You can't say, well, I'm a Christian and just go right on waltzing down the same old path you've been on. Prove it. I'm not content anymore with just saying if you claim to be a Christian, you must be. And if you made a decision somewhere at a meeting or a conference or you walked in aisle or you went in an inquiry room or somebody took you through a little book, you're okay. The biblical criteria for salvation is right now, what is your life like right now?

Welcome to Grace to You, the Bible teaching ministry of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

How can you really know that you're saved? Can you be a

Christian if you struggle with selfishness or a lack of integrity or impurity or some other sin?

If you have doubts that your salvation is genuine, what should you do? What's the first step?

Those are questions you need to be able to answer, questions

that John MacArthur will help you with over the next few days. We're beginning a study

here on Grace to You titled, Examine Yourself. So now follow along in your Bible as John

begins today's lesson.

The Lord's Supper, I believe, is the most wonderful, the most sacred, most unique

act of worship that the blood-bought church of Jesus Christ can ever experience. It is sacred

in many ways. It is sacred because it is a sacred memory of the cross. The bread speaks of his body and the

cup speaks of his blood and they point to the cross where his body was crucified and his

blood was shed and so it's sacred because of its memory. But more than that, the table of the

Lord is sacred because it is a present communion

with the living Christ. He meets us here. The Apostle Paul says, the cup which we drink and the

bread which we break, is it not the body and the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ? We literally

commune with Him here. And thirdly, it is sacred, I believe, because

Jesus said in Luke 22, 19 and 20, do this. And so it is sacred because it is an act of

obedience. And obedience is a sacred and holy thing. And so the Lord's table is special. I come to the Lord's

table as often as I possibly can. And very often in my own life, I take the most common things

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