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1 John 4:1-3 Exploring GNT


The True Spirit and the False Spirit

1 John 4:1-3 My dear friends, do not believe all who claim to have the Spirit, but test them to find out if the spirit they have comes from God. For many false prophets have gone out everywhere. 

This is how you will be able to know whether it is God's Spirit: anyone who acknowledges that Jesus Christ came as a human being has the Spirit who comes from God. 

But anyone who denies this about Jesus does not have the Spirit from God. The spirit that he has is from the Enemy of Christ; you heard that it would come, and now it is here in the world already.

Order in the Church

1 Corinthians 14:26-33 This is what I mean, my friends. When you meet for worship, one person has a hymn, another a teaching, another a revelation from God, another a message in strange tongues, and still another the explanation of what is said. Everything must be of help to the church. 

If someone is going to speak in strange tongues, two or three at the most should speak, one after the other, and someone else must explain what is being said. 

But if no one is there who can explain, then the one who speaks in strange tongues must be quiet and speak only to himself and to God. 

Two or three who are given God's message should speak, while the others are to judge what they say. 

But if someone sitting in the meeting receives a message from God, the one who is speaking should stop. 

All of you may proclaim God's message, one by one, so that everyone will learn and be encouraged. 

The gift of proclaiming God's message should be under the speaker's control, 

because God does not want us to be in disorder but in harmony and peace. As in all the churches of God's people,

Gifts from the Holy Spirit

1 Corinthians 12:1-3 Now, concerning what you wrote about the gifts from the Holy Spirit. I want you to know the truth about them, my friends. 

You know that while you were still heathen, you were led astray in many ways to the worship of lifeless idols. 


I want you to know that no one who is led by God's Spirit can say “A curse on Jesus!” and no one can confess “Jesus is Lord,” without being guided by the Holy Spirit.