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1 John 4:3

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Chapter 4

Test the Spirits

1Dear friends, 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.2This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,

3but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

4You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.5They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.6We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the SpiritOr spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

Topics: truth devil cross antichrist denial false_prophet

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Sonbum

- (eBible Evangelist) 10 months ago.

I heard about a so-called preacher who stated that the cross was a place of defeat. This man's statement gets to the heart of the meaning of this verse. Anyone that denies that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, and that He paid the penalty for our sins upon the Cross, is not of God, (antichrist).