"DEPART FROM ME!

Matthew 7:21-23                     (ESV)
"21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'LORD, LORD,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my FATHER who is in heaven.
22 On that day many will say to me, 'LORD, LORD, did we not prophesy in YOUR name, and cast out demons in YOUR name, and do many mighty works in YOUR name?'
23 And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; "DEPART FROM ME", you workers of lawlessness.'"



How do men of GOD reject HIS Word when advising on worldly matters, including endorsing a political candidate?  Has GOD changed HIS standards and forgot to tell us about it??? Then again, how could GOD IN THE FLESH walk among men and they not even recognize HIM????


On July 06, 2016 I wrote about "THE TRUTH".  (http://ifidowhyme.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-truth_6.html?m=1).  The last sentence of this writing says "I KNOW HIM AND HAVE SEEN HIM and "THE TRUTH" will not change to satisfy anything but HIS agenda!!!"  It's not as if this surprises GOD ALMIGHTY.  In Matthew 24:23 JESUS said "Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' DO NOT BELIEVE IT."

GOD can use anyone HE chooses to forward HIS gospel.  But when HE selects a person, that person most often displays a broken humbleness that was exemplified by JESUS HIMSELF going to Calvary (Philippians 2:8)!  When the persecutor Saul was "called" into the ministry he was on the road to Damascus (Acts 9) to further persecute members of "the Way".  The Apostle Paul, after his conversion, went into Arabia for three years (Galatians 1:18) and then the area of "Syria and Cilicia" for fourteen years (Galatians 2:1)  before he was "accepted" by the other disciples.  During this time his ministry  was proven to be genuine and true.

To my knowledge, there is no current candidate who demonstrates a broken humbleness that GOD can use for HIS glory.  Now I'm certainly not qualified to be the one to judge for everyone, but I am required to judge the "fruits" of all candidates according to their actions for me to consider.  Matthew 7:16 states "You will RECOGNIZE THEM by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?"

Nothing is impossible with GOD (Luke 1:37; Matthew 19:26), but GOD's Word NEVER changes!  You can't go into the thornbushes trying to find grapes and you can't find GODLY LEADERS amongst the worldly.  Until we surrender to HIS will and purpose for our lives we will continue to be like the children of Israel in 1 Samuel 8:7.  GOD IN HEAVEN, I beseech YOU to extend YOUR mercy on us until we can SEE the time is drawing near for YOU to say " "DEPART FROM ME" you workers of lawlessness!