How can we discern when something is from God, when it’s just emotion or even if it’s enemy deception?

Tests not to use: 1. ‘We’ve not done it this way before!’ 2. ‘People are getting emotional, falling over, shouting, shaking!’ 3. ‘People are getting obsessed with God and church’ 4. ‘People are seeing and imagining unusual things’ 5. ‘People are being influenced by a leader, peer pressure, etc 6. ‘But look at the faults and failures of the people involved!’

1. He always exalts the Jesus of the Bible – 1 John 4:2-3

"This is how you can 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’ 1 John 4:2-3

1. He always exalts the Jesus of the Bible – 1 John 4: He always leads people to hate sin and turn from it – 1 John 4:4-5

"You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them." 1 John 4:4-51 John 4:4-5

Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. 16 For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world’ 1 John 2: John 2:15-16 [NLT]

1. He always exalts the Jesus of the Bible – 1 John 4: He always leads people to hate sin and turn from it – 1 John 4:4-5; 1 John 2: The always takes people to the Bible. 1 John 4:6; Ephesians 2:19-20

‘We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood’. 1 John 4:6

‘You are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. Ephesians 2:19-20

1. He always exalts the Jesus of the Bible – 1 John 4: He always leads people to hate sin and turn from it – 1 John 4:4-5; 1 John 2: The always takes people to the Bible. 1 John 4:6; Ephesians 2: He always makes people love God and other people more – 1 John 4v8

"The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love". 1 John 4:8

1. He always exalts the Jesus of the Bible – 1 John 4: He always leads people to hate sin and turn from it – 1 John 4:4-5; 3. The always takes people to the Bible. 1 John 4:6; Ephesians 2: He always makes people love God and other people more – 1 John 4v8