Written by Brother Stair   

There is hardly a day that in a letter or phone call this question is not asked me. It makes me feel like Brother Peter on the day of Pentecost when he was asked a question.

"Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?" Acts 2:37

As the church age was beginning, the dispensation of the gospel of grace was coming in. The fact was that the old ways were not sufficient and that a new way of life was now to be. This great change was bringing in a lot of questions.

Let me tell you that the one thing on the heart of these seekers was that they should please God and seek salvation first and foremost.

"Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?"
"For after all these things do the Gentiles seek: for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things."
"BUT SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU." Matthew 6:31-33

Here is the direct answer from the scriptures. Seek first to be able to enter into the kingdom or come under the rule or government of God. Submit yourself to God, then He will give you all things and everything needed to live and then enter into the kingdom of heaven.

"Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able." Luke 13:24

Why shall they not be able? What shall prevent them from being allowed to enter?
"When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:" Luke 13:25
"Not every one that sayeth unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." Matthew 7:21
"Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us."
"But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not." Matthew 25:11-12
"And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" Luke 6:46

I want you to hear what God instructed Abram to do. This is the pattern of the Old Testament. This, too, is what you must do and obey to enter into the Kingdom of heaven.
"Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee:"
"And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:"
"And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
"So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran." Genesis 12:1-4

Here we read of what God required of the father of faith to do.

"By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; AND HE WENT OUT, NOT KNOWING WHITHER HE WENT.
"By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:"
"For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God."
"Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised."
"Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable."
"These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."
"For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country."
"And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned."
"But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city." Hebrews 11:8-16

Then we have the account of the New Testament example, Jesus Christ.
I have said many times that the Old Testament was a pattern or blueprint of the true worshipper or follower and the New Testament was the example given to us through the Lord Jesus.

"Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:"
"Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow." 1 Peter 1:10-11
"For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:" 1 Peter 2:21

He was our example and we should be followers; and to do that, you do as He did and obey as He did and do the will of the Father.
"For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." 2 Corinthians 8:9

"So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:33

"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple."
"And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:26-27

The message of being a follower of Jesus Christ has become perverted and the Jesus you hear preached today is another Jesus. It is not the one portrayed in the scriptures. It has been the master deception of hell to have another gospel, another Jesus preached and in this manner, deceive many.

What is the will of God for us today? Does He really want us to obey these commands and forsake all?
When He called the disciples to follow Him, they left all to follow Him. Remember too, that they were all young men, including Him. They forsook all their dreams and hopes for the hope of the gospel of eternal life.
"And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him." Luke 5:11

"Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee."
"And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,"
"But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life." Mark 10:28-30

What happened that we got saved and did not know this was the price that was to be required to keep salvation? Why, what happened was this.
"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."
"For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him." 2 Corinthians 11:3-4

"I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:"
"Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ."
"But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed."
"As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed." Galatians 1:6-9

The gospel that Paul preached was the gospel of Christ or the good news on what and how anyone can be saved.
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." Romans 1:16

"Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ." Romans 15:19

"For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!"
"For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me."
"What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel." 1 Corinthians 9:16-18

"If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:" Ephesians 3:2

"Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God;" Colossians 1:25

The gospel was perverted. How do they tell us, faith plus nothing. No works required to stay saved.
It is true that we are not saved by works.
"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" Titus 3:5

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:"
"Not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:8-9

To be saved, we needed the grace of God and the power of God to transform us. We needed to receive the divine nature and the new heart and mind so that we then could do what we must do to be saved.
What must I do to be saved?

"Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." Philippians 2:12

"But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?"
"Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?"
"Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?"
"And the scripture was fulfilled which sayeth, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God."
"Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only."
"For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." James 2:20-24,26

"Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only."
"Not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:9

What is this, a contradiction? The answer is contained within the verses. Not by faith alone, but faith with works; and not by works alone, as then a man would boast. Faith is nothing man can produce; it is a gift of God and to have works of faith ye must have the gift of faith from God. You are then not saved by works, but saved to work.
This is what Jesus did.
"I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work." John 9:4

"Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works."
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." John 14:10,12

It is the Father that worketh.
What I am trying to relate to you is that to obey is what you MUST do if you are to be a true worshipper of the Lord.
The saints have been chosen to replace the fallen angels and to restore worship back into the eternal kingdom of heaven. They will be true worshippers and pure in intent.

"Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power." 1 Corinthians 15:24

I urge all in Jesus' name that God hath given faith to hear and receive the end time message and messenger to seek now, with a whole heart, an entrance into the coming kingdom of heaven.

"And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever." Daniel 2:44

"And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people," Revelations 14:6

"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." Matthew 24:14

"For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night." Psalms 90:4

"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." 2 Peter 3:8

"And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,"
"And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season."
"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years."
"But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection."
"Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years."
"And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison," Revelation 20:2-7

"Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power." 1 Corinthians 15:24

Take note of the thousand years mentioned here several times. This is the last day or the Sabbath of God that was declared in the very beginning. It will end with God looking over all that He has done and resting, saying, Well done; it is good.
He hath saved us and restored to His kingdom all glory and honor to Himself.

"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,"
"Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, by grace ye are saved;"
"And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:"
"THAT IN THE AGES TO COME HE MIGHT SHOW THE EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS GRACE IN HIS KINDNESS TOWARD US THROUGH CHRIST JESUS." Ephesians 2:4-7

"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:" 1 Peter 2:9

Here are the commands of the Lord.
1. Get out of the cities.
2. Get out of debt.
3. Get out of the churches.
4. Get the TV out of your home.
5. Stop going to doctors.
6. Get with God's people (few in number).
7. Be prepared to wait for His coming until.

"And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." Luke 21:28

Maranatha.

Brother Stair