OK, this will be a quick and simple exercise…

Messiah says:
²¹ “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. ²² Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in Your name, and drive out demons in Your name, and perform many miracles in Your name?’ ²³ Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Get away from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’”
Did He say, “Get away from me, you legalistic pushers of the law.”
No, He did not.
He said if you are lawless, He will not know you.

Did Messiah say, “Disregard what the Father has said is forever and for all generations; instead, do what your pastors teach about the writings of Paul?”
No, He did not.
He said to do the will of the Father.

Messiah says:
^{18 “}Amen, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or serif shall ever pass away from the law until all things come to pass.”
Did He say, “The Old Testament Law is done away with at the cross.”
No, He did not.
He said, “Not a single pen stroke of the law will change until heaven and earth pass away.”
Last time I checked, heaven and earth are still here, so the instructions given by the Father in Torah (commonly referred to as ‘the law’) have not changed one bit.
This makes sense, because Yahuah said these things are forever, for all generations, never ending, and a perpetual covenant, for both the native born and for the strangers among you.

Messiah says:
¹³ “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. ¹⁴ How narrow is the gate and difficult the way that leads to life, and those who find it are few.”
Did He say, “Just hold up your hand in the back row and pray me into your heart? Invite all your friends to this easy path as well.”
No, He did not.
He said the way is difficult and few will find it.
Did He say, “Following Me is easy; you just have to believe.”
No, He did not.
He said, “If anyone wants to follow Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross every day, and follow Me. ²⁴ For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.”
James tells us, “The demons also believe—and shudder!”

“I believe I’ll have some nachos.”  This is an idea and a concept that I can support!!
“I believe in Jesus and I’m saved.”  Ummm, this concept requires a bit more study…

Messiah says:
“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”
And He says:
“He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me.”
And He says:
“If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word.”
And He says:
“If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.”
Did He say, “Believe and do as you wish.  I’ve got you covered?”
No, He did not.
He says to go and sin no more.
For those who think continued sin will be covered by continued grace, check out Hebrews 10:26-31
²⁶ For if we keep on sinning willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷ but only a terrifying expectation of judgment and a fury of fire about to devour the enemies of God. ²⁸ Anyone who rejected the Torah of Moses dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. ²⁹ How much more severe do you think the punishment will be for the one who has trampled Son of God underfoot, and has regarded as unholy the blood of the covenant by which he was made holy, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? ³⁰ For we know the One who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “Elohim will judge His people.”  ³¹ It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Did you catch that?
There no longer remains a sacrifice for willful sin…
Instead, you will get terrifying expectation of judgement and fury and fire.
Is that what you want?
Because that’s what you get if you keep sinning willfully.

Am I saying there is no grace?  Absolutely not.
We are saved by grace, which is a gift, so that no man should boast.
We are forgiven when we repent.
If we have a heart to love Messiah as He says to (by keeping His commandments) then we are covered by grace if and when we fail.
If we choose not to love Him as He says to, and we sin willfully, then Hebrews 10 kicks in and the outcome is not good.
Please, think on these things…

Messiah Yeshua  says over and over and over again to keep the commandments.
Did He say to call yourself “Just-A-Sinner-Saved-By-Grace”?
No, He says, “Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.”
1John tells us this:
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.

Do you walk just as He walked?
He walked by keeping the biblical Sabbath.
He walked by celebrating the Feast Days of Yahuah (Leviticus 23 tells us about the biblical holidays).
He walked by keeping the commands of the Father (John 15:10)
He taught us to follow the Father’s ways. He said His words are not His own, but the one who sent Him.

John 7:16-19 [more words of Messiah]
¹⁶ Yeshua Messiah 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…”

Did Messiah bring us a new message? New rules?
No, He did not.
He taught what the Father taught.

And again in John 12:49-50
“For I did not speak on My own, but the Father Himself who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and speak. ⁵⁰ And I know that His commandment is life everlasting. Therefore what I say, I say just as the Father has told Me.”

Messiah says:
⁶ “I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Did He say, “Sit at the foot of the cross and stay there, absorbing the never-ending supply of grace dripping from the cross?”
No, He did not.
He said that He is not the destination, but the path to get to the destination.  The Father is where we need to go., but we go to the Father through Yeshua Messiah.

I can give many more examples where mainstream doctrine does not match the words of Yeshua Messiah.
But I encourage you to read His words and seek out those other examples.

Let’s move on and deal this this thought:
“How is it possible that hundreds of millions of Christians throughout many generations have been taught false doctrine?”
I could spend hours answering this question, but let’s keep it simple and straight forward today.
First of all, we are told in scripture, via Jeremiah the prophet, that this would happen.
That EXACTLY this would happen.
“No way!! Really???  I don’t believe you…”
Well, let’s take a look and see:
Jeremiah 16:14-21
¹⁴ “Therefore, the days are quickly coming,” declares Elohim, “when it will no longer be said. ‘As Elohim lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.’ ¹⁵ Rather, ‘As Elohim lives, who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had banished them.’ So I will bring them back into their land that I gave to their fathers.

¹⁶ “Behold, I will send for many fishers,” says Elohim, “and they will fish for them. After that, I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down from every mountain and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks. ¹⁷ For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity concealed from My eyes. ¹⁸ First I will repay them double for their iniquity and their sin, because they have profaned My land, and they have filled My possession with the carcasses of their vile things and their abominations.”

Verse 19 actually answers this question, but I included verses 14 and on to show the time frame in context.
Some people believe that verse 19 happened eons ago in ancient times. But verses 14 and 19 give us time references.
Verse 14 tells of another exodus, one so fantastic that no one will even speak of Moses and the exodus from Egypt.
That has not happened yet, so these words were not fulfilled at some point in the past.
Verse 19 tells us it is in the day of affliction, or end times — again, not referring to an ancient bygone time.

Verse 19 tells us that the Gentiles will realize one day they have inherited nothing but lies, and that these lies are worthless and unprofitable.
“But how can this be?  Is it really possible that mainstream doctrine is untrue?”
If we read and understand the Torah, we find that actions have consequences.  Consequences require justice.
Our Elohim is a mighty and just God.
Job 34:12
“Surely, God will not act wickedly, And the Almighty will not pervert justice.”

Psalm 9:7-8
But the LORD abides forever; He has established His throne for judgment, And He will judge the world in righteousness; He will execute judgment for the peoples with equity.

Colossians 3:25
For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality.

So, where am I going with this, you might ask…
I’ll try to be brief:
The people of Yahuah were brought out of Egypt with miracles.
They were taught the instructions of Yahuah, their Creator.
Yahuah wrote the ten commandments with His own finger on stone tablets (twice, since Moses broke the first set) and they were placed in the Ark of the Covenant.
Moses wrote down the remainder of the instructions as given to him by Yahuah.  These were also placed with the Ark of the Covenant.

The People of Yahuah were to follow these instructions.
They did not.
They split into two kingdoms, Judah and Israel.
Both kingdoms strayed from the Word.
Both kingdoms were punished for doing so, since Yahuah is a just God.
Judah repented and [partially] turned back to the Father.
Israel did not repent and was divorced from the Covenant, and they were scattered among all the nations.

The punishment of each kingdom is described in Ezekiel 4.
Judah received 40 years of punishment.
Israel received 390 years of punishment.

Torah (the law) states that if someone does not repent, their punishment is to be multiplied by 7.  Israel did not repent, so their punishment became 2730 years.
Wow, that is a very long time!!
If we study history, we find that Israel began their punishment in 720BC when they were defeated and scattered by the Assyrians.
If we add 2730 years to that, we get the year 2010.

Can you believe that?  We are living in the time when Israel’s punishment has ended!!
We are living in the time where we get to see Jeremiah 16:19 come to life and happen.
How exciting is it to be alive and see the miracles of prophecy happening to us and among us???
Many men, women, and children are “waking up” to the words of Messiah, which I shared above.
People are waking up to the idea that we are to keep the commandments!
People are understanding that we keep the commandments, not as a legalistic way to ‘achieve salvation’, but simply to show our love out of obedience, just as Messiah said over and over again, which I shared above.

But here is the sad part…
Many reject this idea.
Many hold tight to what they have been taught their whole lives.
Many hold tight to what their fathers and grandfathers knew before them.
Many hold tight to the lies inherited from our fathers, just as Jeremiah prophesied.

“There is no way this concept can be true unless Messiah said it.”

Check out Messiah’s direct quote in Revelation 22:15, where He is speaking of those who WILL NOT BE in His kingdom:
“But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.”

Messiah Himself tells us that those who love a lie will not be in His kingdom.
Does He say who WILL BE in His kingdom.
Why, yes.
Yes, He does.
Revelation 22:14
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.

There He goes again, telling us to keep the Commandments.
Are you starting to see why I believe what I believe?
Is this making sense to you?
The things I write about here were spoken of by Jeremiah.
This should not be a surprise to us, and yet it is.
Let go of the lies.
Let go of what you think you know.
Read your bible.
Start at the beginning.
When Yahuah (God) says something is forever, believe that it really is forever. Otherwise He is a liar.
If He is NOT a liar, then mainstream doctrine is false.

Numbers 23:19
God is not a man who lies,
or a son of man who changes his mind!
Does He speak and then not do it,
    or promise and not fulfill it?

Scripture tells us that God is not a liar, and that He does not change His mind.
The Mainstream Doctrine is built upon the idea that God changed His mind, doing away with the law in favor of His Son.
This is twisted theology, and requires us to ignore and reject scripture.
Yes, Messiah lived.
Yes, Messiah died and resurrected, and forgives us of our sin.
Yes, the gospel message is true.
But no, the way it is generally taught is not true or correct.
Not because I say so, but because your Messiah says so!!

Pray about these things.
Present yourself as a Berean, studying all things and testing them for truth.
Mainstream doctrine falls apart rapidly when compared to ALL of scripture.

One last note…
Pastors will argue against these ideas I am presenting.
Pastors will claim their teachings are truth.
So then, is it just my word against their word?
Do you have to choose whether to believe me or believe your pastor?
I say no. The choice is not between what I think and what your pastor thinks.
I say we let scripture, the inspired word of God settle this matter.
As for the way churches teach the writings of Paul, we are given this warning:
2Peter 3:14-18
¹⁴ Therefore, loved ones, while you are looking for these things, make every effort to be found in shalom, spotless and blameless before Him. ¹⁵ Bear in mind that the patience of our Lord means salvation—just as our dearly loved brother Paul also wrote to you with the wisdom given to him. ¹⁶ He speaks about these matters in all of his letters. Some things in them are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist (as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures)—to their own destruction.
¹⁷ Since you already know all this, loved ones, be on your guard so that you are not led astray by the error of the lawless and lose your sure footing. ¹⁸ Instead, keep growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Yeshua the Messiah. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity! Amen.

Did you catch that?
Peter is warning us to NOT TWIST Paul’s writings.
He also warns us to NOT TWIST the rest of the Scriptures.
If we do so, it will result in our destruction.
Just to clarify as second time, in order to be absolutely clear, Peter tells us in verse 17 to not follow the error of the lawless.

Does that ring a bell.
What did Messiah say?
Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Get away from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’

I ask you today…
Who will you believe?
Will you listen to your Messiah?
Or will you listen to the teachings of men?