GoD's WorK - God's Puzzle Solved

Why Christianity Can't Be A Religion221and be judged. Israel (God’s church) did not understand how“the works” of The Law were intended to bring them to Christ.Neither did they understand how it showed they needed to “repent.”Instead, they believed that by keeping the legalism of TheLaw, they would somehow become righteous – and therefore, beacceptable to God, as His church.When God’s people sinned, God instituted the “Do’s and Don’ts”of The Law, The Statutes and Judgments or Works. Much like a“schoolmaster” making them write 100 times, they will not dowhatever they did which was wrong (sinned). Eventually, Godhoped they would be sorry for sinning and repent - but they neverdid. But, all God really wanted was for Israel to keep God’s TenCommandments IN THEIR HEARTS (Deuteronomy 5:29).When Jesus came to this earth, The Israelites rejected Him as beingtheir Messiah. This was because they misunderstood “thepurpose” of The Law. They thought the keeping of The Letterof The Law was an end in itself - to please God - rather than tobring them closer to an attitude of repentance for their misdeeds.If done properly, this would have brought them to “real repentance”(Romans 5:20). God wanted repentant people who hadexperienced a change of mind and heart. God wanted His Lawto be in their hearts - and not by human effort or “works” (Romans2:28-29). To be acceptable to God, one must have a completechange of heart. Any religious system, whether: (1) paganor (2) following The Letter of The Law, is not enough. No one isacceptable to God until one’s heart is “right” with God. Any humaneffort performed by “works” that you do in order to pleaseGod, cannot, does not and never will please God.When Christ came and Israel rejected Him (by not repenting),God allowed His Son Jesus, to become “a sacrifice” for “the