SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
11-25e-2004
My Worship Time Focus: Greater is He who is in You
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 1 John 4:4-6
Message of the
verse: “4 You are from God, little children, and
have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the
world. 5 They are from the world;
therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 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.”
It is my desire to finish up looking at the verses that
remain so we can move onto verse nine in our next SD on 1 John. I have mentioned that I did not write
anything in 2004 on 1 John 1-6 and so I am using the material from my John
MacArthur study Bible to fill in what I did not do in 2004.
Greater is He who is in you: “Believers
need to be aware and alert to false teaching, but not afraid, since those who
have experienced the new birth with its indwelling of the Holy Spirit have a
built-in check against false teaching (cf. 2:20, 27). The Holy Spirit leads into sound doctrine for
genuine Christians, evidencing that salvation has actually occurred (cf. Rom.
8:17). True believers have nothing to
fear, for even Satan’s hosts with their perversion can’t take them out of the
Lord’s hand. Here, as in 2:18-27,
protection against error or victory over it are guaranteed by sound doctrine
and the indwelling Holy Spirit who illumines the mind.”
4:5, 6 the speak as from the world…he who knows God
listens to us. “John gives the second
test of a true teacher: they speak God’s
word, following apostolic doctrine.”
4:6 By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of
error. “The OT and NT are the sole
standards by which all teaching is to be tested. In contrast, demonically inspired teachers
either reject the teaching of God’s Word or add elements to it (2 Cor. 4:2;
Rev. 22:18-19).”
12/10/2017 8:40 PM
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