05_01 The ‘How’ of Eternal Life

Introductions to Chapter 5.

This fifth Chapter is designed to help bring practical spirituality into our personal Bible study. It opens with document #05_01, The ‘How’of Eternal Life.

It spills over into the next part of Chapter 5, as we learn how to apply the teaching. You will find some repetition in these documents. It is intentional. We learn from repetition, and this prescription for Bible study is of the utmost importance for us to grasp fully.
Many, even most people, never access a true relationship with God because they fail in this regard. Please, don’t you be so! This first document of this section, answers our fundamental question when we consider Christianity, “How Shall I Inherit Eternal Life?”
What a shame that so many denominations never answer that question from this Scripture. It should be answered repeatedly everywhere, so that everyone will hear and know the answer, and share it with those who are un-churched!

Scripture Text: Mt. 19:16-19

Title: How Shall I Inherit Eternal Life?

For Scripture today, we read Mt. 19:16-19. When asked, “Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?” Jesus answered,”…if thou wilt enter into life, keep the Commandments; …Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
Is there any doubt in your mind that keeping God’s Ten Commandments is still important today? You are the Remnant church. You “keep the Commandments
of God and have the faith of Jesus” – faith in the Bible as the accurate Word of God.
But do your neighbours know what you know? Have you helped them to see that Jesus Himself, as we just read from the Bible, stated that inheriting eternal life is dependent on our keeping the Commandments?

If they belong to a Christian church, they most likely think that they know the Commandments. You are the one Jesus has called to reveal the fact that what they think the Commandments say has been altered by the power called the “beast” in Revelation, and they may be trying to keep his commandments rather than God’s!
If you don’t tell them, they may continue to be deceived and will finally be lost! Tell them that God gave us free access to the Bible but He thereby makes us responsible to “see if these things are so” for ourselves so that we will not be misled.

Tell them that that’s only the beginning of what they need to know. That’s why the Everlasting Gospel must be preached by the Remnant to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying, “Fear (or reverence) God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His Judgment is come… and, worship Him that made heaven, and earth.”

Tell them that we won’t just tell them what to believe: we’ll tell them where to find it in the Bible! We’ll even tell them how to find the answers to their questions on their own, “line upon line, here a little, there a little,” so that they will know they have their answers from God, not from deceivers! The Bible itself says, “Whom will He [Holy Spirit] teach knowledge, and whom will He make to understand doctrine?” Where is that text found, people? (Isaiah 28:9-13).
Other denominations do believe in keeping the Commandments of God. What, then, is different about our gospel? It is that we believe we must keep the Commandments of God, not the changed 10 commandments of the “man of sin!”

It is thus that we believe that we worship the Creator, who is Jesus, by keeping His Sabbath day holy, not by keeping the spurious sabbath of the “beast!” (the “mark” of the “beast”)- one of his 10 commandments!

Further, our gospel is different because we worship Jesus as our Intercessor, not the “beast’s” “image,” MARY, who the “beast” has made the intercessor between God and man. Praying the rosary asks her to pray for you! Do you see the connecting links in what I have just stated, to the Three Angel’s Messages? Our Everlasting Gospel Message is thoroughly tied to the Three Angel Messages, isn’t it. (Re-read from “other” above).

Finally, and here is the huge difference in our gospel, we believe we can keep the real Ten Commandments, by putting Jesus on the throne in our minds, continually, and that thus we will overcome as He overcame, by the power of His Holy Spirit. Jesus said that by the presence of Holy Spirit, “I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you!” John 14:15-18; 20-26.

We also teach that because of free will, we are always capable of putting self back onto the throne of our minds, instantaneously, so we must choose never to allow ourselves to do so at any time, in any circumstance, if we would finally be sealed by Holy Spirit. It is this unwavering habit that will seal us! (Ephesians 1:13.) Thus, by choosing always to do His will, not our own will, we will “do only those things that please Him.” (We will indeed become like Jesus!).

Our teaching regarding baptism is also solidly part of our message. Millions of Christians see baptism as merely a rite by which one joins a denomination. It is so much deeper than that!
Have you carefully studied the material you received last time about baptism? Again I ask that you answer some questions out loud as I ask them. Remember this: Wrong answers only help you to learn. Right answers solidify your knowledge of the truth!

First question: This is the big one regarding baptism. What are you supposed to be doing by being baptized? You are making…?

Yes, you are making your Covenant with God!

What is your side of the Covenant? What do you say to Jesus while being baptized? …”I don’t want to sin, any sin, any more! I need Your Holy Spirit to live in me to help me to overcome sin as Jesus overcame!” (Revelation 3:21).

Can you overcome sin by applying enough will power?…No? So what is it that God has promised to give us when we are baptized that makes being baptized the only real way to enter into the kingdom of God? The answer is in Peter’s first great sermon. Where is it found? What Book of the Bible? Acts, chapter 2, verse 38. At the end of Peter’s sermon they asked, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” Then Peter said unto them, “Repent…and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins…and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

Further, In speaking to Nicodemus, Jesus said very emphatically, “Except a man be born again…of water…and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God!” John 3, vs.3 and 5.

Even Jesus Himself was baptized, even as our example. Peter wrote, in 1 Peter 2:21 and 22, that Christ left us an example, that you should follow in His steps: and, he continued, “Who did no sin.”

Next question: Where is the baptism chapter in the Bible?. Romans, chapter 6. There the Bible teaches, “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof.” v.12.

Further, it teaches, “Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin, unto death, or, of obedience unto righteousness?”
So, at baptism we declare that we are not wanting to sin any sin, any more. We are turning to God for salvation from sin’s hold on us. God Covenants with us to be our God, and He gives us Holy Spirit to guide and empower us to obey His will. Holy Spirit writes God’s Law in our hearts (as well as in our minds) through reminding us that Jesus (our Creator God!) died in our place. Holy Spirit brings to our mind, from the written Word, “If you love Me, keep My Commandments.” John 14:15. When Holy Spirit has written God’s Law in our hearts, then our new probation begins. We are then a Christian. Jesus has redeemed us – paid all the requirements of the Law. Because of our faith, He declares His righteousness in place of our past sinfulness. And, from then forward, if we should stumble into committing a sin, He ever lives, as our High Priest in the Sanctuary in Heaven, to intercede for us. But we must be on the
road to overcoming!

But where is Jesus now? He is waiting to cleanse the Sanctuary in heaven of the record of our forgiven sins!

While we live, Jesus, through Holy Spirit, wants to give us the power to stop us from sinning, any sin, any more, so that He doesn’t have to just keep on forgiving us, without effectively saving us from sin!

In your materials for today, you will find a pamphlet entitled, “How to Let Jesus Stop You From Sinning.” If we follow Him into the Most Holy, refusing to sin, by keeping Him on the throne of our mind, continually, then He will be able to cleanse our soul Temple, while we live, and seal us. Then we can stand in this final work of the church – the “loud cry,” – without sin!

Only then can Jesus finish the “cleansing” and leave the Sanctuary because He doesn’t have to be the Intercessor anymore! He is waiting for that day, but will not put it off forever!
If you don’t stop sinning, by fully understanding and applying the Everlasting Gospel and baptism, you won’t be sealed: “the time of trouble such as never was, even to that same time” shall crash upon you, and you will be lost as Jesus leaves the Sanctuary in heaven!

Do you hope that time will go on, and you will go to your grave, so that you don’t have to face the time of trouble such as never was? You are playing Russian roulette! I pray that none of you remain in an unsaved condition. For you, today is the day of salvation. Today is the time to fully receive Jesus as your King, as well as your Saviour. If any of you have not been baptized into God’s Remnant, I beseech you, put it off no longer! If you have been baptized, but now much more fully understand
baptism and the Everlasting Gospel, Jesus will now honour your baptism by giving you Holy Spirit today, if you ask Him in true faith! If, however, you believe you must be re-baptized to make your Covenant with Jesus, then let no one deny you that privilege!

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