In this world, we will have many people now who will attempt to distract us from acting in Christlike ways. Those who are of the devil want to push us off the path of righteousness by poking at us until we respond in ungodly ways.
These people are all around us now. They do not love Christ even though some would claim to know Him.
Matthew 7:21-23
I Never Knew You
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.’
This passage ought to frighten a lot of people into asking God if they are truly saved. If the lifestyle does not match with the Bible, if the language that emerges from the mouth does not match up with the Bible then there is reason to be concerned.
John 14:15 "15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments."
God never commanded us to keep His commandments, the above verse is not a command, it is a clear statement that those who love Christ WILL keep His commandments.
What are God's commandments? They are everything in the Bible that God told us to do and how to live.
In our culture today when someone says "I am a Bible-believing Christian" they don't know what they are saying. Their example is that they obey what they like and disobey what they don't like. Most are not open to learning they are not obeying God in a particular area of their life. They merely become offended that someone would question them.
2 Timothy 4
“Preach the Word”
4 I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom:
2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,
4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
5 But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.
7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;
8 in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing."
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