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Good Morning church!
How is everybody doing this morning!
I wanna invite you this morning to turn with me in your Bibles to the gospel of
This morning I am going to preach from a pretty well known verse of scripture, this morning we are going to begin a study on the hard sayings of Jesus.
I dont know if you ever noticed if you just read the NT cover to cover Jesus just said some pretty difficult things during His ministry, and we have a bad habit here in America at churches of being seeker friendly we like to put a mask on Jesus and we want people to come and get comfortable with church, and we want people to be comfortable with us and join our churches.
This is not something, I care to do when I preach, I often pray Lord help me to never sacrifice your truth because of my feelings or the feelings of others.
What matters more than you feeling comforted is you hearing the truth of God’s word just like the Lord meant it and spoke it amen.
So I don’t wanna neglect hard sayings from the Lord because at some point if someone is gonna follow Jesus they are going to run across these hard sayings.
If I stand here and preach a feel good love dovey sermon and then you run across these things your going to realize that something doesn’t fit.
If I tell you that Jesus is all love and that there is no judgement then you are going to find out really fast there is judgment.
The Bible even says that judgement begins with the house of God so I don’t want people to run across sayings from the Lord and be confused, Jesus is love and He is extremely loving but He also says some tough things as well.
This passage this morning is one of the most difficult things Jesus ever said, and what makes it so difficult, what makes this saying of Christ so difficult, is that He says that there are going to be people and he is speaking about the judgement day, He says there are going to be people that on that day, are going to call Him Lord and that have done things for His name through out their life and yet they are not going to Heaven when they die.
So I wanna read this to you.
(Let’s pray)
Many of you know how Amy and I became a couple but I wanted to start off explaining something to you that I think directly applies to this text this morning.
For those of you who dont know I dated a girl named Joanna right before I met Amy I truly thought I was going to marry Joanna, we were good friends everything was going great in the relationship, and then one weekend she traveled up from Tampa where we were attending school and she broke it off with me.
I was devastated everybody say aww… But seriously I went into my bedroom there in that mobile home on the southside of Tallahassee and I got down on my knees and I prayed “Lord from this point on I am done with women, I don’t care if I ever meet another girl, if you want me to be a missionary and send me into the deepest darkest corner in the world I will go, but no more women.
I only want you Lord.
Long story short I started working for a daycare, and they told me I would have a partner as we were going to run a summer camp for kids.
I remember that first Monday morning when I went in to work my partner was running late, and I am spending time with the kids we were playing outside.
Then it happened, she walked in.
Now I was in a dilemma, I still remember the shirt she was wearing that day.
She came in, and I looked at her and then I looked up at God and said really?
Then I looked back at her and looked back up to God and I was really in a tight spot because I prayed that prayer you know so I looked back up at her and look up to the cieling and said I am sorry God but I gotta date this one.
But man no matter what I tried I couldn’t get her to date me, I went up to her on day number two at the job, and I said hey you wanna go on a date with me sometime and she didn’t even hesitate she said no.
But me being the suave casanova that I was let her know something she didn’t know yet, when I said “You are gonna go on a date with me you just dont know it yet”
She said oh really?
I said oh yeah…
We laughed and carried on, I wore her down boys, after about the third time I talked her into meeting me for dinner to organize the summer camp.
But you know she wanted to date, I asked her where she wanted to meet and she said OLIVE GARDEN.
Bro even I know you dont go to Olive garden to plan a summer camp ok.
know I am in there.
We did not do a single thing towards summer camp that night and when we left I said well we didn’t much accomplished and I said that was one heck of a work meeting.
She told me to hush and I said so when you get ready to go on our second date just let me know, and now we have been married for 9 years and are still very much in love with each other.
Over the first few weeks of dating I got to know alot about her:
family
likes, dislikes
salvation
birthday
where she went to school
her siblings
But I want you to know there was a very clear transition that took place where I went from knowing about her life, to actually knowing her.
Heres the thing it didn’t stop we have been married for 9 years and we have been through some mountain top moments together but we have also been through some very low valleys together.
We have had 4 children together we have served in ministry together, and every single day our relationship is growing, it hasn’t always been easy especially for her but it is always growing.
There is not a human being on this planet who knows me like my wife, the only one even close is my mother and that is because for most of my life it was just her and I.
But even Amy knows things about me as I have grown and matured that even mom doesn’t know.
Listen theres a world of difference between the day I met her and learned the facts about her life, and now when I deeply know her.
Heres something I need for you to know I am gonna say it a few times in this message.
There is a monumental differnce between knowing about someone and knowing someone.
I would dare to say there is an eternal difference between knowing about someone and knowing someone.
One of the greatest fears that I have for my church family here, is that there are people in this room this morning who have never actually made that transition with Jesus.
That truth be told you know alot about Christ, but the question is not do you know alot about His life but do you know HIM?
The question is have you taken that step and entered into a relationship with Jesus?
That is the most important question you ever get asked.
There is an eternal difference between knowing about someone and knowing someone.
That’s what Jesus is speaking about in .
Let me give you some backround here, this is judgment day your going to be in this picture your in this story, he may not be talking about you, I hope He is not but either way you’ll witness this with your own eyes.
Thats a fascinating thing Jesus says, that not EVERYONE WHO SAYS LORD LORD ARE GONNA ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
So theres going to be these people that Jesus talks about on Judgment day they are actually gonna call Him Lord but they wont spend eternity with Him in Heaven and then He makes another statement there in the text.
So who is it then that Jesus says will enter the kingdom of Heaven?
Thats an interesting phrase.
THOSE WHO DO THE WILL OF MY FATHER WILL ENTER.
Now here’s what He is not saying He is not saying that you work your way into Heaven cause you cant.
He is not saying this is a works based salvation because that couldn’t be farther from the truth.
We are only forgiven from our sins by grace through faith NOT OF WORKS SO THAT NO MAN CAN BOAST ABOUT IT.
So what does He mean?
I think what He is syaing is this, that its not the person who just His mouth says that Jesus Christ is Lord but its the person whose mouth says Jesus Christ is Lord and their life reflects the fact that their mouth says Jesus Christ is Lord.
Thats who is gonna enter the kingdom of HEaven.
Then He goes on
When I first read that verse I had a problem within my heart, because He uses the word MANY.
Your telling me Kyle theres gonna be people who are going to be standing there on judgment day they are gonna call Him Lord and they arent going into Heaven?
The next thing out of Jesus mouth should make us shudder He says many people are gonna be like that.
So just in case you are in here this morning and your like this is not about me this doesnt apply to me, I just want you to know Jesus says there are alot of people that think that.
He says many people are going to think when they show up and call Him Lord that they are a lock, they served in the church, some of them will be pastors, missionaries sunday school teachers, deacons, youth pastors.....
MANY WILL SAY TO ME ON THAT DAY
SO your sitting in service right and your rolling your eyes because you have heard this and you know this but your thinking I am not not one of the many, you know I bet the many that Jesus is talking about said the same thing.
Jesus said that on that day theres this group of people they call him Lord and then they give their Christian resume to Him. that’s fascinating to me.
That on judgment day the name Lord comes out of your mouth and the next thing out of your mouth is a Christian resume.
Theres these things that people did in the name of Christ.
Things they did for Jesus.
I think the modern day equivalent of this would be something like this, Lord didn’t I go to church?
Lord I had every intention of being at every service I could attend, I came to wednesday night services in your name!
Lord was I not in a sunday School class? a small group in your name?
God did I not go on a mission trip in your name?
God did I not tithe in your name?
Then look at verse 23
Everybody just think about that.
Jesus YOUR LORD HERES THE THINGS I DID FOR YOU JESUS IMMEDIATELY LOOKS BACK AT THE MANY AND SAYS I NEVER KNEW YOU!
That word knew is a word that means intimacy, its a word that means the deepest form of relationship.
Jesus says ok thats great you call me Lord, thats great that you kinda did stuff for me, but thefact remains I have never been in an intimate relationship with you.
He says depart from me I never knew you you who practice lawlessness.
Ok so you have people again they call him Lord they’ve done things for Him through the course of their lives but they do not go to Heaven when they die… why?
Because He never knew them, thats why I said earlier there is an eternal difference between knowing about someone and knowing someone.
There is an eternal difference between knowing about Jesus and knowing intimately our Lord and Savior.
Now you say Kyle how does that happen?
How in the world do you get to a place where you know enough about Him that your calling Him Lord, your actually doing things for Him but never actually knew Him.
I actually had something that kinda applies.
how many people in here know Nolan Ryan?
Nolan Ryan was a pitcher He is in the Hall of fame He pitched for the Astors He pitched for the Rangers, He pitched until He was 42-43 years old and He was still throwing no hitters, ok thats a huge deal when your 42 years old throwing no hitters.
I had his biographies I knew all about him, I would stand in my backyard and throw the ball up against the wall of the apartments me and mom used to live in, or the wall in my room and I would pretend I was Nolan Ryan one out away from another no hitter.
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