Thursday, April 20, 2006

Winds of Love

1 (A) Beloved, do not believe every (B) spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because (C) many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2 By this you know the Spirit of God: (D) every spirit that (E) confesses that (F) Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 3 and every spirit that (G) does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the (H) antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and (I) now it is already in the world.

4 You are from God, (J) little children, and (K) have overcome them; because (L) greater is He Who is in you than (M) he who is in the world.

5 (N) They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them.

6 (O) We are from God; (P) he who knows God listens to us; (Q) he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know (R) the Spirit of truth and (S) the spirit of error.

7 (T) Beloved, let us (U )love one another, for love is from God; and (V) everyone who loves is (W) born of God and (X) knows God.

8 The one who does not love does not know God, for (Y) God is love.

-I John 4:1-8