1 John 4:4-6 Part 3 of 4

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

 

They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us.

John 15:19  "If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, bur I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you." (see verses 18-25)

John 17:14  "I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world."

John 17:16  "They are not of the world, even as I am not of it." (see verses 6-19)

 

We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. 

John 8:47  "Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God." (see verses 31-47)

 

This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth  

John 14:16-17  "And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever--the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you." (see verses 15-31)

John 15:26-27  "When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father--he will testify about me. And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning." (see verses 15:26-16:11)

John 16:13  "But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. (see verses 12-15)

1 John 5:6  This is the one who came by water and blood--Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. (see verses 6-12)

 

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