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I came across a couple of this youtube contributors videos at Lane’s blog: You might like to check them out…
The one below is based on the words of Jesus found in Matthew 7: “And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity”. This clip is taken from a sermon which can be downloaded at Christian Theology: “Kept By The Power of God.”
If interested in more of his clips, his user name at youtube is deaton29..
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..all is true.
..but what we do not realize is, that we are those, from what Revelation mentions ‘ and Babylon is the TRADING in souls ‘.
In the ‘bailout ‘, what they are doing , is exchanging SOULS OF PEOPLE to papermoney.
They ask ‘ oh, how much you want to print..?”
- ‘as many you have on land and property ‘.
‘but we don t have, anymore ‘
‘than hand to us the BIRTHCERTIFICATES, and we will put A NUMBER on them; so that in due time – ten, fifteen years – they will be generators of hundreds of thousand taxdollars ‘
..do n t you see dearests..?
WHO cares about these so obvious false shepherds..? That they are false, we knew long ago : it is THIS WORLD what is deceiving You – the very GROUND of it..!!
love
L
Thanks for the heads up on this guy, PJ. I’ll have to check some more of his stuff out. I enjoy Lane’s blog but haven’t gotten around to watching or reading all of the many resources on his site. Merely formalism…that can be a real kicker. I remember as a little kid going to church with my parents and asking them why they made me do all the “stuff” that church people do and they replied, “…because that’s what we’re supposed to do”. Now don’t get me wrong, I think that sometimes, especially with young kids, we get them to do things that they don’t fully comprehend why they are doing them. But I think it’s crucial to explain to the children as they mature a more Biblical reason for why they SHOULD be doing it: out of love and as an act of obedience and worship to the Savior. Things can be done for a whole lifetime to be a busy body in the church. This can lead people to think that this is why they are saved or why they should be granted entrance into heaven. But it’s not in doing them that saves us but why we are doing them. True work that will be pleasing to the Lord will only come from a heart that has been regenerated by the Holy Spirit. And out of that heart will come loving acts of worship that please the Lord. I am glad and confident that I don’t have to worry about proclaiming myself to be anointed. God anoints. And anyone who supersedes His anointing by claiming it upon themselves will need to repent and be saved or they will surely be declared to have never been known by Him.
I know im repeating myself, having said this many times, but those words spoken by Jesus in Matthew 7 are the most frightening words in the new testament–at least to me.
They are also proof that just because someone has done those things in the name of Jesus, [prophesied, cast out devils, etc.] it doesn’t mean the power by which they are doing them is always of God.
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
amen..obedience is better then sacrifice.
“but those words spoken by Jesus in Matthew 7 are the most frightening words in the new testament–at least to me.”
Yeah, I agree.
This is indeed an “endtime” prophetic “Word”.
I will quote a Scripture and tell a story that happened to me.
The Scripture:
Joh 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
In the clip, the Word is “I never knew” you.
In this verse, John 17:3, we see the free gift is “knowing” the Only True God and Jesus Christ Whom He Sent to us so that we will never ever have to hear “depart from Me, I never knew you”.
I was being used by God some years ago in the area of “healing and the miraculous”.
It was very surprising to me and quite unexpected and I was a bit sheepish about it and thrilled every time God “showed” up and performed a healing through me when I prayed for the sick.
As I was on this “wave” my Pastors sent me to share the things of God that were happening. At one of our Fellowships while speaking a young lady came up and asked me to “pray” for her that she was deaf in one ear. I prayed and she let out a shout and began jumping up and down and running all around the room. It was unnatural and sudden and startling. I was taken aback!
At this moment, my guts were saying “yuck” all the while my emotions were rejoicing with everyone in the room as the “wave” of excitment took control of everyone present.
Some years later, about 25 years later, or last year I am now sitting in my living room praying and pondering the history of signs and wonders, healings and miracles I experienced over the years and the phone rings.
Ring, ring and I answer it and a man who I didn’t know asks me if I am there? I said, yes, who are you? He identified himself as the husband of a woman who I prayed for twenty five years ago at a meeting!
It became silent as I recalled the incident and the then “young lady” who asked me to pray for her to have complete hearing in her one ear. I said that now I remembered her. He then said that she was there and needed to make a confession to me about that event that night because it began over the years to gnaw at her conscience, what she did.
Huh? I was now thinking, this is very strange. I agreed to receive the call from the now “married” woman and she then came on the phone crying.
I now am going through a strange experience as this woman explained by way of confessing her “lust” for me way back then that she came up and did what she did to “get” my attention because she liked me and wanted me to like her. She said that she had perfect hearing but she just feigned deafness so that I would pay attention to her. She “pretended” that she was healed that night and dramatized it hoping I would show interest in her and when I didn’t she backslid and left the Church.
She then went on to explain that she entered into great turmoil and torments because of what happened. She repented several years later and found Jesus Christ’s loving forgiveness and after getting married she confessed to her new husband that if ever there was an opportunity to let me know what happened that night she wanted to let me know and set the record straight.
They said that the idea of “googling’ my name came to them and so they did and by a series of phone calls they tracked me down.
After the phone call I sat there stunned and amazed and fear gribbed me as I realized that I was taken in by her feigning being healed and that I had made reference to the drama of that event to persuade others over the years that Healing is real and all you have to do is “believe”, like that young lady back then.
I too came under conviction and realized that it is not anything we do, it is all what He, the Holy Ghost does through Christ that brings God the Glory through us.
I believe today that God can heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers and cause the blind to see. God is mighty. God is Sovereign. Now, though, I believe it is something God does to us and our safety in this area comes when we are walking in the Faith once delivered to the Saints remaining humble and covered by Godly Authorities, especially if God begins to use us in this sort of miraculous way. God is not confused. He is Sovereign and He will not do anything through anyone of us unless He first reveals it to the Prophets in our midst. This area is so emotional and easily can get out of control as we are seeing in these days and by the events presented on this blog.
We need to be vigilant and sober and live under this mandate if we are not willing to do so, I suppose we too will hear those infamous words of Jesus, “I never knew you”:::>
1Co 10:24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
1Co 10:25 Eat whatever is sold in the meat market without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
1Co 10:26 For “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”
1Co 10:27 If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
1Co 10:28 But if someone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for the sake of conscience–
1Co 10:29 I do not mean your conscience, but his. For why should my liberty be determined by someone else’s conscience?
1Co 10:30 If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?
1Co 10:31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
1Co 10:32 Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God,
1Co 10:33 just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.
You, in your heart will know already if this whole thing is centered in self or you indeed seek the good of your neighbor through signs and wonders and miracles. Even then, do not be surprised if the phone rings at your house too!
Yes PJ these are the most terrifying words in scripture, I knew this verse for some reason before I became a Christian I am not sure how I came to know it but I asked my Pastor about it as soon as I became a Christian. She told me that it applied to false Christians, sometimes I feel as though I am not a real Christian, since coming to your blog I have learnt so much and feel I am on the road to developing a real relationship with Christ, no longer do I sell the “Church” and what Jesus can do for them, I am constantly aware that I need to pray, I cry over the pain our precious Saviour went through just for us, I told an unsaved guy a while ago that if he knew the extent of what Jesus went through for us he would not be using my Jesus’s name as a cuss word. I know the world doesn’t know any better but it is like fingernails going down a chalkboard hearing someone use His name as curse word and something rises up in me, is that wrong, I don’t know. I am battling with my flesh everyday, and am disobedient in so many areas, have to repent a hundred times a day, then I hear other Christians say well if you were truly born again then you would not be doing this or doing that and I always think back to this scripture and it scares me and think will I be one of those who hears those dreaded words. All I know is that I love Him and understand what He did for me and I know that He loves me despite all my imperfections and all I can do is read His Word, pray that His will (not mine) will be done and to help me in my daily walk, I am nothing without Him.
missmelly,
you wrote:::>
[[I am battling with my flesh everyday, and am disobedient in so many areas, have to repent a hundred times a day, then I hear other Christians say well if you were truly born again then you would not be doing this or doing that and I always think back to this scripture and it scares me and think will I be one of those who hears those dreaded words. All I know is that I love Him and understand what He did for me and I know that He loves me despite all my imperfections and all I can do is read His Word, pray that His will (not mine) will be done and to help me in my daily walk, I am nothing without Him.]]
You sound normal to me.
In fact I would be concerned if you were not betwixt and between a daily struggle in this present life!
Paul wrote a most amazing thing by the hands of Tertius.
Here are a couple of the ideas that underscores your experiences, as those experiences seem to be what we all True Born Again Christians experience “daily” in walking with God in His Faith, once delivered to the Saints:::>
Rom 3:31 Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Hmmmmm, why uphold that which accuses us and finds us guilty before God? That does not seem logical to my carnal mind.
Rom 7:5 For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
Rom 7:6 But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
Rom 7:7 What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
Oh, so before I was made alive in Christ I was just a “good” person. But now that the “Law” has come alive in me, I have become far worse!
Hmmmmm, that too doesn’t seem logical to my carnal mind.
Rom 7:9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died.
Rom 7:10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me.
Rom 7:11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me.
Rom 7:12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Rom 7:13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure.
Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.
Golly geesh! What gives here? What is this guy teaching, this Apostle, Paul? He makes no sense to my carnal mind at all! What will people think of me if I admit how sinful my flesh really is?
It even gets worse, not better for me:::>
Rom 7:21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
Doesn’t this sound rather familar to you missmelly?
Isn’t what you are observing in your “flesh” the very same as Paul the Apostle is observing about his flesh?
Why yes, yes indeed it does!
Hmmmmm?
Oh, it gets worse still:::>
Rom 7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
When I read you comments above and then read Romans I hear very very similar admissions of guilt about yours and his “flesh”!
Wow, do you agree?
If you can agree with me and my assertion here above then would you join with me and all True Born Again Christians alive today, made alive in Christ by the Works of God Our Heavenly Father and give thanks just as Paul concludes here?:::>
Rom 7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Wow, that is an extreme admission is it not? He just asked us to agree that there is sin working in our flesh daily and in fact he writes that we “serve” the law of sin with that flesh daily!!!
Ok, are you really confused now?
Well, here, rejoice in these words of Grace and take comfort in God Our Savior:::>
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
Rom 8:4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Rom 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
and:::>
2Co 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
2Co 1:4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2Co 1:5 For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
2Co 1:6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.
2Co 1:7 Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.
2Co 1:8 For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.
2Co 1:9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.
For me, it is amazingly true that I am weaker now today after these many years of walking with Christ than when I first began over 50 years ago!
I despair so much quicker now and the despair comes more easily. It now is daily this cross walk with the Lord. Daily I repent. Daily He comforts and strengthens me! Wow! Wow! Wow!
It is His Grace, Mercy and Peace in an over abundant supply that I realize I need each day to make it to tomorrow! Yesterday is gone, passed away. Tomorrow never comes though. I am now stuck on today “hearing” His Voice! And oh, what a sound, what a sound His Voice is to me too!
Today I cherish more and more than yesterday these words of Jesus Himself:::>
Mat 11:28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Mat 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
You?
Missmelly, if your heart continues to live, as your last sentence says: you will not hear those terrible words. Stay firm, follow the Lord and verify your walk by scripture. I hope to greet you someday, when we are all gathered before the Lamb of God. Amen.
Thank you so much Michael, you have blessed me so much today and I am sure many other Brothers and Sisters will be blessed and encouraged , I have read this scripture many times but sometimes the Lord will use someone such as yourself to actually make it click. I have only been a Christian for 5 years and I thank God for everyone on this blog.
” I despair so much quicker now and the despair comes more easily. It now is daily this cross walk with the Lord. Daily I repent. Daily He comforts and strengthens me! Wow! Wow! Wow!”
yes Michael this is me to a T as well.
Bless you Michael
Thanks Dave yes that will be a wonderful day Hallelujah
Missmelly, I can certainly understand where you’re coming from…I feel the same so often. It seems to me that I sin so much more now than before I was born again but I realize that’s not the case, I am just much more aware of it now. The Holy Spirit cuts me no slack which is as it should be.
I feel that if they’d line up all true Christians in a row based on how “good” they are, I’d be waaaaay at the back. But, in reality, that’s the way I want to continue to feel…I never want to forget that, on my own, I am lost but through Him I am saved. I never, ever, want to forget how much I need Him.
I cannot even begin to imagine what it would feel like to have Jesus tell me to get out of His sight…what a feeling of despair that would be! But I know that will never happen but not because of who I am but because of who He is. It was so hard for me to come to grips with this and it’s just one of many things I have PJ to thank for – helping me to understand this. I truly am grateful that God led me on a path that interesected with hers – it has helped me so much.
“then I hear other Christians say well if you were truly born again then you would not be doing this or doing that and I always think back to this scripture and it scares me and think will I be one of those who hears those dreaded words. ”
You know missmelly, I actually had someone tell me to come out of babylon because I believe that once you accept Christ…a true faith, not just a said faith, that He will not let anyone snatch you out of his hands…
There is such a tendency to put the burden of salvation on ourselves….but it has nothing to do with us or how we feel. It is the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross and his final atonement for sin that saves us…and our being willing to truley believe it and accept his free gift. It is not of works lest any man should boast…when we accept, He changes us…our good works are no longer ours (we can’t do anything good of ourselves anyway), they are what comes from saving faith…and are from God and the glory all goes to Him.
He never said we wouldn’t sin…he just said that when we did, he already took the penalty for it once and for all.
I just wanted to chime in because I know exactly what you are talking about. You see, I smoke cigarettes. I hate it. I had another person tell me one time that if I couldn’t stop smoking, I didn’t have enough faith and that maybe I should rethink if I was truley saved or not. Again, works based salvation. When I quit smoking, it will be God who did it, not me and when people say I quit and ask how, and I get to say I don’t know, God just took it one day….He gets the glory.
He convicts each of us, in His time, in His way. He changes us through that still small voice.
We are all sinners in need of a saviour…the difference between you and others…is you know that and it bothers you so you chose your saviour…He will never let anyone or anything snatch you out of His hand.
In Christ
>>”other Christians say well if you were truly born again then you would not be doing this or that and I always think back to the scripture and it scares me and think will I be one of those who hears those dreaded words.”<<
MissMelly, please excuse me for saying this, but it sounds as if some of those other Christians were being a bit presumptious. We all struggle with sin, them included. For there is none rightious, no not one. I think they acted a bit hypocritically when they told you that and presumed to know your heart. They acted in such a way that turns many people away from Christianity. It sounds to me like you are trying to do the right thing by repenting when you feel convicted by your sins. And Kit is right. He changes us through that still small voice.
I won’t presume to know your heart. But I have known people, who even though they were saved, they had doubts, and were worried just like you. They prayed to God for guidance, to let them know their condition. Everyone of them got an answer. Maybe not the first time they prayed over it, but I don’t know of a single one who didn’t receive satisfaction eventually.
I went through something very similar. Even though I had joined a church and been baptised, I was still lost. I trembled for over a year when I would hear preaching in church, and thought I was the only one to have ever made such a mistake. I began praying that God would show me what to do and, finally, that He would save my soul. I was so afraid and I got to the point where I couldn’t eat or sleep. But that conviction turned out to be a wonderful blessing. It led me to my knees and I cried out for mercy to Jesus. And He saved my soul! There was no “sinner’s prayer” for me to recite and no one told me that I was okay. I KNEW it when it happened. There was a change. And the awful burden of conviction rolled away. It was the best feeling I’ve ever had in my life, better even than the birth of my children. And afterwards, I felt a desire to tell people about it, and to truly join the church and be baptised. Since then, I have sinned too many times to count. I, like Kit, still smoke cigarettes. And there have been times when I felt far away from God. But, thank the Lord, it is impossible to be snatched from His hands. I am thankful that God still lets me know when I need to repent. Sometimes, doubt can even be a blessing, especially when it causes us to seek God’s face, and repent of our sins. And if we do that, he is faithful and just to forgive us. And that is truly a blessing!
I think presumption can be very dangerous and harmful to growth and maturity as a Christian. I recently read a book by Tim Keller entitled “The Reason For God”. Somewhere in either that book or an interview he gave he says he approaches each day with a striving to make sure he’s truly saved. When we get apathetic and think we are automatically “in” because we made a profession of faith at one point in our life we tend to view our Christian life and growth flippantly. It should be a constant “struggle” to work out our salvation. Each day we should be challenged to know our salvation is real as we are pulled and stretched by God into maturity. Maybe there is some spiritual truth to that old phrase “No pain, no gain”!
Thank you everyone for your comments, you have really helped me understand that I am not the only one who feels this way and it is ok. Last night I could not sleep and was thinking about how blessed I am for finding this blog and my new on line Christian family and the Lord reminded me of some lessons He taught me a few years ago.You see I was born again in a legalistic church and while I love God’s Law it was delivered by a female Pastor who loved power and having control over people, her speciality was “deliverence ministry” and she would much like Todd Bentley hit and slap people. I loved this Pastor and I basically idolised her and would do anything for her I was completely submissive and even neglected my husband and family who were not saved at that time. The word Grace to her was like a swear word and she would go on and on about “cheap grace” and how so many Christians were in for a very rude shock on Judgement Day. I was in for a very rude shock myself when she turned on me one day and accused me of having a “jezebel spirit”. I cried for weeks to the Lord and thought how can you love me Lord with this insidious hateful demon inside me. I lost my passion for evangelism and became even more unsure of myself as a Christian and would not go out and became quite paranoid. It was one of the worst times I have ever experienced as a Christian and I had only been born again for 18 months. It was during this time of desperation that the Lord showed me that I had been worshiping my Pastor and not Him, I was being obedient to my Pastor, not Him. He gave me the two scriptures that saved me and opened my eyes.
Matthew 11:30
“For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
I was not being obedient to the Lord I was being obedient to my Pastor it was all done in the flesh to get her approval,it was downright tiring trying to live up to her expectations. The obedience to the Lord Jesus is easy when it is not done in the flesh.He knows our weaknesses , He knows when we are going to sin and yet He is there for us always. He provides rest and comfort to sinners like us, His Grace and Mercy are infinite. He is like a sanctuary where we can go to escape the pressures of this world and our flesh, not Church where there is so much noise and commotion but in the quietness of our prayer closet. Just me and Him.
Galatians 5:1 NKJV
” Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free,[a] and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”
Never again will I be put into bondage by people in the Church with their own agenda whether it be money, power or adulation. Christ is my Lord, He is my Saviour, He is my Redeemer, He is my teacher and He loves me warts and all. Hallelujah
Love and the Lords Blessings to you all.
missmelly,
Your 2 scripture quotes and comment warmed my spirits on a cold,wet, dreary day in northeast Ohio! Thanks for being so transparent with your sharing and God bless you!