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No hope apart from the GOD of Israel

By Robert O. Sanford

No hope living apart from the God of Israel.

Gentiles are aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: Eph 2:12

(John 14:6-7 KJV) "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. {7} If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him." (Rom 10:4 KJV) "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."

The Christ (the Anointing) that was given to Jesus by the Father when He was 30 years of age, is the end results of keeping the Righteousness of God’s Holy Laws. Than everyone who wants to receive the Kingdom of God into their heart (life) and mind, must keep the Holy Laws of God as the Disciple of Jesus Christ. (Heb 1:9 KJV) "Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows."

It was the Life of the Father (God is a Spirit) in the Anointing that said through His Son Jesus the Christ, I am Way, the Truth, and the Life. The scriptures say that Christ is the only Way to the Father, and the teachings of Christ are the only Truths that leads us to Him by reveal the Ways to have the Father’s Holy Laws written in our minds and living in our lives. When we receive the Life of the Father within us by keeping His Holy Commandments, His Anointing, will be given to us also as it was to Righteous Jesus. It is the living of one’s life within the Covenant Laws given by God’s Son that allows God to save the man. Jesus came as a man to show us the way. He kept the Righteousness of the Holy Covenant and receive the Anointing because of it. The Father’s reward for doing His will. He was resurrected from the dead as he said He would be. After three full day in the tomb, he returned to the Father in Heaven. The Covenant defines the Righteousness of Israel’s Holy God that He requires all His Sons to have to living in them to receive the Anointing. (Rom 8:2 KJV) "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." It is by living one’s life in every Word that came out of the Mouth of God that restores the Righteousness of our Holy God’s Life, back into us as Sons of God.

We can see this truth in the statement from the Words of Jesus Christ, when He said that He only lived the Righteous Life of His Holy Father, and only spoke the Righteous Words He heard His Father say. (John 14:10 KJV) "Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." Jesus Christ not only said He kept the Holy Laws of the Covenant unto righteousness, but that it was the Holy Life of the Father in Him, that was actually keeping His Holy Laws through Jesus’ obedience to the Laws of God. Never the less, Jesus the man lived a Holy Life without sin. He keep His Father’s Holy Commandments.

There are some who would say that Jesus, the man, was trying to be saved by His own Righteousness. Others would say He was trying to be saved by keeping the Law. Others by Works. Yes He did all three things. That why the Father chose to Anoint Him with the Holy Spirit and Power. He was obedient to do the Father’s Holy Will, and in so doing, pleased Him. God, the Father, told Adam and all the sons born of Adam to keep His Holy Commandments under the penalty of death for braking them. Where did He tell us to keep His Holy Commandments? In the Old and New Covenant He made for all mankind to be saved by, and He Sealed His Holy Covenant with His Son’s Blood. We all pledged to keep our part of His Holy Covenant when we made with Him Lord and Master of how we live our life. When did we pledge to keep the Holy Laws written in His Holy Covenant? When we accepted the Jewish Messiah and we repented of transgressing His Holy Father’s Laws written in His Holy Covenant. When were we seal with His Blood as a participant of His Holy Covenant He made with Israel? When we received the bread and the cup of grape juice (Blood) at the Lord’s Supper and drank it. Like it or not, when we take the Bread and Wine, we are pledging to keep His Holy Covenant under the penalty of death if we fail to fulfil our part by living in His Holiness.

By our faith in Him, He establish the Laws in our hearts and mind by us doing His Will. The Holy Laws of the Divine Nature of God is re-established in our minds by our obedience, as our New guide to His Holiness. No man, not even God, can do away with the Old or New Covenants Laws, they were both Sealed with the Blood of Christ. To do away with the Old Covenant Laws as the Sunday Churches teach, would be to do away with God’s Holiness, and the Salvation promised to all the Saints under the Old Covenant who kept the Holiness of the Laws of God. That would include Jesus Christ Himself. His death brought the New Covenant into effect. We know that is not true because Jesus Christ rose from the dead and He ascended to the Father. This is the reason that most Christians do not keep the God of Israel’s, Holy Sabbath today. By their actions, they nailed the Holiness of God’s Life in His Covenant to the Cross along with Jesus Christ. They say He fulfilled it for us. He was Holy before He came to Earth, and He was Holy when He returned to Heaven. No, He fulfilled it first for His own Salvation as a man. We must remember that no one who brakes the Holy Covenant Laws has Salvation without the Righteous death of Christ Jesus. He also fulfilled His part of it, as the Perfect Sacrifice for our sins thus allowing the Farther to forgive us of the sins we have repent of and overcome. (1 John 5:5 KJV) "Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?" (Rev 3:5 KJV) "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels." (Luke 13:27 KJV) "But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity." God only knows those who keep His Commandment contained in His Covenant with Israel.

Jesus like every other man, had to obey His Holy Father by doing His Holy Will, just like ever other man born of woman to be saved. Jesus as the Son of Man, kept every part of the Covenant as God requires all men to do. As the Christ, the Son of God, He fulfilled every part of the Covenant that the Father required of Him to fulfil, in order to re-establish the Holy Kingdom of God back on earth into the lives of Holy men.. The last two things that the Christ did to fulfil the Covenant, was to die on the Cross for all the righteous people who had turned away from their former life of sin. "Without shedding of blood is no remission". The very last thing that Christ, the Son of God did to complete the Father’s plan of Salvation for His Righteous people, was to raise the First men, Jesus, from the state of the dead, and back to a New Life with the Father in the Kingdom of God. This gave Jesus, the man, pre-eminence over every other man that will be raised from the dead at the return of Jesus Christ for His Holy People, Spiritual Israel. (Col 1:18 KJV) "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence."

there is only one form of righteousness, one form of sin.

(1 John 3:6-7 KJV) "Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. {7} Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous." The end results of a Righteous man living His life totally within the Holy Words written in the Holy Covenant God made with Israel, is that God Holiness is restore back as the life of that man. When God’s Life in the Anointing is given back to a righteous man who has been restored back to the Righteousness of God, by keeping his part of the Holy Covenant, that man is reconciled back to the Holy Life of God. At that point of time in a man’s life, this scripture is fulfilled in him. (Rom 10:4 KJV) "For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."

Jesus Christ had the Life of God living in Him from the Anointing because He had pleased the Father by the Righteous life He lived in His Father’s Holiness. He was given that reward for living the Holy Life His Father had Commanded Him to live in the Holy Covenant He made for mans salvation. We must remember that even though Jesus was the spotless Lamb of God, He was still a man born of Mary. He needed the salvation also that God had promised in the Covenant to all men born of woman. As a Righteous man He received the promise of Salvation from death when the Holy Life of the Father living in Him, called the Christ, raised Him from the dead.

The Life Jesus Christ had living in Him, was the Life of the Holy God He called His Father. The Father’s Holy Life living within Jesus as the Christ, was the Life that was fulfilling every promises made in the Covenant. God was fulfilling the Promises to Jesus from the Holy Life of Christ living within Him. Every promise God made to mankind in His Holy Covenant is fulfilled by the Christ living within that persons life. It was not the man Jesus that defeat the Devil, but the Faithfulness of God’ as Holy Life He had living in by Him keeping God’s Holy Laws. Obedience to the Laws of God, will always defeat the temptation of Satan. Truly believing that the Word of God is True, will produce a reaction from within the man’s life to do what the Holy God of Israel tells him to do. His obedience to every Word that came out of the Mouth of God is required if one is to please a Holy God, to receive His free Gift. It was not the life in Jesus born of Mary, that did the miracles of God, but the Holy Life of God in the Anointing, called the Christ, that did all the Works of God that we read about in the Bible. Only by the manifestation of the Works of Christ in Jesus, do we have our faith to believe that God the Father was living in Jesus the man, from the Anointing.

(Mat 4:4 KJV) "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." (John 1:1 KJV) "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:14 KJV) "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

The same truths from God’s Holy Word that we seen manifested in the Holy Life of Jesus Christ, will be true of us also if we live our life only in the Holy Words of God the Father. If one does not believes everything than was taught by Christ, in God’s Holy Word, he is classified by the Word of God as an un-believer. (John 15:7-11 KJV) "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. {8} Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. {9} As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. {10} If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. {11} These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full."

In this scripture we see the Key that unlocks the doors of heaven for the believer to receive the Holy Promises of God. What is the Key? Keeping the Holy Covenant that contain the Holy Promises, the one that God made with His people Israel. As a Citizen of the Commonwealth of Israel, Jesus was a Jew who believed the Word of God, and only Worshipped His Father, the Holy God of Israel. Jesus keep the Covenant God made with Him and His people, by living out every word in the Covenant. Jesus Christ, as Jew, born of the Spirit of God, received every promise in the Holy Covenant except one. What was the one promise He did not receive? The promise of death in the judgment, made to the un-believers, when God raised the people who did not keep the Holy Covenant from the dead, and judges them out of the Holy Words of God written in the Holy Covenant. All the people who are un-right, and un-holy, as defined in God’s Holy Word, will be put to death the second time.

One of the most needful Commandment in the Holy Covenant that the people need do to follower a Holy God, is to study God’s Holy Word. One must know what kind of life an individual must live as a person, with the life we have from a Holy God. Remember, the life in you, that you received at conception, is not your life, but an extension of the Holy Life God breathed into Adam. When God’s Life living in you, returns to God, you are only a dead body. (Eccl 12:7 KJV) "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." God gave His Spirit of life, to man, to Glorify Himself. Man cannot Glorify God if the man’s life from God has sin living in it. Sin living in the Holy Temple called man that He made for Himself to dwell in, has defiled God’s Holy Life there, and the Glory of God is no longer living there. Remember, sin comes from not keep the Holy Covenant Laws God given to Israel. (1 John 3:4 KJV) "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law." (Rom 3:23 KJV) "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"

God wants to bring all men into the Holy Kingdom of God through teaching them all how to live the Holy Life of Christ once again. In order to do this, Christ must teach man what the Holy Will of God is, so man can fulfil God’s Holy Will as Jesus did. (Luke 22:42 KJV) "Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." Remember, we are saved by the Election of Grace because we were Faithful to do the Holy Will of God as Jesus did. (Rom 11:4-5 KJV) "But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. {5} Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

(Luke 6:40 KJV) "The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master." (Mat 5:48 KJV) "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."

To be perfect, one must first do God’s Perfect Will. It is doing the Perfect Will of a Holy God, the Perfect man within us. That Perfect man is the Holy Son of God. The Perfect man the is Created in us by doing of the Word, in known as the New Creation. (Rom 12:2 KJV) "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." Only through one’s obedience to God’s revealed Will in the Bible, can God perfect us, by us, living our life within the limitation set by the Divine Nature of a Perfect God. Only by putting of evil, can we put on the New Man. All people who have received the Spirit of Christ into their lives through Faith, have the power to put off evil. We cannot put off evil unless we have first accepted Christ and than learn what His Holy Laws are that we must keep to be Holy as He is Holy. (Eph 4:22-24 KJV) "That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; {23} And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; {24} And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."

(Rom 8:2 KJV) "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." This is the Only Way of Salvation. The Life of Christ must live in us, by us living a Holy Life within the limits set by the Holy Laws of Life in Christ Jesus. One cannot please a Holy God unless he is seriously contending for the Faith of Jesus Christ. As a Gentile living outside of the Commonwealth of Israel, we are not subject to God’s Holy Laws in His Holy Covenant that He made with Israel, nor do we know who we are truly worshipping. (John 4:21-22 KJV) "Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. {22} Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews."

Only the Jewish Bible tells us who created the world and man on it. It tell us how a Holy God called the Father, created the World and man through Jesus Christ His Son. He formed a body call man, and then had Jesus Christ, His Son, breath His Father’s Holy Life into the body to make man a living Son of God. (Luke 3:38 TLB) "Cainan’s father was Enos; Enos’ father was Seth; Seth’s father was Adam; Adam’s father was God." The God of Israel gave the Jewish people a Special sign so that they would remember who man was. That sign was the Jewish Sabbath. Men are the Sons of God that live on earth. This sign would follow them and their generations on earth, a sign that the Holy God of Israel was the Father of all man on earth.

All man’s worship was to be to Him only. He was and still is, a Holy God, and a jealous God, because it was He who given man His Life as the Sons of God. To transgress God’s Holiness brings death to His Life in men and Angles alike. Why? Because no sin can live in the presents of His Holiness. The moment a Son of God sins, he dies Spiritually. When man puts the God of Israel’s Holiness back on, sin has to die. Worshipping another god, than the One who Creator them, brought death to Adam and Eve, and all the Son of God reborn of Satan’s life of sin. God incorporated His Holy Sabbath into His Holy Covenant, so His people could be Holy as He is Holy. He made His Holy Covenant with them in writing so that they would Remember to Keep it Holy.

One cannot be Holy as He is Holy, without living the same Holy Life He Lives. To keep another day for Rest, is to live an un-holy life. Or not to keep a Rest Day at all, makes one unholy also. He wrote it as the Fourth Commandment, and told His People Israel, to Remember it, and keep it Holy. All Israel was to worship the One True God, in His Holy Truths and in His Holy Spirit of Life by Living Holy. Going into the Temple, or Resting at home, on His Holy Day, is a Celebration of His Creation, and the birth of man. The penalty for following any other god, but the God of the Sabbath, was death. We see this carried out in the life of Adam and Eve. When they transgressed God’s Holy Words revealed to them in the garden, they died to the Holy Life of God born into them. They were alive to the spirit of Evil. From then on, man knows both Good and Evil to this day.

(Gen 3:22-23 KJV) "And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: {23} Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken."

(Exo 31:13-14 KJV) "Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you. {14} Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people." Before you do away with the Jewish Sabbath defined in the Fourth Commandment, remember that not even God can change the Covenant after it was Sealed with Blood of Jesus at His death. If one does not receive the God of Israel’s 7th Day Sabbath as a Sign from Him that you are His, than your not. Your worshipping other gods.

(Heb 9:18 TLB) "That is why blood was sprinkled (as proof of Christ’s death) before even the first agreement could go into effect." (Exo 24:7-8 TLB) "And he read to the people the Book he had written—the Book of the Covenant—containing God’s directions and laws. And the people said again, "We solemnly promise to obey every one of these rules." {8} Then Moses threw the blood from the basins toward the people and said, "This blood confirms and seals the covenant the Lord has made with you in giving you these laws."

Gentiles must remember that they were never given a Covenant as His Holy Nation of Israel, was. Gentiles have no hope as long as they remain Gentile, living outside of the Commonwealth of Israel and keep rejecting the Holy Covenant God made with Israel, and Sealed with the Blood of His Son Jesus Christ. The only hope that a Gentile has of salvation is to come out of the Pagan Churches, and to cut themselves free from all their forms of Idolatry. All Pagan worship is given to false gods. The Pagans do not know that they are worshipping Devils. One must worship the Jewish God, because Salvation is of the Jews. The Jewish God made the world in six days and Rested on the Seventh Day. (Col 1:27-28 KJV) "To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: {28} Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:"

The Knowledge of God’s Secrets only come to the Righteous who Keeps God’s Holy Commandments.

(2 Tim 2:15 KJV) "Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." (Luke 11:52 KJV) "Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered." (Gen 7:1 KJV) "And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation." (Prov 3:32 KJV) "For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous." (Rom 10:2-4 KJV) "For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. {3} For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. {4} For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth." If one does not submit themselves to doing only the Holy Will of the God of Israel, in their life, they have not submitted to God’s Righteousness. They have no knowledge of God’s Righteous in them, because they are still practising sin. This is made plain in the next scripture where God tells man that it is His will for man not to sin.

(1 Cor 15:34 KJV) "Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame." (1 John 3:7-10 KJV) "Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous." 8 "He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. {9} Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. {10} In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother." (Rom 2:13 KJV) "(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified."

(Col 3:10-11 KJV) "And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: {11} Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all." We do not receive a new body when we put on the New Spiritual Man. We only put on the New Man, when we put back on the Life that was in Jesus Christ, anew. The Life of His Father, revealed to us through the personal life of His Father, living in Jesus as the Christ. We can know what the New Life is like by seeing the Way Jesus lived His life in the Will of His Father. That New Life is God’s Life, a Life without sin. How did Jesus the man, live a life without sin? He was obedient as the Son of Man, to do the Holy Father’s Will, in keeping all the Holy Commandments that God gave the sons of Israel, to live by. It was God Himself that defines sin as the transgression of His Holy Laws in His Holy Covenant. For a man not to keep the Holy Laws in the Holy Covenant God Himself made with His people of Israel, is not to do the will of the Father who is a Holy God.

Jesus keep the Covenant of God as a Jewish boy and as a man. He only did His Father’s Will. The full manifestation of the Life of Christ was only revealed in Jesus after He was Anointed by the Father, reconciling Him back to full Son ship again by the Life of God in Christ, living once again in the Son of Man, as the Son of God. The New Life is the Life lived by everyone who is born of God and the life lived in the Kingdom of God in Heaven and on Earth. (Col 1:10 KJV) "That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;" (1 Tim 2:4-6 KJV) "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. {5} For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; {6} Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time."

All the people of Israel that had came out of Egypt, made a personal declaration before God and swore that they would keep His Holy Commandment written in the Books of the Laws by Moses. In the same Book, He, the God of Israel, also swore that He would keep all His Holy Promises to them, to save them out of a life of sin, but only if they were obedient to do His will. Death was also promised in the Covenant to all who were disobedient. When His people, Israel, were doing the will of the Devil, He could not save them, He had sworn to destroy them instead. To be delivered from the kingdom of darkness, they had to repent and turn their lives around and only walk in the Light of the Kingdom of the Son of God. But "if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with Him, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." To guarantee His followers, that He would save them after they had repented and turned their lives around, He Sealed the Covenant that He made with His people, Israel, by the shedding of His own Blood, when He was crucified on the Cross. (Heb 9:22 KJV) "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission."

the covenant god made with Israel for their salvation.

(Exo 24:1-8 KJV) "And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. {2} And Moses alone shall come near the LORD: but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go up with him. {3} And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do. {4} And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel. {5} And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. {6} And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. {7} And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. {8} And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words."

The Holy Covenant that the People of Israel made with their Holy God, was that they, His People would live the same Holy Life God that He Lived. There was a penalty written into the Covenant for not living Holy, that they agreed to. That penalty was, that the one who broke their part of the Holy Covenant would die the death of a sinner. One who transgresses God’s Holiness in their life. This part of the Covenant, had to be carried out or God could not remain a Righteous God. If God broke the Covenant that He had Sealed with the Death and Blood of His Son, He to would be a Covenant breaker and His Sons death would be of no value. God had to destroy the evil people in Israel and He had to save the righteous remnant of His people to be a Righteous God. (Ezra 9:14 KJV) "Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?" (Rom 11:4-5 KJV) "But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. {5} Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace."

We see the penalty for doing evil, and the reward for do good in a quote from the Covenant that Paul use when he wrote to the Christians in Rome. (Rom 6:23 KJV) "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Do we today, who call upon the God of Israel, the Lord Jesus Christ, for His Salvation that He promised to His people Israel through their obedience, also have to obey the Holy God of Israel to receive His Salvation? (Heb 10:29-31 KJV) "Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? {30} For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. {31} It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."

To truly call oneself a True Christian, who is a follower of the Jesus Christ, the Jewish Messiah of Israel, one must be converted to having their faith only in the Faithfulness of God the Father, revealed to us in His Holy Covenant. Faith that He will fulfil every promise He made to the Holy Covenant keeper. We must have the same Faithfulness that Jesus Christ had also, to do the Works of our Heavenly Father. The Father promised to raise Jesus and all His brethren that do His will. He raised Jesus from the dead after He had fulfilled the Father’s will by dying on the Cross for the remission of the sins of God’s people. The Faithfulness of God the Father was manifested by Him fulfilling every promise that He made to the Sons of Man who keeps His Holy Covenant, by keeping His Promises in His Holy Covenant to Jesus Christ, His Son. These same promises are available to the strangers who will join themselves to the Commonwealth of Israel, and those who will join themselves to Israel’s Holy Covenant of promises, and worship only their God who created the world in six day and Rested on the 7th Day. God’s Holy Day of Rest for all of God’s people. See Isaiah 56: 1-7)

(Eph 2:12-13 KJV) "That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: {13} But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ."

The Covenant God made with Israel for their Salvation, was fulfilled in the life, death, and resurrection of the Jewish man called, Jesus the Christ. Jesus Christ was not his own God. The God He called His Father, was and is the only God there is. Jesus Christ was only the Son of God, His Father. One can not be their own Father. (Mat 27:46 KJV) "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" He worshipped His Father as His own personal God and the source of His life. Jesus Christ was His Father’s Chief Disciple in spreading the teachings of His Father’s Faithfulness to those who would put their trust in Him for their Salvation from sin in this life. Disciple 1.a. One who embraces and assists in spreading the teachings of another. The believers must also trust the Father of Jesus Christ, to raise them from this death that we die due to Adam’s sins. The sin that brings death to all men is the transgression of God’s Holy Covenant that God sent His Son Jesus Christ to deliver to Israel in the two Covenants He made with them.

He Sealed these two Covenants with His Sons Blood, so that He, nor anyone else could ever change them after they were Sealed. Jesus Christ did not change anything written in the first covenant. He came to fulfil every part of the Covenant that pertained to the promises God made to Israel concerning the promised Messiah. The fulfilment of the sacrificial system of animal sacrifice was fulfilled by Jesus on the Cross. One must study the Word of God thoroughly to find out which Laws pertaining to Christ were fulfilled by Him.

The Devil nor any of his Pagan Churches, could change one word written in the old or new Covenant. They were both Sealed by the Blood of Jesus Christ. The Faithfulness of a Holy God, to His written Covenant, will not allow Himself or any other power to change one dot or tittle in His Holy Laws tell He had fulfilled all His Word in the Kingdom of Heaven. The Faithfulness of God the Father to do what He said He would do in His Word, was revealed to us in how He continued to destroy Israel for their sins against His Covenant. Christ had to destroy Israel for their sin against Him or He would be unfaithful to His own Words, written in His Covenant.

Jesus the man was a Jew, and all His Disciples were born of the Jewish Nation called the Commonwealth of Israel. One cannot become a disciple of Christ as Jesus Christ was, unless one first accepts the same Faith that Jesus Christ had and follows it with the strictest discipline. Of those who kept the Covenant that Christ made with His people Israel. Jesus the man was the greatest Disciple of that Covenant, that the world will ever see. He was completely disciplined to keep every part of it without transgressing it one place. (Heb 4:15 KJV) "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." (John 8:31-32 KJV) "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; {32} And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (Acts 11:26 KJV) And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch."

the blood of the new covenant.

The question, that we who were not born of the Jewish Nation of Israel, must ask ourselves, is this, when did I as a person accept God’s Covenant He made with Israel? The answer to this question is that we accepted the Covenant when we repented of our sin of transgressing the Covenant that God made with Israel. (Rom 3:31 KJV) "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law." We came into a Covenant relationship with God’s people when we accepted their Saviour, that only came to Israel, and to Israel only as a Saviour. To be saved, one must become part of the people of Israel. When we receive Jesus Christ as our way of salvation, we receive Abram as our Father as he is the Father of the Faithful. By these events in our life, we have been grafted into the Spiritual Nation called the Commonwealth of Israel. However, like the people born of physical Israel, if we, like they, refuse to leave the practice of worshipping other gods, the works of the flesh, we cannot be saved.

We must be born again into the Spiritual Kingdom of God call the Commonwealth of Israel. (John 3:5-7 KJV) "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. {6} That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. {7} Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again." (John 3:10 KJV) "Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?" As we see from the rebuttal Jesus made to Nicodemus, the born again experience was not a new thing that came into effect at the coming of the Christ. It was from Adam, and it will remain until the last person is converted to keeping God’s Holy Covenant.

who is a Spiritual Jew?

(Rom 2:26-29 KJV) "Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? {27} And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? {28} For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: {29} But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God." The uncircumcised Gentile becomes a Jew when he cuts the sin of worshipping Pagan Idols and the other sins out of the life he lives by putting on the Righteousness in God’s Holy Laws. One must cut Idolatry out of ones life in order to be born again into the Kingdom of God as the God of Israel will not accept such worship.

Ever Jew who is a devote student of the Jewish Laws and their history, knows that the God of the Jews hated the Idolatry of Egypt and all the other Pagan Nations that He is calling a people out of for Himself. God is calling for a people that will worship Him, the only One True God, who created man for His Glory alone. All people who come out of Idolatry to worship the True God of Israel, have been born again into the Spiritual Kingdom of God. When God was dealing with a Nation as His people, He called His Nation, the Commonwealth of Israel. It is still the only Physical and Spiritual Nations of Israel, that worship the true God of Creation on His Seventh Day of Rest. However not all people who keep the 7th Day Sabbath are born of God.

To get Abraham and his seed to come out of Idolatry was the very purpose of God making a Covenant with Abraham and his seed called Israel. No man can be born again unless he keep the Holy Covenant that was given to bring man out of Paganism and into the worship of the One true God.. Everyone who participates in the celebrations honouring Pagan gods is practising Idolatry. No one who worship false gods in this way, is born of God. Adam worshipped Satan (a false god) when he obeyed him in the garden. To obey, is to Worship. God pronounce the death sentence on all mankind for this one sin, because the life in Adam and Eve, was defiled with sin. We all die this present death because our life in us from our father, Adam, is polluted with sin. If we continue to defile God’s life in us, we will die the second death for our own sins.

A True Jew was a carnal person such as Abraham, who hears the call of God on his life to come out of the "Ur of the Chaldees, and to go into the land of Canaan.’ ( Gen 11:31) (Rev 18:4-5 KJV) "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. {5} For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." The question here is, how do I as a Gentile enter into this relationship with the God of Israel? If I become a Disciple of the God of Israel, what day do I have to worship Him on? You start keeping His Holy Covenant through your faith in Jesus Christ, the Jewish Messiah. All the answers to your questions are in His Covenant.

(Isa 56:1-8 KJV) "Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. {2} Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. {3} Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. {4} For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; {5} Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. {6} Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; {7} Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. {8} The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him."

(Heb 10:29-31 KJV) "Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? {30} For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. {31} It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."

(2 Pet 2:19-22 KJV) "While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. {20} For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. {21} For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. {22} But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire."

Abraham heard the voice of God, and came out of the Pagan Idolatry of worshipping the Moon God and all there other nature gods. Are those who call themselves Christians, going to hear the call of God and come out of their Pagan worship also? Like the worship of the Sun-god that Christians worship after the winter solstice, on Dec. 25, the day that the Pagans had determined the Sun had been reborn. Like the spring solstice, the worship of the goddess of fertility who’s name was Easter. Again this is the worship of the Sun-god, the giver of new life after a long winter. The East-er celebration also involves a Sun-rise service to celebrate spring. The main god in all the Pagan religions today, is still the worship of the Sun-god. Christians worship the Sun-god every week on the same day and in the same way that Babylon’s worshipped the Sun-god in antiquity. We also have the festival of Lights during this same time of year where the ancient lit fires to scare of darkness and encourage the Sun to come back to life. This is the origin of the Christmas Lights. Called the Festival of Lights in all the other religions that practice this custom.

God’s holy commandment are against having other god and worshipping them.

(Exo 20:1-10 KJV) "And God spake all these words, saying, {2} I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. {3} Thou shalt have no other gods before me. {4} Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: {5} Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; {6} And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. {7} Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain 8 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. {9} Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: {10} But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:"

Again, the question that a person who calls himself a Christian; is when did the Christ of Israel, make a blood contract with me, to keep God’s Holy Covenant? (Luke 22:15-20 KJV) "And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: {16} For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. {17} And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves: {18} For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come. {19} And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me. {20} Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you."

(Heb 8:8-11 KJV) "For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: {9} Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. {10} For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: {11} And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest." This Covenant is only with the House of Israel, and all the strangers who will join themselves to Israel.

Without keeping the New Covenant that Jesus Christ Sealed with His Blood on the Cross when He died in our place, there is no remission of sins. Remember that the New Covenant is the Old Covenant made new by Jesus Christ fulfilling every part of the Covenant that pertained to His coming as the Jewish Messiah to die on the cross. We signed our allegiance to keep the New Covenant each year when we partake of the Bread and Wine anew. Yes, we are under a Blood Covenant with Christ, to do only His will as the Sons of God. If we are obedient to do the will of our Heavenly Father, we will be set free from our sin nature and be raised in the first resurrection.. Most every Christian, no matter how evil he is, still claims the Blood of the Covenant to deliver them from the second death. The Blood of Christ is first on God’s Holy Covenant, binding God to fulfil His every Word. Than the Blood of Christ is upon the People who swore to God that the would keep their part of His Holy Covenant. All people who are under the Blood of Jesus Christ, are under His Blood that Seals His Holy Covenant.

(John 1:11-13 KJV) "He came unto his own, and his own received him not. {12} But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: {13} Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."

(Rom 8:13-14 KJV) "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. {14} For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."

(Rom 8:13-14 KJV) "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. {14} For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."

If we are full of un-believe and refuse to do His will, we will remain a Pagan who calls himself by the name of Christian and we will die in our sins and be raised to judgement and damnation. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. The choice is ours. We can chose to obey and live, or we can continue to live in un- believe (Idolatry) and continue as we are and die.

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Robert O. Sanford
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