Try the Spirits

We have all been warned, don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Truly, the warning should go beyond this as 1 John 4 does when it reads, “believe not every spirit.” There is a belief system out there for anything that your heart desires to believe. There is a wide road that contains many lanes of various types of deception that are all leading to destruction. But there is only one way of truth, Jesus. He is the way, the truth, and the life, and He is the only way to the Father. We must put to the test those things we hear, even if your instinct is to believe it, to be sure that we only follow the spirit of truth as we learn from God’s Word. 

1 John 4:1-3

1. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

3. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.