Before we look at Paul, I want us to look at Hebrews 12:14. Some say that Paul wrote this, but it’s not clear

Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: (KJV)

What does this mean? Holiness? Being set apart unto God. Does Paul teach this. Paul tells us that we are to die to self, we are to contend for the faith. Paul teaches salvation through faith, not of works.

Now does that mean that when we are commanded or requested to do a thing that because we believe in Christ that then we are exempt, having believed? But what are we believing? You say: “well in Salvation through Christ alone, of course”.

1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. (KJV)

What mind is this that we are to be of? Yours/Mine? Of course not — 1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. (KJV)

Do we if we are all over the place in our beliefs

Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1:10 above, that what we believe should be based on the same mind and understanding, with no division. That really makes sense, because we are to be taking on the mind of Christ, and that’s Paul’s teaching. So what is he really saying about our belief? There must be more to it than Jesus, death burial and resurrection. “If you love me keep My Commandments”. Is this Jesus mind? It certainly is part of it.

Is the church’s focus on belief in the gospel way too narrow as to what we believe in and about Jesus?

Paul says that we are to be “perfectly joined together” — “that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you”. Jesus prayed for these same things (unity) for those who would believe because of what the apostles taught. Yet obviously most “Christians” are stubborn and refuse to even come together to resolve what Jesus taught the apostles in order that we might believe what He told them to pass on to us.

This is why most will not accept that Jesus and Paul both taught us to believe what Jesus had taught His disciples which Jesus had prayed would result in our unity of teaching if we had ears to hear.

Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: (KJV)

This is God’s word isn’t it? But it can’t be true to most of us because it carries with it a requirement that resembles a works based salvation. To follow requires action. Peace with all means even our enemies as Jesus taught. Interesting. Holiness, that has to be a form of sanctification. The change taking place as His law, His very word is implanted within us. How? Jesus said: “you are made clean by the word that I have spoken”. “Without which no man will see the Lord”. Does that mean anything to anyone in the church today? It is new covenant scripture.