Missing Heaven By 18 Inches (Pack Of 25)

Does this title startle you? Can anyone actually get that close to heaven and yet hear the Lord say, ?I never knew you: depart from Me??However, this will be the terrible fate of many professing Christians in our churches today. Some of these people are even in responsible positions in the church, but they only have a ?head? or intellectual-acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ. Tragically enough, even teachers, preachers, and religious workers are not exempt from the possibility of the chilling indictment above.The distance between the head and the heart is 18 inches. Unfortunately, a ?head? knowledge of Jesus Christ?fully knowing and giving mental assent to the plan of salvation?without a ?heart? acceptance that brings the personal relationship that the Bible demands?avails nothing to anyone.Listen to Paul?s heart cry concerning Israel as he spoke under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, ?For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.? He was speaking about misdirected efforts, energies expended in the strength of the flesh but not under the direction of the Holy Spirit. The lack of power today in many of our churches, as well as the lack of power today in the lives on many professing Christians, can be laid directly to this.It is only as we see ourselves in the mirror of God?s Word as without excuse and without hope, utterly lost and undone, that the truth of the Scriptures convicts us, for th