• Jesus Is Lord


    Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father 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 practice lawlessness!” Matthew 7: 20-23

         The proof of whether or not Jesus is our Lord isn’t by our works or our ministry; it’s proven by our surrender to Him in the everyday circumstances of life, especially the ones that aren’t the way we want them to be and know He has the authority and ability to change but chooses not to or the circumstances created by something He allowed to happen that He could have prevented.  Our life in Him isn’t about external things but about our heart. Our response to the external things serves as a barometer of our heart and measures the authenticity of Jesus' Lordship over us. His Lordship over us is directly related to how well He knows us, not because of His omniscience but by our willingness to open our hearts up to Him in an ongoing intimate relationship because we trust him.

         It is interesting that Jesus doesn’t say I am not your Lord, but that “I never knew you”. That Jesus is Lord is a fact for He is Lord of Lords, but the degree to which He is our Lord on a personal level will depend on the degree to which we allow Him to know us. The degree to which He is our Lord directly affects whether or not we do the will of the Father.  Doing His will, not merely knowing it determines whether or not we enter the kingdom. Being born again gives us the ability to see the kingdom, doing His will enables us to enter.




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