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God is never satisfied for men and women to make a mere confession of Him
in their lives. He wants more than the honor of our lips, He demands the
obedience of our lives. The Scripture above states that He will be impartial in His
judgment. It matters not that you are one of His children, you will be judged
according to your actions.

Galatians 6:7-8
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he
will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh
reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap
eternal life.

Whenever we read the words “Do not be deceived,” we can be assured that
many saints are walking in deception in the matter being addressed. God wants us
to know the truth, He has set parables throughout the creation to help us
understand truth. One such parable is seen in agriculture in the process of sowing
and reaping. The principle revealed in the natural realm is that you always reap
what you have sown. If you have sown corn seed into the ground, you will reap
from the ground corn. If you came back at the end of the season expecting
potatoes you would be deceived. If you want to reap potatoes, you better be
planting potatoes.
This seems so basic as to be almost comical. We might wonder what type of
person would be so foolish as to expect to reap an altogether different type of crop
from which he or she planted. We would laugh at them if they told us they planted
tomatoes, but were really hoping at the end of the season that there would be
watermelon in their place.
How then is it that myriads of Christians are living careless lives where they
are engaged in sinful and selfish pursuits, and they are expecting to enter into the
joy of the Lord when they die? How is it that so many can be walking in sin while
they are expecting to receive the reward of the righteous? If they answer, “It is
because I am prayed up, and I always ask forgiveness for my sin,” and by this
alone they are expecting to reap eternal life, they are deceived. Such unreasonable
expectations are exactly what the apostle is seeking to refute when he says, “Do
not be deceived....”

I Corinthians 6:9-10
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of
God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

And again we are told:

Ephesians 5:3-7
But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among
you, as is proper among saints; and there must be no filthiness and silly
talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For