Have you ever known someone who says they are a Christian but who does not act like someone who is in a relationship with the Holy God of the universe? Have you ever wondered if they were saved in the first place? I have, and the jury is still out in many of those cases. Yet the truth of who they are loyal to will be revealed eventually. You can't deceive God.
Jesus said, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’" (Matthew 7:21-23)
This verse causes me distress, for Jesus says many will come who He never knew. But they thought they knew Him did the works. It looks as if everything about our faith can be faked in this life but will be found in the next. Now, when someone comes out of their old life, they are in for the fight of their lives with their old way of thinking and doing that they must repent of. (Change their mind about.)
I have known many new believers who were a train wreck during the early years of their newfound faith in Jesus. I was one of them and still have an extra measure of grace for the new believer in Jesus. However, they need to know what is right and wrong, and, when confronted with an error, how they respond and let everyone know who they are. There is no room for easily offended in the Kingdom of God. Right is right, and wrong is wrong.
1 Corinthians 12:1
1 Corinthians 12:13–14
Ephesians 4:4–6
Galatians 3:26–29
James 4:1–3
Ecclesiastes 12:14
2 Corinthians 10:4–5
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