Why are we not teaching the disciples to keep the Lord's numerous commandments?

The reason is, the churches often have ignored the fact that it requires two persons to bear the Divine witness. In giving the Great Commission, Jesus said, "Lo, I am with you alway." We are attempting to fulfill the Great Commission in our own wisdom and strength, according to our own understanding of what we think the Lord wants.

It never was Christ's intention that the Christian people go forth by themselves and work "for" Him. It always has been Christ's desire to work alongside every individual whom He has called to the work of the Kingdom, everyone who has been chosen to go forth to disciple the nations. The Lord's apostles and other ministers are to teach the disciples to obey the laws of the Kingdom of God.

There always must be the two witnesses—Christ and His servant.

When Christ is working with us it is as though an elephant is working alongside a mouse. Although they may be working together it is the elephant that actually accomplishes the task.

When we go forth to make disciples of the nations by ourselves it is as though a mouse decides it has been given the task of helping an elephant uproot giant trees and move them to an assigned location. If the mouse rushes forth by himself to labor "for" the elephant we have an ineffective situation. When we saints go forth by ourselves to make disciples from the nations, attempting to labor "for" Christ, we have an ineffective situation. Unless the Lord works with us we are not going to accomplish the task.

Why is it that the Christian churches for two thousand years have attempted to fulfill the Great Commission apart from the Presence and moving of the Lord Jesus? It is because we are proud, ignorant of God's Word and will, understanding little of the nature or workings of the Kingdom of God, being filled with sin and self-seeking and determined to accomplish our own will and build our own kingdoms.

Now we are in the closing days of the Church Age. The powers of Satan are filling the earth. The darkness is becoming more intense. Soon men's hearts will be failing them for fear because of the wickedness and calamities that will abound on every hand.

The days of the labor of the churches apart from Christ are rapidly coming to a close. The churches that continue to walk in their own wisdom and strength, in their self-will and self-seeking, will be empty of the Spirit of God. They will become "Laodicea." They will be vomited from the mouth of Christ. The nakedness of "Babylon" (man-directed Christianity), the whore, she who sells the things of God to the world in order to buy the world's favor, will be exposed.

To be continued.