“Lord, Lord” is easy to say. Letting Jesus rule your actual life is something else entirely.

In this sermon, Pastor Trent walks through a tension many Christians feel but rarely name: the claim that salvation is by faith alone versus the Bible’s insistence that real faith produces real change. 

This message traces regeneration through the Old Testament promises of Ezekiel 36 and Jeremiah 31, where God doesn’t just clean up behavior, He gives a new heart and writes His law within. That new heart creates hunger for God, love for His will, and growing obedience. God’s saving work may be hidden at first, but it does not stay hidden.

The message arrives then at Jesus’ warning in Matthew 7, where people can perform religious works and still hear the chilling words, “I never knew you.” 

What does this mean? Knowing *about* Jesus is not the same as being known by Jesus. 

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