Beloved, do
not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God;
because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the
Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the
flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has
come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist,
which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world – 1 John 4.1-3
There is always some new
thing, even in the church. Somebody thinks they have discovered something
nobody in the history of the church has never seen and they write a book about
it start a podcast and get on YouTube and Instagram and Facebook and they gets
loads of likes and shares and pretty soon folks have spread the news without
ever seeing how it compares to the word of God. Social media has made it easier
to spread, but it has always been there.
If we are not careful we can
easily be deceived. We need some way to check them out before we accept and
adopt them.
The canon is the perfect standard.
It is the plumb line to keep us straight. The standard is the word of God. It
is the only place to compare teachings
to truth. Therefore, we must be like the Bereans searching the scriptures daily
to see if what we hear is true.
Don’t just accept everything
you hear. Test them, try them, examine them, pray, and compare them to the word
of God. Its up to each and every one of us.
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