![]() I Never Knew You KjvWill I profess - Ομολογησω, I will fully and plainly tell them, I never knew you - I never approved of you; for so the word is used in many places, both in the Old and New Testaments. You held the truth in unrighteousness, while you preached my pure and holy doctrine; and for the sake of my own truth, and through my love to the souls of men, I blessed your preaching; but yourselves I could never esteem, because you were destitute of the spirit of my Gospel, unholy in your hearts, and unrighteous in your conduct. How many preachers are there who appear prophets in their pulpits; how many writers, and other evangelical workmen, the miracles of whose labor, learning, and doctrine, we admire, who are nothing, and worse than nothing, before God, because they perform not his will, but their own? What an awful consideration, that a man of eminent gifts, whose talents are a source of public utility, should be only as a way-mark or finger-post in the way to eternal bliss, pointing out the road to others, without walking in it himself! Depart from me - What a terrible word! What a dreadful separation! Depart from Me! From the very Jesus whom you have proclaimed in union with whom alone eternal life is to be found. For, united to Christ, all is heaven; separated from him, all is hell. O re piya song mp3. They professed to know God and have a relationship with Him, but He says, 'I never knew you, because really you never knew Me.' How does He know that? Heaven, using the King James Version (KJV) of the bible, 2) to show. Never once did I hear that Jesus died for my sins, was buried and rose from the dead and if I trusted Him alone as my. I Never Knew You “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Clarke, Adam. 'Commentary on Matthew 7:23'. 'The Adam Clarke Commentary'. ![]() Profess unto them - Say unto them; plainly declare. I never knew you - That is, I never approved of your conduct; never loved you; never regarded you as my friends. See Psalm 1:6; 2 Timothy 2:19; 1 Corinthians 8:3. This proves that, with all their pretensions, they had never been true followers of Christ. Jesus will not then say to false prophets and false professors of religion that he had once known them and then rejected them; that they had been once Christians and then had fallen away; that they had been pardoned and then had apostatized but that he had never known them - they had never been true christians. Whatever might have been their pretended joys, their raptures, their hopes, their self-confidence, their visions, their zeal, they had never been regarded by the Saviour as his true friends. I do not know of a more decided proof that Christians do not fall from grace than this text. It settles the question; and proves that whatever else such people had, they never had any true religion. See 1 John 2:19. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Bibliography Barnes, Albert. 'Commentary on Matthew 7:23'. 'Barnes' Notes on the New Testament'. And they will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. In Matthew 7:22, above, 'that day' obviously refers to the judgment; and in this verse Christ claims for himself the right to consign men to banishment from his holy presence. The entire tone and tenor of this sermon is predicated on the assumption that Christ is God. ![]() Language of the kind recorded here would be the utmost nonsense if this is not his claim. Biederwolf said, 'A man who can read the New Testament and not see that Christ claims to be more than a man, can look all over the sky at high noon on a cloudless day and not see the sun.' [10] This verse contains, without doubt, one of the most terrible thoughts in the Scriptures. Many souls shall diligently serve God and do many mighty things in his name, only to discover at last that they have never really served him at all. This blessed warning from Christ should stop every man short and suddenly until he is sure beyond all possibility of deception that he is truly doing Christ's will. The final and climactic paragraph of the Sermon on the Mount lays down the true guidelines for souls truly desirous of knowing what is the will of God. ENDNOTE: [10] Ibid., p. 50, from William E. Copyright Statement James Burton Coffman Commentaries reproduced by permission of, Abilene, Texas, USA. All other rights reserved. Bibliography Coffman, James Burton. 'Commentary on Matthew 7:23'. 'Coffman Commentaries on the Old and New Testament'. Https:Abilene Christian University Press, Abilene, Texas, USA. Then will I profess unto them. Publicly before men and angels, at the day of judgment, I never knew you; which must be understood consistent with the omniscience of Christ; for as the omniscient God he knew their persons and their works, and that they were workers of iniquity; he knew what they had been doing all their days under the guise of religion; he knew the principles of all their actions, and the views they had in all they did; nothing is hid from him. But, as words of knowledge often carry in them the ideas of affection, and approbation, see Psalm 1:6 the meaning of Christ here is, I never had any love, or affection for you; I never esteemed you; I never made any account of you, as mine, as belonging to me; I never approved of you, nor your conduct; I never had any converse, communication, nor society with you, nor you with me. And then will I profess unto them, f I never knew you: depart from me, g ye that work iniquity. (f) This is not of ignorance, but because he will cast them away. (g) You that are given to all kinds of wickedness, and seem to make an art of sin. Copyright Statement These files are public domain. Text Courtesy of. Used by Permission. Bibliography Beza, Theodore. 'Commentary on Matthew 7:23'. 'The 1599 Geneva Study Bible'. And then will I profess unto them — or, openly proclaim - tearing off the mask. I never knew you — What they claimed - intimacy with Christ - is just what He repudiates, and with a certain scornful dignity. “Our acquaintance was not broken off - there never was any.” depart from me — (Compare Matthew 25:41). The connection here gives these words an awful significance. They claimed intimacy with Christ, and in the corresponding passage, Luke 13:26, are represented as having gone out and in with Him on familiar terms. “So much the worse for you,” He replies: “I bore with that long enough; but now - begone!” ye that work iniquity — not “that wrought iniquity”; for they are represented as fresh from the scenes and acts of it as they stand before the Judge. (See the almost identical, but even more vivid and awful, description of the scene in Luke 13:24-27).
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