Don’t be fooled

There are a set of twins that live in our area. They look very much alike. Most people couldn’t tell them apart. I couldn’t either when I first met them. One lives in town and the other one lives near a creek and loves to fish. Whenever I had trouble knowing which one I was talking to I would ask how many fish he had caught and if he answered that he hadn’t been fishing I knew then I was talking to the one from town. Soon I learned to recognize them but at first I had to question. There are many who claim to teach the truth. How do we know for sure if who we listen to is teaching us the right thing? When in comes to faith in God and my eternal life, I don’t want to get that wrong? So how do we tell if what we are being taught is correct? 1 John 4:1-3 dear friends, 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. This is how you recognize the Spirit of God: every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the anti-Christ which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
Friends, don’t be fooled by those who don’t teach the truth! Jesus did come here in a human body and lived here among men and was seen by men. They saw him before he was crucified and after he rose from the dead. They saw him ascend into heaven. Eyewitnesses , who wrote down these events for us so that we could believe, also wrote the books of the Bible so that we could test and see what was true and what wasn’t. If we study God’s word regularly, soon we can recognize the true teachers from the imposters!! Thank you again Father for your word that helps us recognize your teachers from the others!!
Be blessed!!