Jason Hunter Spiritual Discernment I John 4:1-6 Assertions of a Test That right and wrong Exist Areas to Test 1. Outside - for false prophets 2. Inside - for faulty preferences 2 Corinthians 13:5 2 Timothy 4:3-4 Assessments used to Test Divine Jesus John 1:1 In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Divine Guidance The Spirit Confirms Jeremiah 17:9 The Spirit never contradicts The Spirit callaborates. Divine source = The Bible is all we need if used right. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 - All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. Evidence of the Spirits discerning action in your life 1. Conviction - able to hear what you don't want to hear Proverbs 9:7-9 2. Conscience - an internal sense of right and wrong. 3. Confirmation - reassurance that you are doing what is right. 4. Comfort - Peace regardless of condition, even joy in persecution especially standing for truth. Matthew 5:11-12 1 John 4:1-6 - Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error
