Many in that Day

This article is for all those people who would call themselves followers of Jesus Christ or Christians. Jesus said in Matthew 7:22 that many people on the Day of Judgment would claim to be His followers. This is a very serious issue because the people thought they claimed the name of Jesus but Jesus says they never were His, Matthew 7:23. In the passage just before these verses (Matthew 7:15-16; 17-18; 19-20), Jesus talks about how you will know someone by their fruits. By fruits Jesus is talking about what activities come out of someone’s life. If evil activities are coming out of someone’s life who claims to be a Christian, something is wrong and Paul does address this, Titus 1:16. This is not to say that someone is saved by works because we are not, Ephesians 2:8-9. But we are not supposed to continue in sin, Romans 6:1-2. If someone who claims the name of Christ is continuing in sin and they are not trying to turn away from it, they should examine themselves if they are true followers of Christ 1 Corinthians 13:5.

The Bible talks continually about repenting from sin (Matthew 4:17; Mark 1:15; Luke 13:3; Acts 2:38; Acts 3:19; Acts 17:30) just to name some of the verses on repentance. Repentance is a change of mind and change of direction, if you are going one way to repent is to do a 180 degree turn and go the opposite direction. If someone comes and punches you in the face, comes and apologizes to you but then comes and does it again, were they ever really sorry? Chances are not. The same goes for God. He knows our hearts 1 Samuel 16:7, so He knows if we are truly sorry and want to change. If someone has not truly repented from their sin and turn to Jesus then there is a problem and Jesus does know who is His 2 Timothy 2:19.

Many people think that if they simply believe in God and/or Jesus died on a cross for their sins, that we are automatically saved, but this is not true because even demons know this, James 2:19. It is true we are save by believing that Jesus died for us but it matters what we do with that knowledge. Many people simply know this and yet they don’t truly commit their lives to Jesus. Some just do whatever they want thinking that because they know that Jesus died on a cross for them they are safe but this also is not true. We should be living for Jesus and not ourselves, Romans 8:5-6. If we set our minds on the things of this world we are actually said to be against God, Romans 8:7. John said that if we love the world then we don’t have God’s love in us, 1 John 2:15. The difference really boils down to do you look at Jesus just as fire insurance or have you truly committed your whole life to Him and been born again (John 3:3)? If you truly believe that you actually repented and put your faith and trust in Jesus then, are you an on fire Christian for Jesus Christ or are you lukewarm? If you are lukewarm then be careful because Jesus said what he will do with those who are lukewarm Revelation 3:16. I encourage you to think through your faith, is it real? Check the websites out at the bottom.

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