Knowing God vs Knowing of God

How do you know if you know Jesus? When you read Matthew 7:21-23;

[21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’']

Do you ever stop and wonder who these people are that thought they knew Jesus? 

Let's evaluate the versus. From those versus we know five things.

1. We will all be judged.
2. There will be people who thought they knew Jesus but knew of him.
3. These people practiced lawlessness and because of that Jesus never knew them.
4. They prophesied and did many wonders in the name of Jesus, but yet Jesus never knew 
them.
5. Those people will be separated from Jesus.

I want to explore number four further.


They prophesied and did many wonders in the name of Jesus, but yet Jesus never knew them.

Christians in the American church now-a-days, I believe, have a false sense of who Jesus is. Is Jesus merciful and graceful? Absa-freakin-lootely, in other words absolutely! However, Jesus is Holy too. When people think of the word Holy and love, they only think of it in the sense of being merciful and graceful. A Holy God is righteous and HAS to choose righteousness, truth and authenticity over falsehood. Thus Jesus loves us enough, 
not to let us stay in our sin(s). This means saying NO to the things your flesh desires [sex before
marriage, adultery, fornication and selfishness, etc] and saying YES to living as a disciple of Christ.

I believe that many Christians  think they know Jesus but they know of Jesus 
[biblical reference Luke 6:46].

Ask yourself, who do you think Jesus is? Does your thoughts about Jesus reflects the scriptures? When you read the book  of Revelation, does it match who you think Jesus is?