Jesus Isn’t Woke

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This Week’s Sign (7/31/23 – 8/6/23)

Matthew 7:15-23

“Not everyone who says to me [Jesus], ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 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?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’”

Inclusivity sounds good. Who isn’t for including people? This is what makes inclusivity the perfect weapon in the devil’s arsenal. It sounds so good. But then you read what Jesus says and you begin to understand that there is a limit to inclusion. Naturally, there is. No one wants to include a pedophile at a preschooler’s birthday party—oh, wait, that’s not true anymore. That’s exactly the kind of thing LGBTQ advocates and leftist politicians want.

It’s not the kind of thing Jesus tolerates. He is not inclusive of the workers of lawlessness. Unrepentant sinners will not inherit the kingdom of God. It is His Law that they work against. Why would they expect to inherit the thing they have rejected? Hubris coupled with willful ignorance. That’s why.

The reality is that we cannot pretend our way into heaven. It may make people feel better in the here and now, in our land of lies, but eventually, each person will stand before the Lord and the truth is that the unrepentant sinner will not be included in eternal life. It doesn’t matter if they said they were Christian or not. The one who knows Jesus knows that He values the Father’s will and that He willingly obeyed it. He delighted in keeping the Law. While we can’t keep the Law perfectly, the Christian wishes he could. That’s our desire. We want to keep the Law. We want to do the Father’s will. And in Christ we do!

The workers of lawlessness don’t. And so, Jesus will say to them, “I never knew you; depart from me, you workers lawlessness.”

To learn more about this may we suggest this week’s episode of Cross Defense (below) and Pastor Bramwell’s Easter Sunrise sermon (below that).