Tests to Prove Ourselves and Prevent Self-deception
The Source test - consider the source (2Tim 3:13, 14)The Fruits test - We know people by what they produceThe Time test - The Wheat and Tares story. Time is a wonderful friend.Questions to ask ourselves
Does our pastor and other spiritual friends believe we are wrong?Do others see it differently and are concerned?Does our “way” contradict our 2000-year old Christian traditions?Proverbs 21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Proverbs 30:12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.