We want to belong to Christ.

Picking up from yesterday--  'How many people wear sheep's clothing. Obviously so many that some of them don't even know they are wearing the sheep's clothing. Imagine that, not knowing what clothes you have on. Of course we are figuratively speaking but the truth is how is it possible we don’t know what we are wearing and in the figurative sense, how is it possible we don't know that we are NOT Christ's?'

How can we know we are Christ's?

Joh 14:15  If ye love me, keep my commandments.

1Jn_2:3  And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

1Jn 2:4  He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1Jn 2:5  But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

1Jn 2:6  He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Joh 17:3  And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

1Jn 3:14  We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

1Jn 3:22  And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

1Jn 3:23  And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

1Jn 3:24  And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

Joh 14:21  He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

Joh 14:22  Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?

Joh 14:23  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

Joh 14:24  He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

Rev 22:14  Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

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THIS IS TRUTH-

1Jn_2:3  And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

So let's all be fooled into wearing sheep's clothing rather than being real sheep by NOT keeping our God's commandments!

We LIE to ourselves! We put on the pretty clothing of pretend following and leave it at that, so is it any wonder our Savior will say He doesn't know us?

We analyze and pick apart things until we make them read the way we want them to so we can ease our conscience.  We'd rather have lies that make us feel good than truth that demands we feel the pain, every pain of our willfulness in sin! We need to feel the agony of our weak flesh and not in some sick, tv movie psycho way, but in the way that brings us to repentance, to seeking forgiveness over and over if need be. 

We've spent so much time twisting the commandments of God around that we fail to see the truth. We strip the moral commandments of their worth substituting ideas of our own and call it good.  Our Savior will NOT know those who do not follow His TRUTHS, HIS COMMANDMENTS.

More tomorrow by the grace of our LORD.

May we know and be known of You, LORD and SAVIOR!

Please Father, may we be known.

All through the grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Amen.