How can you know if you are talking to a Christian?
John is always talking about the three tests of the Christian, either taking a self test or giving to someone else. They are the test of love (last week) the test of doing the right things for Jesus (righteousness) or the test of truth.
This week it is the the test of truth, with two sub points. We test the “spirits” by if they acknowledge/confess and listen to Jesus.
Join us this Sunday at Lakeview Community Church at 10:45 a.m., as Pastor Paul Kozar continues his sermon series with the eighth sermon in the “The Unstoppable Force of Truth, Love, and Righteousness” series.
There will also be Communion during the service.
Our reading this week continues in 1 John with 1 John 4:1-6
1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;
3and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.
4You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
5They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.
6We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
