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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] |
Bible Question: Just who was Jesus talking to, in Matt. 7:21-23, if they were believers, why does he call them workers of Iniquity? If not believers, how were they able to do the works spoken of? |
Bible Answer: Dear lookin, I have heard two theories on this; I will paraphrase John MacAruthur first - he says that these people have a false profession of faith and that they merely claim to have done works in Jesus name and that the good tree bears good fruit and the bad tree bears bad fruit so what ever they were claiming they did in Jesus name was a false claim to greatness, and that they were making claims to salvation based on these false works, and so Jesus says, depart I never knew you. Now here is the other theory I have heard - Did not Jesus send out the seventy in Luke and to heal the sick, and to cast out deomns, and to proclaim the kingdom of God is at hand in His name. Then in John 6 we find that a large number of disciples desert Jesus because they could not recieve the teaching of eating Jesus flesh and drinking His blood, but some of these same disciples were also of the seventy. And then there is Judas who was sent out to heal, to cast out demons and to prolaim the kingdom along with the twelve in Jesus name, but who was a traitor to Jesus and the faith. Between these two we get those who may have very well gone and done great miraculous wonders in the name of Jesus, but who left off the faith having never believed in Jesus but having used His holy name to perform works which made them believe they were saved, but Jesus says to them, depart from Me, I never knew you. Now, doing the will of the Father would include but not be limited to doing miraculous wonders, and it is possible for an evil doer to perform miracles by the power of the devil according to Revelation and Daniel. And it may, I say may, be possible to make a false profession of Christ and run around spouting His name while actually doing miracles by the power of the devil. Just a last thought there, that was a real head cruncher there that one... you got there Lookin, your brain cognates sometimes there... God's Day To You, Tamara |
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Tamara Brewington |