Todays Preachers and Teachers fight hard against the importance of keeping the commandments of God. They tell us this has nothing to do with salvation because our salvation from beginning to end only depends on the death of Jesus accepted by faith.
Yet in the book of the end time (Revelation) we find the remnant of saints identified as those who
KEEP HIS COMMANDS.
Rev. 12:7
12:17 The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, who
keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.
Those in the end time identified with the
TESTIMONY OF JESUS are also identified as those who keep his commandments.
Rev. 14:11-13
They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name. 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”
14:13 I heard the voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’”
Here those who take the mark of the beast are contrasted to those who have the
FAITH OF JESUS, those who keep his commandments.
Here is our third witness from Gods end time book (Revelation) to this truth.
Rev. 22:12-15
22:12 “Behold, I come quickly.
My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work. 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. 22:14
Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. 22:15 Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Rev. 22:12-15
When Jesus comes he will reward each man according to his work, that is, what he has done. Those who he calls blessed are identified as those who have
DONE HIS COMMANDMENTS.
Let us be quick to note Jesus says
THEY WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE!
And that
THEY MAY ENTER INTO HIS CITY!
Now friends we could say that although these scripture portions are in the book of Revelation its truth is not limited to it. For that remnant of people who have the
FAITH OF JESUS and are identified with keeping his commands are simply the
SAINTS who had been doing this beforehand.
It seems the Lord is pointing this truth out to us they we may be kept from the end time error that one who is diligent to obey the commands of our God are "legalists" and "pharisees".
Rather we find the amazing but shocking truth the the end time remnant
CONSISTS OF THOSE who not only hold the
FAITH OF JESUS but also are keeping his commandments.
Is this important? Its important enough that Jesus says only those who do so will
ENTER INTO HIS CITY AND PARTAKE OF THE TREE OF LIFE.
Let us not be deceived.
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