Sun, 24 September, 2006: Today’s Bible readings.
5 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! 6 I hope you will find out that we have not failed the test. 7 But we pray to God that you may not do wrong–not that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed.
Paul is warning the Corinthian church not to take their Christianity for granted. Don’t just assume you are saved, for it might not be true.
What do we learn from this?
Just because you have been born into a Christian home and attend a Christian church doesn’t make you a Christian. Being saved is not something inherited. This is the a matter of our eternal destiny. It is our eternal life or eternal death.
Where is Christ in this passage?
Examine yourself to see if you are in the faith. Salvation is in Jesus Christ, as we place our faith in Him. It is faith in Jesus Christ alone that saves us. Not our church membership. Not our family connections. We are saved by the person and work of Jesus Christ, applied to us by faith alone.
