Some Probing Questions 1

Here are a few probing questions to use when dealing with self-righteous religionists who have deceived themselves into thinking that they can somehow help save themselves from their sins and God's divine justice.  

*Is your faith genuinely rooted in Jesus' Precious Blood?  Romans 3:25

*Are you just in religion, or truly in Christ right now?

*When it comes to your soul being saved, are you trying to help Christ out? On the Cross, Jesus cried, "It is Finished!"

*Whom seek ye?
*What is your security and what significance are you seeking?
*What is it that you cannot live without?
*Are you living in Christ, or just existing in your sins?

*Have you earned the right to go to Heaven?

*How good does a man have to be to satisfy Divine Justice?
*What occupies my thoughts, time and energy?
*Is your soul enjoying the Lord's smile?

*Are you allergic to sin?

*Does God owe you His Mercy?

*Does your good behavior play any part in your Salvation?

*Do you hate your sins? Are you tired of your self and sins yet?  

*Do your sins ever sicken you?

*Can your works help cancel your guilt?

*Does God owe you His Salvation?

*What can I do today to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ with my body, mind and life?

*What is Imputation?

*Do you deserve anything but Hell?

*What/Who is your righteousness?

*How can ye believe which receive honor one of another?

*Do you have instantaneous, irreversible, free Eternal Life?

*Do you have anything to boast of?

*What do you glory in the most?

*Have you ever been saved from the love of sin?

*What sin can I avoid today for Jesus' sake?

*Do you have any trust in your own righteousness?

* Can you say anything good about yourself?

* Is there one good thing about you?

* Are you not imperfect in your very best doings?

* Do you deserve to be saved?

* Have you ever been burdened under a sense of your sins?

* Are you in Christ Jesus, or in your sins?

* Is your best good enough to satisfy God's divine justice?

* Who sets your moral guidelines and standards?

* How can I glorify God in all this?

* Dost thou not fear God?

* What are you going to believe, human imagination or Divine Revelation?

* Have you been born twice?

* What do you rely on for significance?

* Is there a way out of my sin?  *John 14:6*

* Has the Gospel changed your behavior and character?

* Who shall add anything to what Christ has finished?

* Can you in any way ever merit eternal life?  If you think you can, your soul is surely lost?

* How is that you have nothing to help you die?

* Are you trying to be your own savior?

* Have you actually the Spirit of God within you?

* Were you ever made to feel that there was no merit in anything that you ever did?

* What is your confidence for eternal life?

* Dost thou believe on the Son of God? *John 9:35*

* Do you have an inner conflict with your sins?
* Now on whom dost thou trust?

* Do you glory only in the Cross?

* Have you confided your soul's everlasting destiny into Christ's dear hands?

* Have you abandoned your self-righteousness, and rested in Jesus only? *Matthew 11:28*

* Have you taken Jesus Christ, God Incarnate, to be your soul's only confidence?

* Is there anything in you that can help save you?

* Who is your faith resting in now?

* What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

* Does your Salvation involve any of your doings?

* Are you a lost sinner in need of the Savior?

* Is a Savior necessary in your case? 

* Will you go with Jesus barefoot over the gravel of persecution, or do you like a silver slipper religion? 

* Have you any sins that you cannot get rid of on you own?

* Are you willing to be saved by Jesus Christ on His terms?

* Are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?

* Will any of your doings help to atone for your sins, or help you to be accepted before God?

* Does a man have to do anything to help save himself?

* Is your righteousness one which you have attained yourself, or has the Righteousness of Christ been imputed to you freely by the Holy Ghost?

* Have you set up your own righteousness in opposition to Christ's Righteousness?

 * Are you depending upon anything beside Jesus Christ and Him crucified?

 * Why won't you simply trust Someone who loved you to death?

 * What are you counting on to keep you out of Hell?

 * Is there not sufficient merit in the Savior's bloody death to make Atonement for all your sins?

 * Do you feel that you deserve God's divine mercy?

 * How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Jesus Christ?

 * Are you only living for yourself, or some temporary end and purpose?

 * Will the object of your life die with your dying, and be buried in your grave?

 * Have you taken the God who is your Maker and Savior to be the great object of your life?

 * Are you a believer and truster in Jesus Christ, the living God?

 * Do you have any reliance other than Jesus' Precious Blood?

 * Have you a God to go to?

 * How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?

 * Can a child of God ever become a child of the devil again?

 * Is there anything within you upon which you can depend?

 * Are you allergic to Sin?

 * Are you worthy of eternal life?

 * Will you have Christ or not?

 * Have you done sufficient works to merit salvation?

 * What shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospel of God?

 * Why would you ever want to add anything of your own to what Christ has already completed?

 * Are you trying to put a few of your own merits together, a few odds and ends, a few fig leaves and filthy rags of your own righteousness to help Christ out?

 * Are you bringing some of your own works to help eke out Christ's work?

 * Do you hope to come to Christ one of these days when you make yourself better?

 * Are going to make yourself better, and then let Christ do the rest of the work?

 * Are you trying to do something to make a righteousness of your own?

 * Are you happy with yourself? Are you perfect?

 * Do you rejoice over repenting sinners? Do you feel intense sympathy for lost sinners? Do you dread lest they should be lost? Do you pray that they may be saved? Do you seek by your own personal testimony and entreaty to bring them to the Savior, Jesus Christ?

 * Have you taken JEHOVAH JESUS to be your God?

 * Are you dead set on dying in your sins?

 * Do you claim to have been absolutely perfect before your Maker from your childhood till now?

 * Is your righteousness one which you have worked out for yourself, or has the Righteousness of Christ been freely imputed to your soul?

 * Do you look for Salvation by self, or by Christ, or by both?

 * Are you too good to be saved?

 * Is there anything in you that you can trust to?

 * What do you enjoy most when no one is watching?

 * Have you ever been a child of wrath, a child of disobedience, a child of Satan?

 * Does your soul's eternal safety depend upon yourself at all?

 * Do you have any merits of your own which can recommend you to God?

* Have you ever been really upset over your sins?

* How good does a man have to be to satisfy divine justice? *I Peter 2:22; II Cor 5:21; I John 3:5*

* What have you done with Jesus which is called Christ?

* Does God owe you His mercy?

* What do you think of most throughout the day?

* What produces your strongest emotions?

* What makes you tick within?

* Have you ever come to the end of yourself?

* Do you hate your sins? Do you swim against the stream of your evil tendencies?

*Is your love for some sin keeping you from receiving Christ Jesus as your personal Savior?

* Is all your hope fixed on what Jesus did for sinners on Calvary's tree?

* Do you think any of your religious works can help cancel your guilt?

* Christ Jesus has done so much for you; what have you ever done for Him?

* Do you think that anything you have is your own?

* What do you throw money at?

* What does your mind feed on?

* How is your soul prospering?

* Do you know any sinner who Jesus Christ died for?

* What are the ruling habits of your life?

* Have you a longing in your heart to be the means of bringing others to Christ?

* Have you talked about Jesus Christ today? Have you spoken to anybody about their soul today?

* Who are you trying to please?

* Does your sin sicken you?

* Have you ever thought how greatly you have sinned against Jesus?

* What is your life's master passion?

* What bad habits do you struggle with most?

* What consumes your thoughts?

* Does God owe you His salvation?

* Will your future efforts help blot out your sins?

* What is your righteousness?

* Have you been to Jesus to have your sins freely, instantly, eternally forgiven?

* Do you have anything of your own to boast of?

* Do you have any trust in your own righteousness?

* Can I tell you how much Jesus loves me?

* Will you be able to claim any credit for your salvation?

* Are you resting at all on what you are?

* Can you earn God's divine mercy?

* Does God know you're saved?

* Who am I, what does living really mean, what is my destiny?

* Is there any good work of your own that you are relying upon?

* Do you have any claim upon God's mercy?

* Where is your confidence?

* Do you deserve God's love and mercy?

* How good do you have to be to get to Heaven? Answer: No good.

* Do you know your Best Friend?

* Are sins forgiven freely?

* How good does a man have to be to satisfy God's divine justice? Answer: Perfect

* Where are your sins right now, on Christ, or on your soul?

* Are you a self-saved man?

* Do you have two Saviors?

* Are you half-saved?

* Do you deserve God's forgiveness?

* What are the good works that can merit Heaven and ensure eternal life?

* Are you willing to be saved on God's free terms?

* Have you been clean delivered from all confidence in yourself?

* Are you trusting solely and entirely in the Blood and Righteousness of God's crucified and risen Son?

* Is there some private sin you don't want to give up?

* Have you passed from death to life?

* Was the Savior necessary in your case?

* Have you any sins from which you cannot escape of yourself?

* Have you ever felt the evil and guilt of your sins?

* Are you willing to be saved by Jesus Christ alone?

* Have you accepted the Christ, the whole Christ, the Man Christ, the God Christ, Immanuel, God with us?

* Is Jesus' atoning blood all your trust?

* Have you felt the burden of your sin? Have you ever taken that burden to the Cross by faith and given it over to Jesus Christ Himself?

* Are you confiding your soul's eternal interest with Christ Jesus alone?

* Does your religion have anything to do with your salvation?

* At your very best, do you have anything to boast of?

* Do you believe in the Crucified Creator God?

* Where do people go when they die? What about you? Why? Living life without Christ is only a foretaste of hell. Living life with Christ is only a foretaste of heaven.

* If you could ask God one thing, what would it be?

* Should God punish murderers? If so, how should he punish them?

* What do you think a person has to do to go to Heaven or Hell?

* Do you consider yourself to be a ‘good, moral’ person?

* How many of the Ten Commandments can you name? Have you always kept them in thought, word and deed?

* Where would you go if you died tonight? Why?

* Do you believe there is such a place as Hell? Who goes there? Why?

* If there was a way to avoid damnation, would you be interested?

* Do you think the Bible’s claim, that someone can know that they have everlasting life, is true?

* Who do you think Jesus was? The Bible says that Jesus was God manifest in the flesh who lived, bled and died to atone for human sin.

* What is stopping you from asking the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sins and being converted right now?

* Does God ever get angry at anyone?

* Do you think you’ll make it to heaven? Are you a good enough person to miss the Judgment?

* Have you told a lie? Have you ever stolen something? Have you ever taken God’s name in vain? Have you ever looked at a woman with lust?

* You have to admit you have a disease, before you seek a cure. Are you absolutely morally Perfect? Christ Jesus was and is, and you're not.

* You will be responsible for all your thoughts and actions on the Day of Judgment. Every idle word, all liars shall have their part in the lake of fire, shall not inherit kingdom of God Are you hoping your parachute is packed correctly? You do that before you take off. It is not God’s will for you to go to Hell.

* When is the last time you read your Bible?

* What is the sin that will take more people to hell than any other sin? Idolatry (making a god to suit yourself, that you're happy with, that you're comfortable with in your sins, Hitler did that. Your god will fit your morals. 

* Do you see your need of God’s forgiveness?

* What do you think good is? Good is this: absolute moral perfection in thought, word, and deed.

* Are you perfect or a sinner? Have you ever deliberately done wrong? Has there ever been a moment when you stood face to face with right and wrong, and chose wrong? Listen to your conscience.

* Have you earned the right to go to heaven?

* What do you believe about God? Do you believe there is an after life? Do you ever think about it?

* Have you ever known the truth about something, and intentionally told a lie or misled someone (deceit)?

* Have you ever known purity and chose the impure? The Lord Jesus Christ lived a perfect life from the cradle till His death on the Cross, have you? If not, then you need His Righteousness. (Christ Jesus was without blemish and without spot, there was no fault found in Him, He knew no sin, He did no sin, in Him was no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth, He was holy and undefiled, and He had innocent blood).

* Have you ever understood straightness and gave in to crookedness?

* Do you feel your need of pardon and sense your guilt and need of the forgiveness of sins?

* Have you ever broken the Ten Commandments? If you have offended the Law in one point, you are guilty of all.

* What do you think about what Jesus said in the Bible?

* Where will you be 100 years from now out in Eternity?

* Do you think man and woman came from apes or did God create them in His image in the Garden of Eden?

Have you ever repented towards God and trusted to Jesus Christ?

* Do you ever think about death? Do you ever fear death?

* Are you a God-fearing person, do you try to keep the Ten Commandments?

* How much money would I have to take out of your wallet to be a thief? How many times would I have to lie to you to become a liar?

* How long do you want to live? Do you think you could die today?

* How can a sinner obtain eternal life?

* Will you believe anything as long as it not in the Bible?

* Have you loved God above all else – with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength (Mark 12:30)? Yes? The Bible says, ‘there is none that seeketh after God.” Romans 3:11 Nobody (except Jesus Christ) has kept the first of the Ten Commandments. One of you is lying-either you or God-and the Bible says that it is impossible for God to lie” (Hebrews 6:18; Titus 1:2)