Examine Yourself!

 

Will you examine yourself? People of the world, men and women of the last days, will you examine yourself, children of the end times? The world is at its edge, the stage is finally set will you examine yourself! I shout, awake shed off the delusion that envelops your reality. I will stop at nothing until you know that you are not as innocent as you thought! You are delusional, who places curses upon your soul! Who bewitch you, men and women of the last days? Who fed you to the brim with falsehoods? From the foundation of the world, your appetite for arrogance sealed your fate for perdition! Who are those who told you deserved to be worshipped! Who refashioned your reality that you are good? Who tricked you to believe that you can call things into existence? You boast vanities and treasure emptiness. You hypocrites, you put on religious makeup and proclaim righteousness that you so much detest in your heart. Now and then, you have mastered the art of finding loopholes in the word of the Lord, let me remind you, you are judged by the same word of God you perverted, and they shall stand against you in judgment Jesus said! You said you have known the truth and the truth has set you free! Whose truth do you know? Is it God’s Truth or the truth you have made in your image? Your truth is the product of your own making, the golden calf you made in your image only feeds your desires for freedom, and sets you free from the laws of God and his will. In the light of the word of God, can your truth stand? Whose will does your truth reflect, the will of God or your own will? The Lord has waited, still, you changed not your evil ways, instead, you said to yourself, I am a god! The Lord has delivered your soul to the evil one who will satisfy your depraved mind. He has given you up to your degrading passions, and your lustful desires. 

 

Will you examine yourself mortal? You said you can deliver yourself from yourself! How can it be? Can the one who is drowning save himself except he cries out to the one who can save him? How can it be? Will you examine yourself, Are You Truly Saved? Who told you that you are saved? You said you know in your heart of hearts that you are saved! The bible says that the heart of man is deceitfully wicked, do you still want to trust your heart? When I asked again, you said your preacher said so, since when did men have such authority? You even said you are saved because you believe, how do you know you believe? I ask you, how are you so sure when many people say they believe also? Brethren, you may not be saved at all! No one can seek God on their own let alone finds their way to salvation. Human fate is sealed from when our soul sold its birthright to the flesh. Human flesh is a cruel master, a devil’s rebellious associate against God. Our flesh hates God and his commands, until we begin to realize the extent to which we hate God, we won't stop believing the illusion that we deserved to be saved! The bible made it clear, the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, it does not submit to God’s law -indeed it cannot, why? Because human flesh is not capable to seek and love God or submitting to his Will! This is the anatomy of human flesh, my flesh, and your flesh! However, many of us in our hearts think we love God, simply because our minds told us so! How dare we say that? The human mind is depraved, don’t you get it? We do not possess the ability to seek God or love him, except God by his sovereign will and purpose draws us to him. The bible says, for those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified also glorified! In the light of this scripture, what role do you think anyone plays in their salvation to be saved?

 

You see, you cannot be saved, except God calls you out of many and choose you! God only calls and chooses those who will serve his will and fulfil his purpose. My friend, if you are a Christian and you are not serving the will of God and his purpose, the sad reality is that you have never been called by God, let alone chosen by him. The principle for which God calls and chooses those that will serve his will and purpose is part of his sovereign attribute. And what is God’s purpose and will you may ask? His will and purpose is to reveal himself to his creation so that he can be glorified! So if you are called and chosen by him, he will conform you to the image of his Son, so that through you, God can reveal himself to the world. It is only Jesus Christ who reveals to us who God is, it is only him who has served his will and purpose. Now, let’s face it, do you think you can serve the will of God or his purpose in your own image? If the answer is no, it simply means if you are not conforming to the image of Christ, the truth is you are not saved and stop fooling around with false assurance of salvation! Let me make it clear in this article, salvation is not when you respond to an altar call, it is not a sinner's prayer concocted by preachers. It is about you seeing the need to be saved, no one else needs to make the call for you! Salvation is seeing yourself drowning knowing fully well that you can’t save yourself except you call the one who can rescue you! Having received this self-revelation from God about your inability to save yourself will inform your decision to either place the rescuing call to God to save you from His judgement or face His judgement in your self-saving salvation. So, my brothers and sisters if at this point, your emotion is still playing its usual tricks on the assurance of your salvation, maybe this is the time you need to take a test!

Olayinka Olalekan