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.

Quote: Why so careful?

Everything that we do with the intent of doing 'good' for God, we can unintentionally make that 'good,' bad if we aren't careful.

Examples

1. It's great to go to church every Sunday but if you just go every Sunday, you can get stuck in a routine/tradition. God wants authenticity not a camouflage.

2. It's a great thing to read the bible everyday but after a while ask yourself are you doing it because you feel obligated or because you're radically passionate about God?

3. It's a great thing to teach, preach and disciple but after popularity are you more focused on leading people to God or allowing people to focus on you?

4. It's a great thing to pay tithes, are you paying because you're sincere about giving your best or because you want something from God so you're giving?

These are examples and I'm sure there are many more. As believer's of Christ we have to be cautious, aware, careful not to start of great and midway in, forget God and seek our own worldly/fleshly desires. Thank God for sending his Holy Spirit. We have a comforter to help us and guide us. We just have to be obedient.