Examine Yourself

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Exams In Life

• Physically
• At school and at work
• Tests of character
• Spiritually
• Jeremiah called for the children of Israel to
  exam themselves Lam 340-41
• Let us search and try our ways, and turn again
  to the LORD. Let us lift up our heart with our
  hands unto God in the heaven

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Exams In Life

• Physically
• At school and at work
• Tests of character
• Spiritually
• Jeremiah called for the children of Israel to
  exam themselves Lam 340-41
• The Lords Supper is to be a time of self
  examination 1 Cor 1127-31

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Exams In Life

• Physically
• At school and at work
• Tests of character
• Spiritually
• Jeremiah called for the children of Israel to
  exam themselves Lam 340-41
• The Lords Supper is to be a time of self
  examination 1 Cor 1127-31
• Paul challenged the Corinthians to exam
  themselves 2 Cor 131-5

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Examine Yourself

• 2 Corinthians 135

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Examine Yourself

• To determine if you are in the faith
• We can neglect our salvation Heb 21-4
• Its possible to develop an evil heart of
  unbelief Heb 312-15
• We can know how we stand before the Lord 2 Peter
  13
• as His divine power has given to us all things
  that pertain to life and godliness, through the
  knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue

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Examine Yourself

• To determine if you are in the faith
• We can neglect our salvation Heb 21-4
• Its possible to develop an evil heart of
  unbelief Heb 312-15
• We can know how we stand before the Lord 2 Peter
  13

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Examine Yourself

• To determine if Christ is in you
• We put on Christ in baptism Gal 326-27
• For you are all sons of God through faith in
  Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized
  into Christ have put on Christ.

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Examine Yourself

• To determine if Christ is in you
• We put on Christ in baptism Gal 326-27
• He has promised this to us John 1419-23
• To determine if you are disqualified
• Christians can fall from grace! Gal 54
• You have become estranged from Christ, you who
  attempt to be justified by law you have fallen
  from grace.

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Examine Yourself

• To determine if Christ is in you
• We put on Christ in baptism Gal 326-27
• He has promised this to us John 1419-23
• To determine if you are disqualified
• Christians can fall from grace! Gal 54
• Can fall from ones own steadfastness 2
  Peter 314-17
• The unfruitful will be cast out and thrown into
  the fire John 151-2, 6

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John 151-2, 6

• I am the true vine, and My Father is the
  vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not
  bear fruit He takes away and every branch that
  bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more
  fruit.
• If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out
  as a branch and is withered and they gather them
  and throw them into the fire, and they are
  burned.

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Examine Yourself

• To determine if you really know yourself
• One can easily fall into the trap of
  self-deception James 122-26
• The easiest person to deceive is self
• James says that this persons religion is useless

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Examine Yourself

• By what standard?
• Not by our self-estimation Prov 1412
• There is a way that seems right to a man, But
  its end is the way of death.

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Examine Yourself

• By what standard?
• Not by our self-estimation 2 Cor 1017-18
• But he who glories, let him glory in the LORD.
  For not he who commends himself is approved, but
  whom the Lord commends.

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Examine Yourself

• By what standard?
• Not by our self-estimation Prov 1412,
  2 Cor 1017-18, Matt 721-23
• Not the estimation of others 2 Cor 1012
• For we dare not class ourselves or compare
  ourselves with those who commend themselves. But
  they, measuring themselves by themselves, and
  comparing themselves among themselves, are not
  wise.

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Examine Yourself

• By what standard?
• Not by our self-estimation Prov 1412,
  2 Cor 1017-18, Matt 721-23
• Not the estimation of others 1 Cor43-4
• But with me it is a very small thing that I
  should be judged by you or by a human court. In
  fact, I do not even judge myself. For I know
  nothing against myself, yet I am not justified by
  this but He who judges me is the Lord.

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Examine Yourself

• By what standard?
• Not by our self-estimation Prov 1412,
  2 Cor 1017-18, Matt 721-23
• Not the estimation of others Matt 713-14
• Enter by the narrow gate for wide is the gate
  and broad is the way that leads to destruction,
  and there are many who go in by it. Because
  narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which
  leads to life, and there are few who find it.

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Examine Yourself

• By what standard?
• Not by our self-estimation Prov 1412,
  2 Cor 1017-18, Matt 721-23
• Not the estimation of others 2 Cor 1012, 1
  Cor43-4, Matt 713-14
• Only by the Word of God John 1248
• He who rejects Me, and does not receive My
  words, has that which judges him--the word that I
  have spoken will judge him in the last day.

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Examine Yourself

• By what standard?
• Not by our self-estimation Prov 1412,
  2 Cor 1017-18, Matt 721-23
• Not the estimation of others 2 Cor 1012, 1
  Cor43-4, Matt 713-14
• Only by the Word of God John 1248

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Examine Yourself

• Questions that will help in this examination
• Is Christ in me? Gal 327
• For as many of you as were baptized into Christ
  have put on Christ.

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Examine Yourself

• Questions that will help in this examination
• Is Christ in me? Gal 327
• Are the marks of a Disciple in my life?
  John 831-32
• If you abide in My word, you are My disciples
  indeed. "And you shall know the truth, and the
  truth shall make you free.

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Examine Yourself

• Questions that will help in this examination
• Is Christ in me? Gal 327
• Are the marks of a Disciple in my life? John
  1334-35
• A new commandment I give to you, that you love
  one another as I have loved you, that you also
  love one another. By this all will know that you
  are My disciples, if you have love for one
  another.

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Examine Yourself

• Questions that will help in this examination
• Is Christ in me? Gal 327
• Are the marks of a Disciple in my life? John
  158
• By this My Father is glorified, that you bear
  much fruit so you will be My disciples.

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Examine Yourself

• Questions that will help in this examination
• Is Christ in me? Gal 327
• Are the marks of a Disciple in my life? John
  831-32, 1334-35, 158
• Do we have the right attitude? Phil 37-21