1Jo 4:2-5 | PNT | STEP | Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come . . . is of God . He who confesses from the heart that Christ has come in the flesh shows that he has the Spirit of God. In the flesh . One of the heresies was that Christ had come but that there had been no incarnation.

1 John 4:2-5

Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come . . . is of

God. He who confesses from the heart that Christ has come in the flesh shows that he has the Spirit of God.

In the flesh. One of the heresies was that Christ had come but that there had been no incarnation. And every spirit that confesseth not . . . is not of God. If Christ is denied, it is not God's Spirit, which always speaks truth, but that of antichrist. See notes on 1Jo 2:18,19. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them. The saints had overcome these false prophets, but they were of God, because greater is he that is in you, and the Spirit in them was mightier than he that is in the world, than the evil spirit, that of the prince of the world, which was in the false prophets. They are of the world. The false teachers. They are not of God.

The world heareth them because they are of its spirit and speak of it.