Think about it: Do people with hearts of stone ask God to give them a different kind of heart?
Ezekiel 36:26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I
will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your
flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within
you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my
rules.
He promises: “I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I
will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in
their hearts, that they shall not depart from me” (Jer. 32:40).
On the other hand, it is entirely possible for someone to have a keen interest in Christianity (say a prayer, be a member of a local Church and even be involved in Christian ministry) and never be a genuine Christian in any way at all.
How do we know that? Well, because 1 John 2:19 explicitly says that!
In referring to those who had once served alongside him in ministry, the
Apostle John writes, “They went out from us, but they were not of us;
for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they
went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.” Continue at John Samson
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