There will be a frightening day, when many who think they are saved will realize they were not changed into a new creation by Christ and will not inherit heaven but are headed for the fires of hell.
They followed the rules, paid their tithes, said they loved the Lord, even doing lots of busy work in the apostate churches. These people did good works, but not by the power of God. In their flesh they honored themselves for their deeds rather than seeking Christ for their direction and giving Him the glory.
The apostates who will be shocked when they get to heaven, will think they are in, because they did works, or said things to cause others to praise them, but their works and their words, were in their own power, to elevate self, not in the power of God for His glory.
It is good for everyone to ask the Lord about their own heart. Do they follow Christ for what they can get out of Him, or to glorify self, OR do they love Christ, want no glory for themselves, giving Him all praise and worship. Are their good deeds because Christ in them compelled them, and they loved to obey Him?
Now is the time to take a look at ourselves, the time is short, we could be going home soon, whether it be by a traffic accident or the rapture, we don't know how much time we are given to ask that very important question; "am I really saved and pleasing Christ." Which home will be ours, heaven or hell, for eternity?
1 John 2:19 " They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us."
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.’"
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