Are You A Genuine Christian?

Paul writes to the believers in Corinth and he is troubled about the way they are treating each other and the disrespect some were showing when they partake of the Lord's supper. As a result many of them were weak and sick and many were dying.

Brothers and sisters, are we judging ourselves? How do we judge ourselves? It is not by the words of the ear tickling preachers of this generation who build big churches and get wealthy by making you feel good. We judge ourselves by the Word of God, the scriptures!

Are you treating the Word of God for what it is? Are you treating it as the word from God that tells us what we must do to be saved and how we must live after we believe? Or is the Word of God treated by you with indifference? Are you practicing holiness or sin? Are you judging yourself?

Do not be followers of the ear tickling teachers and preachers. Do not partake in their wickedness. Do not trust man with your soul. Please hear Jesus when he says:

• 21“Not everyone who keeps saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will get into the kingdom fromd heaven, but only the person who keeps doing the will of my Father in heaven. 
• 22Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, we prophesied in your name, drove out demons in your name, and performed many miracles in your name, didn’t we?’ 
• 23Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who practice evil!’”e

1 Corinthians 11 ISV
17Now I am not praising you in giving you the following instructions. When you gather, it is not for the better but for the worse. 18For in the first place, I hear that when you gather as a church there are divisions among you, and I partly believe it. 19Of course, there must be factions among you to show which of you are genuine!

20When you gather in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord’s Supper. 21For as you eat, each of you rushes to eat his own supper, and one person goes hungry while another gets drunk. 22You have homes in which to eat and drink, don’t you? Or do you despise God’s church and humiliate those who have nothing? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I will not praise you for this!

23For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you—how the Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took a loaf of bread, 24gave thanks for it, and broke it in pieces, saying, “This is my body that ish for you. Keep doing this in memory of me.” 25He did the same with the cup after the supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. As often as you drink from it, keep doing this in memory of me.” 26For as often as you eat this bread and drink from this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

• 27Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks from the cup in an unworthy manner will be held responsible for the Lord’s body and blood. 
• 28A person must examine himself and then eat the bread and drink from the cup, 
• 29because whoever eats and drinksi without recognizing the body,j eats and drinks judgment on himself. 
• 30That’s why so many of you are weak and sick and a considerable number are dying.k 
• 31But if we judged ourselves correctly, we would not be judged. 
• 32Now, while we are being judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so we won’tl be condemned along with the world.

This music video shows many precious verses. After you listen to the song, it is worth pausing the song and reading them.