Let's take our Bibles and turn
back to the book of Matthew chapter 7. Matthew chapter 7, taking the Lord's Sermon on the
Mount, verse by verse. I'd like to deal with verses
21 to 23 this morning. Our Lord, last time we looked,
at his Sermon on the Mount had warned all of his hearers. And I'll reiterate what he warned
them of. He said in verse 15, beware. Beware. Beware. Don't tolerate them. Don't fellowship with them. Don't hear them. Beware. Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing. They tell you that they love
you, that God's got a wonderful plan for you, that they're your friend, They
want to be a help to you. You beware of false prophets
which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are
ravenous, vicious wolves. Now these words are from the
mouth of the Lord. I want to just say it. Don't
have anything to do with a lying preacher. I've said before, you know, you
might be tempted to tell somebody, I tell you what, if you'll come
and hear my pastor, I'll go hear yours. Don't promise them that. Don't listen to them. Don't listen
to them. They do not have your best at
heart. They're wolves. They're wolves. Now, this morning, for a few
minutes, I want us to take what the Lord has said concerning
what happens when a lying preacher is believed what happens and what will happen
in the day of judgment. Now this is the Lord speaking. This is the judge himself. This is what he said is going
to happen to those who lie and die lying. False preacher. This is what's
going to happen to them. Now listen to me. This is the
Lord speaking. And this is what's going to happen
to everyone that believes them and dies in that unbelief. He
said in verse 21, Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven. But he that doeth
the will of my Father which is in heaven. Everyone. Now, everyone is going to say
that. Every knee is going to bow. And
every tongue is going to confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. To the glory of God. Everybody
is going to say it. Some of them from the heart. Some of them not from the heart.
There's many today that are standing in pulpits that are false prophets. They're not preaching the gospel
of God's grace. They're not preaching the gospel.
But they're saying, I'm of the Lord. And I'm proclaiming the
Lord. All of them say that. But not
everyone that sayeth to me, Lord, Lord. Not everyone that professes
outwardly to know the Lord savingly, not everyone that saith unto
me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, shall
experience the final goal of their expectation. I'm sure for heaven, I'm almost
there. Well, not if you're lying. Not if you're lying. Not if you're
not speaking according to these scriptures. But he that doeth
the will of my Father which is in heaven. Now, if there's anything
I want to know at this point right now is what is it to do
the will of the Father which is in heaven? Not everyone that
saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Who is going to be found in the kingdom of heaven? Everyone that
does the will of the Father. Tell me again. Tell me one more
time. Alright. Keep your place in turn
to John 6. John 6. I don't want to be fooled. I don't want to fool you. I don't
want to be deceived and I don't want to deceive. I want to know
what God has to say. John chapter 6, verse 38 to 40. John 6, 38. The Lord says, for I came down
from heaven not to do mine own will, but the will of Him that
sent me. And this is the Father's will
which has sent me, that of all which He hath given me, I should
lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of Him that
sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth
on him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up
at the last day." Now, here's what the Lord Jesus Christ said. Every one that seeth the Son,
that is with new eyes, by faith, and believeth on Him may have everlasting life. And
I will raise Him up at the last day. Every believer right now
wants to grab hold of that. Every believer is going to hear
that right now and he's going to say, Lord, teach me that.
That's what I want right there. I want to see the Son. I want
to believe Him. Now the Lord Jesus Christ, as
the submissive servant of Jehovah, said, I came down from heaven. Now here's God in the flesh.
I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, not independent
of the Father. He and the Father, the Scripture
says, are one. John 10.30. But He said, I came
down from heaven. This is the Father's will which
has sent me. that of all that the Father has
given me, I should lose nothing. Now the Father has a will for
the Son. What is it? That the Son should save His
elect. That's the will of the Father for the Son. This is the
will of Him that sent me, that of all which He has given me,
I should lose nothing. Raise Him up. That's the Father's
will. Now, our final salvation and
eternal rest and glory is not dependent upon anything that
we can or would do. You can't do anything to save
yourself. Our salvation rests totally on
the good pleasure of the Father to save His people by the Lord
Jesus Christ, by grace, and it's going to be through faith. This
is the Father's will which has sent me, that all that seeth
the Son and believeth on Him may have everlasting life. It's the Father's will. for those
that He's chosen in everlasting electing grace, that they hear
the gospel of Christ, which is the power of God unto salvation,
they see by faith Him to be their hope of glory, and Him as God
made unto them to be something. What is that? What do God's people
believe? He that believeth, he that believeth
on the Son. Trust it. Turn to 1 Corinthians
1, 26. 1 Corinthians 1, 26. 1 Corinthians 1, 26 to 30. For
you see your calling, brethren, how that not many wives after
the flesh Not many mighty, not many noble are called, but God
has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the
wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound
the things that are mighty, and base things of the world And
things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which
are not, to bring to naught things that are, that no flesh should
glory in his presence. Now this is one thing I know
concerning that which we believe. We have nothing to glory in concerning
our flesh. But of him, of who? The Father. But of him are ye
in Christ Jesus. How did you get in Him? God put
you there. Who of God is made unto us wisdom,
and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption, that according
as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Don't
glory in anything else. Don't glory in what you've done. But of the Father, Are we in Christ Jesus and God
has made Him to be something to us? This is what we believe. We believe first of all that
God has made Him to be our wisdom. What does that mean? That means
that we are so miserably blind and ignorant of our state by
nature. How much do we really know concerning
what we are before God? You say we're a sinner. We don't
even know the depth of it. We are so ignorant, so completely
senseless of our ruin in sin, by sin, that until the Son of
God gave us eyes and ears to hear and to see Him, to hear
His voice, we didn't even know we needed redemption. How much
does an unbeliever know right now about his need of redemption? He don't know and he don't care.
He don't care. He doesn't care. The Father sent
the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who taught us something. He taught
us something according to the good pleasure of the Father that
we needed mercy. We needed redemption. We needed
salvation. God made Him to be our wisdom. How do we know this? Christ taught
us. By His Spirit. We know God has
made Him. to be, to us, wisdom. We would have never known this. And likewise, being ignorant
of God's demand for holiness, and our inability to produce
it, God has made Him to be our righteousness. God made Him,
God taught us something by wisdom Himself, and He made Him to be
our righteousness. Scripture, instead of trying
to quote it, I'm going to read it. I'm going to turn to 2 Thessalonians
5, verse 21. For He, the Father, hath made
Him sin. God made Him sin. God, the Father,
made Christ sin for us. Who knew no sin? He never sinned,
and God made Him sin for us that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. There was a marvelous exchange,
as you will. He was made sin, and in Him we
were made righteous. I don't even understand that.
I don't, I can't, I know I need it. God has made Him to be our wisdom,
our righteousness. Not only has He been made our
wisdom and righteousness, the scripture says in 1 Corinthians
1, He's made our sanctification. What does that mean? Being one
with Him, being one with Him, in electing and adopting grace. Being united with Him, having
had our guilt, our sin, put away by His precious blood, the Scripture
says forth that we've been washed. Turn with me to 1 Corinthians
6, 9-11. Here's what the Scripture says,
and I'll be honest with you, there's not one of us that beholds
the evidence of this. You don't behold the evidence
of it. Everything that we see in our flesh is sin. No good thing. That's what we
see. But here's what we believe by faith. We believe this. We
believe that He's our wisdom. We believe He's our righteousness
and our sanctification. What does that mean? He is our
holiness. Why? Because we're united with
Him. 1 Corinthians 6, 9-11, Know ye
not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived, neither fornicators,
nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of
themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards,
nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of
God. You think, ooh, ooh, ooh. I think I might find myself maybe
in that. And such were some of you. But you're washed. You're sanctified. You're made holy, justified. You're holy, and there's no charge. in the name of the Lord Jesus
and by the Spirit of our God. I'll tell you what a believer
believes. He believes that Christ is his wisdom. Christ is his
righteousness. Christ is his sanctification. And he believes that Christ is
his redemption. What does that mean? We just
sang about it. It's his work and not ours. He is our redemption. It's His faithfulness and not
ours. It's His obedience and not ours. Christ has redeemed
us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us. For it is written, cursed is
everyone that hangeth on a tree. That's from Deuteronomy 21, 22,
and 23. It's talking about a criminal that's hung on a tree because
of his crime. He knew no sin, and He was made
sin. Go back to our passage, back
in Matthew chapter 7, verse 21. Not everyone that saith, anybody
can say it, but he that doeth the will of my Father, which
is in heaven. One other passage concerning
doing His will. John chapter 6. John 6, 28-29. You've heard this passage before.
John 6, 28. Then said they unto him, What
shall we do that we might work the works of God? He that doeth
the will of the Father. Not everyone that says it, but
everyone that does the will of the Father. What is the will
of the Father? Here it is. Jesus answered and
said unto him, This is the work of God that you believe on Him
whom He has sent. Not everyone that says unto me,
Lord, Lord, but he that believes on the Son. He that believes
the Son. Salvation is not possessed by
those who merely verbalize. Lord, Lord, but those who believe
on the Son, believe God's report concerning the Son, Verse 22
in Matthew 7. For many will say to me in that
day, Lord, Lord, now I want you to listen, they are standing
before God in the day of judgment. Now what do they have to say
for themselves? Have we not prophesied in Thy
name? We are preachers. And in Thy name have cast out
devils, and in Thy name we have done many wonderful works. Now here are those that stand
before God and they begin to exhibit that they are doing nothing
but trusting in themselves. that they're righteous and despise
others. That's what the Pharisee was
said of concerning the Lord in Luke 18. They trusted in their
preaching. We prophesied Your name. We cast
out devils. And all these other works that
we say are wonderful, but having made claim of their obedience
because of their works, The Lord answered their claims with this
final word of condemnation, works that they called wonderful. Verse
23, Then will I profess unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me ye that work iniquity. A man or woman that trusts in
what they've done, is trusting in iniquity. They're trusting
in vanity. I never knew you. I never knew
you in mercy. Never knew you in grace. Never
knew you as my sheep. Never. Depart from me. I want
you to notice the omniscience of the Lord. He's telling them
something that's going to happen on the day of judgment. He knows. Knows the end from the beginning.
He speaks to many that are going to make claims. He's emptied
claims before Him. And now He states that there's
never been a plea of mercy. They never called on the Lord.
They never did. They trusted only in themselves. There was no faith. We just looked
at a passage of Scripture. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me, and him that cometh to me They did come to the Lord. Who
did they come to? Themselves. They came to their
will. They came to their works. They
came to their best. They listened to a lion preacher. I'm telling you, not by works
of righteousness that we've done. You're never going to measure
up. You're never going to measure up. What are we going to do?
Come to Him. I never knew you, but let me
ask you this in closing. Doesn't this glorious warning
coming from our Lord to beware, to beware. Don't trust in yourself. Don't trust in your best. Now
God's people, they desire to be faithful. They do. They strive
to adorn the doctrine of God. They do, but they absolutely
put no confidence in their flesh. They can't. They're saved by
grace, through faith, and doesn't even hearing what the Lord said
is going to happen, doesn't it cause you to fly back to Him?
So, Lord, I just want to say it one more time, would you remember
me? Lord, just save me. Lord, have mercy upon me. Lord,
you have mercy and compassion on whomsoever you will. Would
you have compassion on me? I'm just asking. I'm just asking.
Him that cometh to me. Him that's given a heart, made
willing in the day of His power. He said, I'm not going to cast
you out. I'll save you. I'll save you. Salvation is by
grace. How many times are we going to
say that? Until the Lord takes us out of
this world. That's what a believer is going
to say. That's what a believer is going to believe. And that's
where he's going to stay and hope. All that says Lord, Lord to me
is not going to enter. He that believes on the Son. Believe Him. Trust Him. Cast
yourself from the heart upon His mercy. And if the Lord saved
you, and you know He saved you, then confess Him in baptism.
Baptism is not going to save you. I can tell you that. But
if the Lord has saved you, be obedient to His command and confess
Him openly. So what I'm saying right now, I have nothing to offer. God
saved me by the grace of God. He didn't deserve it, he was
pleased to do so, and I want everybody to know it. I pray
the Lord bless this word to our heart for Christ's sake. Amen.