Depart from me

I was just reading this morning Matt 7 and came upon vs. 23 where Christ says depart from me, I never knew you, ye that work iniquity. Jesus really spoke to me today, every other time I have read this I figured he was speaking to someone else, maybe the serious hypocrite, or the ones that you think are teaching and really just trying to get into your pocketbook, or perhaps the one that lives vicariously all week, shows up for church on sunday, enjoys a good sermon and goes back and does it all over again. Well, this morning He spoke to me , and said “ye that work iniquity”. For me, today, in my experience thus far, if I say I know Him, if I teach or preach or claim the Gospel yet have ANY iniquity in my life, he wont accept me in that last day, he will turn from me, he will consider me a liar and a hypocrite, and I never was a friend. I guess similar to if we had a friend that was lying to us, saying one thing and doing another all along and then we found out, we would be pretty disapointed and probably not claim them on our “christmas card list ” any longer right? And even if we found that they, during the course of our friendship had done us wrong even once, but never came clean with it, we would feel betrayed and would take them off the list. This is my revelation for today. If I claim Christ, and say I love him, and want to end up in heaven for eternity, I have to be clear with him, I cant have sin in my life, ( well maybe I can have one or two little ones) nope, not even that, it is still iniquity, and He didnt tell me I could have some, just not very much, and to keep it under control and make sure that my sins arent very serious. He will disown me, He will in fact say he never knew me, WOW !! I just love the Word, and especially the ones in red. I have read this scripture many many times, and I praise God that He spoke to me personally, clearly, and in a very special way this morning. I dont feel like I got bound, or my hands got tied or I was given something to hard to do, I feel like I was given freedom, and a message that has no confusion in it. Isnt the journey great, ever changing and getting more meaningfull

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