You can’t stray from the right road if you were never on it; similarly, you can’t stray from salvation if you were never saved to begin with. In our continued discussion of Matthew 7:21-23, we now arrive at Matthew 25 with regard to the five wise and five foolish virgins: “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. To the naive, this Scripture seems to teach that that forsaking a sinful life or doing “works” to validate one's faith in Christ is mandatory to have eternal life. You have the words of eternal life. When one places these words together, the translation is “neither at this time nor ever.” So when Jesus says “I never knew you,” He is saying to the masquerading Christians, “I don’t know you, neither at this time nor ever. heaven will enter. In the last days you will clearly understand > think it is easy to do the will of the Father? a. The “never knew you” of Matthew 7:21-23 is different from the “one believed and endured, now departed” statements of Scripture. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The owner does not. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. There must be a trail of good works that characterize our lives in Christ. In the end, the Lord will say “I never knew you.” The words of Matthew 7:21-23, as spoken by our Lord, seem difficult to believe. Case in point, Paul’s words to the Corinthians: Oh, that you would bear with me in a little folly—and indeed you do bear with me. In our desire to determine who’s fit and who’s not, we may find that we ourselves have been, to use Paul’s word in 1 Corinthians 9:23, “disqualified” from the heavenly race. In Matthew 7:21-23, we saw the deceitfulness of self righteousness. The only persons that ever come to such a decision are those who are in the faith, in the Lord, and read His Word and realize that there is a choice to be made. What does it mean to be shaken by their trials? And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, are works assigned to us by the Holy Spirit. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you;depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ (Matthew 7:21-23). “You turned from idols to serve the living and true God” (v.9), a sign that the Thessalonians had Paul’s fullest confidence with regard to the genuineness of their salvation. Take note: false doctrine can lead anyone away from Christ. We respect your privacy and will NOT sell/give/loan your name and In Matthew 7:21-23, Jesus says that He “never” knew the masqueraders. Matthew 7:21-23, not everyone who says Lord, Lord 7:21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. not divulge your full name nor your email address. They never had a relationship with the Lord because they never denied themselves, never took up their cross, never followed Christ. openly. And yet, despite the genuineness of their faith, their faith could be susceptible to temptation and they could fall away. The field is not the church, so those who want to just examine the church should take a step back. Who are these peoples who placed their acceptance upon There is no direct quote here, so we gather that the Holy Spirit has said this in Scripture in different places and in different ways. Matthew 7:21-23 is a passage used by Christians to refer to those they believe “were never saved to begin with,” the phrase goes. The Thessalonians are “suffering tribulation” (v.4). the kingdom of 43 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. Matthew 24:13 – He who endures to the end shall be saved. In Matthew 7:22,23, Jesus said, "Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' But he has yet to realize that such a statement works against him and Calvinism. Jesus, foreknowing all things, omniscient of the end, knows that some of the “tares” or rather, the seeming “tares,” are actually “wheat,” and He doesn’t want them destroyed until they grow and blossom as sons of the kingdom. I did not speak to Jesus is talking about those He “never knew,” which means that these individuals “never” did anything to show the world they were saved. Calling Jesus “Lord” is not enough; one must also do His will and obey His commandments. This is an excerpt from the sermon 'Once Saved Always Saved', preached by Pastor Steven Anderson. Your email address: (ex: you@aol.com)  Again, virgins presented to Christ, preparing to meet Christ, are believers, saved individuals. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. Matthew 7:21-23. Keep in mind that Jesus is addressing the Jewish people. Contrary to most of today’s Christian scene, Paul didn’t believe that believers who come to Jesus are forced to stay and have no choice in abandoning Christ. works. Yet, it is one of Jesus’ most interesting parables because it is designed to render Christians silent when it comes to how the church has so often “cast judgment” on church attendees and so-called believers all throughout church history. email. In 1 Timothy 4, those who “depart from the faith” cannot leave a faith they were never part of to begin with. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. Please let us know if you do NOT want your question listed or if you'd prefer it to They may go to their graves preaching passages like Matthew 7:21-23 only to find out that Jesus was talking about them, not someone else. 4 For, in fact, we told you before when we were with you that we would suffer tribulation, just as it happened, and you know. that these people were not born of God's Spirit. Not every condemned person who isn’t saved is lost in the end because they called Jesus “Lord” and lived like hypocrites. In Matthew 25, though, the five foolish virgins have an expectation to meet the bridegroom. 41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. All the soils get some seed, but they respond to the seed in different ways. Some will depart from the faith, the Spirit says, the Greek word ἀποστήσονταί ( apostesontai) being a “middle” verb. Remember, the stony ground or rocky soil believer falls away “in time of temptation.” Trials and tribulations can bring back a sin struggle and increase the struggle to resist sin. When you read Matthew 7:21-23, Jesus tells that crowd, “I never knew you,” the Greek word Οὐδέποτεo. (Luke 12:42-48). is. For example, the apostatizers (those who abandon Christ) will teach that marriage is forbidden (v.3) when it is a gift, a blessing given by God to be received with thanksgiving and prayer. Did you notice that? If this isn’t the Word of God, or the spoken words of Jesus, then what would this “word” be? Find Top Church Sermons, Illustrations, and Preaching Slides on Matthew 7:21-23. It is easy if we let the Scriptures define what the will of the Father And yet, there are other Christians who aren’t saved in the end for other reasons. Advocates of eternal security can’t make sense of “depart from the faith” if they hold onto the idea that “you can’t ever leave Christ once you come to Him, unless you were never saved.”. 23 But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.” (Matthew 13:1-23). He could’ve gotten it from the Spirit as a direct revelation. The persons of Matthew 7:21-23 were never saved (Jesus says “I never knew you”), and thus, aren’t in the same camp as the rocky soil believer here in Matthew 13. And there are those that the Lord “knows” for a while, and then they leave due to something such as persecution they endure as a Christian. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Jesus isn't speaking of works. The good soil believer does not characterize everyone who gets the Word; some who get the Word never bear any fruit, but even that is a very generic category because we don’t know 1) whether they never bear fruit at all, whether they 2) bear fruit but then cease bearing fruit, or 3) if there is an expectation of bearing fruit that remains unfulfilled. They think that because they attach themselves to Jesus' followers they will enter Jesus' kingdom. (1 Thessalonians 3:1-5). (Luke 8:13). 20 But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. One of the responses I received to that blog suggested that I had not carefully explained Matt 7:21-23. This passage ends the same as Matthew 7:21-23, but again, the verb tense “I do not know” doesn’t line up with Matthew 7:21-23’s “I never knew you.” So, in that vein, we cannot rule that those of Luke 13 didn’t know Jesus at one point, and that He didn’t know them earlier on. He knows that there will be “tares” in the world, as we know it to be true, and He doesn’t concern Himself with uprooting the tares. the last times. (Matthew 13:28-29). 5 For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor might be in vain. If the rocky soil believer stumbles because of “persecution [that] arises because of the Word,” then this individual or group of individuals suffer as believers and fall away because of the intensity of suffering as a Christian. According to the passage above, there are those who call Jesus “Lord, Lord” (v.21), “prophesied” (v.22), “cast out demons” (v.22), and “done many wonders” (v.22), but are not known by the Lord. This struggle only happens in the life of a believer, a Christian. What Jesus does concern Himself with, however, are the sons of the kingdom, the wheat crops, that could be uprooted with the tares. Where does Matthew 7:21-23 fit into all this? 6 “And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’ 7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. 30 And indeed there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.” (Luke 13:23-30). The servant that belonged to Jesus before His return is now with the unbelievers. Not every Christian on earth will meet the Lord, and some people who claim they’re saved have never been saved. We observe and interpret but fail t apply. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but by Him (John 14:6). If He 'never' knew these We tend to generalize why some leave the faith (they love their sin more than God), and perhaps that’s true, but each case is different with its own set of particulars. Matthew 7:21-23 is a passage used by Christians to refer to those they believe “were never saved to begin with,” the phrase goes. Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears. In a blog On November 19 (see here), I answered a question from a reader about salvation by self-denial. the connection. The rocky soil believer, or the stony ground believer, is the one that poses problems for traditional Christian tendencies to plaster Matthew 7:21-23 over every situation.
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