Are you a CINO; that is, Christian In Name Only? Many folks play in a wretched religious comedy on Sunday, and then on Monday through Saturday, they are in deep love with the world. They sit and sing with the sheep on Sunday, and then run and eat with the goats all through the week. Be not deceived, God is not mocked: His eyes never fail to see the soul of everything, He searches the heart and tries the reins, and sees through the hypocrite's pretended piety and sanctity.
The enemy sows his tares among the wheat. The Sower said, Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest, I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into My Barn. His fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor, gather His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with fire unquenchable.
Your sinful heart needs the miracle of Grace wrought in you, deep and true, which only comes from the Holy Spirit, not some superficial external religious doings of yours. You must be brought by the Holy Spirit to the simplicity of Faith in JESUS, and the simplicity of The Gospel of Grace of God. You must quit the way of your self-righteousness altogether, and cry out to the living God and plead for Mercy through Christ Jesus. On your very best day, you are altogether vanity, and All of your righteousnesses are as filthy rags, and your formal religiousness is a hollow sham in God's sight. Poor lost sinner, Call upon the Name of LORD while He is near, Seek genuine Faith in The Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and let the cleansing Precious Blood of The Lamb of God pass over your sinful soul. JESUS is the only Name you can trust with your Soul; Believe on His Name, not yours.
Do not be satisfied with being only a nominal Christian; that is, a Christian in name only. You must Be a true-born child of God, for at the coming Judgment, our true spiritual parentage will be discovered. Either the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is your spiritual Father, or Satan is your father. Now remember: By nature, before being born again, we are all in Satan's family. If your Soul is not saved by JESUS, you're skating on thin ice, an awful doom awaits you just over the next hilltop or around the next curve of life. Please don't commit Soul-icide by rejecting the only Remedy for your sinful condition.
Many go to their "holy" place, on a "holy" day, arrayed in their "holy" garb, and pretend to be Christians. But the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart, all the day, every day and every night of the week, not just on Sunday morning. They put on their Sunday best and go through the motions for a pretense. But they quickly lay aside their surface religiousness on Sunday afternoon. They have other habits and manners on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Your Soul needs the Salvation that JESUS gives, tries, sustains, and accepts. A garden that is only tended one day a week will be an overgrown garden. A wife that is only given surface attention a few minutes on Sunday will soon be a disgruntled, contentious wife.
Don't just a church member; you must be a member of Christ Himself by being born again. Your name must be in The Lamb's Book of Life, not just on some church roll. The Lamb Himself must write your name in His Book of Life. The Lamb will write your name down the moment you sincerely trust only in His Righteousness and Blood. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in Sincerity, not pretendedly or nominally.
Jesus must create in you a clean heart, and only He can renew a right spirit deep within you. Put zero confidence in a mere religious profession; You must have Christ living in your heart. Believing in creeds and sound doctrine will not save your soul. An outward profession of Christianity is like a corpse all dressed up, but still cold and dead. An outward profession is a fancy way of still being lost.
Judas Iscariot spent three years with JESUS, he repented, but still he was lost, Satan filled his heart, and he went down into bottomless pit. The devils believed in JESUS, and trembled before He cast them out of men and women, but they still remained devils. You may hold a religious office or title like a deacon, pastor, elder, priest, bishop, cardinal, imam, or some other religious leader, but your Soul must be washed from your sins in Jesus' own Precious Blood.
The religious professor experiments with how much sin he can enjoy and still be a Christian. Only a madman experiments with poison and razor sharp knives. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. If any woman loves her sins, the love of JESUS is not in her. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. JESUS said, Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy name? and in Thy name have cast out devils? and in Thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from Me, ye that work iniquity.
Whatever you may be trusting in NOW apart from the Blood and Righteousness of JESUS, away with it forever. Nothing but the Precious Blood of God manifest in the flesh, Nothing but His Atoning Sacrifice for sinners will save you, Come Now to the Lamb of God, and by Faith lay your hand on HIM, and asking HIM to atone for and forgive all your sins.
