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1John 4
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Don’t Believe Everything You Hear

4My dear friends, don't believe everything you hear. Carefully weigh and examine what people tell you. Not everyone who talks about God comes from God. There are a lot of lying preachers loose in the world.G27G4100G3361G3956G4151G235G1381G4151G1487G2076G1537G2316G3754G4183G5578G1831G1519G2889 2Here's how you test for the genuine Spirit of God. Everyone who confesses openly his faith in Jesus Christ—the Son of God, who came as an actual flesh-and-blood person—comes from God and belongs to God.G1722G3739G5129G1097G4151G2316G3956G4151G3670G2424G5547G2064G1722G4561G2076G1537G2316 3And everyone who refuses to confess faith in Jesus has nothing in common with God. This is the spirit of antichrist that you heard was coming. Well, here it is, sooner than we thought!G2532G3956G4151G3739G3670G3361G2424G5547G2064G1722G4561G2076G3756G1537G2316G2532G5124G2076G500G3739G191G3754G2064G2532G3568G2235G2076G1722G2889 4My dear children, you come from God and belong to God. You have already won a big victory over those false teachers, for the Spirit in you is far stronger than anything in the world.G5210G2075G1537G2316G5040G2532G3528G846G3754G3187G2076G1722G5213G2228G1722G2889 5These people belong to the Christ-denying world. They talk the world's language and the world eats it up.G846G1526G1537G2889G1223G5124G2980G1537G2889G2532G2889G191G846 6But we come from God and belong to God. Anyone who knows God understands us and listens. The person who has nothing to do with God will, of course, not listen to us. This is another test for telling the Spirit of Truth from the spirit of deception.G2249G2070G1537G2316G1097G2316G191G2257G3739G2076G3756G1537G2316G191G3756G2257G1537G5127G1097G4151G225G2532G4151G4106

God Is Love

7My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God.G27G25G240G3754G26G2076G1537G2316G2532G3956G25G1080G1537G2316G2532G1097G2316 8The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love—so you can't know him if you don't love.G25G3361G1097G3756G2316G3754G2316G2076G26 9This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him.G1722G5129G5319G26G2316G1722G2254G3754G2316G649G846G3439G5207G1519G2889G2443G2198G1223G846 10This is the kind of love we are talking about—not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God.G1722G5129G2076G26G3754G3756G2249G25G2316G235G3754G846G25G2248G2532G649G846G5207G2434G4012G2257G266 11My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other.G27G1487G2316G3779G25G2248G2249G3784G2532G25G240 12No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—perfect love!G3762G2300G2316G4455G1437G25G240G2316G3306G1722G2254G2532G846G26G2076G5048G1722G2254 13This is how we know we're living steadily and deeply in him, and he in us: He's given us life from his life, from his very own Spirit.G1722G5129G1097G3754G3306G1722G846G2532G846G1722G2254G3754G1325G2254G1537G846G4151 14Also, we've seen for ourselves and continue to state openly that the Father sent his Son as Savior of the world.G2532G2249G2300G2532G3140G3754G3962G649G5207G4990G2889 15Everyone who confesses that Jesus is God's Son participates continuously in an intimate relationship with God.G3739G302G3670G3754G2424G2076G5207G2316G2316G3306G1722G846G2532G846G1722G2316 16We know it so well, we've embraced it heart and soul, this love that comes from God. God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us.G2532G2249G1097G2532G4100G26G3739G2316G2192G1722G2254G2316G2076G26G2532G3306G1722G26G3306G1722G2316G2532G2316G1722G846

To Love, to Be Loved

17This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we're free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ's.G1722G5129G3326G2257G26G5048G2443G2192G3954G1722G2250G2920G3754G2531G1565G2076G2532G2070G2249G1722G5129G2889 18There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love.G2076G3756G5401G1722G26G235G5046G26G906G1854G5401G3754G5401G2192G2851G1161G5399G5048G3756G5048G1722G26 19We, though, are going to love—love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first.G2249G25G846G3754G846G4413G25G2248 20If anyone boasts, "I love God," and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won't love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can't see?G1437G5100G2036G3754G25G2316G2532G3404G846G80G2076G5583G1063G25G3361G846G80G3739G3708G4459G1410G25G2316G3739G3708G3756G3708 21The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You've got to love both.G2532G5026G1785G2192G575G846G2443G25G2316G25G846G80G2532


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