In Matt 7:21-23, we read, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'”
Does Jesus know who you are?
99% of all Christians would answer yes, Jesus knows who I am because I have prayed the sinner’s prayer and asked Jesus into my heart.
Do your closest relatives, family, friends, and co-workers know that you are a Christian and a follower of Jesus? I am not asking if they see you with a Bible under your arm, wearing a cross around your neck, and drive a car with a Jesus fish. I am asking if they know you are a Christian and a follower of Jesus solely based on how you live your life and the moral choices you make?
Perhaps you are wondering why this matters if we are saved by grace through faith? After all, if salvation is 100% grace and we can’t do anything to add to it or take away from it, what kind of moral choices we make does not matter. If our moral decisions matter, then it becomes works, and we are no longer saved by grace through faith.
I know this is how you understand salvation because this is what your pastor has told you, but this is not how Jesus understands salvation. Jesus is the Son of God, He as the Son of God, is the only one who can tell us how to be saved. If your pastor or your denominational leaders disagree with Jesus, you should reject what they say in favor of what the Son of God says.
According to Jesus, only the one who does the will of His Father can enter the Kingdom of heaven. What is the will of His Father? In Matthew 19, Jesus answers this question for us when He tells the rich young ruler only those who obey Torah can have eternal life. In Matthew 7:23, Jesus rejects those who have rejected the will of His Father. He even goes as far as to say, if you reject the will of His Father, Jesus rejects knowing you.
So, according to Jesus, we are saved and able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven only if we do the will of His Father.
What is the will of His Father? I know your pastors might have told you it is to believe in Jesus and what He did for us at the cross, but that is not what the Bible says. Only the Bible can tell us what the will of His Father is.
John the Apostle says in 1. John 5:3; “This is the love for Yehovah to keep His Torah.” Yeshua (Jesus) says the same thing in John 14; if you love Me, keep My Torah as I have kept My Fathers Torah. So according to John, Paul in Rom 3:31, and Yeshua, the will of Yeshua’s Father and what saves us is obedience to the Torah. What is Torah? The Torah is what we Christians call the law of Moses.
According to Yeshua, in Matthew 7:21, only those who obey the law of Moses can enter into the Kingdom of heaven. To the rich young ruler, He says only those who follow Moses’s law can inherit eternal life. And John says in 1. John, James in James 2 and Paul in 1.Chor, only those who obey Moses’s law as Jesus can have eternal life.
This is why Yeshua (Jesus) in Matthew 7:23 says He does not know who they are, those who call Him Lord but at the same time have rejected the law of Moses.
Does Yeshua know who you are?
99% of all Christians would answer yes, Jesus or Yeshua knows who I am because I have prayed the sinner’s prayer and asked Jesus into my heart.
Do your closest relatives, family, friends, and co-workers know that you are a Christian and a follower of Yeshua? I am not asking if they see you with a Bible under your arm, wearing a cross around your neck, and drive a car with a Jesus fish. I am asking if they know you are a Christian and a follower of Yeshua solely based on how you live your life and the moral choices you make?
If they can’t tell you are a follower of Yeshua, solely based on how you live your life and the moral choices you make, you are not saved, and Yeshua does not know who you are.
If you died right now, you would hear Him say, “depart from Me, for I do not know who you are, you who rejected My Fathers Torah.” Can you imagine how that must be? Can you imagine the disappointment, the shame, and the fear to hear the Son of God say, depart from Me, for I do not know who you are, you who rejected My Fathers Torah. ?
Why would Yeshua reject anyone who believes in salvation by grace through faith? Because according to the Bible, salvation by grace through faith requires repentance. If there is no repentance, there is no forgiveness of sins. If there is no forgiveness of sins, we are not saved. But more to the point, if there is no repentance, we are not confessing Yeshua to the people we live with, work with and go to school with. If we claim to believe in Him, but we reject His message and His teachings, we are ashamed of Him, and our confession of faith is dead and unable to save us.
In Matthew 10:32, Yeshua says, the one who confesses Me before men I will confess before My Father. The one who denies Me before men, I will disown him before My Father in heaven. As Christians, we have always believed this means to confess Jesus and the cross before men, to tell others what He did for us. But the Greek word used here in Matthew 10:32 means to say the same as Yeshua said. Yeshua is saying here is this; the one who speaks the same as I, I will declare knowing Him before My Father. The one who does not speak the same as I, I will declare not knowing Him before My Father.
Right now, more than 99% of Christianity does not share Yeshua’s message and teachings. They do not speak as He did. He said things like; Moses’ law still applies as long as there are a heaven and earth. He also said when the Pharisees teach you how to obey Moses’ law, listen to them and do what they tell you to do. In Matthew 7:21-23, 10:32, 19, if we want to enter into the Kingdom of heaven and have eternal life, we have no choice; we must obey the law of Moses.
Do you obey the law of Moses? Perhaps you believe we can’t claim to obey the law because the Bible says we have to follow every last commandment. So no one can abide by 613 commandments, and even if we could, we dont have a temple.
I can understand if this is how you know the Mosaic law because you have been lied to by so many pastors and denominational leaders telling you lies about the law. But what does the Bible say?
The Bible says there are 613 commandments in the law; some are just for women, some are just for men. A great deal of the commandments depend on a temple and us being in Israel to obey. So there are many commandments we are unable to observe now, and some do not apply to our gender.
When Moses and the Israelites walked through the desert, they were given the law of Moses. More than 300 commandments given to Moses depended upon a temple and them being in Israel. They did not have a temple, they were not yet in the land, but Yehovah expected them to obey all the commandments applicable to their gender living in a desert without a temple.
Yehovah knows the temple does not exist right now; He knows you live in a country millions of miles away from Israel. But He still expects you to do what they did and obey what applies to your gender without accessing a temple and being outside Israel.
If you do not do this, you are not saved, and Yeshua does not know who you are.
And I know, some of you might ask the question; what about the cross?
If you reject the law of Moses, you reject the cross.
In what way?
- The Bible says we have all sinned and come short of the glory of God.
- What is sin? According to the New Testament, sin is breaking the law of Moses.
- According to the Bible, Jesus, Paul, and the Apostles believed in and preached from (the Old Testament) breaking the law of Moses is adultery. When you and I sin, we are unfaithful to God. Yeshua (Jesus) confirms this in John 14 and John in 1. John, when He and John say our obedience to the Mosaic love is our only way to show Yehovah and Yeshua (Jesus) we love them.
- The Bible Yeshua, Paul, and the Apostles believed in and preached from (the Old Testament) demands the death penalty for adulterers. So because we are guilty of adultery, we are all sentenced to die.
- The same Bible also says we are not born with a sinful nature. Instead, we are born perfect and sinless into this world, but from our teenage years, the imagination of our hearts becomes wicked, and we start to commit adultery against our creator. When we commit adultery and sin, we profane our creator, and the book of Leviticus demands we must be burned. So because we have been unfaithful to our God, we are all sentenced to die and burn.
- The Bible says Yehovah our God is righteous and just, a righteous and just God who can’t ignore His own law. Because of His righteousness, He has to abide by His own law. He has no choice in the matter, everyone guilty of adultery has to suffer the consequences, and the consequences are death and an eternity in hell.
- His law also says a husband can’t take back his unfaithful wife. Even though it is easy to obey Moses’ law, the door is shut even if we want to come back. We cant return to Yehovah, our creator, just on account of our obedience to the law. And we cant return to our creator without the law. The law says the only possible way for an unfaithful wife to remarry is if her first husband dies. And this is what happened on the cross.
- The Bible says Yehovah does not want anyone to perish, so He has made way for us to be forgiven and reconciled. By being born 100% human and 100% God in Yeshua, He first taught us how to obey His law correctly. He then went to the cross and took upon Himself to be judged as an adulterer. Now everyone who believes He died for them can have their adultery atoned for, and it will be as if you have never been unfaithful to Yehovah. If you are forgiven of adultery, you would, of course, decide not to commit adultery again. If sin and breaking the law of Moses is adultery, you would, of course, decide not to break the law of Moses again. This is called repentance. Now that you have repented, you are free to remarry again because your first husband is dead, so you are no longer an adulterer. (Rom 7)
- There is more to the good news; remember how the law says it is forbidden for Yehovah to take us back just on account of our obedience? Yeshua was also 100% God. And because He was 100% God, His death on the cross made it possible for us to remarry. When He died, it became legally possible for us to remarry someone else, and Yehovah was no longer bound by the law of jealousy and the law in Deuteronomy prohibiting Him from accepting us back. And because Ythehua was resurrected from the dead, we can remarry Yehovah without committing adultery.
If you believe Yeshua died for you and repent from breaking the law of Moses, you will be forgiven for your adultery. You will be legally free to remarry again because your first husband, whom you cheated upon with another god, is now dead. But who should you remarry? The same God who died for you, His name is Yehovah who was resurrected from the dead.
The cross depends on Moses’ law, and if you reject the law, you reject the cross. If you reject the law and believe it does not apply to you, you believe the law of jealousy that made it necessary for Yehovah to die on a cross does not apply to you. That is like saying Yehovahs death does not apply to you, and the same thing with the law in Deuteronomy calling for the death penalty for the adulterers’ wife. By saying Moses’s law does not apply to you, then you believe Yeshua did not need to die on a cross for your sins.
Does Jesus know who you are?
Only if you have repented and you are now living in obedience to the law of Moses, believing He died for you.
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