Posted on 01/07/2020 10:16:12 AM PST by Salvation
Monsignor Pope Ping!
Many will cry LORD, LORD..................
I presume the answer isn’t name tags?
Preachers who preach the word but are doing it for their own personal greed like fancy mansions, SUV’s and bizjets.
Might be a CEO - Christmas / Easter Only!
It means He never knew you.
Perhaps Jesus is speaking of someone who appears to be acting and thinking in contradiction to their own nature.
Someone who has decided to pander to a peer group, and chooses not to do what he knows it right, just and Christian.
It can happen at any age, not just in the teens.
Some will chose to drastically modify their behavior in hopes of becoming more accepted by a particular group.
It is to this phony person that Jesus speaks when he says;
‘I don’t know you!’
Philippians 2
1 ¶ So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,fn 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,fn being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. 12
-> ¶ Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. 1
I like the Inspired Version of the Bible
Matthew 25:11
But he answered and said, Verily, I say unto you, You know me not.
The Inspired Version never says that God or Jesus didn’t know us. Of course, He does.
It’s about whether we know Him as Savior and Lord.
The difficulty I have is that the churches I’ve been to have not followed the Word. They have become social constructs rather than places of worship. I certainly won’t fund them.
So I sit at home, I pray, I read, and I try to impart what I can to those I know.
He’s talking about people who have never repented but claim Him as their God- these people are trying to add works to salvation requirement- they are trying to earn their way to heaven because they won’t humble themselves and repent (ie: Change their mind about how to be saved- they repentant person No longer earns their salvation, they go directly to the source of Salvation, and accept Him as their means to salvation, and no longer rely on their ‘good works’ to get them there-)
It’s not just “knowing Jesus.” It’s doing the will of His Father.
“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” Matthew 7:21
The Apostle John makes it clear in his first letter that if you love Jesus you will follow the commands of His Father. The Apostle Paul makes clear that following the will of God includes trying to live a pure and holy life, and that Christians who continue to lead an immoral and impure life are not saved. See e.g. Ephesians 5, I Cor. 6.
Simply saying the “Sinner’s Prayer” and “believing” in Jesus does not get you to Heaven. Unless you change your life through the power of the Holy Spirit, you are not truly saved, but just pretending.
He said, “I never knew you!”
Matthew 7:14 “For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those that find it are few.”
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruit.”
While some may claim assurance of salvation by faith alone in Christ and can quote multiple scripture passages, this appears to missing the true understanding of faith and the result of false teachers.
“that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.” 1Cor 2:5
How do we help forgo the ways of the world and fully accept the ways of Jesus that leads to our salvation?
That he didn’t know them.
They weren’t saved in spite of their claims to religious activities.
Something some works based religions should take heed to.
Exactly.
“They” gave all these reasons to be saved, and all of the reasons were works. None of them professed faith.
Yes, Baptism, prayer, the Sacraments, Mass, Works of Mercy are good works that follow the way of Christ and leads us to know Christ and for Christ to know us.
Your comment: “They weren’t saved in spite of their claims to religious activities.”
It was stated in the article that they did not participate in religious activities. So when they asked for a religious service such as a wedding, the pastor did not know them.
So what are you going to say if Jesus asks you what did you do to know me or why did you leave the Catholic faith?
This is what Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy is about: apostacy. People with itching ears turning from the TRUTH of the Gospel of Grace to a FORM of RIGHTEOUSNESS, with works and a false gospel being preached and accepted.
Paul instructs Timothy in something very important in this letter: 2 Tim. 2:15. He does not tell Timothy to depend on others for instruction in God’s word. He tells him to STUDY God’s word. For himself. That he will NOT be ASHAMED as a WORKMAN for God if he STUDIES His word, rightly divided. He doesn’t tell him to go to a church building, or adhere to doctrines and traditions of men. That’s where APOSTASY originates; in doctrines and traditions of fallen men.
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