Keep The Commandments!
George Burnside
COMMANDMENT KEEPERS WILL ENTER HEAVEN
Hebrews 5:9 Jesus is "The Author of eternal salvation unto all those that obey Him," and none but the obedient.
Matthew 5:19 The commandment breakers are "Called the least in the kingdom of heaven."
"This is the judgment pronounced in the kingdom of heaven. Some have thought that the commandment breaker will be there, but will occupy a lower place. This is a mistake. Sinners will never enter the abode of bliss. The commandment breaker, and all who unite with him in teaching that it makes no difference whether men break or observe the divine law, will by the universe of heaven be called least among the human agencies." Ellen G. White. Bible Commentary, Volume 5, page 1085.
"Of all sins that God will punish none are more grievous in His sight than those that encourage others to do evil." Patriarchs and Prophets, page 323.
Revelation 22:14 Only commandment keepers will enter heaven.
"No commandment breaker can inherit the kingdom of heaven," 1 Testimonies, page 497-498
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
The city that will not crumble with the years of time.
No slow sorrowing funerals lead to its graveyards.
No griefs or graves,
No sin or sorrow.
No births or burials
No marriage or mourning,
Jesus is its King
Angels are its guards
Saints are its citizens.
Even so, come Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 4:10, 11 "That the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh."
Note carefully - It is now while we are in "mortal flesh" that Christ is to be manifest in our mortal flesh.
1 Corinthians 15:51-54 When Christ returns then "This mortal shall put on immortality", but it is while we have mortal flesh Christ is to be made manifest in our bodies.
John 1:12 "As many as received Him, to them gave He power."
"We receive righteousness by receiving Him." Mount of Blessings, page 34 Isaiah 54:17 "Their righteousness is of Me, said the Lord."
"The righteousness of God is embodied in Christ." Mount of Blessings, page 34
Christ in us produces righteousness in the life. Christ thus empowers us to obey, and obedience is the sign of Christ within.
Psalm 40:6-9 "Thy law is within my heart."
Christ had God's law in His heart. When Christ comes into our heart and life He brings God's law of righteousness. Then the life of Christ becomes manifest in our life.
"Righteousness is holiness, likeness to God, for all Thy commandments are righteousness." Mount of Blessings, page 34
Psalm 40:6 "The heavens shall declare His righteousness."
Psalm 19:1 The heavens have declared God's Glory. They will yet declare His righteousness.
"Then there appears against the sky a hand holding two tables of stone folded together. Says the prophet "The heavens shall declare His righteousness for God is Judge Himself." That holy law, God's righteousness, that amid thunder and flame was proclaimed from Sinai as the guide of life, is now revealed to men as the rule of judgment. The hand opens the tables, and there are seen the precepts of the Ten Commandments, traced as with a pen of fire. The words are so plain that all can read them. Memory is aroused, the darkness of superstition and heresy is swept from every mind, and God's ten words, brief, comprehensive, and authoritative, are presented to the view of all the inhabitants of the earth. "It is impossible to describe the horror and despair of those who have trampled upon God's holy requirements. The Lord gave them His law; they might have compared their characters with it, and learned their defects while there was yet opportunity for repentance and reform; but in order to secure the favor of the world, they set aside its precepts and taught others to transgress." Great Controversy, page 639.
"This crisis will be reached when the nations shall unite in m-3king void God's law." 5 Testimonies, page 524.
How tragic! What deception! Are some professed Seventh-day Adventists joining this apostasy?
Revelation 14:12 God has a people who "Keep the Commandments of God."
Revelation 3:20 Even in the period of Laodicean apostasy, some will let Christ "come in". When Christ comes in He brings God's law, for it is in His heart, Without this a person is lost.
Romans 8:9 "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His."
Romans 8:10 "The Spirit is life because of righteousness."
Romans 8:11 "The Spirit shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwells in you."
2 Corinthians 3: 17 "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
Liberty to obey Christ. Liberty because Christ with His "Law of Liberty is in our mortal body.
2 Corinthians 3:18 We "are changed into the same image by the Spirit of the Lord."
2 Peter 1:2-4 "Jesus our Lord has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature."
What a Savior!
What a Salvation!
And it is for us right here and now, while we are still in our mortal bodies.
Matthew
5:19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
19:17 And he said unto him, Why call you me good? There is none good but one, that is, God: but if you wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Mark
10:19 Thou know the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honor thy father and mother.
12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
Luke
1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
18:20 Thou know the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor thy father and thy mother.
John
14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
14:21 He that has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
15:10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Acts
1:2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
7:53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
13:15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, You men and brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
21:20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him.
21:24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning you, are nothing; but that you thyself also walk orderly, and keeps the law.
24:14 But this I confess unto you, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
25:8 While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.
Romans
2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves.
2:15 Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;
2:17 Behold, you art called a Jew, and rests in the law, and makes thy boast of God,
2:18 And know his will, and approves the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law.
2:20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which has the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
2:23 Thou that makes thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonors you God?
3:19 Now we know that what things so ever the law said, it said to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God
3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
4:15 Because the law works wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.
7:1 Know you not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?
7:3 So then if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
7:7 What shall we say then? is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shall not covet.
7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For with out the law sin was dead.
7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
7:12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loves another has fulfilled the law.
13:9 For this, Thou shall not commit adultery, Thou shall not kill, Thou shall not steal, Thou shall not bear false witness, Thou shall not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.
13:10 Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
1 Corinthians
7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
1 Thessalonians
4:2 For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
1 John
2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
2:4 He that said, I know him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
3:24 And he that keeps his commandments dwells in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.
5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
2 John
1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.
Revelation
11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightning, and voices, and thundering, and an earthquake, and great hail.
12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
15:5 And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:
22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.