Many are there who are going to tell our Lord that they knew Him. Many are there that are going to proclaim the signs and wonders and miracles they had worked in His Name. They will point out their works of healing, speaking in and translation of tongues, their gifts of prophecy and visions and interpretation.
And He shall say to them: “Depart from me, ye that work iniquity;”
and He shall say to them: “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:”
Many are there that are going to Hell, and into the lake of fire and brimstone; who knew the bible, who prayed to God Almighty, who proclaimed their eternal love for Him; who even claimed to have the Holy Ghost in them: but their lives turned others away from the gospel, and their words and deeds indicated no difference or change between the World and the children of God.
It may very well be, that honest, honourable, true-to-their-word, Wordlings will enter the Kingdom of God, and the children of God, who claim the Kingdom for themselves, shall be left outside, turned away, cast out into the eternal darkness.
Is this not what our Lord Himself said, when a Roman officer, a man whose cultural religion is based in idol worship, came to Him and showed more faith than the Israelites, the “People of God?”
It is a hard thing to say, for it damns the most pious of men and redeems sincere sinners; piety without works, proclaiming and praying in God's name, the Name of Jesus, is damnable if it does not show in the works, nor is heard in the words; words of love and compassion, words and works that stand up for the opressed, the helpless, and do not condone sin. While Worldlings, helping out, giving to the needy and the poor and the helpless, love and hope and compassion, while having not heard of the redemption in Jesus Christ, are themselves redeemed based on the conscience proclaiming to God the deeds for or against their fellow men and women.
Indeed, it is better to die a sinner without ever having heard the gospel, than a damnable, God-worshipping, Jesus-proclaiming hypocrite. It has been said before, and I want to say it now also: Hell is filled with murderers. Rapers. Thieves. Liars. Betraying Christians. And everyone that called on His Name, and left it for the World.
May we be saved from the allure of Worldly glamour and riches and the lies of satan's twisted, humanist-based New Reformation and gospel. Where the emphasis is on God's blessing for your life, without the sacrifice of repentance and holiness...
...and faith without the works showing the working of the Holy Ghost inside.
