Like an MRI looks into our physical bodies, we need to give ourselves a spiritual examination to determine our spiritual health. This examination should be personal (you can't examine someone else's spiritual state), it should use the correct standard (not comparing yourself to someone else but the perfect standard of the Bible), it should be thorough, honest and continuous.

2. 2Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves as to whether you
are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you
not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is
in you?—unless indeed you are
disqualified.

3. Examine Yourself
• The examination must be personal

4. 2Corinthians 13:5a
Examine yourselves as to
whether you are in the faith.
Test yourselves.

5. 2Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the
judgment seat of Christ, that each one
may receive the things done in the body,
according to what he has done,
whether good or bad.

6. Romans 14:12
So then each of us shall give
account of himself to God.

7. Examine Yourself
• The examination must be personal
• The examination must use the correct
standard

8. Proverbs 14:12 & 16:25
There is a way that seems right
to a man, but its end is the way
of death.

9. 2Corinthians 10:12
For we dare not class ourselves or
compare ourselves with those who
commend themselves. But they,
measuring themselves by
themselves, and comparing themselves
among themselves, are not wise.

10. John 12:48
He who rejects Me, and does not
receive My words, has that which
judges him—the word that I have
spoken will judge him in the last
day.

11. Examine Yourself
• The examination must be personal
• The examination must use the correct
standard
• The examination must be thorough

12. Psalm 139:23,24
23 Search me, O God, and know my
heart; try me, and know my anxieties;
24 And see if there is any wicked way in
me, and lead me in the way
everlasting.

13. Ecclesiastes 12:13,14
13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole
matter: Fear God and keep His
commandments, for this is man’s all.
14 For God will bring every work into
judgment, including every secret thing,
whether good or evil.

14. Examine Yourself
• The examination must be personal
• The examination must use the correct
standard
• The examination must be thorough
• The examination must be honest

15. Numbers 32:23b
….be sure your sin will find you
out..

16. James 5:16a
Confess your trespasses to one
another, and pray for one
another, that you may be
healed.

17. Examine Yourself
• The examination must be personal
• The examination must use the correct
standard
• The examination must be thorough
• The examination must be honest
• The examination must be continuous

18. James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law
of liberty and continues in it, and is
not a forgetful hearer but a doer of
the work, this one will be blessed in
what he does.

19. Examine Yourself
• The examination must be personal
• The examination must use the correct
standard
• The examination must be thorough
• The examination must be honest
• The examination must be continuous