By now everyone knows, from reading my previous blogs, that I grew up in the church. I grew up Baptist and basically knew every book in the Bible. Not the the exact words just the names, which also had something to do with me attending a Christian elementary school before I transferred over to public school. I knew the "main" Bible verses as people would call them, Psalm 23, John 3:16, The Lord's prayer and so forth. I come to realize over this pass week that even though I grew up in the church, I lacked knowledge when it came to having a personal relationship with Christ. I was under the assumption that if I just believed in Christ, which I did, that was it. I figured I was set and there was nothing else to do. If I did wrong the phrase "God knows my heart" was easily repeated and I just knew that, that was all there was.
After receiving the Holy Spirit and time passed on, I realized that there was so much more to knowing Christ and I had to do a lot of soul searching (even to this day) to even think that I was getting into those heavenly gates one day. I realized the church wasnt enough. Even though I go like most people on Sunday mornings that didn't guarantee my name in the book of lambs. I sometimes watch some of my friends post, sometimes its about Jesus and 2 seconds later they are cursing and most of my friends go to church. But what I'm saying is the church DOES NOT SAVE BUT CHRIST SAVES. You can go to church every single Sunday and even sit on the front pew and be more full of the enemy then the non believer. Church is great, I get to fellowship and pray with the saints, I get to lay my burdens down and I love hearing the word because it keeps me refreshed but if you think that just going to church is going to get you in the kingdom, then oooo chile you have a lot to learn, just like I have a lot to learn... You cant live anyway you want and expect to get into heaven. That "God knows my heart" is old and played. Truth is he really does know your heart and he knows the thoughts you think, the married man you won't leave, the alcoholic you are, how you steal, how you treat others, how you gossip, how you use HIS name in vain, how you refuse to live Holy and how you don't even push your children to live Holy, the man/woman you living with that aint your husband/wife... the list goes on. So I say this to you get right with God and repent and ask God to remove anything from inside of you that isn't of him. For the world is in shambles, people are being killed left and right, children are lost, parents are even more lost, get saved because no man knows the day nor the hour and don't you wanna be in the number. As the pastor said today, there is only one of 2 places you will end up heaven or hell, choose wisely.
Ephesians 4: 17-24(KJV)
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
