How to "Test The Spirits"

"Dear 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." (1 John 4:1)

Pascal, the French scientist and mathematician once said something to the affect, "We are in danger when we only live by half-truths."  This is the modern global media and dominates the political science of most nations---- "half-truths."  The greatest deceptions are not from "half-truths;" they are from 99% truth.  It is the 1% untested falsity that will doom us to defeat in life.  The Prince of deception and his followers are masters of giving you 99% truth.  "By their fruits you shall know them."  False prophets quote the Bible, give praise-worthiness to the Bible, mention the Name of Jesus, give altar calls, do missions, "worship," claim to be "born again"--- all truth.  But that hidden 1%.  It is like a hidden disease, deep within the body undetected by the most sophisticated technology.  We are not called to be "fruit inspectors," i.e., driven by a "critical spirit," constantly searching for some "dirt" on people.  But we are called to "test the spirits."

How do you "test the spirits?"  It is not, "Well, I just didn't feel good about it," or, "I didn't 'bear witness.'"  That can get you into very big self righteous trouble.  The verse after our text gives us the test.  "This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God."  It is this last phrase which stands out and declares to all humanity that if anything or anyone, religion, politics, economics, anything is not centered in Jesus Christ, the system and the people are just, "not from God."

This may sound like classic fanaticism.  Of course the Name of Jesus does not have to be in written documents of the various aforementioned aspects of a culture.  But if systems or people do not "acknowledge," literally, "confess Jesus," they are "not from God."  President Bush confessed Jesus Christ.  Obama does not.  Did Bush do everything correctly?  Of course not.  Do you?  It is not a matter of flawlessness.  It is a matter of "spirit." If "the spirits" are right, righteousness prevails.  If "the spirits" are wrong, unrighteousness prevails.  "This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God:...Every spirit that... confess[es] Jesus is...from God"-------------------- period.

Father, in Jesus' Name, may my confession of Jesus be nothing but a "spirit...from God."
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