FROM JOHN COLLINS MINISTRIES:
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Pastor John Collins-"Jesus was clear-obey the Father, not just |
Jesus answered them and said, ‘My doctrine is not Mine, but
His who sent Me. If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the
doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.” John
7:16-17 (NKJV).
Christianity is going through a crisis of immense
proportions. People have been waking up to the truth of the history of the
church, to the paganism within the church and to the abuse of grace that has
produced so much disobedience to God. Jesus was very clear in stating that you
must obey the Father and not just believe, for it is those who love Him that
are obedient. That being said, there are Christians everywhere who are taking
their wake up call that was from God and jumping ship all together. There are
Christians who have desired to start at the beginning, get to know the Torah
and study the word of God to know what sin is, what obedience consists of, and
what is promised in the prophecies. You have Christians going from learning
about the feasts and wanting to observe them which has led to many seeking out
rabbis to teach them which has led to them ditching Jesus and taking the steps
to convert to Judaism. This is a problem and a big one. Those who are weak in
their faith are finding themselves being convinced that Jesus is not the Son of
God, that He was not the Messiah and that He was not even Torah observant
Himself, but introduced pagan beliefs to His followers and created a new
religion that has nothing to do with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Heaven forbid, but, it is true.
I will be very clear on this. God clearly instructed His
feasts to be observed, they are prophetic and should be part of your knowledge.
God clearly said that swine is an abomination, not only in the Torah but in
Isaiah and unclean birds and detestable beasts are mentioned in Revelation
which means that there are still clean and unclean animals. God said that the
Sabbath was eternal and a sign between Him and His people and that keeping it
would bring blessings. Now, there are many who claim that Jesus nailed to the
cross all of the law of Moses, but, in truth what He did was pay the price of
the curse of the law, as sin brought death and His death brings life, so we
escape the penalty that our sin demands. There are many verses that clearly
indicate that you should keep the law, but, there are the verses about grace
too and there are so many parts of the law that are not possible to keep so
there are many possible stumbling blocks to trip the believer up.
What does God want from you? He wants you to believe in
Jesus and He wants to become a person after His own heart. How do you do that?
You not only love your neighbor as yourself, but you study the word of God, you
do your best to be obedient. Always think of the Sermon on the Mount and know
that you are to not only obey the letter of the law, but more importantly, you
are to obey the spirit of the law. Remember Jesus said, ‘Whoever therefore
breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be
called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he
shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.’ Matt. 5:19. Are you going to
hell for not keeping the feasts? Certainly not, especially if you didn’t know.
If you know, should you keep them to the best of your ability? Yes. Should you
keep Sabbath? Certainly. If you work and are providing for your family, will
God know and also know your heart? Yes. Jesus has given us freedom to trust
Him, to love Him, to find the strength to forgive, to let go of hurt and find
peace, to stop gossiping and to stop using our bodies to sin. By His stripes,
we are healed.
Those who choose to honor God, to obey Torah and to seek to
worship Him as it instructs, that is good as long as you don’t find yourselves
lost in Jewish teachings, pitching Jesus into the trash bin and chucking your
salvation into the toilet. To those who choose to continue to worship Jesus and
God as they always have and to ignore the Torah people and the confusion that
is running rampant, stay in prayer and trust that the Holy Spirit of God will
guide you and keep you. It is better to cling to Jesus and trust in His grace
than it is to see Christianity as only evil, Judaism as the only truth and lose
your salvation through confusion, doubt and thereby ultimately rejecting your
Savior.
“Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me.’” John 14:6 (NKJV).
