"When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are." Luke 13:25
These are the most damning four words that can ever be spoken to a person at the close of this age: "I know you not". But what is frightening is that this is not with reference to a stark unbeliever, they will be addressed to a professor of religion who only had a form of godliness, but denied the power therein. How terrible it will be to finally come to the heart-failing realization that one, after all, did not deceive the Lord, but himself. Don't be deceived, for God cannot be mocked. In the words of C.S. Lewis, "If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary." How true! And sadly, this is the spiritual condition of many professors of faith.
Someday, it will be finally known that one cannot sit on the laps of Delilah, and end up in the bosom of Abraham, for whatever a man sows, that shall he reap also. Our time here is short, and soon, the door of grace will be shut, and at that time, nothing, but the just judgment of a holy God will be pronounced upon all who have made light of the warnings of God against unrighteosness.
Are you a pretender in church? Be reminded that the day will come when the tares will be separated from the wheat, not by a pastor, but by the angels of God. Elsewhere in the gospel, Jesus said to pretenders, "Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity, know you not". But there is time now to repent and seek the Lord in truth. God bless you as you do so.
Toni
