I fear for the pretenders who are in the church because they are so full of self they expect to go to heaven but will find themselves in hell. So many people who are confident they are good people will be shocked when they end up in hell.
Matthew 7:21-23, are in my opinion the most frightening verses in the Bible.
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.’"
Notice two things; one, they are expecting to go to heaven and do not, and two, they were busy doing what they thought were God's works, but doing it in the flesh to glorify self.
So many people think they must think up good works to do but in reality doing God's Work by His direction is the only way it will count.
Doing our own idea of good works to be seen as special by God and others will only bring us condemnation. We must seek God for His will for us, not our own ideas and it must be done to glorify Him and not ourselves.
Ephesians 2:10
"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them."
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