How Can You Know if You Really Know God?

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🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

One of the most terrifying passages found in Scripture is seen in Matthew 7:21-23. In these three verses, we see Jesus eternally rejecting what looks like devout followers of His ministry. The words, “And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness’ are particularly frightening. As Christians, how are we to understand this passage? In this episode of Real Christianity, pastor Dale Partridge unpacks this text to help Christians find peace in knowing that they savingly know their Redeemer.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this episode of Real Christianity.
0:10.0	My name is Dale Partridge.
0:11.6	We're each week I offer 15 to 20 minute answers to tough theological and pastoral questions.
0:16.6	This show is a 100% listener supported audio ministry of relearn.org.
0:22.0	And for those who don't know, our mission at relearn.org is to help ordinary Christians
0:25.6	plant biblical house churches.
0:27.6	For more information, just visit relearn.org forward slash house.
0:38.7	All right, guys, good conversation today.
0:41.5	I'm going to open up with a question.
0:43.8	Do you know God?
0:46.4	And the Bible teaches that if you don't know God, that you cannot be saved by God.
0:52.7	But what makes this complicated is that Jesus and Matthew 7 declares
0:56.4	to a group of what looks like followers of Christ that he does not know them.
1:02.6	So what does this mean to know God?
1:04.8	How can Christians be sure that they truly know him?
1:08.8	And we'll not hear those terrifying words on judgment day.
1:12.4	I never knew you, depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.
1:17.3	So we're going to be discussing this and more.
1:19.3	But before we dive in, I just want to make one quick announcement.
1:23.8	It's about St. Justin's, our companion ministry and church planting school,
1:28.4	which is our house church planting school.
1:30.7	More and more Christians are exploring the concept of biblical house church.
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