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All Men Shall Know…
Contributed by Dr. Odell Belger on Apr 5, 2022 (message contributor)
Summary: A man in South Carolina had some car problems, so he took his car to a local automobile garage to get his car repaired. The man went to pay for the repairs and pick his car up after being repaired.
As he was driving home, his car was doing the same thing as before he took it to the mechanic.
He took it back to the mechanic the second time and once again he was told his car was repaired, but again, on the way home he discovered his car was still doing the same thing.
To make a long story short, that mechanic never could fix his car even after three attempts. He finally took his car to another mechanic and immediately that mechanic found the problem and fixed it.
The man who had the car trouble said this about the first mechanic; “HE CALLS HIMSELF A MECHANIC, BUT HE IS NO MECHANIC!”
Now that makes us think of many people today, who claim they are Christians.
WHY IS THAT? As you look at their life style and compare it to the Word of God, you immediately come to the conclusion THEY ARE NOT CHRISTIANS according to the Word of God!
HOW CAN WE TELL IF A PERSON WHO CLAIMS TO BE SAVED IS TRULY SAVED? God’s Word tells us there is a way you can tell if a person is truly a born-again child of God.
I preach this sermon out of love and concern, because we have churches all over this nation that have people in them telling us they are children of God
• Perhaps they teach a Sunday School Class
• Perhaps they preach God’s Word
But God is going to say to some of these people, “I NEVER KNEW YOU!”
Illus: There are lost people that know they are lost. They will admit they are not saved and they know they are on their way to a devil’s hell. ISN’T THAT SAD? But something sadder than that is the fact that there are people who think they are saved, but they will find out they are part of that group to whom the Lord will say, “I NEVER KNEW YOU!”
Do not just take my word for it. Remember, Matthew 7:21-23 tells us, “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. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
Listen, folks can fool each other about whether or not they are children of God, but they can’t fool God. These verses are simply telling us that MANY will claim to be children of God, but God will say to them, “I NEVER KNEW YOU!”
HOW CAN WE TELL IF A PERSON IS TRULY A CHILD OF GOD? Now perhaps some are saying, “Preacher, we can not tell because the Bible teaches we are not to judge one another.”
Matthew 7 is one of the many misquoted passages in the Bible. The only part of this passage that deals with judging, are the words, “Judge not.”
Yes the Bible does teach JUDGE NOT, but it has to be put in proper context to understand what the Lord is saying.
What does it say? Look at Matthew 7:1-5, we read, “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
God is not telling us NOT TO JUDGE ONE ANOTHER, He is telling us, “And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?”
God tells the person who judges another not to do that unless he has no “mote” or “beam,” otherwise that person is a hypocrite.
We are taught to judge - look at verse 15, we are told, “Beware of false prophets.” How can we BEWARE OF A FALSE PROPHET IF WE DO NOT JUDGE HIM TO BE A FALSE PROPHET?
Can we tell if a person who claims to be a child of God is truly a child of God? Yes, we can compare that one’s life-style to the Word of God and find out quickly if he (or she) is a child of God.
