Mathew 7:21, “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.”

If I should ask you, who is a person who is saved in Christ? Now, There are.many errors and human doctrines about genuine salvation. There are many heresies about who is saved.

Who is the person who is saved in Christ? What is Genuine salvation?

When I was in Deeper Life Bible Church, we had that notion that if you can recite the date or year you were saved, it means you are really genuinely saved but that is not so before God.

Jesus said, “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.”

Now, listen, you can truly surrender your life to Jesus.

You can truly repent from your sins

You can truly even forsake your sin

You can truly start a new life in Jesus

You can truly be sanctified

You can truly be baptised with Holy Spirit

You can truly have a personal encounter with Jesus at a particular time of your life but all these don't really matter before Jesus.

All these experiences only qualified you to be calling Jesus, "LORD, LORD"

It take salvation experience to be calling Jesus, "LORD", and it takes second touch experience of sanctification to be calling Jesus LORD second time, "LORD, LORD"

Jesus did not say, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, But he who remember the date he was saved" NO

Also, He did not say, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who remember the date he was sanctified " NO

He did not say “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, But he who is baptised with the Holy Spirit" NO

Now, here is the serious point

Jesus said in John 3:3 That except a man is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God but then Jesus did not say, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, But he who is born again" NO

You can truly be born again and not enter the kingdom of God. Being born again can only make us to SEE the Kingdom of God. To ENTER the Kingdom of God, we MUST DO WILL OF GOD.

So how do you know you are saved?

It is if you are DOING THE WILL OF GOD, not if you DID.

DOING - is a present tense!

Not what you did in the past. Listen, In the past you surrendered your life to Jesus.

In the past, you confessed your sins.
In the past you repented and cried.

All these are what you did in the past but Jesus did not say, "he who did the will of My Father in the past" but he who DOES the will of My Father.

WHAT YOU ARE DOING NOW IS WHAT SHOWS YOU ARE SAVED GENUINELY.

1. Your attitudes
2. Your actions
3.Your integrity
3. Your ways of dressing
4. Your ways of talking
5. Your ways of forgiving others.

NOW, LISTEN, On the other hand,
You said you are born again, but you did bad things, you lied or fell into sin. Now, it is not about what you did in the past, If we confess our sins and repent, Christ will forgive us and cleanse us.

We can't continue to dwell in the sin we fell into. All the wrongs you are doing can be reversed If you confess, repent and start to DO the right things.

Don't nail yourself to the sin of your past, God is more interested in your present not the past.

Don't proud yourself of your righteousness of the past. Don't pity yourself of your unrighteousness of the past.

What matters is what we start DOING now.

WHAT WE DECIDE TO BEGIN TO DO RIGHT FROM TONIGHT.

MAKE YOUR PRESENT RIGHT WITH GOD

ASK FOR FORGIVENESS OF THE PAST
ASK FOR GRACE TO DO THE WILL OF GOD FROM NOW

The Bible says "Examine yourself"

2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

How do we examine ourselves?

One of the ways to examine ourselves is by asking ourselves before we do anything, "Is this the will of God?"

Before we talk, ask, IS THIS THE WILL OF GOD?

Before you wear that cloth, ask IS THIS THE WILL OF GOD?

Meaning, WILL THIS PLEASE GOD?

Before you deal with money, ask, WILL THIS PLEASE GOD?

Before you make a promise, ask, is it true?

What matters is not what others are doing or 2hat pleases people but what will please God.

Amen