Self-examination

Self-examination

“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; 

prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, 

how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” 

2 Corinthians 13:5

Suggested Further Reading:

 1 Corinthians 11:23-32

“Examine:” that is a scholastic idea. 

A boy has been to school a certain time,

 and his master puts him through his paces—questions him, 

to see whether he has made any progress,—whether he knows anything. 

Christian, catechise your heart; question it, to see whether it has been growing in grace; question it,  to see if it knows anything of vital godliness or not. 

Examine it: pass your heart through a stern examination as to what it does know and what it does not know, by the teaching of the Holy Spirit. 

Again: it is a military idea. 

“Examine yourselves,” or renew yourselves. 

Go through the rank and file of your actions, and examine all your motives. 

Just as the captain on review-day is not content with merely surveying the men from a distance, but must look at all their equipment, so look well to yourselves; 

examine yourselves with the most scrupulous care. 

And once again, this is a legal idea. 

“Examine yourselves.” 

You have seen the witness in the box, when the lawyer has been examining him, 

or, as we have it, cross-examining him. 

Now, mark: never was there a rogue less trustworthy or more deceitful than your own heart, and as when you are cross-examining a dishonest person—you set traps for him to try and find him out in a lie, so do with your own heart. 

Question it backward and forward, this way and that way; for if there be a loophole for escape, if there be any pretence for self-deception, rest assured your treacherous heart will be ready enough to avail itself of it. 

And yet once more: this is a traveller’s idea.

 I find in the original Greek, it has this meaning:

 “Go right through yourselves.”

For meditation:  

Is self-examination a foreign concept to you? 

It should be done as least as regularly as we observe the Lord’s Supper (1 Corinthians 11:28); 

God is able to assist us in our self-examination

 (Psalm 26:2; 139:23,24).

Sermon no. 218

10 October (1858)

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If you are NOT a believer in Jesus Christ,

you can be accepted into His Kingdom.

I invite you to let Him to make of You 

what He always wanted. 

"PRAYER" 

Marvelous God Almighty, 

I come to you in the precious name of Jesus, 

who died for me to make me free of sin,

 I want Jesus to enter in to my heart and make me free, 

I confess that He is the son of God.

 I ask to change my heart and to give me wisdom to understand your Holy Word full of promises of eternal value, 

not only to live on this earth, 

but to be expectant of my life in heaven. 

In the precious name of Jesus I ask. 

Amen.. 

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“The true minister of Christ knows that the true value of a sermon must lie, 

 not in its fashion and manner, 

 but in the truth which it contains.” 

~ C. H. Spurgeon ~

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PRAYER 

 Father,

 I ask You to bless my friends, 

relatives and those that I care deeply for, 

who are reading this right now. 

Show them a new revelation of Your love and power.

 Holy Spirit,

 I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. 

 Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy.. 

 Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. 

 Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. 

Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. 

 Amen. 

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Never Alone

Never Alone

"Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken"   

(Isaiah 62:4).

"Forsaken" is a dreary word. 

It sounds like a knell.

 It is the record of I sharpest sorrows and the prophecy of direst ills. 

An abyss of misery yawns in that word forsaken. 

Forsaken by one who pledges his honor! Forsaken by a friend so long tried and trusted! Forsaken by a dear relative! Forsaken by father and mother! Forsaken by all! This is woe indeed, and yet it may be patiently born if the LORD will take us up. 

But what must it be to feel forsaken of God? 

Think of that bitterest of cries, 

"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" 

Have we ever in any degree tasted the wormwood and the gall of "forsaken" in that sense? 

If so, let us beseech our LORD to save us from any repetition of so unspeakable a sorrow. 

Oh, that such darkness may never return! 

Men in malice said of a saint, 

"God hath forsaken him; 

persecute and take him." 

But it was always false. 

The LORD's loving favor shall compel our cruel foes to eat their own words or, at least, to hold their tongues. 

The reverse of all this is that superlative word Hephzibah 

"the LORD delighteth in thee." 

This turns weeping into dancing. 

Let those who dreamed that they were forsaken hear the LORD say,
"I will never leave thee nor forsake thee."

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 The purpose of these pages is to share the precious word of God,
without acquiring any monetary reward. 

God gave me the salvation for "FREE", 

so I share the gospel of his word the same way .. 
"NO ADVERTISEMENT AND COMMERCIAL ADS."
Blessings to all of You, rejoice in the sublime 
and infallible Word of God. 

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 If you are not a believer in Jesus Christ, 

you can be accepted into his kingdom.

 I invite you to let him to make of you what He always wanted. 

"PRAYER" 

Marvelous God Almighty, 

I come to you in the precious name of Jesus, 

who died for me to make me free of sin,

 I want Jesus to enter in to my heart and make me free, 

I confess that He is the son of God.

 I ask to change my heart and to give me wisdom to understand your Holy Word full of promises of eternal value, 

not only to live on this earth, 

but to be expectant of my life in heaven. 

In the precious name of Jesus I ask. 

Amen.. 

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 ♥ <(((>< † ♥ † ><)))> ♥ 

“The true minister of Christ knows that the true value of a sermon must lie, 

 not in its fashion and manner, 

 but in the truth which it contains.” 

~ C. H. Spurgeon ~

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PRAYER 

 Father,

 I ask You to bless my friends, 

relatives and those that I care deeply for, 

who are reading this right now. 

Show them a new revelation of Your love and power.

 Holy Spirit,

 I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. 

 Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy.. 

 Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. 

 Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. 

Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. 

 Amen. 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 You can see two post at the time, 

please go to the bottom and look for the "Blog Archive", 

there is many more, 

sometimes I do many during the day as the time permits.... 

 DO YOU ENJOY THIS BLOG ? .. 

 If you like to visit my other blogs,

 please click at the link and If not clickable, 

please copy and paste the address to your browser, 

Thanks... 

 ENGLISH: 

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http://jesusmightywarrior.blogspot.com/ 

http://elshaddaitheallsufficientone.blogspot.com/

 http://theinfalliblewordofgod.blogspot.com/ 

http://powerofthehighest.blogspot.com/

SPANISH: 

http://poderosoguerrerodejesus.blogspot.com/ 

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LOVE AND HAPPINESS"

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The Leadership of Our Guide

The Leadership of Our Guide 

"Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all Truth" 

  (John 16:13).

Truth is like a vast cavern into which we desire to enter, but we are not able to traverse it alone. At the entrance it is clear and bright; but if we would go further and explore its innermost recesses, we must have a guide, or we shall lose ourselves. 

The Holy Spirit, who knows all truth perfectly, is the appointed guide of all true believers, and He conducts them as they are able to bear it, from one inner chamber to another, so that they behold the deep things of God, and His secret is made plain to them.

 What a promise is this for the humbly inquiring mind! We desire to know the truth and to enter into it. We are conscious of our own aptness to err, and we feel the urgent need of a guide. 

We rejoice that the Holy Spirit is come and abides among us. 

He condescends to act as a guide to us, and we gladly accept His leadership. "All truth" we wish to learn, that we may not be one-sided and out of balance. 

We would not be willingly ignorant of any part of revelation lest thereby we should miss blessing or incur sin. The Spirit of God has come that He may guide us into all truth: let us with obedient hearts hearken to His words and follow His lead. 

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 The purpose of these pages is to share the precious word of God,
without acquiring any monetary reward. 

God gave me the salvation for "FREE", 

so I share the gospel of his word the same way .. 
"NO ADVERTISEMENT AND COMMERCIAL ADS."
Blessings to all of You, rejoice in the sublime 
and infallible Word of God. 

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 

 If you are not a believer in Jesus Christ, 

you can be accepted into his kingdom.

 I invite you to let him to make of you what He always wanted. 

"PRAYER" 

Marvelous God Almighty, 

I come to you in the precious name of Jesus, 

who died for me to make me free of sin,

 I want Jesus to enter in to my heart and make me free, 

I confess that He is the son of God.

 I ask to change my heart and to give me wisdom to understand your Holy Word full of promises of eternal value, 

not only to live on this earth, 

but to be expectant of my life in heaven. 

In the precious name of Jesus I ask. 

Amen.. 

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 ♥ <(((>< † ♥ † ><)))> ♥ 

“The true minister of Christ knows that the true value of a sermon must lie, 

 not in its fashion and manner, 

 but in the truth which it contains.” 

~ C. H. Spurgeon ~

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 

PRAYER 

 Father,

 I ask You to bless my friends, 

relatives and those that I care deeply for, 

who are reading this right now. 

Show them a new revelation of Your love and power.

 Holy Spirit,

 I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. 

 Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy.. 

 Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. 

 Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. 

Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. 

 Amen. 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 You can see two post at the time, 

please go to the bottom and look for the "Blog Archive", 

there is many more, 

sometimes I do many during the day as the time permits.... 

 DO YOU ENJOY THIS BLOG ? .. 

 If you like to visit my other blogs,

 please click at the link and If not clickable, 

please copy and paste the address to your browser, 

Thanks... 

 ENGLISH: 

 http://mightywarrior-mightywarrior.blogspot.com/ 

http://jesusmightywarrior.blogspot.com/ 

http://elshaddaitheallsufficientone.blogspot.com/

 http://theinfalliblewordofgod.blogspot.com/ 

http://powerofthehighest.blogspot.com/

SPANISH: 

http://poderosoguerrerodejesus.blogspot.com/ 

TRANSLATORS AVAILABLE FOR ALL LANGUAGES...

 TRADUCTOR AL ESPAÑOL Y OTROS LENGUAJES.... 

 Don't forget to spread The Word of GOD by sharing today's passage with friends... 

Please share with your family and friends using small envelope (E-mail) next to a pencil, 

under my name at the bottom of post, 

or using the share link..

 "HAVE A BLESSED DAY FULL OF PEACE, 

LOVE AND HAPPINESS"

 "COPYRIGHT STATEMENT"

 Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers," 

Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

 This resource was produced before 1923 

and therefore is considered in the "Public Domain". 

 "COPYRIGHT POLICY"

 We respect copyright laws and are committed to remove any copyright infringing material from our website. 

If you find any content on our website which infringes your copyrighted work,

 please contact us, we'll be happy to verify and remove such content. 

Please do provide us the following details:

 1) Your name, E-mail Address.

 2) Location (URLs) of your copyrighted work on your website.

 3) Location (URLs) of your copyrighted work on our website. 

Some of the pictures from Flickr under Creative Commons License and also the bank of free Creative images for non commercial usage... 

Everything we do is for God Almighty's glory, 

our creator and we pray for all the people that are making images available 

to continue spreading the Gospel. 

 Thank You and God Bless.

Feb 10/2011 started this page

 MIGHTY WARRIOR