The Bible says in 2 Korentyen 13:5 to examine yourself, kit ou nan lafwa, and prove your own self. Gen anpil kretyen, who go to church and say they believe and even perform signs and wonders, just like the church at Corinth, men an reyalite, are not in the faith. How do you know if you are in the faith? How do you examine yourself, kit ou nan lafwa?
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 Korentyen 13:5)
How do you know if you are in the faith?
An verite, an verite, Mwen di nou, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth Me; and he that receiveth Me receiveth Him that sent Me (Jn 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, Bondye Papa a. 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.
Lè yo te resevwa Sentespri a, they didn’t belong to the world anymore. Apati moman sa a, they were not loved and accepted by everyone, but they experienced resistance and persecution. Paske Sentespri a, Who dwelled in them testified in them, ke travay yo nan mond lan (peche) were evil.
Se poutèt sa, sa yo, ki te fè pati mond lan e yo te pitit dyab la, tried to silence the sons of God (Li tou: Poukisa mond lan rayi kretyen yo?)
How do you know if Christ lives in you?
Moun ki soti nan Bondye tande pawòl Bondye yo: Se poutèt sa, nou pa koute yo, paske nou pa soti nan Bondye (Jan 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, ki ekri nan Bib la, 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, by the words of God (1 Korentyen 2:16).
His words shall be seeds in your life, which shall grow and produce fruit in your life, grasa lafwa, obeyisans, pasyans, 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 renouvle lide ou Avèk pawòl Bondye yo, 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 (Li tou: Yon lespri repwobab pran plezi nan peche epi li pran plezi nan moun ki pratike peche).
You can say that you have received the Holy Spirit and that Jesus Christ lives in you, but your speech, aksyon, 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. Epi sa pral rive, that whosoever will not hearken unto My words which He shall speak in My Name, I will require it of him (Deuteronomi 18:18-19)
Ou pa kwè mwen nan Papa a, ak Papa a ki nan mwen? Pawòl mwen di nou yo, mwen pa pale poukont mwen: men Papa a ki abite nan mwen an, Li fè travay yo (Jan 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 (Jan 17:6-8)
The words of Jesus are the words of the Father. Lè ou fèt nan Bondye, 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.
The words of Jesus are spirit and life
Se Lespri a ki bay lavi; kò a pa sèvi anyen: Mo ke mwen pale pou ou, Yo se lespri, Epi yo se lavi (Jan 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 wete vye granmoun lan epi mete nouvo nonm lan.
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.
Men, Jezi di, 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 (Jan 12:47-48, Revelasyon 20:15).
The words of Jesus produce life and peace
Jezi reponn li, Si yon moun renmen mwen, l'ap kenbe pawòl mwen yo: epi <y Father will love him, epi nou pral vin jwenn li, epi fè nou rete avèk li. Moun ki pa renmen m 'pa kenbe pawòl mwen yo: e pawòl nou tande a pa pou mwen, men se Papa ki voye m nan. Bagay sa yo mwen te di nou, toujou prezan avèk ou. Men Konsolatè a, ki se Sentespri a, moun Papa a pral voye nan non mwen, L'a moutre nou tout bagay, epi fè tout bagay nan chonje ou, tou sa mwen te di nou. Lapè mwen kite avèk ou, Lapè mwen ba ou: pa tankou mond lan bay, ban nou. Pa kite kè nou boulvèse, pa kite l' pè (Jan 14:23-27)
Menm jan Papa a renmen mwen, se konsa mwen renmen ou: kontinye nan lanmou mwen. Si nou kenbe kòmandman mwen yo, n'a rete nan lanmou mwen; menm jan mwen te kenbe kòmandman papa m 'yo, epi rete nan lanmou li (Jan 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 lapè Bondye 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, anviwònman, moun, antiman, emosyon yo, elatriye.
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. Olye de sa, 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; Pawòl la, promised that He would leave His peace and give it to those, who receive Him, love Him and therefore obey Him and serve Him.
Moun sa yo, 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, ki se peche, 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, ki pase tout konpreyansyon, 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.
Jezi se mo vivan an
Nan kòmansman an te Pawòl la, e Pawòl la te avèk Bondye, e Pawòl la te Bondye. Menm bagay la tou te nan kòmansman an ak Bondye. Se li menm ki fè tout bagay; e san li pa t 'gen anyen ki te fèt. Nan li te gen lavi; e lavi a se te limyè lèzòm. Epi limyè a klere nan fènwa; epi fènwa a pa t konprann li (Jan 1:1-5)
Epi Pawòl la te fè chè, ak rete nan mitan nou, (epi nou te wè glwa li, Glory a kòm nan la sèlman nan Papa a,) plen favè ak verite (Jan 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 Jan 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 (Jan 14:10, Revelasyon 1:5).
Wherever Jesus came, Jesus brought peace ak lavi Bondye, by preaching the truth of God, rele pèp la tounen vin jwenn Bondye, 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 repantans 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, which are in reality lies, 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 (Mind Carnal, emosyon yo, antiman, elatriye.) 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, tankou Jezi, but they are distributors of death, by compromising with the kingdom of darkness and allowing the people to live in disobedience to God, nan peche, 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. Se poutèt sa, 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, men an reyalite, 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, tankou Jezi, 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.
Egzamine tèt ou, kit ou nan lafwa
Gen anpil kretyen, who think and believe they are in the faith, pandan ke an reyalite, yo pa.
Therefore examine yourself, kit ou nan lafwa. If the words of Jesus, which are the words of God, abide in you and you obey and do the words of God in your life, you shall abide in Him and He in you, and you shall be in the faith.
But if this is not the case and you don’t receive and obey His words, but deviate from His words, you have left Jesus and His words and denied Him and Jesus Christ doesn’t live inside of you. You have left the faith and therefore you are not in the faith.
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