This word was on my heart this morning . 1 John 4 - 1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. - Bible KJV This reading came from Grace to you John Mcauther Now as we come to the fourth chapter, the opening of the fourth chapter of Johns epistle the subject in the opening six verses is to test the spirits. You see that in verse 1, Beloved, do not believe every spirit but test the spirits. John understands how important it is to realize that you cant believe everything you hear, you cant believe everything that is purported to come from God, you cant believe everything that is supposedly biblical. Cannot believe all teachers of religion, you cannot believe all Christian preachers, or Christian evangelists or teachers. You cannot believe all who came...who claim to speak for God and claim to have a prophetic voice there is set loose in the world. Youll notice at the end of verse 6 the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. Religious information is not benign. It either comes from the Spirit of truth, who is the Holy Spirit, so called by our Lord Himself several times in the upper room discourse in the gospel of John. There is the Spirit of truth, the Holy Spirit, and there is the spirit of error who would be Satan and his demons. Nothing is benign. All spiritual truth either comes from a divine source or a demonic source. And we know that God speaks truth and reveals truth and Satan speaks a lie and is a deceiver and so it is critical that we be able to discern the difference. Gods truth must be guarded very, very carefully. It is always under attack. It is relentlessly under attack. Love ya !
Posted on: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 08:47:46 +0000
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