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Today is the day, the day that we look at Matthew

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7, 21. It's where Jesus says, Not everyone who

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says unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom

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of heaven. This is the verse that reminds us

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that while everything we say, men will answer

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for every idle word, while everything we say

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is important, what we say is not the end -all,

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be -all, and it's not everything. So people call

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themselves Christian. They say, Lord Jesus. They

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even pray, even do things. In the same passage

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of scripture, Jesus will say, you healed in my

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name, you cast out demons in my name, but get

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away from me, I never knew you. Not just those

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who say, Lord, Lord, it's those who live accordingly.

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It's those who put God first. And so let me encourage

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you to put God first, to learn his commands,

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to grow in what God is teaching us to do, to

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reach new heights in Jesus. And then as you're

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living for the Lord, the confirmation of what

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you have said, that declaration. with your mouth

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that Jesus is Lord. It becomes true. To say that

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he is Lord and to not do what he says is a contradiction.

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And so Jesus would say, not everyone who says

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unto me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of

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heaven.