[[ loving someone does not mean excepting lies or giving in to deception, We are to test the spirit of those who are speaking so not to be miss lead. ]]
Testing the Spirits First John 4:1-6
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.
You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.
They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.
We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us.
By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
[[ such good advice, but yet advice so many disregard. Just because someone is a good speaker does not make them right, now does it make them a Christian (a follower of Christ). It does not matter how well some one is dressed or how well they may speak; deception is deception, and to blindly follow someone is still not the smart thing to do.
There are so many false prophets and teachers both in and out of the churches today but it seems most just except what they say and are miss lead down a pathway that does not lead to the Lord Jesus Christ, and the masses follow the lies with blinders on their eyes.
If you have excepted the Lord Jesus, He has asked His Father (Father GOD) to send the Holy Spirit to dwell in you to be your teacher and to guide you through life. And it is the Spirit of GOD that, if you will listen, will open your eyes, ears and your spirit to know something is wrong with what you are seeing or hearing.
We are told that every spirit that is from GOD confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, and that every spirit that does not confess Jesus Christ is not from GOD.
The antichrists are in the world today they are from the world and of the world seeking worldly things such as material goods and power, and those who follow after such thing are not of Christ but of the world, worldly people like to listen to the misleading deception of the antichrists because it feeds their desire for the same.
But those who are of Christ Jesus desire the things of Christ, which has noting to do with worldly things but rather the things of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Matthew 22:21
Jesus makes the statement
“render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s.”
In other words give God what is Gods, and give to the world that which is the worlds. Or leave the world to worldly things and give God what is Gods. Jesus is GOD. Who paid the price for you at the cross? That’s right Jesus (GOD) So as a believer in and a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ you belong to Him so give yourself back to Him and leave the desires of the world behind.
Test the spirits of those you are listening to and spending time with know if they are of GOD or of the antichrists, if they are of the antichrists then turn from them to Christ Himself. ]]