Examine Yourselves (Lord's Supper) - Bible Baptist Church

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Paul is writing to people sitting in church. He has had to deal with sin in the church. And because of the sin in the church Paul is convinced that there are many folks sitting in the pews that are church going sinners rejected by God. Reprobate means rejected by God. Jeremiah 6:30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Five ways to examine yourself as prescribed by God.

Is there anything about you that looks like Jesus Christ?

You can be conformed to this world or transformed. You will be one or the other.
Bag illustration.
- I’ve got a watermelon in this bag. You say, No you don’t. Because there is nothing that resembles a watermelon.
- This bag is like your body.
- There is nothing that resembles Jesus Christ in you; how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
You say the Spirit of the living God is residing in this vessel, but there is no reason to think anything is in the vessel other than what’s always been in the vessel. We’re not talking about a watermelon, we’re talking about the Spirit of the living God.
Eventually the bag becomes a trash bag and the bag becomes trash itself.
Trash bag – Galatians 5
But maybe it was a grocery bag at one time. It hauled good things. Maybe you aren’t a criminal, you provide for your family, you go to work. But that’s not Christ in you because lots of people do that.
None of those things came with a promise of eternal life. Put a Bible in the bag. Jesus Christ says, I’m going to give you a new body one day. Until then, you take me around, let me transform you from the inside out, let other people see me in you, and when this bag wears out I’ll give you a glorified body, like mine.

Does Jesus Christ know you?

Matthew 7:22 – He doesn’t know you.
Notice you say Lord. You’ve learned the lingo of Bible believing Christians. You can recite a few things.
These folks just got incorporated into another religion.
Notice also you may have done some things you considered “his work”, with his name on it. We performed our “Christian” service.
But notice they are more involved than some professing Christians, and they still don’t know the Lord Jesus Christ!
Indications you know someone:
- You know what they like.
- You spend time with them.

How do you handle the truth?

2 Timothy 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
- When the truth is presented you resist it, you are a candidate for being reprobate because there is nothing in you that relates to God’s words.
- Romans 2:8-9 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; Contentious, always fighting the truth, distracting themselves from the truth, excusing themselves from the truth.
If a Christian with a Bible verse on a sign was out on a street corner and your first thought is that guy is extreme and out of bounds, but you never thought that about the guy on the corner holding the “Furniture Sale” sign. You’re problem is not with a guy holding a sign, it’s with the content of the sign.
Preacher preaching the Bible makes you nervous or mad. Christian giving out the truth makes you nervous or mad. That’s resistance to the truth.

Have you prioritized God out of your life?

Titus 1:15-16 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
There is no value to your profession. Every instruction from God is met with disobedience and excuses.
If you don’t replace what you were doing with what God wants you to do, you’ll get tired of “Christianity” because it will be boring. All you know of it is that God made you stop doing a bunch of fun stuff you were doing.
If all this is to you is a bunch of rules and you don’t get the positive side of the Christian life, that your an ambassador, and the reason to not do something is so that you’ll be able to serve the Lord with what He wants you to do.

Where is the rod of correction?

Hebrews 12:7-8 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
If there is no chastening hand of God in your life, you’re reprobate. I don’t mean bad things happening. I don’t mean you got sick and ended up in the hospital. Everyone does that.
Chastening more likely means you come to church week after week, or whenever it’s convenient, and there is no intention of changing anything in your life. And there is no conviction to change anything in your life. You’re simply in a religious routine.
- When I got a spanking from my parents, I knew it and I knew what it was for. If you’re scratching your head right now because you don’t understand the chastening of the Lord, it could very well be because you’re reprobate.

If you examine yourself and find that according to God’s definition of a saved soul you don’t match any of these things or you think you match one thing or two, according to what God has laid out on the examination table you are simply a lost religious soul. Professing a God you don’t care about, clinging to a Christianity you aren’t a part of, satisfying yourself with the parts of the Bible that don’t cramp your lost state before God.