Do you love God and are you Saved? An easy way to tell is if you draw closer to Him by learning from what He has painstakingly left you throughout history, digging into His Word daily. Consequently, Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, was the Word of God. To know God, His ways, His character and other attributes is to journey through the scriptures looking for wisdom that not only refreshes, but is the only thing to protect your mind in this wicked world system that bombards you incessantly with its putrid filth. And what does God desire? To love Him and increase in your knowledge of Him. I’ll leave it to God’s own Words.
Hosea 6:6
[6] For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. (ESV)
And take heed of Christ’s warning which implies that religious “Christians” (depending on their works and their own righteousness) who claimed they believed in Christ will not be accepted into heaven, and it will be too late for them. And what a great tragedy that many believed themselves saved, only to find out at death they missed their chance to be adopted into God’s family. And all the answers and information to have avoided such a tragic fate was all right there in a book they neglected throughout their years. And you have to wonder, how can you love God if you don’t want to know Him?
Matthew 7:21–23
I Never Knew You
[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)
Hosea 6
Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant
[1] “Come, let us return to the LORD;
for he has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.
[2] After two days he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
[3] Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD;
his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us as the showers,
as the spring rains that water the earth.”
[4] What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
like the dew that goes early away.
[5] Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
I have slain them by the words of my mouth,
and my judgment goes forth as the light.
[6] For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
[7] But like Adam they transgressed the covenant;
there they dealt faithlessly with me.
[8] Gilead is a city of evildoers,
tracked with blood.
[9] As robbers lie in wait for a man,
so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to Shechem;
they commit villainy.
[10] In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
Ephraim’s whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.
[11] For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed.
When I restore the fortunes of my people, (ESV)