Today, many claim Jesus as their Savior. However, as Jesus decrees it, we do not deny ourselves and we do not carry our own cross to 'follow to Him', as the Greek says. Most of us follow men who do not deny themselves to transmit the full Gospel, who do not carry their own crosses, and do not 'follow to Jesus'. Most of us follow a caricature of an all-loving Jesus who winks at the twisting of His teachings. The caricatured Jesus looks only into our good heart and does not care for points of doctrinal divisions in the practice of our faith in a manner that goes contrary to His teachings. That is not the real Jesus. Jesus (God) is a consuming fire.
One evidence of countering the word of Jesus can be the timing of His resurrection. Jesus said that, like Prophet Jonah's time of stay in the belly of the fish, He was to remain buried 3 days and 3 nights before His resurrection. Yet, our timing of the burial and resurrection of Jesus is not what Jesus predicted. How do we reconcile our demarcation? We claim that it does not matter, just as Satan told Eve that it did not matter what Jesus (God) told them about dying if they eat the fruit of knowledge of good and evil.
If we would deny ourselves in order to follow Him, we would ask Jesus to give us the Spirit of discernment or to find someone to explain to us the different timing of His death and resurrection which we do read in the translations of the New Testament, a reading that is not according to the Greek manuscripts. And worse, from the directives of men, not of Jesus, we choose the day which is not the sum of the 3 days and 3 nights from the word of Jesus as a substitute for the official day of convocation, contrary to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses.
Do you think you are a follower of Jesus if you disagree with or forego His 3 days and 3 nights length of His burial and accept the 2 days and 2 nights timing of men?
As followers of Jesus, we may not be conformed to this age and its false teachings (Romans 12:2). Every word whatsoever from Jesus matters. The plain conclusion which many 'believers' in Jesus will find offensive and harsh and unlike Jesus is that if you disagree with Jesus in any point, you agree with Satan.
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. Matthew 16:24 ASV
And he called unto him the multitude with his disciples, and said unto them, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. Mark 8:34 ASV
And he said unto all, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. Luke 9:23 ASV
Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:27 ASV
John 13:34-35 Darby
A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. (35) By this shall all know that ye are disciples of mine, if ye have love amongst yourselves.
Ephesians 2:8-10 ASV
(8) for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
(9) not of works, that no man should glory.
(10) For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.
John 10:16 ASV
(16) And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice: and they shall become one flock, one shepherd.
John 11:52 ASV
(52) and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad.
Matthew 24:11 ASV
(11) And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray.
Mark 7:7-8 ASV
(7) But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.
(8) Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.
(11) And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
(12) That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Revelation 2:7 EMTV
(7) He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of My God.
Revelation 2:11 RV
(11) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
Revelation 2:26 CJB
(26) To him who wins the victory and does what I want until the goal is reached, I will give him authority over the nations;
Revelation 3:5 RV
(5) He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Revelation 3:12 RV
(12) He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.
Revelation 12:11 RV
(11) And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.
Revelation 21:7 RV
(7) He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Note: [Jesus is our Father, not God the Father, because He is YHWH the Creator in flesh]
1 John 5:1-5 EMTV
(1) Everyone that believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone that loves Him that begot also loves him that is begotten 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) because everything having been born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that has overcome the world--your faith. (5) Who is he that overcomes the world, if not he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
HEARTSTORMING and BRAINSTORMING:
For the meaning of the Title 'Son of God', put together the pieces of the puzzle which are found in 1 John 5:4 and John 1:49 and Zephaniah 3:15 to decode and uncover that we must believe that Jesus is YAHWEH God to overcome the world and be saved.
Psalms 82:6-7 ASV
(6) I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High.
(7) Nevertheless ye shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes.
John 10:34-36 ASV
(34) Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
(35) If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken),
(36) say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
Remember that because we are gods made at the image of ELOHIM we are supposed to be intelligent like God, unless we choose to be at the rank of Satan or his servants instead of being gods with Jesus. Understand that if He calls us His brothers and told us that in Him we can do more that He did, it is because we share the same essence like Him.
CHRISTIANONISM: Fulfilled Judaism without the fulfilled works of the Law and without their 7 sabbaths (rest days). Colossians 2:16-17.
CHRISTIANITY | PROTESTANTISM: Babylon and her children that disagree with the belief of Judaism in at least one doctrine. Know that salvation is from the Jews (Judaism) and NOT from the Christians (Christianity) or the Protestants (Protestantism) because neither religion is NOT 100% Judaism (John 4:22), according to Ezekiel 33:13, Matthew 5:17-18, and James 2:10.
ULTIMATELY: Christianity and Protestantism do not believe in the True YEHOSHUA (Jesus) MESSIAH YHWH (Matthew 1:21, Luke 2:11) who is YHWH God in flesh as the name reveals in the Hebrew language because their Jesus is Archangel Michael or Angel of YHWH.
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM IF WE DO NOT KNOW AND CONFESS CORRECTLY WHO JESUS IS?: John 8:24 holds the answer, elucidated by Exodus 3:13-15.
ALSO: Christianity and Protestantism are teaching the false gospel of 'salvation of the sinful' (John 9:31, Luke 5:32) because they claim that no man can keep the 10 commandments and the other commandments and, as such, the blood of Jesus will cover all of our sins (2 Corinthians 11:13-15). If so, why will the sinful world not be saved?
HOWEVER: Our Preacher and Apostle says that Jesus is not a Minister of sins (Galatians 2:17-18).
THE BLOOD OF JESUS ONLY PAYS FOR THE IRRECABLE DEATH PENALTY: The blood of Jesus does not save because it only pays the unpayable death debt of those who answer to the call for salvation to attempt to be chosen (Matthew 22:14) if they can overcome sin to become holy (Revelation 3:20-21) and not worry about the cost of their past sins.
NO SALVATION WITHOUT HOLINESS: That is according to Hebrews 12:14 in accordance with Ezekiel 33:13, James 2:10, Leviticus 19:2, 20:7, 1 Peter 1:15-16, et cetera. Jesus always calls on men to be holy since our fall in the Eden and until the end.
THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT MINISTER TO GOD FATHER FOR THE SINNERS BUT FOR THE HOLY ONES: That is according to Romans 8:27. Look it up!
HOW DO WE MEN BECOME HOLY?: www.divineperfection.org