Do you know him?

I know for me it is all too common to say "I know someone". Let's say one of your buddy's say to you "Hey, do you know Joe from church?" "Why sure I do, I sat next to him and his family for 2 years and we go to a home group together." What is Joe's mom's name? Where did Joe go to school? Does Joe have a dog? What's his name?

My point is this, that we really don't know Joe, we know of him. We know him well enough to say a few nice things about him but we really don't know him.

How many times have we been asked, "Do you know so and so?" Our natural reaction is to say yes because we know of them. It's like some kind of knee jerk reaction in our culture to say we know someone and it only gets worse the more popular the person is.

So I have said all this to say, do you know Jesus? Are you saved? Are you going to go to heaven or hell when you die?

Mathew 7:21-23 says {21} that not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my father who is in heaven. {22} Many will say to me on that day, Lord Lord did we not prophesy in your name and drive out demons in your name and perform many miracles? {23} Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers.

So the question is, do you know him? I know for me, I went down in my local church and confessed my sins and was told I was saved in 1984, then I spent the next 18 years in the worst drug addiction and sexual sin that the devil could come up with, all the time thinking I was saved and would some day go to heaven all because I had gone down when the pastor said do you want to be saved?

Then in 2002 I was sitting smoking pot and reading the bible and I came to this scripture and my life has never been the same. I knew with out a doubt that I did not know this man and that had I died right then I would have gone to hell. I believed that the bible is God's word and I believed in Jesus, but it was no different that I believe Joe has a dog or a mom, but I didn't know Him and this scripture makes it clear.

We have been deceived and I truly hope you will take a look at your life, though your life may not be as extreme of an example you still must know the truth and that is we all assume because we are acquainted with someone that we know them. That is just not the case.

So the question is do you know him?