Knowing God is deeply tied to keeping His commandments, for true intimacy with Him comes through obedience. Jesus Christ warns that many who claim to know God will hear Him say, "I never knew you," because they practice lawlessness and unrighteousness. To know God means to experience Him intimately, as reflected in the imagery of a husband and wife, a bridegroom and His bride, showing a cherished and personal relationship. Without obedience, there can be no true love for God, as love is demonstrated through keeping His commandments. God Himself reveals His nature as lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, delighting in these traits and calling us to embody them. Those who strive to walk as He walked, practicing righteousness and showing lovingkindness, can be assured that they know God and that He knows them. This intimate relationship is sustained by persistent effort to live by His standards, never compromising with His laws, and growing in His holy, righteous character.

Keeping God's commandments is intrinsically tied to knowing Him, as it reflects a heart aligned with His will. To truly know God, one must possess the right attitude, desiring to believe and obey Him, and the proper motivation, seeking to bring glory to Him. Selfish attitudes and ulterior motives blind a person to the truth, hindering any accurate understanding of it. One must earnestly want to know, believe, and practice the truth. As Jesus taught, the way to discern the truth of His message is through practicing it, for in doing so, over time, its truth becomes evident as it transforms lives and strengthens relationships with God and others. If the Jewish authorities had truly kept the law given through Moses, they would have understood it and not sought to kill Him, but their refusal to practice it revealed their lack of true knowledge of God. The Feast of Tabernacles serves as a time of learning, where the best way to grasp truth is to apply it immediately with a desire to do His will and glorify Him, embedding it into one's mind and character.

Exploring the topic of whether Jesus would be considered part of the Christian religion and movement, it is found that sadly He would not align with the vast majority of doctrines taught in the major branches of Christianity. We examine throughout this message three main questions: what Jesus thought about God's law, how He worshiped, and what He will be looking for when He returns." As Jesus loved the Father, He asked his disciples to love Him and explained that the way to do that would be to keep His law. He emphasized His law and not the traditions of men, which at that time were the extra rituals imposed by the rabbinic leaders. When Jesus Christ returns, He will look for people who strictly follow and go beyond in the spirit of the law and not the man-made rituals. It is demonstrated that the law preexisted the giving of the ten commandments at Sinai, and it will exist beyond Jesus' death and into the millennium. We are encouraged to self-examine our own lives to make sure we carefully keep the commandments and not get influenced by the worldly traditions.