May I ask... What religion / what denomination of church you attend? It seems you have received some very poor teaching, which differs from God's Word.
We don't save ourselves by taking up the cross.....
We don't save ourselves by following His commandments...
Instead.... We follow Him, because HE saved us. We follow Him; we take up our cross because we have been saved. He made me a new creature. I can't make myself a new creature.
1 Cor. 5:17 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."
A new creature indeed...put on the new self IN HIM neither jew or gentile circumcised or uncircumcised slave or free but Christ...Col 3:12
Righteousness from Yah comes through faith in Yahushua to ALL who believe...there is NO DISTINCTION Rom 3:22
For there is no difference between Jew and Greek the same Lord is lord of all...Rom 10:12
Circumcision or no circumcision is nothing keeping Yah’s commandments is what matters 1 Cor 7:19
For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether jew or Greek...1 Cor 12:13
There is neither jew nor Greek...all one in Yahushua Gal 3:28
Which is His body the fullness of Him who wills all in all Eph 1:23
He Himself...has made the two one...Eph 2:14
Making one new man out of the two Eph 2:15
Peter preached that Yah Who knows the heart gave the Holy Spirit to goyim just as to jew...”He made NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN US AND THEM” Acts 15:9
Any who obeyed Were given the Holy Spirit Acts 5:32
Peter was clear EVERYONE who believes IN HIM receives forgiveness through HIS NAME...Acts 10:43 thank you Jesus...I mean Yahushua...I ain’t racist auntie Semite ya dig?
Even as Peter spoke the jews were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit to lead all to truth was given to the unclean but believing NOW CLEAN goyim...Acts 10:45
Because these jews had forgotten His was a house of prayer for ALL NATIONS...
THESE JEWS WISHED TO KEEP IT FOR THEMSELVES FOR THE GLORY OF NATIONAL ISRAEL...priveledged racists!!!
They even lied and bore slanderous false witness that Yahushua had changed the customs of Moses Acts 6:13-14
Sadly the Christian church follows jewish fables despite being told NOT to Titus 1:14
So jews lie and Christians do too...especially the MAD ones...LOL
Because it was ALWAYS to WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH even when the church was in the wilderness...with Him as the head...
Leviticus 19:34
The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.
Exodus 12:49
Verse Concepts
"The same law shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you."
Leviticus 24:22
Verse Concepts
'There shall be one standard for you; it shall be for the stranger as well as the native, for I am the LORD your God.'"
Numbers 9:14
Verse Concepts
'If an alien sojourns among you and observes the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its ordinance, so he shall do; you shall have one statute, both for the alien and for the native of the land.'"
Numbers 15:14
Verse Concepts
'If an alien sojourns with you, or one who may be among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to make an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD, just as you do so he shall do.
Numbers 15:15
Verse Concepts
'As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the alien who sojourns with you, a perpetual statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the alien be before the LORD.
Numbers 15:16
Verse Concepts
'There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the alien who sojourns with you.'"
Numbers 15:29
Verse Concepts
'You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the sons of Israel and for the alien who sojourns among them.
Deuteronomy 1:16
Verse Concepts
"Then I charged your judges at that time, saying, 'Hear the cases between your fellow countrymen, and judge righteously between a man and his fellow countryman, or the alien who is with him.
Deuteronomy 24:14
Verse Concepts
"You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.
Leviticus 18:26
Verse Concepts
'But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you
Exodus 12:19
Verse Concepts
'Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.
Exodus 20:10
Verse Concepts
but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.
Deuteronomy 5:14
Verse Concepts
but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
Leviticus 16:29
Verse Concepts
"This shall be a permanent statute for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble your souls and not do any work, whether the native, or the alien who sojourns among you;
Leviticus 17:8
Verse Concepts
"Then you shall say to them, 'Any man from the house of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,
Leviticus 17:10
Verse Concepts
'And any man from the house of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats blood and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 22:18
"Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them, 'Any man of the house of Israel or of the aliens in Israel who presents his offering, whether it is any of their votive or any of their freewill offerings, which they present to the LORD for a burnt offering--
Leviticus 17:13
Verse Concepts
"So when any man from the sons of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, in hunting catches a beast or a bird which may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.
Leviticus 24:16
Verse Concepts
'Moreover, the one who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The alien as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
Numbers 15:26
'So all the congregation of the sons of Israel will be forgiven, with the alien who sojourns among them, for it happened to all the people through error.
IS why There remains a sabbath keeping for His people Heb 4:19 for ALL those within their gates Exodus 20:10
Cuz we be grafted into Israel...to replace the unbelieving jews...who thought it was just for them or something...like as if some sort of conspiracy or something Jer 11:9
Isaiah is clear there will come a time when ALL will worship from Sabbath to Sabbath...
It remains: “here are they that keep the commandments of Yah and the faith OF Yahushua “
Do this and live...and NOW IN HIM forever...a citizen of His people He names Israel