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To: metmom
Personally, I do not know, but that fear of God thing has me thinking about it a lot.

As it is, I'm a 50-something year old who is still in Christian kindergarten and only now just beginning to learn how to let God be God.

Otoh, sure, why not. With human free will and a spirited ego, anything is possible, and woe unto those who sell His Blood for their own glory.

Then again, is it also true that one can't lose what one doesn't have? Is that the case here?

"I Never Knew You"

21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’
23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Matthew 7:21-23 New King James Version

Fwiw, every time I think I have an answer, I always end up just having more questions.
67 posted on 02/20/2017 9:56:09 AM PST by GBA (Here in the matrix, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.)
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To: GBA
Those verses, to me, refer to those who profess Christ but are the wolves in sheep's clothing that we are warned about.

The problem is, the fruit of the Spirit is NOT works or miracles, or number of professions at a rally or meeting, but what Galatians says is the fruit of the Spirit.

It's the growing in Christlikeness and holiness.

it doesn't mean we are perfect, as NONE of us are ever perfect and some people have MUCH further to go than others. They start out with far more baggage.

The point is that we are getting there, putting on the mind of Christ.

Romans 12:1-2 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

70 posted on 02/20/2017 10:11:56 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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