A Choice: God’s Word or TV
1 John 4:4-6 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
John is speaking directly to the false teachers of the day. Those that had divided the Word, and transformed it unto their liking. They had mangled it into a blend of philosophies and religions, and twisted it into religions that suited lifestyles; religions that suited some, elevated others, but for the most part took Christ out of the picture. If He remained there, he had been transformed into differing ideals; not remaining the Incarnated Son of God that had come to save the world from sin. They had provided their concoctions that would, as the apostle Paul spoke of their ministries, teaching what people wanted to hear. 2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
You are given the blessing of the Holy Spirit living inside of you, when you answer that call upon your life of the grace of God found in Salvation. The Spirit is your teacher; it is He who grants you the understanding of spiritual things. It is He inside you that makes you see things through your heart. John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. It is He that makes you question, what you hear. That is the discernment of the Holy Spirit living inside you, and the greater discernment is cultivated by a heart that is in daily pursuit in God’s Word. There are many wolves in sheep’s clothing today preaching a blend of their own around the gospel of God. The prosperity preaching by so many elevated in today’s media has become the accepted normal. This blend of Christ and all the financial and material blessings he wants you to have, fit very well into the American society with the desire of excess.
The blessings that God intends for you are eternal; they are not money, houses, cars, vacations, power, and all the riches that are measured by the standards of this world. If you believe that you have been deceived by a false prophet. You may have come to find Christ, but you need to concentrate on following your Savior in the Word, and not the false preacher on TV. Pray for the Holy Spirit living inside you to open your eyes to God through His Word. You will find eternal riches in the peace that comes in the understanding of the Word. John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. If you continue to feed yourself by sitting under the false teachers, you will only be led farther away in the opposite direction.
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