This is what Paul was maintaining

We Gentiles, not being oriented properly toward the concept of righteousness for righteousness sake (apart from residence in Paradise), have interpreted Paul to mean God has given man a new way of pleasing Him. Righteous, holy, and obedient behaviour are no longer necessary because an eternal righteousness has been given to us, an eternal amnesty has been declared. We now are eligible for residence in Heaven.

In this we have missed the heart of God entirely! We do always err because our heart is wrong! God imputes righteousness to us apart from the Law when we accept Christ as our Lord and Saviour. God then expects that we will obey Jesus and His Apostles. The blood atonement covers our sins while the new creation is being formed. The new covenant is not a new way of pleasing God in which we believe in Jesus and live according to the lusts of the flesh. When we maintain we now are righteous apart from righteous, holy behaviour because we have received Jesus, and then continue to walk in the lusts of the flesh, we demonstrate that we do not have the faintest idea of the redemption that is in Christ.

Christian scholars have constructed a philosophy of grace that is abstract—removed from behaviour. It is as though God has called us righteous on the basis of accepting Christ without any thought of changing our conduct. This is a delusion.

It may be compared to the Israelites remaining in Egypt and stating that God had freely given them the land of promise as an inheritance; or reaping non-existent crops in the desert because God had given them the feast of Pentecost to observe.

The current Christian theology presents a removal from that which is actually true, a withdrawal from reality. Indeed, the scholars teach that the Church is a parenthesis in the plan of God, a mystery not found in the Old Testament. Yet several passages of the New Testament reveal it is a continuation of the old, not something different from the Old or not found in the Old.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; (Hebrews 1:1,2)

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. (Luke 1:68-75)

And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. (Acts 13:32,33)

But this I confess unto thee, 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: (Acts 24:14)

And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: (Acts 26:6)

Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: (Romans 15:8)

Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. (I Peter 1:12)

It is taught by Christians that on the basis of belief in Christ the Church is kept in a state of righteousness and holiness. One day God will call the Church to Heaven where it will abide in Paradise, somehow being changed magically into the moral image of Christ. As for the Kingdom of God that is to come to earth, the doing of God’s will in the earth, Christian teachers leave this for the Jews (whether Christian Jews or secular Jews we do not know).

Current Christian doctrine is unscriptural, inconsistent, illogical, and mythological. It is time for a remnant of believers, both Jewish and Gentile by race, to return to the truth of God’s Word. There is no Gospel apart from moral reformation. The current teaching is a lie, a delusion of monumental proportions.

And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. (I John 2:3-5)

God always has, does now, and always will require righteousness, moral purity, and obedience on the part of all of His creatures. The eternal moral law can never be changed in the smallest detail. The soul that transgresses shall die. This always is true. Any change in the law of sin and death would be a change in God Himself. Any change in God would be the ultimate disaster, and every creature of God, angelic and human, could then wish for nothing better than extinction.

Whether under conscience, the Law of Moses, or the new covenant, righteousness is required. Pure moral behaviour is required. Obedience to God is required. The difference is not in a change of requirement but in the amount of Divine enablement given to make the change from sin to righteousness possible.

The demands under conscience are not as strict as the demands under the Law of Moses. The demands under the Law of Moses are not as strict as the demands under the new covenant. The enablement given under conscience is not as great as the enablement given under the Law (the offerings, the Tabernacle, the priesthood, the written statutes). The enablement given under the Law is not as great as the enablement given under the new covenant (the body and blood of the Lord, the testimony of the Apostles, the born-again experience, the baptism with the Holy Spirit).

God always is moving people toward the moral image of His Son and toward perfect union with Himself through Christ. If the new covenant did not require and produce more righteousness, more holiness, and more obedience than the Law of Moses, it would be an inferior covenant. We understand, therefore, that it is time for a reformation of theology. Neither the Catholic nor the Protestant theologies, as we understand them, are in harmony with the Scriptures.

Worship and holiness. We have presented previously the concept of the two classes of redeemed people—the Church and the nations of the saved. We have discussed the total demands on the elect concerning worship with the entire personality, and the perfecting of holiness in the fear of God.

The requirement of worship and holiness with regard to the nations of the saved may not be as rigorous as is true of the elect. Nevertheless God demands a certain amount of worship and holiness from every human being.

As we have stated previously, it may be true that when the Lord Jesus spoke of thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and one hundredfold, He was denoting ranks in the Kingdom of God. The hundredfold may be a firstfruits of the Church who are obligated to respond in total worship, total holiness, and total personality transformation. The sixtyfold may be the balance of the Church, again having rigorous demands upon them in terms of righteousness and holiness but not having met extreme tests of obedience, of union with God through Christ.

The thirtyfold may represent the members of the nations of the saved. If this is the case, then every member of the nations of the saved has a portion of Christ in him or her and is required to worship the true God of Israel and to lead a holy life.

The concept of every saved person having a portion of Christ in him appears to agree with the following verse:

That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: (Ephesians 1:10) In due time, all that is redeemed will be in Christ and Christ in the redeemed until God is All in all.

As the Holy of Holies was more holy than the Holy Place, and the Holy Place of the Tabernacle was more holy than the Courtyard, so it may be true that the firstfruits of the Church, the remainder of the Church, and the nations of the saved, signify differing degrees of the Fire and Presence of God.

To draw near to God is to draw near to Fire. Who among us is willing to follow Jesus into the midst of the Consuming Fire, into the bosom of God?

When we maintain we are not under the Law but under grace, and that Christ is the end of the Law, we must understand that attaining the goal of the Law, which is the possession of Christ Himself, is made possible by the grace of the new covenant.

The demands are infinitely stricter, the enablement is infinitely greater, and the result is infinitely more glorious than has been true of any previous covenant.

Now that God has provided such powerful grace through the Lord Jesus, sin no longer can maintain its dominion over us.