Matthew 7:21-27

Summary
Concluding the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus takes us to the future day of judgment and warns of a terrifying scenario. There will be many on that day who will here the tragic words of the Lord Jesus, "Depart from me." In this week's study, Adam explains the eternal consequences attached to our claim to be Kingdom Citizens. If our validation for that claim differs from the King's, we are doomed to a desperate eternity in hell. A mere profession or mere reception of the truth will not do. Only the transformed heart that produces radical submission to the King will stand the test of time and eternity!

Matthew 7:21-27
"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. 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?' And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.'

"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it."