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NASB | Matthew 7:23 "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.' |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 7:23 "And then I will declare to them publicly, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME [you are banished from My presence], YOU WHO ACT WICKEDLY [disregarding My commands].' [Ps 6:8] |
Subject: What is iniquity in Matthew 7:23? |
Bible Note: CDBJ, I can sense some defensiveness in your response, that is what the truth does, it off-ends. Matthew 15:12 "Then came his disciples, and said unto him (Yeshua), Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?" Amazing, your striving days are over but Paul's were just beginning: Phillipians 3:11 "If by any means I might ATTAIN unto the resurrection of the dead. 12 Not as though I had ALREADY attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus." Phillipians 2:12 "Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, WORK OUT your OWN SALVATION with FEAR AND TREMBLING." Maybe Paul should have read Hebrews 4:10 (out of context). Bearing in mind, Revelation is the last written instructions from Messiah. What is an "overcomer" in the setting of Revelation Chapters 2-3? It has to be more than someone that merely believes. In Revelation 18 there is an impassioned plea "come out of her, my people". Who or where are God's people right now? He is calling the "Bride" out of pagan-based, antinomian Babylon and back to the 1st century faith that Messiah walked in. 1 Corinthians 11:1 "Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ." For Messiah to be “sinless” He had to keep Torah perfectly. But because we are “believers” now that standard is obsolete??? We are now under the “Grace Welfare System” where we just “rest” in what Messiah has done for us and “pick and choose” which commandments we will keep??! Romans 3:31 “Do we then make void TORAH through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish TORAH.” Again I ask, “How can you spend eternity in His presence if sin cannot abide in His presence?” There were 613 commandments given in the OT. People talk about the bondage of the "law" and they do not realize that the "bondage" was the man-made rules that the Pharisees instituted not what YHWH initially stated. In fact the NT has over 1,100 commandments that are more difficult to keep but I guess those should be by-passed also. http://66.227.33.191/magazine/0205/page04.htm 1 John 2:6-7 “He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as HE WALKED. Brethren, I write NO NEW commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the TORAH which ye have heard from the BEGINNING.” 1 John 2:3 “And hereby we do know that we KNOW HIM, IF we KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, IS A LIAR, and the truth is not in him. Matthew 7:23 “And then will I profess unto them, I NEVER KNEW YOU (YOU DID NOT KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS): depart from me, ye that work iniquity (Without Torah). Paul foresaw this falling away from the Truth and warned the Gentile assembly with tears. Acts 20:26-31 “Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.27 For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God (Torah). 28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 29 For I KNOW THIS, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking PERVERSE THINGS (Strongs 1294 to turn aside from the right path, to pervert, corrupt) , to draw away disciples after them. 31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.” It cannot get much clearer than that. Revelation 3:18 “… anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.” Greg Boone |