I John Chapter 4--Bible Study Made Simple w/ Dr. Timmy Tezeno

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Welcome to the Bible Trainer Podcast featuring Bible Study Made Simple with Dr. Timmy Tezeno on 1 John Chapter 4. In this episode, join us as we dive deep into The Epistle of 1 John and embark on an illuminating journey through Chapter 4. Fasten your seat belts and be blessed.    

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chapter four, verses one throughsix, beloved, believe not every

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spirit, but try the spirits,whether they are of God because
many false prophets are gone outinto the world.
Hereby know ye the spirit ofGod.
Every spirit that confesses thatJesus Christ has come in the
flesh is of God and every spiritthat confesses not that Jesus
Christ has come in the flesh isnot of God.
And this is the spirit.
Of Antichrist.

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Where of ye heard that it shouldcome?
And even now already is it inthe world?
Ye are of God little childrenand have overcome them because
greater is he that is in youthan he that is in the world.
They are of the world thereforespeak.
They of the world and the world.
Hear heared them.
We are of God.

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He that no God heared us.
He that is not of God.
Heared us, not hereby know wethe spirit of truth and the
spirit of error.
Now, we have to judge the thingswe hear.
If it lines up with scripture,then it is of God.
If it doesn't line up withscripture, then it is not of
God.
It is the spirit of error, thespirit of the Antichrist.

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The reason we overcome falsehoodis because we are of God and
only His voice do we follow.
The world hears the voice offalse teachers because they are
of the world.
Because we are of God, we candiscern both the spirit of truth
and the spirit of error.
Alright, let's look at versesseven through 21.

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Beloved, let us love oneanother.
For love is of God and everyonethat love it is born of God and
know it God.
He that love it, not know it notGod.
For God is love.
In this was manifested.
The love of God taught usbecause that God sent his only
begotten son into the world thatwe might live through Him herein

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is love.
Not that we love God, but thatHe loved us, and sent His Son to
be the propitiation for oursins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, weought also to love one another.
No man hath seen God at anytime.
If we love one another, Goddwelleth in us, and His love is
perfected in us.

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Hereby know we that we dwell inhim, and he in us, because he
hath given us of his Spirit.
And we have seen and do testifythat the Father sent the Son to
be the Savior of the world.
Whosoever shall confess thatJesus is the Son of God, God
dwelleth in him, and he in God.
And we have known and believedthe love that God hath to us.
God is love, and he thatdwelleth in love, dwelling in

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God and God in Him.
Herein is our love made perfect,that we may have boldness in the
day of judgment, because as Heis, so are we in this world.
There is no fear in love, butperfect love casteth out fear,
because fear hath torment.
He that feareth is not madeperfect in love.
We love him because he firstloved us.

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If a man say I love God andhated his brother, he is a liar.
For he that loved not hisbrother whom he had seen, how
can he love God whom he had notseen?
And this commandment have wefrom him, that he who loved God
love his brother also.
Now John repeats the samemessage over and over again.
We must love others like Godloves us.
He that walks in love dwells inGod, and God in him.

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Why?
Because God is love.
When we love God and oneanother, we obtain boldness, and
we do not fear the day ofjudgment.
Why?
Because as He is, so are we inthis world.
Someone once said, The bestdemonstration of God comes not
from argument, but from a lifeof truth.
of love.

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God's love was demonstrated inJesus Christ.
God the Father made a sacrificebeyond which no sacrifice can
possibly go in his love for us.
It is a total undeserved loveand when we walk in this kind of
love, fear ceases because thereis no fear in love.
What is there to fear if you arewalking as God walks?

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Then John says we love himbecause he first loved us.
He loved us when we wereunworthy of being loved.
Because of this he is worthy ofall our love, devotion, and
service.
Then he gives the measuringstick, the proof, the evidence
that shows just how much we loveGod.
The measuring stick is just howmuch do we love God.

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If a man doesn't love God'speople, he does not love God.
It is as simple as that.