1 John 4-Who Is Jesus?

Welcome to Every Thought Captive.  I’m Phil Steiger.

As 1 John 4 opens, John encourages his readers to test the spirits and see if they come from God. John’s basic concern is with the tumult being caused by the false prophets and the confusion that resulted in the life of the church.  So when John gets to where he is ready to lay out the one guideline he needs the believers to follow, he says that every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ was God in flesh is from God.

For John, there is only one good answer to the question, Who is Jesus?  Today, there are many different answers to that question, but for the Church, there can be only one answer.

John goes on to say that any spirit that does not confess Christ in this way is not from God.  Any movement, book, individual, etc. that supposes to speak to spiritual matters and yet gets this wrong, simply cannot be and should not be trusted.

This has been Every Thought Captive.  I’m Phil Steiger, pastor at Quail Lake Community Church and Director of Dayspring Center for Christian Studies.  For more information, please visit everythoughtcaptive.org.