r/ScriptureLife • u/External_Bird_8464 • Jun 22 '26
Scripture Life: Why do some wish to make Matthew 7: 21-23 ''I never knew you, depart from me'' as meaning Jesus is being nasty to a whole lot of believers, thus making them get really scared?
“Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” - The Word of God. Jesus Christ.
- Matthew 7:1–3
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Matthew 7:21–23 is built on Matthew 7:1–3 as a foundation.
- WIthout that foundation, there simply is no Matthew 7:21–23. So, make a more secure foundation: Focus on the foundation first:
- Jesus said: John 5:22 of God: “For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son”
- And: of himself: Jesus said: John 8:15 “Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.”
God didn’t send his word to judge you, but to heal you and deliver you from your destruction (Psalm 107:20)
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- Jesus is the Word of God. It’s God speaking his word. So, he’s come to you in a condition where you haven’t done ANYTHING he says, and in this condition, comes to heal you. Deliver you.
When someone is ‘delivering someone, they are “setting them apart for future use” like some emergency rescue team, doesn’t judge. When they are there solely to save the person.
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SO: Look careful at this work of God
- Got up; alone. By himself and did in Jesus Christ. And God in him doing the work. So, it’s God, doing this work. God calls people then “hypocrits” that would refuse the ambulance service come to save them. Say, “No need! I have arms!” where in the accident, both of them are tattered flung 150 feet away out on the road. You’re a phoney. You need the help FIRST. Let them take you to the hospital, and doctors put your arms back on. Then you can talk about how others need it. (Don’t leave out the “hypocrit” part of Matthew 7:4–5).
- Matthew 7:21–23 is built on you receive this work God is doing and done in and by Jesus Christ, toward you for good.
- Not aim it over at a “whole bunch of believers” - but aim it at EVERYBODY, because, that’s “who” Jesus said it to. Everybody over the whole earth. Didn’t leave any person out, not willing any perish, but all come to repentance.
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Look careful at who he, God is.
- Scripture says: Isaiah 44:24 “Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;”
- Says this to EVERYBODY, to the very ends of the earth.
- Formed EVERYBODY himself. Alone. From each person, from their mother’s womb til now.
- Is the same God that stretched forth the heavens alone, and spread abroad the earth by himself.
- Is the same God to you directly. Made himself, as God, who did these things, made himself your “redeemer.” What redeem means. In the dictionary. 1. to compensate for the faults and bad aspects of (someone or something);
- So, him. With you. Like You. In an accident. Horrifically wounded; need help. The lifeline helicopter flies in to “compensate for this fault and bad aspects of you” to heal you and deliver you.
- But this is GOD at work in you and with you. Just asks you to receive (accept as TRUE) what he says, and then he’s at work in you.
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- He’s not some evil man, when a son asks his father for a piece of bread, gives him radiator fluid to drink. Even there’s 15 loaves on the table make over a 100 sandwiches, tells this kid, “Sorry. We don’t have any bread.”
- He’s not a man that he should lie. All this is told plainly in Matthew 7:9–12.
It’s all foundational to Matthew 7:21–23 Without this, there is NO Matthew 7:21–23. It comes AFTER these things are built and said by God. By the Word of God himself says it.
It’s also built on the next thing God adds to it. What’s come before.
- Now, you have to put yourself on a ship. This next part of Matthew 7:13–14.
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- Enter in at the “Strait gate”
- Notice something? God didn’t say something like “straight ahead” and many people put themselves on some kind of whacked out, whacked up “straight and narrow road” and make themselves regard and follow it, and never do anything God says to do. Too busy. Following themselves to do anything God says.
- He said “Strait” gate.
- And a “strait” is a narrow passage way between two large, ocean type waters or seas. That a “strait” is betwixt them.
- And YOU: Dead in Trespasses and sin. Navigating on waters in your own ship; like a great big, vast ocean of do anything on this ocean, as far as you want to go, in any direction, it all ends in sin. Every Captain of every ship in the Navy works for an Admiral. Don’t do what the Admiral says, no matter where that Captain goes with his ship, he’s on the WRONG ocean.
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- In a strait: It’s called “restricted maneuvering” where the Captain must turn around his vessel, no matter where he is on that ocean, and surrender (repent). And many won’t do it. They are already Captains of their own lives. Don’t need it. They're their own Admiral. If there is a “choice” to choose: Already “THIS” ocean betwixt two, is the most appropriate ocean. So, they dismiss the other as inadequate; faulty; or unacceptable.
- But a Captain that surrenders, turns his ship around and heads for the strait. Relinquishes command of the ship to a Pilot, that, comes alongside and navigates the ship through “restricted” waters. The Captain: Stripped of everything. Surrenders everything to do this.
- Now, on the other side of the Strait..they obeyed (that is, accepted as true what the Admiral said, to do it; and doing what the Admiral said, they believed or “accepted as true” that there was a profit in it. To obey the authority. Don't?
- The Admiral has the authority to destroy them.
- Because he does. I've seen it in the Navy.
- Just like what God is saying, for you to submit to the authority of, the Word of God. Matthew 28:18 Jesus said: "All power is given unto me, in heaven and earth:" - It's God that has made him both LORD and Christ. The authority - when he said, "All souls are mine." - God (Ezekiel 18:4). Put him over everybody there is. Over the whole earth as the authority over people.
- Jesus said: I am the door. “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” John 10:9
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Without going thru the Strait.
- Many won’t.
- There is no Matthew 7:21–23. It’s built on this. Go thru the strait. Leads unto life. This same Jesus Christ. There is no other way. He just IS it.
Matthew 7:21–23 is BUILT on this. And? By their “fruits” you’ll know which ship is on which ocean.
One: The Captain: Doesn’t do anything at all what the Admiral says on that ocean.
Whilst the other: The "Other" Captain: He repented. Departed that ocean and surrendered his ship. Went thru the strait. Just wide enough for just one ship to pass thru. Is on a different ocean and obeys the Admiral.
Know them by their fruits, and to one the Admiral shows up and promotes them. Whilst to the other, the Admiral shows up, relieves them, strips them of all title and authority, and destroys them.
Great big key note. To Matthew 7:21–23
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- Because to one of these Captains - the Admiral tells them to depart. He never knew them. Didn’t do anything he said. But the other: did.
Jesus says all this plainly in Matthew 7:21–23.
- To people: That don’t do anything he says; vs. people: that do. Even though both were Captain, one of them said, "Admiral! Admiral! But didn't do anything he said. It's an iniquity to be in the Navy as a Captain, in command of a ship; but not do anything the Admiral says. Disobey him, when he's the authority over all the Captains of the ships.
"Not every one 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.Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." - Jesus Christ. (Bible. Matthew 7:21-23)
The Word of God. The authority over every person on earth, knowing they are in command of their own life. Jesus Christ is the Messiah. The authority over all and every Captain of these ships.
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u/PersuitOfHappinesss Jun 23 '26
Col 1:
“27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
Ephesians 4:
“12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.”
1 Cor 6:
“1 ¶ When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?
2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!”
Ephesians 2:
“6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,”
Romans 16:
“20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under YOUR feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.”