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Intro
The Reality of Deceiving Spirits
John concluded the previous section by reminding us of the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
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God the Holy Spirit resides within every child of God
God the Holy Spirit resides within every child of God
He is the promised Helper and Comforter sent by Jesus on the day of Pentecost
He guides us, teaches us and leads us
Warning!
Warning!
Don’t fall for imitators!
Not all things spiritual are of GOD.
There are angels and there are demons
Angels carry out the will of God and are faithful to aid His people and deliver His message.
Demons lead astray
They want to deceive and blind as many as possible
They twist and pervert Scripture
They imitate the things of God
They inspire false prophets to preach false messages
We must have a healthy skepticism to all teaching.
A true preacher or teacher of God will encourage that.
John says to test the spirits
use discernment to determine if their message is accurate
Test= a metallurgists’ term used in assaying metals to determine their purity and value.
Is it gold or fool’s gold?
Every book, sermon, song, and testimony must be inspected and tried to determine the purity.
How much is Biblical?
How much is coming from man?
How much is demonic?
False prophets and teachers are the physical expression of demonic, spiritual sources.
Thankfully, we are not on our own in this test, John gives us
The Marks of False Christs
The Marks of Deceiving Spirits
1st Mark: The heart of the matter is Jesus
Who is Jesus?
What did He do?
Main issues;
Jesus has come in the flesh
some were falsly teaching error about Jesus
Jesus is God incarnate
God in the flesh
Eternal God the Son, took on flesh
100% God
100% Man
If wrong on this point, they are false teachers and not led by the Holy Spirit
The demons in Satan’s ranks pervert and twist Scripture.
They chip away at the truth of Jesus.
They deny His true nature and invent some false description.
Many today have bought the lie that
He was a prophet
He was a good man
All who deny the true nature of the Son, are here labeled as being led by the spirit of the antichrist.
That is the very heart of The Antichrist’s agenda
The Antichrist of Revelation, the final antichrist will be the embodiment of this error and spirit.
Notice
The restrainer is currently keeping the spirit of antichrist limited, yet that spirit and lawlessness is already at work.
: The speak from the world
They teach wordly wisdom rather than God’s word
They are from the world
They speak from the world
The world listens
Neat little package!
John reminds them of the contrasts.
They reject his apostolic authority and God’s word.
The Victory over deceiving Spirits
1 Jn 4:
Praise the Lord we can have victory over deceiving spirits.
We have no need of fear, because the Holy Spirit is greater!
The Spirit is a built-in truth dectector
False teaching will be quickly highlighted and rejected by the Holy Spirit
All the hosts of hell cannot take us out of God’s hand!
God illuminates our minds and is greater than deceivers
v. 6- the Word
John was writing inspired Scripture
God was writing through John
Now we have the completed word to overcome deceiving spirits
2 Tim 2:
Conclusion:
By the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the word of GOd we can stand against deceptions of demons.
Don’t fall for Satan’s tricks.
All things spiritual are not godly!
Test the spirits!
check out all teaching with:
a.
The Holy Spirit
follow His leadership
false spirits lead away from and twist the truth of Jesus
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The Word of God
God’s spirit and angels will NEVER lead away from the word!
Stand in the truth.
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