There are those who do the will of God.
There are those who do not do the will of God.
With regards to Matt.7, they may be busy doing, and offering, other things in lieu of obedience. The storm will test their foundation.
This is the difference: Though they are both hearing The Word, they are both listening, they are both amening the same messages, they are both declaring Christ as Lord, emphatically, they are both singing His praise, and calling themselves by His name, and yes, how terrifying, they both may even be taken up with ministry, full of doings and activity in a general sense, like a Martha frantically busying herself with noble affairs, generally good things, even religious work with Christ in view, prophesying in His name, casting out devils, and doing many wonderful works, but when you put the litmus test of scripture to them, when you examine these two in light of the Word of God, when you view it all through the lenses of the life that has been laid out for the saint to walk in, there is a major discrepancy. There is a sudden and obvious difference between the two men that you couldn't see before. It becomes apparent that only one is taken up with doing the will of God. Only one is obeying God from a heart of gratitude…. While the other is only still doing what is right in his own eyes, for his own gain; and, for all his amens, and religious duty, and scriptural affirmations, and business, he is still yet a rebel! |
