A Spiritual “Check-Up”…
Know the Bible
Study Series
PART 1
Introduction
• Some people wait until they are sick to
go to a doctor…others have check-ups.
• Spiritually, people do the same thing.
• Should we wait until we are in “trouble”
before knowing our health status?
• In this lesson, lets take a spiritual
“check up” to see how healthy we are!
2 Cor. 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.”
- NKJV
James 1.22-25
“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving
yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and
not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in
a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and
immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 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.”
- NKJV
We can know our spiritual health by looking into the
mirror of God’s Word and comparing our lives.
Let’s Check on…
• Our heart
• Our eyes
• Our hands
• Our growth
• Our evangelism
• Our benevolence
• Our worship
Our Heart…
• Our heart needs to be pure.
• We speak what comes from our heart.
• As we think in our hearts, so are we.
• Many suffer from heart problems today.
• The heart can be repaired.
• Outward actions are not enough, God
knows and desires us to act sincerely, from
our hearts!
Matthew 5.8
“Blessed are the pure in heart,
For they shall see God.”
- NKJV
Matthew 5.28
“But I say to you that whoever looks at a
woman to lust for her has already
committed adultery with her in
his heart.”
- NKJV
Matthew 6.21
“For where your treasure is, there
your heart will be also.”
- NKJV
Matthew 12.35
“A good man out of the good treasure of
his heart brings forth good things, and
an evil man out of the evil treasure
brings forth evil things.”
- NKJV
Matthew 15.8
“These people draw near to Me with
their mouth, And honor Me with their
lips, But their heart is far from Me.”
- NKJV
Luke 18.1
“Then He spoke a parable to them, that
men always ought to pray and not
lose heart,”
- NKJV
Luke 24.32
“Then He said to them, "O foolish ones,
and slow of heart to believe in all that
the prophets have spoken!”
- NKJV
Acts 2.37
“Now when they heard this, they were
cut to the heart, and said to Peter and
the rest of the apostles, ‘Men and
brethren, what shall we do?’ ”
- NKJV
Hebrews 3.12
“Beware, brethren, lest there be in any
of you an evil heart of unbelief in
departing from the living God;”
- NKJV
Our Eyes…
• There are numerous problems of the eye
• Blindness is not the only problem
• Shortsightedness can hurt us spiritually
• We need to have goals and a vision of our
own spiritual successes!
• What do you see for yourself spiritually:
– Next year?
– Next 5 years?
– Next 10 years?
Matthew 13.15
“For the hearts of this people have grown
dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And
their eyes they have closed, Lest they
should see with their eyes and hear with
their ears, Lest they should understand
with their hearts and turn, So that I should
heal them.’ ”
- NKJV
Matthew 13.16
"But blessed are your eyes for they see,
and your ears for they hear; ”
- NKJV
Acts 26.15-18
“So I said, 'Who are You, Lord?' And He said, 'I am Jesus,
whom you are persecuting. But rise and stand on your feet;
for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a
minister and a witness both of the things which you have
seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you. I will
deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the
Gentiles, to whom I now send you, to open their eyes, in
order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power
of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins
and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in
Me.' ”
- NKJV
Ephesians 1.15-20
“Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus
and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks
for you, making mention of you in my prayers: that the God of
our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you
the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that
you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the
riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is
the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe,
according to the working of His mighty power which He
worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and
seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,”
- NKJV
Revelation 3.18
“I counsel you to buy from Me gold
refined in the fire, that you may be rich;
and white garments, that you may be
clothed, that the shame of your
nakedness may not be revealed; and
anoint your eyes with eye salve, that
you may see.”
- NKJV
2 Peter 1.8-11
“For if these things are yours and abound, you will be
neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our
Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is
shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten
that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore,
brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and
election sure, for if you do these things you will never
stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you
abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ.
- NKJV
Our Hands…
• God wants us to work at honest and
honorable jobs for our employment
• Symbolically, our actions are on “our
hands” or are our responsibility
• We cannot wash our physical hands to
cleanse what is accounted to us
• When we have “clean hands and pure
hearts” we are righteous before God!
Ephesians 4.28
“Let him who stole steal no longer, but
rather let him labor, working with
his hands what is good, that he may
have something to give him who has
need.”
- NKJV
James 4.8
“Draw near to God and He will draw
near to you. Cleanse your hands, you
sinners; and purify your hearts, you
double-minded.”
- NKJV
I Timothy 2.8
“I desire therefore that the men pray
everywhere, lifting up holy hands,
without wrath and doubting;”
- NKJV
Our Growth…
• We expect infants to grow, children and
teens to grow to maturity
• Something is definitely wrong when proper
growth does not occur
• Proper growth is not to be confused with
activity or progressive actions
• Diet and exercise are key ingredients
• Proper growth includes spiritual strength
• Let’s look at a few passages concerning our
growth in this spiritual check-up
I Peter 2.2
“as newborn babes, desire the pure milk
of the word, that you may grow
thereby,”
- NKJV
2 Peter 3.18
“but grow in the grace and knowledge of
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To
Him be the glory both now and
forever.”
- NKJV
2 Corinthians 13.9,11
“For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong.
And this also we pray, that you may be made
complete. Finally, brethren, farewell. Become
complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in
peace; and the God of love and peace will be with
you.”
- NKJV
To Be Continued…