Are You Doing His Will?

Luke 6:46  “And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”

If you are going to claim to be something then you had better be able to back it up by some kind of action. For example, if someone tells you that they are a fireman, what does that mean? It means that they put out fires! If someone says that they belong to a business as an employee, the proof that they are indeed an employee will be shown by their actions that they do for that business. If someone does not abide by the laws, teachings, or rules of whatever they claim to be a part of, are they really what they claim? 

Abiding by rules or mandates is a pretty common activity that people must do each day, but in the life of a person claiming to be a Christian it is even more important that those commands be followed completely.

What if someone professes faith and belief in Jesus, but they don’t follow His teachings; are they a Christian?  How can someone claim to be a Christian if they don’t do what the Lord commands? There are many, many people out there who claim to love Jesus and who even label themselves a “Christian” but the way that they live tells a complete different story. There are several verses throughout the Bible which speak of such people.

Isaiah 29:13  “Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:”

Titus 1:16  “They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.”

You cannot have it both ways. Either you are a Christian or you are not. Either you follow Jesus’ teachings exactly or you don’t. John explained it very clearly in 1 John 2 that those who love God will keep His commandments. And then you have the opposite, people who say that they know God, but their disobedience shows otherwise. 

1 John 2:3-11  “And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

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

He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.”

It doesn’t matter if a crayon has “red” written on the side of it, if it leaves a green mark on a paper it is green. There will be an incredibly large amount of people on Judgment Day who will want to think that they are going to be entered in the Kingdom, but if they never were obedient to the Lord’s holy Word then they will not enter in. 

We need to be Christians in word and deed. Not just to profess Christianity, but to live it. One more time, if you say that you are a believer in Jesus, but you don’t do His commands, then you really aren’t a Christian. People are only lying to themselves if they actually believe that they can be a Christian while picking and choosing which parts of scripture that they want to keep, and throwing away the rest. That is not obedience. That is not love for Christ. True obedience to Jesus will be clear and evident when you believe in Him. 

Does your life show that you believe? Are you doing His will?

In Christ