Your Mind Matters
June 13, 2021
Wise old John explains the importance of thinking about the faith and exposing preachers who teach things which are false. He commands his readers to test the spirits of those teaching, examining the origin of their teaching, rather than naively believing everything. With total confidence in them, he explains there are two totally different mindsets and world views and the wrong one sometimes creeps into the church. We still experience these two totally conflicting worldviews and we need to use our minds, made new in Christ, to ensure we're building on the right foundations.
Derek Tidball
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1 John 4:1–6 (Listen)
Test the Spirits
4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
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