Who we are, is seen by the lives that we live. We can fool people, but we can never fool God.
Jesus is going to explain to us what it will be like when he in fact returns one day. For some it will be a great day and for others it will be a day of tragedy. How can we know which side we will be on? There is a metric that Jesus gives us that he will unpack for us this morning, and it is this: The lives that we live indicate whether or not we have had a genuine response to the gospel.