What can we assume about a Christian who gives away all they have to feed the poor, keeps the Ten Commandments, understands the Bible inside and out, has extraordinary faith, hears God speaking to them personally all the time, and dies as a martyr?
Unfortunately, not much it seems.
It might be because all of that can be done without a heart that cherishes Christ and that is humble before him. I think the key word is ‘heart.’
Consider what these passages reveal about the heart.
“If I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.”
1 Corinthians 13
“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?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’”
Matthew 7:22-23 ESV
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