A Pretender Cannot Fool God!

Unsaved people are just pawns in the hands of the devils. They are not innocent, because they can trust Christ but they choose the devils instead.

Their choice is not conscious but based on feelings they think are their own when they are really lies of the devil. He puts lies into the minds of people and the people believe the lies.

The devil has convinced many people that they can get to heaven through their own efforts. They like to pretend they are good when God says that the only One Who is good is Christ. It is only through Christ that anyone can see heaven.

It is through Christ that anyone can be changed into a new creation. Those who attempt to change themselves will fail, because they cannot do what Christ can do, that is be changed on the inside into a completely different person.

When we become born again our thoughts are no longer the same, they are as the thoughts of Christ. Those who try to change themselves are hearing the lies of the devil that they are good and do not need Christ to change them. The willful and prideful heart wants to be in control of their own changing. It always leads to greater pride and worse character.

Our character must be changed by Christ or it is no change at all. When we attempt to change ourselves it is merely pretense, smoke and mirrors and will not last.

John 10:1-10
"10 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.
2 But he who enters by the door is a shepherd of the sheep.
3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
4 When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.
5 A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”
6 This figure of speech Jesus spoke to them, but they did not understand what those things were which He had been saying to them.
7 So Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
8 All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.
9 I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly."

2 Corinthians 5:16-18 "…16 So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:…"

John 14:6-7 " 6 Jesus answered, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7 If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”"
Those who are born again will never go back to what they used to be, the old creation. However, those who are pretenders will always return to their old self. Perhaps they will have left off some bad habits to fit into the culture, but their character has remained the same all the time. Only Christ can change our character.