01redeemed
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2 Corinthians 13:5 (Amplified Bible)
5Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves [[a]not Christ]. Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you--unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Luke 6:46 "Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?
I have been studying the scriptures to see what they say about those who call Him Lord in vain. This is a very heavy topic and one that should not be taken lightly. Jesus is very clear in what he says to us throughout the scriptures about loving Him and abiding or remaining in Him and His love. I do not believe that what he has asked us to do is merely to boost His ego. Nor do I believe that it is open for discussion as to "did He really mean what He said?" He is the Way and He is telling us the Way and showing us the Way. We have a choice to make.
If we are doing what He says then He is our Lord. However if we are not doing what He says then He is not our Lord. Therefor we are calling Him Lord in vain. Here in 2 Corinthians 13:5 we are told to examine ourselves to see if we are Holding to our faith and showing the proper fruits of it.
Well the fruit only comes if you are abiding in Christ and Christ in you. So then the fruit is a direct result of you being in Christ and Christ being in you. And so we are told to examine ourselves to see if we are producing the fruit that proves He is in us. You cannot remain in Christ and not produce fruit (John 15:4-5). That is why we call it the fruit of the Spirit. It is a direct result of the Holy Spirit living in you and your obedience to the Spirit. The Spirit produces the fruit your faith keeps you obedient (Romans 1:5). It takes time for this fruit to come to maturity but there should be ever increasing evidence of the work of the Spirit in our lives as we are being formed into the image of Christ.
If we call Jesus Christ our Lord and claim to be a Christian but nothing is changing then we should re-examine our faith and see if it is real. Real faith is character changing, life altering, good fruit producing faith. All else is vanity.
Acts 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
5Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves [[a]not Christ]. Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you--unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
Luke 6:46 "Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?
I have been studying the scriptures to see what they say about those who call Him Lord in vain. This is a very heavy topic and one that should not be taken lightly. Jesus is very clear in what he says to us throughout the scriptures about loving Him and abiding or remaining in Him and His love. I do not believe that what he has asked us to do is merely to boost His ego. Nor do I believe that it is open for discussion as to "did He really mean what He said?" He is the Way and He is telling us the Way and showing us the Way. We have a choice to make.
If we are doing what He says then He is our Lord. However if we are not doing what He says then He is not our Lord. Therefor we are calling Him Lord in vain. Here in 2 Corinthians 13:5 we are told to examine ourselves to see if we are Holding to our faith and showing the proper fruits of it.
Well the fruit only comes if you are abiding in Christ and Christ in you. So then the fruit is a direct result of you being in Christ and Christ being in you. And so we are told to examine ourselves to see if we are producing the fruit that proves He is in us. You cannot remain in Christ and not produce fruit (John 15:4-5). That is why we call it the fruit of the Spirit. It is a direct result of the Holy Spirit living in you and your obedience to the Spirit. The Spirit produces the fruit your faith keeps you obedient (Romans 1:5). It takes time for this fruit to come to maturity but there should be ever increasing evidence of the work of the Spirit in our lives as we are being formed into the image of Christ.
If we call Jesus Christ our Lord and claim to be a Christian but nothing is changing then we should re-examine our faith and see if it is real. Real faith is character changing, life altering, good fruit producing faith. All else is vanity.
Acts 4:12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
