One time, while watching a movie, Lisa handed me her prescription glasses to put on, somewhat as a joke.  Although the prescription wasn’t made for me, suddenly everything became crisp and clear and the movie looked almost 3D. I was shocked, not to discover how bad her eyes were, but how bad mine were!  Had, I not put on her glasses that day, I might still to this day be ignorant about just how bad my eyes were. This illustration applies also to the spiritual eyesight of Christians. Jesus commanded us in Luke 11:35, “See to it that the light within you is not darkness.” He is warning us that it is very possible that the light we have is a counterfeit. We can see that God tells us in second Corinthians chapter 11 that Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light, but his light is darkness. It looks like light at first glance, but upon closer examination, it is a counterfeit.

For example, did you know the Bible describes many kind of faiths you may have, but says there is only one kind which can save you? 

There is a doubting faith (Jam 1:6) a presumptuous faith (Luke 18:11) a heartless faith (Mat 15:8) a loveless faith (1 Cor 13:2) a world loving faith (2 Tim 4:10), a demonic faith (Jam 2:19), a counterfeit faith (2 Cor 11:3-4) a selfish faith (Acts 8:20), a shallow faith (Lk 8:13)an immature faith (Lk 8:14), a carnal faith (1 Cor 3:1), a disobedient faith (Lk 6:46), a self-righteous faith (Lk 18:11), a hypocritical faith (Tit 1:16), a lukewarm faith (Rev 3:16) a prosperity faith (1 Tim 6:5), a shrinking back faith (Heb 10:39), a cross less faith (Ph 3:18), a shipwrecked faith (1 Tim 1:19), a works less faith (Jam 2:14), a fruitless faith (Lk 13:7), a vain faith (1 Cor 15:2), etc. 

But then there a PRECIOUS FAITH (saving faith) (2 Pet1:1).  Is this your faith…are you absolutely certain?  We all have a tendency to think we can see much better than we actually can, including myself for the first 19 years of my Christianity.  It was only when I put on the spiritual “glasses” of those godly saints who passed on to glory before me, that I began to realize that I couldn’t see spiritually as well as I thought, and that much of the light I had was actually darkness, a counterfeit!   Please don’t skip this examination, regardless of how long you have called yourself a believer in Jesus Christ.

I have compiled some messages below, which will give you a view of the Christian life, which God has honored and placed His seal upon, yet which is so rare among those who profess faith in Christ today. 

And below that I have compiled a few writings from the spiritual giants who went before us, exposing the false faith among so many professors, pleading with us to examine our faith before it was too late!

“Examine yourselves to see if you are really in the faith; test yourselves.” - 2 Cor 13:5