It was not my intention to write another blog about the warnings we are given in scripture.  But something came up…
A friend posted about one of their relatives who is in hospice and has very little time to live.
Sadness.
But…  they said their relative is a Christian and is looking forward to meeting Jesus.
And my heart broke because of this quote of Messiah:

“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.”
Matthew 7:21 NKJV
There are many people in this world [millions, if not billions] who believe in Jesus and call His name, but Messiah says that will not get you into His kingdom (contrary to what our churches teach).
And that is why my heart is breaking for this person I’ve never met.
Can you imagine your last hope in this physical life is in meeting Jesus, only to find out you never did the things He said?
I can’t think of any bigger heart break.

According to Yeshua Messiah, we must do the will of the Father in order to enter His kingdom.
What does that mean, day in and day out?
This makes the Father’s will extremely important, and we need to understand exactly what that is.
No, really.
Did you hear what Messiah said?
Look again.
Write it down.
Stop everything you are doing and ponder these words of His:
“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.”

What is the Father’s will?
He wrote it down for us in the Torah.
The prophets all warned us to return to the ways of the Father.
Jesus says He taught what the Father taught.
From John 7, Jesus speaking:
¹⁵ Then the Judean leaders were amazed, saying, “How does this man know so much, having never been taught?”
¹⁶ Yeshua answered, “My teaching is not from Me, but from Him who sent Me. ¹⁷ If anyone wants to do His will, he will know whether My teaching comes from God or it is Myself speaking. ¹⁸ Whoever speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true and there is no unrighteousness in Him. ¹⁹ Hasn’t Moses given you the Torah? Yet none of you keeps it.”
Messiah taught what the Father taught.
Yeshua Messiah wants us to do what the Father taught in the Torah.

Revelation 12:17 and Revelation 14:12 tell us who the remnant of the church is:
Revelation 12:17   So the dragon became enraged at the woman and went off to make war with the rest of her offspring—those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. 
Revelation 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

Jesus says who will be in His kingdom in Revelation 22:14, and He says who will not be allowed in verse 15:
¹⁴ Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. ¹⁵ But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.

Do you hear Him?
Are you listening to what He said?
Or do you reject what He said in favor of the things men teach?

In hospice, looking forward to meeting Jesus…
What a horrible situation to be in…
How many people end up in this predicament daily? Weekly? Monthly? Yearly?
Messiah said this:
“But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say?”
Luke 6:46 NKJV

What will become of people who “look forward to meeting Jesus” but have spent their lives rejecting the things He said?
Weeping and gnashing of teeth, I’m afraid…
Not by my wishes, but because of what Messiah says to us over and over again.
Here is the remainder of the direct quote of Yeshua Messiah (Jesus) from Matthew 7 above at the start of this blog:
“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’”

Our churches reject the will of the Father in the Torah, calling it legalism.
Get out your bible app and do a search for legalism in the scriptures.
The translations I use do not contain a single reference to legalism, but we hear about it non-stop in our churches.
It is their reason and their excuse for rejecting the will of the Father.
Jesus says you don’t get to be in His kingdom if you reject the will of the Father.

Now do a search for the word lawless  in your bible app.
It comes up quite a few times.
Go study that.
It may help you to avoid the weeping and gnashing of teeth one day.

Do you know Jesus, Yeshua Messiah?
He says He will not know you if you are lawless.
Here is a test given in scripture to determine if you know Him:

1John 2:3-6
³ Now we know that we have come to know Him by this—if we keep His commandments. ⁴ The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him. ⁵ But whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God is truly made perfect. We know that we are in Him by this— ⁶ whoever claims to abide in Him must walk just as He walked.

Can you pass this test?