Examine Yourself
These articles help you examine whether your repentance, conversion and walk with Christ are real. Read them with your Bible open and honestly test yourself.
By Charles Finney
A lecture to professing Christians on 2 Corinthians 7:10. Finney explains what true repentance is, how to recognize it, and how to tell it apart from the false sorrow that only works death.
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Argues that the full gospel is often left unpreached, then walks through 16 fruits of a true believer from 1 John so you can test yourself by 2 Corinthians 13:5.
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A lecture on Isaiah 50:11 for those who may be deceived about their salvation. Finney describes the new birth as a change from selfishness to benevolence and shows how true and false converts differ.
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A sermon on Acts 26:28 that describes what it means to be only almost a Christian, with honesty, outward religion and even sincerity, and what it means to be altogether one.
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A sermon on John 3:8 that sets out the scriptural marks of being born of God: faith, hope and love, shown in a changed life, so you can know whether you are a child of God.
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A sermon on Matthew 1:21 showing that Jesus came to save His people from their sins, and explaining why so many people fail to be saved from sin.
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