 3:10,12,13).

Your works, the Law, your obedience, cannot supplement or supplant the work of Jesus at Golgotha…you’re a sinner (Romans 3:23) condemned to death in Hell by the very Law you worship yet that Law is completely void atonement (Romans 3:20). I do hope that at least some of you will stop pleasing the devil through your absence of faith in Jesus as Messiah; humble yourself, simply believe, trust, in Jesus as your Lord and Messiah who died in your place to pay a sin-debt you could NEVER pay yourself.

Religion v. Christianity

Religion is based upon works…that is, one must work and earn God’s favor i.e. Judaism-Islam-Catholicism-SDA-Mormonism-Jehovah’s Witnesses-SDA on and on…and these will die in sin and die the “second death” in Hell because by works no flesh will be justified (Romans 3:20; Ephesians 2:8-9).

Christianity is based on the truism that God did the Work and destroyed the works of the devil for our benefit (1 John 3:8b) and that mankind can receive the perfection of God imputed into their life and enter into Covenant relationship by faith-believing in Jesus Christ as Lord and Messiah who died to pay their sin-debt (2 Corinthians 5:21; John 3:16).The difference between religion and Christianity is eternal.

Romans 4,

3 What does Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”4 Now to the one who works, wages are not credited as a gift but as an obligation. 5 However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.

Why do so many cling to the Law and the Sabbath exuding vitriol for those who oppose them by advocating for grace through faith in Messiah Jesus, alone?

Christian response,

As one who loves and trusts Jesus Christ as my Messiah, I am dismayed at the plethora of men and women who obsessively defend the heresy of a works salvation and mandated allegiance to the Sabbath Day given only to the Hebrew Tribes during a specified dispensation; this, to the point of obsessive, compulsive, behavior – a spiritual illness to say the least.The reason so many cling to the Law of the Covenant and obsessively insist that the Sabbath Day must be honored in the New Covenant is that they’re absent faith; these spiritually deceived individuals simply don’t believe that Messiah Jesus’ life, death, burial, resurrection, are sufficient to completely and forever make atonement for sin; these sad and striving individuals believe that they must somehow earn, supplement or add to the formula God the Father has mandated for eternal life; that is, simple faith and trust in Jesus as Lord yet they emphatically insist faith must be supplemented by obedience to a Law or a Day that have ZERO relevance in the Covenant of Grace.

Arguing with these individuals is as fruitful as spitting into the wind, they have opted for the curse rather than the blessing of peace in Jesus as Lord. They angrily reject the truism that Messiah’s Laws are written upon our heart in the New Covenant and those Laws are administered by the indwelling Holy Spirit in sanctification. They cling to the Old that could never redeem; they reject the New that provides life through Messiah; they refuse to believe in God the Father’s New Covenant; they refuse to trust in Jesus, alone; they refuse the peace and joy of intimacy with God through faith and joy in the Holy Spirit’s love. A tragedy that transcends Time and Eternity and a tragedy for which Messiah wept. The Devil is victorious in their life.