Of great interest and greatly disturbing in the video below is the way the false teachers are using the sinner’s prayer and Jesus’ name to lull the unsaved into thinking they’re saved. I believe the sinner’s prayer is for the ones God has drawn to Christ in order to acknowledge that call and to start their life of talking with God through prayer. But ultimately, God through the Holy Spirit is the one that makes salvation possible for those that believe Christ died on the cross and paid for their transgressions in order to reconcile them to God and grant them eternal life. And the Holy Spirit is the one that enables a believer to have power over sin and to become a new creation as they are conformed into the likeness of Christ. So to see if you’re truly saved, are you a new creation that has changed the way you were living? Are you bearing fruit in making a stand in this wicked world for what is right and turning away from sin, even when it costs you something? Are you pursuing your relationship with God to learn more about Him and His ways, filling your mind with His wisdom in reading all that he had the prophets record for you in His Bible preserved through millennia? Consequently, there are many people that are regular “church” attendees that think themselves saved and count on God as their genie in a bottle, but go on living like the world never having a real relationship or getting to know or follow Christ. These are the ones that Jesus warned He would reject because He never had a relationship with them.
John 6:44–47
[44] No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. [45] It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—[46] not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father. [47] Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. (ESV)
Matthew 7:21–23
[21] “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. [22] On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ [23] And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ (ESV)