October 12, 2011

  • Pretenders

    Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’  And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.’
    Matthew 7:22-23

    For it is not an enemy who reproaches me,
    Then I could bear it;
    Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me,
    Then I could hide myself from him.
    But it is you, a man my equal,
    My companion and my familiar friend;
    We who had sweet fellowship together
    Walked in the house of God in the throng.
    Let death come deceitfully upon them;
    Let them go down alive to Sheol,
    For evil is in their dwelling, in their midst.
    Psalm 55:12-15

    For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things.
    Philippians 3:18-19

    Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.
    1 John 2:18-19

     

    One thing I have very slowly been learning in life is that not all of my friends who claim to be Christians are truly believers in Christ / followers of Christ.   It is something we all know theoretically.  But typically whenever I saw a person attending a Christian event and talking about God, I would immediately assume that they belong to Him.  Then, over time, questions begin to arise, and it gradually becomes apparent with some people that they do not truly believe in Christ, even though they claim to believe.

    God, please keep me from this fate; please protect me from falling away from You.

tim223

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