Bringing Scripture to Life

The following articles are notes from a series I did back in 2011, when going through the book of first John. I was inspired to make these articles available when it was announced that Rob Bell's newest book, What we talk about when we talk about God was being released later this week, which is certain to be as big a disappointment to the Christian Faith as was his last heretical release Love Wins was. Not that these articles were written with Rob Bell in mind, but his influential books are the result of him not testing the spirits. These notes were made available so that you the Christian, would know what the Bible says about "testing" the Spirits, and in obedience to the Word of God be followers who accurately test them so that you are not deceived.  May we be like the Berean's who were more "fair-minded" in that they "received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily" to find out whether the things that Paul was say...

1 John 4:4-6 Testing the spirit of ANTICHRIST Pastor Jason Stewart I.       Introduction:    We live in a day and age where the Christian faith is being attacked on almost every street corner of every city on every continent in the world. We have seen over the past couple of weeks that we have been given an incredible responsibility from God in the midst of all of this opposition, to be men and women who preserve the truth of His Word throughout the ages. In essence, we are the custodians of truth.    And though you may be in agreement with this statement, saying “yes and amen”, I can’t stress to you enough how I want to encourage you to be men and women, who join forces with the Spirit of God and become devoted to Protecting the truth, as God has called each of us to do. This week we will be turning our attentions to the final area of “Testing the spirits”, which is the real reason for the test. II.    ...