Not convinced?

Matthew 7:21-23 MKJV
Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.
(22) Many will say to Me in that day, Lord! Lord! Did we not prophesy in Your name, and through Your name throw out demons, and through Your name do many wonderful works?
(23) And then I will say to them I never knew you! Depart from Me, those working lawlessness!

Ouch, working Lawlessness – what is lawlessness?

1 John 3:4 MKJV
Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness.

And do we want Jesus to say, “I do not know you!”?

Matthew 25:1-12 MKJV
Then shall the kingdom of Heaven be likened to ten virgins, who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
(2) And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
(3) The foolish ones took their lamps, but took no oil with them.
(4) But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
(5) While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
(6) And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom comes! Go out to meet him.
(7) Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps.
(8) And the foolish said to the wise, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps have gone out.
(9) But the wise answered, saying, No, lest there be not enough for us and you. But rather go to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.
(10) And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came. And they who were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut.
(11) Afterwards the other virgins came also, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
(12) But he answered and said, Truly I say to you, I do not know you.

Many who do not keep the law are trying to justify it through grace.

They are misled and will be told, “I do not know you”.

Yehovah is going to say that because it is by keeping the law that we come to know Yehovah. It is by keeping the law that we come to know him.

1 John 2:3 MKJV
And by this we know that we have known Him, if we keep His commandments.

1 John 2:5 MKJV
But whoever keeps His Word, truly in this one the love of God is perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

1 John 5:1-5 MKJV
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. And everyone who loves Him who begets also loves him who has been born of Him.
(2) By this we know that we love the children of God, whenever we love God and keep His commandments.
(3) For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome.
(4) For everything that has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.
(5) Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

We do not keep the laws of Yehovah to be saved. We keep the laws of Yehovah because we are saved.

The laws of Torah like the laws of society are there for the good of all. We can keep these laws and not believe. It is Yehovah who has called you. By Faith, you are answering that call.

Final Consideration

Consider this…

Hebrews 10:28-31 MKJV
He who despised Moses’ Law died without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses. (The Grace of God and the Spirit of Love do not mean that it is acceptable to despise Moses’s law now.) Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy of punishment, the one who has trampled the Son of God, (used His Name and Sacrifice to justify breaking God’s Law!) and who has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing (making Jesus blood serve lawlessness), and has insulted the Spirit of grace (arrogantly dismissing the precious gift of God)? For we know Him who has said, “Vengeance belongs to Me, I will repay, says the Lord.” And again, “The Lord shall judge His people.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Proverbs 9:10 MKJV
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; and the knowledge of the holy is understanding

And here is your final consideration…

Hebrews 4:9-11 NIV
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;
(10) for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his.
(11) Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest^G4520, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.

G4520 σαββατισμός – Transliteration: Sabbatismos (sab-bat-is-mos’) – Definition: 1. a keeping sabbath 2. the blessed rest from toils and troubles looked for in the age to come by the true worshippers of God and true Christians. – Origin: from a derivative of G4521 – TDNT entry: 07:35,0 – Strong’s: From a derivative of G4521; a sabbatism that is (figuratively) the repose of Christianity (as a type of heaven): – rest.

If you are new to the Sabbath:

You may be convinced, and already considering to cut corners or cheat.
Let me encourage you, then, as you choose to walk through the Door.

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