There are those I have met who claim to be "Christian", who have mixed their form of Christianity with other cultic doctrines. I notice that these pretenders, who don't know themselves, that they are not born again, do not remain stable in their walk. They cannot maintain growth because the Holy Spirit does not live in them. Rather they regress, not realizing that those who are discerning can see the progression backward in their walk. When a persons walk is based on their own human effort, it can not be maintained. It is only the cleansing that Christ offers that makes permanent growth that never regresses.
The warning to these people is ominous, declaring that there will be those who think they are saved, but will find out their frightening fate when they get before God when He says to them, "I never knew you."
Matthew 7:21-23
"21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
When we see someone veering off the path that God has set for us, returning to their old ways, losing all vigor for the Word of God and spiritual growth, we may be looking at an unsaved individual who only thinks they are on their way to heaven. I feel very bad for these people, they are living securely in their confidence when their end is a devastating trip into the lake of fire at the end of all the pretense.
May each one reading this examine themselves through the Scriptures, while asking God to show them if they have been changed into a new creation by Christ, and sealed with the Holy Spirit of Promise.
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