@scott_m_coley Some of the problems with the Church in America now:
- We’ve commingled faith and politics to the extent that people give equal weight to God’s Word and secular talking points.
- People justify breaking God’s Word (for example, lying) as a means to achieving a worldly goal.
@scott_m_coley And when I’ve thought about all the people who work for Trump, call themselves Christians but lie as much as he does, I think about something that too many of us are taught.
A lot of Christians seem to think professing faith in Christ means there are no consequences for sin.
@scott_m_coley Some think that once we claim to have accepted Christ, sin just doesn’t matter anymore and we’re free to do whatever we want to do.
There are a lot of passages in Scripture that should give pause to that line of thinking.
@scott_m_coley We can’t afford to forget Matthew 7:21-23 (NIV):
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in
@scott_m_coley your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’”
This passage is not talking about people who are atheists, agnostics or who profess another faith.
@scott_m_coley This passage is talking about professing Christians who, from the reading, seem to be quite sure that they are in Christ. The problem is that God doesn’t.
How many people does this passage say will experience this?
“Many.”
@scott_m_coley The Matthew 7:21-23 verse used to cause me a lot of confusion. And then I read a similar passage, Luke 6:46, in which the Lord just asks a question:
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?”
@scott_m_coley Salvation is free. We can’t earn it. Jesus Christ earned it by dying on the Cross and then rising again after paying for our sins.
But He calls us to be Disciples.
It’s not fire insurance that gives us the right to do whatever we want.
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