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1 kwi 2021 · The Spirit of God must be distinguished from false spirits. This is necessary because many false prophets, inspired by false spirits, have gone into the world. The key to testing a spirit to see if it is false or true is to test their attitude toward the incarnate Person of Jesus Christ.
a. Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God: True prophecy, and true teaching, will present a true Jesus. In John’s day, the issue was about if Jesus had truly come in a real body of flesh and blood.
Inductive Bible study on 1 John chapter 4. Cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, on 1 John. Great for Christian small group studies.
NEW TESTAMENT READING. 1 John 4:7-12. A reading from the first Letter of Saint John. s is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love. does not know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only-begotten Son into the world so .
1 It is not every spirit, my dear people, that you can trust; test them, to see if they come from God; there are many false prophets, now, in the world. 2 You can tell the spirits that come from God by this: every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus the Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 3 but any spirit which will not say this of Jesu...
II. The Invisible God (1 John 4:12-13) • The reality of God is recognized by observing what He has done & what He’s doing now. A. No One Has Seen God. 1. No man has ever seen God in His unveiled essence and glory. 2. We are finite sinful creatures. To see God in His unveiled holiness would be our death. 3. Moses: Moses wanted to see the ...
1 John. The Prologue to the Letter God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light. 1:1 This is what we proclaim to you: what 1:5 Now this is the gospel message we was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have ὑμῶν represents a scribal assimilation to John 16:24.
