NOVEMBER 21 READING…1 JOHN 4
John tells us that false prophets/teachers actually have a spirit behind them and influencing them. These individuals are not working on their own but are empowered and controlled by demons. There is the spiritual world, and it is more real than most want to believe…even most Christians. These spirits manifest in the natural world through these false prophets/teachers. We are warned not to accept or listen to everyone who claims to speak the words of God…we are to test the spirits behind their words. How do we test the spirits? It’s not if we like what they say…that is too subjective. The Word of God is the only objective source of truth by which we can test the validity of a prophet/teacher, and discern what spirits are behind them. Anyone who says that Jesus did not come in the flesh…those the deny the Incarnation for a “Christ consciousness” is not of God…and is of the spirit of the Antichrist. The Holy Spirit also confirms for us if what we are hearing is coming from God or Satan. We are commanded to love one another, for love is of God…the evidence we are of God is by our love. God showed us love by sending His Son that our sins might be forgiven and that we might have eternal life. Since God loved us so much, we ought to love one another. As we confess that Jesus is the Son of God, we show that we abide in God and He abides in us. We cannot claim to love God and hate one another…we make ourselves out as liars. We are to love God, and we are to love one another.
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TOMORROW’S READING…1 JOHN 5
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