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Scriptures Referenced
- James 3:16 New King James Version (NKJV)
16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.
AI-generated transcript below — please excuse any errors
00:00 Praise Jesus Christ. Today the title is how to truly examine yourself for a Wonderful Life in Christ Jesus. When I came to understand I have to examine myself. When the word of God convicted me.
00:15 I’m talking about 20 over years ago. Then I’ll examine myself. First of all, I was trying to examine myself daily before going to sleep, lying in the bed.
00:26 Because the scripture says meditate on your bed. So I will examine myself for the day. Was I right? Was I wrong? What was wrong? Then I have to ask for forgiveness.
00:44 And then it may be too late to call people ask for forgiveness. Then I have to do it the next day. That kind of examination will go on step by step.
00:53 When you do these, all these various wrong things will drop off because there will be conviction every time you examine yourself. Then there are other times I have to examine myself. During the day something is some issue is going on or maybe I am
not having some peace on some issue.
01:11 Then I have to examine myself. Now one of the things when I saw, I started teaching others about examining themselves. And then I realized many people say they examine themselves but after that they are doing the same thing.
01:27 They are still following the sin. And in fact they are coming to some other different conclusion. Wrong conclusions.
01:34 After examining themselves, I always wonder why are they? They are supposed to be examining themselves in the light of Christ. So when they examine themselves in the light of Christ, that means against the word of God. I mean when we examine
ourselves, we must examine ourselves against the word of God.
01:53 We must examine our conduct against the word of God. Then when I begin to check why, when they examine themselves, then they say they are fine. And I can see they are not fine.
02:07 They are still suffering with something other. Or they are blinded with some truth of Christ and they don’t want to practice the truth. They’re still doing some wrong things, but they putting on this front that all is fine.
02:23 And when their speech clearly shows that is not fine, their actions clearly shows is not fine. So what is happening here? Then came to my understanding that many, when they examine themselves, they examine, let’s say they have an issue. Let us say I
have an issue with someone maybe out in the world, maybe a lawyer.
02:48 I have issue with a lawyer, I have issue with a client. I have issue with somebody. So I am supposed to examine myself very easily.
02:58 Our hearts and mind, our hearts are treacherously wicked. Our heart will begin to examine not ourselves. Our heart will be examining that person.
03:09 What they said, when they said, how they said, that’s what the heart is examining. No, your heart is not examining what you said, what you think, what you did. Is it in line with the word of God? What I think? Is it in the line of word of God? Am I
self seeking in what I’m talking when I’m talking to this person, When I’m talking to the other persons, Am I self speaking? I’m not examining like that.
03:39 I’m examining what they said, what the man said, what he said, what what they. It’s about outside. The examining is not about me.
03:46 Now, now this happened to you. I’m here. You’re not examining yourself, you’re examining them.
03:53 Now. They said this, they said this, they said that, okay? So when they begin to examine like that, which is actually wrong because you examining that guy is not going to solve the problem. He’s not going to listen to you.
04:06 You are going to examine yourself. Did I understand properly, if I didn’t understand properly, why I’m not understanding properly? Did I read the word of God clearly? Was I listening or was I seeing with colored lenses? Or was I listening with a
different earphone to only hear the nice things, not hearing the truth, which is painful, that’s examination. Am I hearing which is not truthful? It’s truthful but painful.
04:38 So I don’t want to hear. So my heart doesn’t want to pick it up. My mind doesn’t want to hear.
04:44 That’s the truth. Examining. Did I hear like that? Because we have to look at ourselves brutally, truthfully.
04:52 So the examination is about ourselves. Why am I feeling this? Why, why, why, why, why? They said this and I am feeling this. Why am I not checking? What is the word of God here? If the word of God says I’m self seeking, self seeking la finish, then
only I can get out of it.
05:10 So how to get out of self seeking has to be God seeking? To overcome self seeking you have to be God seeking. God seeking is scripture, word of God. Not just wait and try and imagine things and all no go to written scripture.
05:30 So when examining things, you have to now check whether you are examining others and their conduct and what they said. Now when you do that, what will happen? The demonic forces will move. They’ll put things in your heart and mind and you will think
God is speaking to you.
05:47 But actually why? Because you are not examining yourself. You are examining the other person who spoke something or said something or did something. That is not self examination.
05:57 That is examining a third person, third party. When you examine other people. God didn’t say examine other people.
06:05 Jesus Christ didn’t say examine other people. Examine yourself. So when you examine other people, that’s demonic, you have to see what they are doing, right or wrong.
06:14 And then after that, you have to make the right decision and go on. But you cannot the world people, you cannot even judge God’s word clear. You cannot judge the people of the world.
06:24 And even if the people in Christ, when they say wrong and this and that, you leave that be first and examining yourself. So if you are only examining the other people, then in your mind and in your heart, what to learn. You will think God is
speaking and then God is speaking about them.
06:44 Can you imagine this? That’s what happens next. You will say, God is speaking. God is telling me what to tell them.
06:51 Hey, God wants to tell you where you are wrong. God wants to tell me when I examine myself, God wants to tell me where I’m wrong so I can be changed from glory to glory, not examine other people. And God will speak to me about other people.
07:10 When you hear about other people, when people are correcting you or whatever, especially when pastors are correcting you and you’re only looking at what they are correcting, or brother and sister correcting you and you’re only looking at what they
are saying, that means you’re examining them. You’re not examining yourself. And when you examine yourself, you have to examine yourself.
07:28 The light of Christ. That’s the word of God. So suddenly you will be hearing God telling you of other people.
07:35 No, that is from Satan. Yeah. You can use the word of God.
07:41 He can use the word of God and tell you of other people. When God asks you to examine yourself, you examine yourself. And God will speak about yourself to yourself.
07:51 Are you all understanding? Please, please understand this, because it’s your life. And we begin to examine other people and you begin to hear. God has said this and that of other people.
08:00 And God has let you go without examining you. It’s false. Your heart has tricked you.
08:05 Your heart has lied to you. Thank Jesus Christ. I hope all of you understand this.
08:11 Amen.