“Am I a Christian?”

The Lord Jesus said on a number of occasions, “I AM”. That statement was not just a confirmation of His divinity, but of the knowledge of Himself - who He is. Not only so, but He made such statements as “Before Abraham was, I AM”. Jesus knew who He was.

It is true also that Christ’s Apostles, after Pentecost, knew who they were. By that we are not referring to their humanity, but rather to their calling and sainthood. The Apostle Paul, when writing to the Corinthians, said, “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?” (II Corinthians 13:5). “Know ye… your own selves”. The Apostle John said something similar in his First Epistle - “Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God” (I John 4:2-3). It is important to note that John did not say “God come in flesh”, but “Jesus Christ come in flesh”. John is here referring to men’s spirits confessing. Does my spirit confess that Jesus Christ is in me? It is of immense importance that a person knows absolutely that Jesus Christ is in them. It is “the hope of glory” “…the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: to whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery… which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:26-27).

 The is the primary truth concerning a man’s condition and position before God - is “Christ in you”?