Spiritual Examination

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Luke 6:46

"But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do the things which I say?"

~Lord Jesus

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I must first caution the reader; the testimony, words I wrote below, are NOT suggesting a works, human merit salvation. If it was, it would be a false gospel, e.g. Galatians chapter 1. With this said, let's look at the words of the Apostle Paul as he wrote in Titus 1:16 and 2 Timothy 3:5a below, as they describe my life some time ago. 

 

Titus 1:16

They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work. 

 

2 Timothy 3:5a

...having a form of godliness but denying its power. 

 

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Taking a quick and brief look at my life; I graduated from a Christian University May 1990, majoring in Pastoral studies. Yet, for several decades of my life, while studying for the ministry and afterwards, I was deceived and held hostage by my sin(s), the devil and this

world system.

Putting it in plain and simple words,

I was a HYPOCRITE.

No better than the legalistic Pharisees whom the KING of Kings, Jesus Christ the Lord, often rightly accused of hypocrisy and/or the unrepentant sinners the Lord Jesus met on a daily basis.

Years ago, my personal life was both.

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Those closest to me, know that on a regular basis, throughout the years, I declared Jesus Christ as Lord to others but I never, until a couple years ago now, started living as He really is:

The LORD, God, King, Creator, Saviour, Redeemer, THE Life and so very much more. He is EVERYTHING and I am TRULY nothing. 

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​With all this said, I want those reading this, to know that I have NO room whatsoever to judge ANYONE. I can only warn those who are deceived by their own sinful lives and blinded by the evil one as I was. The ONLY one I am to judge--is myself. 

 

For I am often reminded of,

 

Romans 2:1

Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. 

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I need to make it clear: I do think I have "achieved" some "higher" spiritual level of existence other than I was a walking, breathing, dead man until my loving, merciful and kind Lord breathed LIFE into my soul through FAITH--by true and genuine repentance towards God and FAITH in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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2 Corinthians 7:10

For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. 

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For the Holy Bible says, in 1John 1:8,

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 

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...and borrowing the words of the Apostle Paul,

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Philippians 3:12-14

Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

 

The LORD is so incredibly patient, kind and full of GRACE and MERCY.

 

My prayer is that those walking in darkness as I was walking in for many, many years will come their senses and come to and into the Light--who is the LORD.

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2 Timothy 2:25b-26 ...if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, 
  and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will. 
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