ASLC Devotions -- Wednesday

1 John 4:2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.

The writer of this letter is concerned that his hearers would understand that not everything is true. Apparently relativism and blind acceptance of everything that comes along is not just a phenomenon of the 21st Century. Here's an ancient letter with the same concern: how we do know what's true? How do we know what comes from God? "Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God."

Look at Jesus. Look at Jesus, who left behind the glory of heaven to take on human flesh. If what you're hearing is consistent with that, then it comes from God. So let's try an exercise: "God likes my kind of people more than that kind of people." Does that sound like something Jesus would have bothered to take on flesh to say? To die for? Nope. OK, here's another one: "God wants all people to know love and grace." Does that sound like Jesus? I think it's closer. This might be a fun thing to try today: take any absolute statements you hear... from radio personalities, friends, parents, pastors... and put them up to this test. See what happens.

In Christ,
Pastor Seth

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