Daily Devotional “Discernment Between Truth And Error”
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July 29, 2023
“Beloved, 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.
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world” (1 John 4:1-3).
God’s children are able to discern false doctrine.
A sure mark of every false religious system is doctrinal error, particularly about the Person and work of Jesus Christ.
Those systems deny that He is Savior and Lord, God in human flesh, the only way to the Father (John 14:6) because salvation comes only through Him (Acts 4:12).
A sure mark, then, of all true children of God is that they believe the truth about Jesus Christ and do not deviate into doctrinal error.
Although they may be temporarily duped by false teaching, they will not be permanently deceived by it.
The apostle John wrote, “[False teachers] are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.
We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us.
By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error” (1 John 4:5-6).
When you were saved, you were clear about who Christ was.
“Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ,” writes John, “is born of God” (1 John 5:1).
Had you not passed that doctrinal test, you wouldn’t have been saved.
God’s children distinguish spiritual truth from doctrinal error because the Spirit of truth (John 14:16) indwells them.
“O Timothy,” Paul exhorted his beloved son in the faith, “guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called ‘knowledge’” (1 Timothy. 6:20).
I pray that you will guard the precious treasure of truth entrusted to you in the Scriptures and so assure your heart that you belong to the God of truth.
Prayer
Thank God for revealing His truth to us in the Bible.
Further Reading
Read John 1:1; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 2:9. What do they teach about the Person of Christ?
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