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Don’t think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’ – Matthew 3:9

A Pharisee knows he is not godly himself, and so he seeks to be associated with “Brother So and So”, who has areputation as a godly man, or “Pastor So and So” who wrote a great book on God so that he can claim godliness by association.

There are many carnal Christians today who glory that they are members of a church that is led by a man who has a reputation for godliness. Or they claim they are friends with a famous best selling Christian author. They live off that reputation, even though they have zero holiness themselves. Pharisees mingle with godly people and imaginethat they are holy too.

You can be part of a very good church or fellowship and yet go to hell, if there is un-repented sin in your life or you have continuously lived a libertine life. If you imagine that God will condone and ignore all your sexual sin and evil speaking, justbecause you are a part of a good church, you are mistaken.

You will get a big surprise on the day of judgement.Maybe you were saved once upon a time when you were 9 or even 22. But you are probably lost today.  So don’t ever glory in your connection with godly people.

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