6 Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you? Calling Jesus Lord does not make Him your Lord. He is your Lord if He has freed you from all sin, if he has destroyed your carnal mind, if He has purified you, and if He supplies all your words to speak, all your thoughts, and all your actions to be done. If you are still sinning, you are a slave to sin, John 8:34, and if you are sinning, Jesus cannot be your Lord because you cannot serve two masters. You can call Him Lord; you can call Him Master; but so did Judas. Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as slaves to obey, you are the slaves of whom you obey; whether of sin that leads to death, or of obedience that leads to righteousness? Rom 6:16.
You might be thinking, "but he has never told me to do something; I haven't been disobedient." However, every person is anonymously called by God to depart from evil on their day of visitation when Christ, the light given to every man so that he might believe, preaches the gospel in them; He knocks at every person's door, (heart). The vast majority of people ignore His anonymous call to turn from evil because they love their selfish lifestyle and have no love of the truth about their evil ways. Thus they deny and hate the truth; thus they deny and hate Christ. The few who do heed His anonymous pleas, loving the truth, turn from evil to then be chosen by God to receive more of His Spirit in return; God gives them a taste of His goodness by revelation, which creates the hunger and thirst in them for more of Him — thus to seek Him with all their heart and soul.
From the Word of the Lord within: "All men are without excuse. If I were silent, they would have an excuse; every man has heard the call to repent."
But it is a gentle, anonymous call to forsake their evil ways. You might ask, "why anonymous?" What a man hears and/or sees is the truth of his ways; if he heeds the call, he has an appreciation and love of the truth; if he ignores the call, he hates the truth. Thus it is a test of those who love the truth or love their evil ways. From the Word of the Lord within: "Many people use the visitation of this web site to remove the blocking of past visitations. People can't come in fear; they have to come in love. " Only through love, can the cross be endured to death of one's selfish spirit.
"If anyone hears my words, and does not obey [carefully attend to, observe] them, I do not judge him; for I came not to judge the world [every man], but to save the world [every man]. He who rejects me and does not receive my words, has one for his judge — the words that I have spoken [to him] will judge him in the last day." John 12:47-48.
Jesus is not happy with those who have never met him: they have never seen His face, nor seen His form, and yet they call Him Lord, while still sinning:
Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven; but [only] he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? And in your name cast out demons? And in your name done many wonderful works?'
And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you who work iniquity' [sin, lawlessness, or wickedness]. Mat 7:21-23
Jesus rejected those supposed Christians who had prophesied in his name, cast out demons, and done many wonderful works — because they still sinned, and He never knew them because they had never met with Him: they had never exposed themselves to God's commands by sitting and waiting on God while listening to His spoken words that impart the life of God and are engrafted into their hearts, which in sufficient quantity would have freed them from sin.
Who is is that has truly made Jesus their ruling Lord?
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