THE NEED FOR TESTING
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Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
Haggai 1:5 “Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.”
Lamentation 3:40 “Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!”
Importance of Self Examination
Importance of Self Examination
why examine ourselves?
why examine ourselves?
Our hearts easily go Astray
Our hearts easily go Astray
Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”
possibility of false professions
possibility of false professions
Matthew 7:21-23 ““Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’”
We can become prideful
We can become prideful
We can begin to think that everyone has an issue except us
Just as “I” is found in the middle of sin, so “I” is found in the middle of pride.
Matthew 7:5 “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.”
story of Woman Caught in Adultery John 8:7 “And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.””
Allowing God to Examine us
Allowing God to Examine us
Psalm 26:2 “Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind.”
Psalm 139:23-24 “Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!”
psalm 17:3 “You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.”
Cannot deceive God
Cannot deceive God
Job 13:9 “Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?”
Galatians 6:7 “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.”
Examination Leads to healing
Examination Leads to healing