1 John 4:2, Knowing Whether Instruction is from God

By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God

//How do we know, when we hear instruction from another, that it comes from God? In the book Unfettered Spirit, Robert Cornwall presents three rules to help us critically examine any instruction we may hear. I thought these rules to be interesting enough to repeat. Three verses from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians will highlight the three rules.

1. First, as with today’s vers...