Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. (2 Corinthians 13:5-6)

I have known many a true believer much troubled for fear he should be a hypocrite, while many a hypocrite has never asked a question.

Thousands who have gone safely to heaven have, on the road have stopped many times and put their fingers to their brow and said, “Am I a true believer? What strange perplexities arise? Have I really passed from death to life, or is it a fancy and a dream?”

And yet I say unto you that the hypocrite has gone singing on his way, secure, as he thought, of passing through the gate of pearl, until he found himself at last dragged back to the hole in the side of the hill, which is the secret gate of hell.

Many who were fair to look upon, have been rotten to the core, such fruit as the King could not accept at his table.

O you who never ask whether you are Christians, begin to question yourselves; examine yourselves whether you be in the faith; let not presumption hold you in its deadly embrace.[1]

Charles Spurgeon

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[1] Charles Spurgeon, At the Master’s Feet [Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005], May 23.

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