Проверьте себя, в вере ли ты

The Bible says in 2 Коринфянам 13:5 to examine yourself, в вере ли ты, and prove your own self. Есть много христиан, who go to church and say they believe and even perform signs and wonders, just like the church at Corinth, но на самом деле, are not in the faith. How do you know if you are in the faith? How do you examine yourself, в вере ли ты?

Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except (unless you don’t stand the test) ye be reprobates (2 Коринфянам 13:5)

How do you know if you are in the faith?

Воистину, воистину, Я говорю тебе, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth Me; and he that receiveth Me receiveth Him that sent Me (Джон 13:20)

By faith in Christ and through regeneration, you have died as son of the devil and are risen as son of God in Him. You have become a son of God and have received the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit lives in you, whereby Christ lives in you and with Christ, Бог Отец. You have become one with God.

When you received the Holy Spirit and Christ; the Word lives in you, you became an enemy of the world, just like Jesus and His disciples.

Когда они получили Святого Духа, they didn’t belong to the world anymore. С того момента, they were not loved and accepted by everyone, but they experienced resistance and persecution. Потому что Святой Дух, Who dwelled in them testified in them, that the works of the world (грех) were evil.

Поэтому, те, которые принадлежали миру и были сынами дьявола, tried to silence the sons of God (Читайте также: Почему мир ненавидит христиан?)

Как узнать, живет ли в тебе Христос?

Кто от Бога, слышит слова Божии: поэтому вы их не слышите, потому что вы не от Бога (Джон 8:47)

When you are born of God and have received the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ lives in you, you shall receive His words. You shall depart from your words, because your words will make way for His words.

You shall renew your mind with the words of God, которые написаны в Библии, so that your mind will be renewed en get in alignment with the Word of God.

The mind of the old man shall be transformed with the words of God so that you will have the mind of Christ.

You shall no longer think and live from your flesh, but you shall think and live from the Spirit, по словам Бога (1 Коринфянам 2:16).

His words shall be seeds in your life, which shall grow and produce fruit in your life, через веру, послушание, терпение, and by doing, so that the Word takes shape and becomes visible in your life.

When Jesus lives in you, the Word lives in you, and you shall receive His words and be obedient to the Word.

But if you don’t receive the words of Jesus and don’t обнови свой разум со словами Бога, but instead rebel and reject His words and keep doing your own will, you shall not receive Jesus and therefore Jesus doesn’t live in you.

You shall have a reprobate mind and the mind of the world, which is enmity against God and therefore you shall live as an enemy of God in rebellion against His Word (Читайте также: Нечестивый ум наслаждается грехом и получает удовольствие от тех, кто занимается грехом.).

You can say that you have received the Holy Spirit and that Jesus Christ lives in you, but your speech, действия, and the way you live shall betray you and testify that it is not true.

The words of Jesus are the words of the Father

I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put My words in His mouth; and He shall speak unto them all that I shall command Him. И это произойдет, that whosoever will not hearken unto My words which He shall speak in My Name, I will require it of him (Второзаконие 18:18-19)

Разве ты не веришь, что Я в Отце, и Отец во Мне? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: но Отец, обитающий во Мне, Он творит дела (Джон 14:10)

I have manifested Thy Name unto the men which Thou gavest Me out of the world: Thine they were, and Thou gavest them Me; and they have kept Thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever Thou hast given Me are of Thee. For I have given unto them the words which Thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from Thee, and they have believed that Thou didst send Me (Джон 17:6-8)

The words of Jesus are the words of the Father. Когда ты рожден от Бога, you shall receive the words of Jesus. But if you are not born of God, you shall not receive the words of Jesus.

If you don’t receive the words of Jesus, you don’t receive the words of the Father and don’t’ receive Him, but reject Him.

Слова Иисуса — это дух и жизнь

Дух животворит; плоть не приносит никакой пользы: слова, которые я говорю тебе, они дух, и они жизнь (Джон 6:63)

The words of Jesus are spirit and life and feed the spirit of the new man, so that the new man matures.

The words of Jesus bring forth life in the life of the new man, but at the same time, the same words of Jesus will kill the old man.

That’s why the old man doesn’t want to read and study the Bible and hear, take and do the words of God, since this means the end of the walk of the old man.

And many are not willing and prepared to отбросить старика и надеть нового человека.

They can’t let go of the past and want to live like the world and live the way they want to live after the lusts and desires of the flesh. They consider the words of Jesus as outdated and judgmental and according to them, you may not judge people.

Но Иисус говорит, that the words, He spoke shall judge him in the last days. Therefore it’s better to hear and believe His words and repent and lay down the works of the old man during your life on earth, than being judged by the same words, which Jesus spoke and through disobedience to the words of God be sentenced to eternal death and cast into the eternal lake of fire (Джон 12:47-48, Откровение 20:15).

The words of Jesus produce life and peace

Иисус ответил и сказал ему, Если мужчина любит Меня, он сдержит Мои слова: и <y Father will love him, и Мы придем к нему, и сотворим с ним обитель. Кто любит Меня, тот не соблюдает слов Моих: и слово, которое вы слышите, не Мое, но Отца, пославшего Меня. Вот что Я говорил вам, быть еще присутствующим с вами. Но утешитель, что такое Святой Дух, которого Отец пошлет во Имя Мое, Он научит тебя всему, и напомни все тебе, все, что Я сказал вам. Мир я оставляю с тобой, Мой мир я даю тебе: не так, как дает мир, дай я тебе. Пусть твое сердце не тревожится, и пусть оно не боится (Джон 14:23-27)

Как Отец возлюбил Меня, так я любил тебя: продолжайте в Моей любви. Если вы соблюдете Мои заповеди, вы пребудете в Моей любви; как я соблюдал заповеди Отца Моего, и пребудь в Его любви (Джон 15:9-10).

As long as you abide in the Word and His words abide in you, you shall produce fruit in your life and experience the мир Божий and His life in your life.

The peace of God shall always be present and shall not come and go, since the peace of God doesn’t depend upon natural elements, like situations, среда, люди, чувства, эмоции, и т. д..

God reigns through His Word in those, who hear and do His words.

When a person decides to not listen and not do the words of God, the person rejects God and lives in rebellion against God.

As long as you experience all kinds of fears and anxiety and don’t experience a continuous inner peace and rest in your life, you haven’t received His words and obeyed and applied His words in your life. Вместо, the words of the world still reign in your unrenewed carnal mind and your life.

If you haven’t received His words, you don’t possess His words and Jesus Christ doesn’t live in you. Because Jesus; слово, promised that He would leave His peace and give it to those, who receive Him, love Him and therefore obey Him and serve Him.

Те, who have received His words and walk after His words in righteousness shall experience the peace of God and His life in their lives.

They shall not be bound to death and walk in unrighteousness and produce the fruit of death, что такое грех, and be burdened and tormented with all kinds of fears and anxious and depressive thoughts, which wander through their minds and cause agitation.

But they shall experience the peace of God, который превосходит всякое понимание, through the words of God, with which they have renewed their mind and obey and do in their lives and therefore live in them.

As long as the words of the world reign in someone’s life, the person is not in faith.

Иисус есть Живое Слово

В начале было Слово, и Слово было у Бога, и Слово было Бог. То же было вначале с Богом. Все было создано Им; и без Него не было создано ничего, что было создано. В Нём была жизнь; и жизнь была светом людей. И свет сияет во тьме; и тьма не объяла его (Джон 1:1-5)

И Слово стало плотью, и жил среди нас, (и мы увидели его славу, слава как единородного от Отца,) полный благодати и истины (Джон 1:14)

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ (1 Джон 1:1-3)

Jesus is the Living Word of God, Who walked on earth and lived among the people. Jesus was a faithful Witness of God, Who didn’t speak His own words, but He only spoke the words of God to the people (Джон 14:10, Откровение 1:5).

Wherever Jesus came, Иисус принес мир и жизнь Божья, by preaching the truth of God, призывая людей к покаянию, and destroying the works of the devil.

Jesus walked after the Spirit in obedience to the words of God and He called those things, which were not as though they were.

By preaching the Kingdom of God and calling the people to покаяние Jesus distributed life, unlike many believers, who nowadays do the exact opposite.

They remain the old carnal man and speak vain words from their prideful and carnal mind, которые на самом деле являются ложью, and exalt themselves above the words of God.

Unspiritual people, who do not have the Spirit and the Word

They are unspiritual carnal people, who don’t have the Spirit of God and the Word of God. Therefore they don’t speak the words of God from the Spirit, but they speak the words of the world from the flesh (плотской ум, эмоции, чувства, и т. д.) and don’t preach peace and don’t bring forth life in the lives of people, but the exact opposite.

They are not distributors of life, как Иисус, but they are distributors of death, by compromising with the kingdom of darkness and allowing the people to live in disobedience to God, во грехе, and not call them to repentance

They don’t walk in obedience to God in the love of God and don’t correct and lead the people, the way Jesus did, through His confronting and correcting words, which came from God and contained the truth and the way to eternal life.

But these unspiritual people, want to be liked by the people and don’t want to experience resistance and persecution. Поэтому, they lead the people with their flattering humanistic words, which derive from the world and their emotions and feelings and look like the words of love, но на самом деле, carry the death in them and therefore many people are being deceived and misled and led to hell.

They are not preachers of righteousness and Life, как Иисус, Who spoke hard words, but they are preachers of unrighteousness and death, like the devil, who spoke flattering words, which led to the fall of mankind.

Therefore many believers keep living after the flesh and remain servants of the kingdom of darkness. Instead of being converted and laying down their flesh in which the sin nature dwells and through regeneration enter into the Kingdom of God and renew their minds with the words of God, submit to the words of God and obey and do the words of God in their lives.