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NASB | Matthew 7:21 ¶ "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 7:21 ¶ "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven. |
Bible Question: Does this indicate that if you are truly converted that you will fully understand and do the will of the Father in all areas? |
Bible Answer: docandlinda2 As your verse indicates those who do the will of the Father make into heaven. Look what John says - 1 John 3:6 No one who abides in Him sins; no one who sins has seen Him or knows Him. That is one side of the coin. Here is another side of the coin from the same book - 1 John 2:2 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous. Those two verses together mean you are not of God if you "continually" sin, but if you do sin, turn around and ask the "Advocate" for forgiveness and stop sinning. Here is another coin - First side - Romans 7:19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. Second side - Romans 8:1 - 4 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us; who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. Here is a principle - Romans 3:28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law. Nothing else is required to be saved other than faith in Jesus Christ that He died and rose again for our sins and that He is Lord, by this we are saved. But here is the opposite side of that same coin of a qualifying faith. James 2:18 But someone may will say, You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works. This sounds on the surface as that true faith in Jesus is faith by works. Now, the principle in this James passage is not that faith is gained by works, but that, faith is evidenced by good works as fruit of that faith being genuine faith. Jesus said, by their fruits you will know them; the bad tree has bad fruit and the good tree has good fruit, and only those who do the works of My Father will enter heaven. It is not true that if you are converted and believe in Jesus that you will just have a full understandig of the will of the Father. That takes a life time of prayer, study, worship, and praise to understand the will of the Father and to be able to do it. The Holy Spirit sanctifies us to do the will of the Father, understand the will of the Father in order to do it. Sanctification is a life time work of the Holy Spirit in the believer - Read Romans chapter 6, which is about sanctification, and chapter 8, which is about christian perseverance in the faith. To directly answer your question all "true" Christians make it to heaven - once saved always saved, by faith alone, by grace alone. There are going to be "false brethren" who say that they believe, but do not and will not. But you and I cannot say with any certainty at all who these are, only God knows. There will be some very "pious Christians" who appear to have the right goods who merely walk through life doing "good works" who will not make it in because they never repented and took Jesus as Lord. They went to church all their lives and think they are saved and work in the church doing all kinds of things. There are others who do not appear from their behavior or life to be "true" Christians, they seem to be always messing up big time, but God knows who are really His, and these "mess ups" will indeed go to heaven based on faith alone, by grace alone. These "mess ups" keep on asking for forgiveness of sins all the time and truly have salvation, but they are not all the way cleaned up by the Holy Spirit. Their character needs work, their very lives need work, and the devil is fighting hard to keep them out of heaven, and the devil may win a whole lot of battle, over these folks, but God will win the war. What we are called to do is to look to our own salvation with great fear and trembling and to examine ourselves to see if indeed we ourselves are in the faith. What we are not called to do is to examine others to see if they are in the faith and look to whether or not they are truly saved, that is God's business. We are suppossed to love our brethren and our enemies as well. There is a verse that says that those who jduge others have become judges of the law and not doers of the law. This is no accusation of your motives in asking this question though, please don't be offended by what I have written. blessings abound, bowler |
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