Weighed and found wanting
Discover yourself, you poor self-deceiver. You who are confident of being a child of God, you who say, I have the witness in myself, and therefore defy all your enemies. You are weighed in the balance and found wanting, even in the balance of the sanctuary. The word of the Lord has tried your soul and proved you to be reprobate silver.
You are not lowly of heart. Therefore you have not received the Spirit of Jesus to this day. You are not gentle and meek. Therefore your joy is worth nothing. It is not joy in the Lord.
You do not keep his commandments. Therefore you do not love him, nor are you a partaker of the Holy Ghost. It is, consequently, as certain and as evident as the oracles of God can make it, that his Spirit does not bear witness with your spirit that you are a child of God. Oh, cry to him that the scales may fall from your eyes, that you may know yourself as you are known, that you may receive the sentence of death in yourself, until you hear the voice that raises the dead, saying, Be of good cheer. Your sins are forgiven. Your faith has made you whole.
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8. Discover thyself, thou poor self-deceiver! Thou who art confident of being a child of God, thou who sayest, “I have the witness in myself,” and therefore defiest all thy enemies. Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting; even in the balance of the sanctuary. The word of the Lord hath tried thy soul, and proved thee to be reprobate silver. Thou art not lowly of heart. Therefore thou hast not received the Spirit of Jesus unto this day. Thou art not gentle and meek; therefore thy joy is nothing worth: it is not joy in the Lord. Thou dost not keep his commandments; therefore thou lovest him not, neither art thou partaker of the Holy Ghost. It is consequently, as certain and as evident, as the oracles of God can make it, his Spirit doth not bear witness with thy Spirit, that thou art a child of God. O cry unto him that the scales may fall off thine eyes, that thou mayst know thyself as thou art known; that thou mayst receive the sentence of death in thyself, till thou hear the voice that raises the dead, saying, “Be of good cheer: thy sins are forgiven; thy faith hath made thee whole.”