Micah 2:3-5 English Standard Version
3 Therefore thus says the Lord: behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster.
4 In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, “We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields.”
5 Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the Lord.
Apostate is defined as a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.
Martin Luther was an apostate. He changed the portion of believers and that was only the beginning. What began was the reformation, a reforming of religious beliefs. That has everything to do with personal faith. When we come before the Lord we will not be able to plead religion as justification when we are called before the judgment seat.
The party line carries no weight. It is one on one before our God.
We will answer what we, as humans, have done to live by faith in the Son who died for us.
When we recognize the Lord as our Lord, who was always Lord, there will be a time when we make our humanity take a back seat to faith.
That awakening is a personal event. We do not all make it in any kind of definable order. There is no list to order up our conformance to Christ. Some might see Him as a big brother, the first son of many. Some might not see Him that way and see Him as friend, or teacher, or prophet, or the great physician.
Nor do we have the right to tell others they are wrong if the great physician is what they need today.
He is our all in all.