1 John 4:1-6

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1 My dear friends, don't believe everything you hear. Carefully weigh and examine what people tell you. Not everyone who talks about God comes from God. There are a lot of lying preachers loose in the world.

2 Here's how you test for the genuine Spirit of God. Everyone who confesses openly his faith in Jesus Christ - the Son of God, who came as an actual flesh-and-blood person - comes from God and belongs to God.

3 And everyone who refuses to confess faith in Jesus has nothing in common with God. This is the spirit of antichrist that you heard was coming. Well, here it is, sooner than we thought!

4 My dear children, you come from God and belong to God. You have already won a big victory over those false teachers, for the Spirit in you is far stronger than anything in the world.

5 These people belong to the Christ-denying world. They talk the world's language and the world eats it up.

6 But we come from God and belong to God. Anyone who knows God understands us and listens. The person who has nothing to do with God will, of course, not listen to us. This is another test for telling the Spirit of Truth from the spirit of deception.

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Beloved, Test the Spirits Part 2

Damian Kyle

Have you ever read something online, received a strange text or email, or even had someone you trust present to you some sort of truth claim! But it didn’t sit well with you. It seemed off! Not everything we hear or read is true. So it’s incumbent upon us to test what we hear with the truth of the Word of God. Pastor Damian Kyle will help us with that today on According to the Scriptures, as we go deeper into First John. The early part of chapter four gives us a marvelous test for truth.

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Beloved, Test the Spirits Part 1

Damian Kyle

Whether you’re sitting in church, driving around listening to the radio, or scrolling through your newsfeed on social media… it’s important to know not everything we’re being fed is true. So we need to put it to the test. Today According to the Scriptures pastor Damian Kyle shows us how to test what we hear to determine if it’s the spirit of truth or the spirit of error. We’re in First John chapter four.

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The Test for Truth Part 2

John Randall

Not everything we hear is true. So it’s incumbent upon us to test what we hear with the truth of the Word of God. Pastor John Randall will help us with that today on a Daily Walk, as we go deeper into First John.

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The Test for Truth Part 1

John Randall

Whether you’re sitting in church, driving around listening to the radio, or scrolling through your newsfeed on social media… it’s important to know not everything we’re being fed is true. So we need to put it to the test. Today on a Daily Walk pastor John Randall shows us how to test what we hear to determine if it’s the spirit of truth or the spirit of error.

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