Are You a “Christian Poser’?

Matthew 7:21-23 (NIV)

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

Evidently this is referring to church goers. People that refer to themselves as Christians but who never knew Jesus as Lord. The interesting part here is that the scripture reference is not around the word “savior” but around “Lord”. How many people are going to church today that like the idea of a savior but want no part of having a Lord. A Lord is someone you bow to, obey, follow and submit to.

We continue to watch the culture of church bow to the culture of the world, submitting to the culture’s definition of right and wrong. We see the ‘Great Falling Away’ continue. From the pulpits we continue to see a social Jesus being preached that reflects the aspects of the world. Yet, He said He was not of this world, and neither should be we conformed (modeled) by this world. Our right and wrong is in contrast to the masses. The Church is called to be a counter-culture. We are to love righteousness and His truth. We are told to despise evil and flee from the appearance of evil. Yet, churches drool at the thought of excepting perversity in the death of babies in the womb in the name of convenience, perversity of non-Biblical marriage, drunkenness, debauchery, gossip, fornication, adultery, etc.

Scripture says we deceive ourselves. The longer we are around sin, the more we accept it. Scripture says to flee from even the APPEARANCE of evil. We are not to partake in evil that God speaks of beginning in Genesis and finalizes at the end of Revelation. If we partake in it and don’t repent and turn away from it (which is real repentance, salvation and being Born Again), we deceive ourselves and the Truth is not in us. We all sin. The difference is that the true believers seek His Truth and want to conform to His image, and repent of anything that is in conflict with Him. And when true believers sin, they get convicted and repent of it

Pseudo-believers have a form of religion but deny its power which is really denying His power and authority of right and wrong. Many people will call Him Lord in that day but denied His Lordship everyday up to that, therefore He never ‘knew’ them. Many ‘posers’ will attend church services today, preach in the pulpits, teach in the classrooms, volunteer in ministries but have known the real Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. They have received a different ‘Jesus’ that was being preached. They bowed to a ‘hippie Jesus’ that has a ‘devilish love’ of fleshiness. They have lost and left their first love. They have bowed to secular humanistic Christianity which is the new ‘Tower of Babel’ that is seeking to unite people under an organization of world unity rather than Jesus Christ.

We see the divide between authentic followers of Jesus Christ and those who have a form of religion continuing to escalate. Authentic followers worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. ‘Posers’ follow a social, man-made and man-centered ‘gospel’ that has a different Jesus made in man’s image.