It starts out way back in Deuteronomy.  Moses said

You shall not add to the word which the Lord thy God has command you

or diminish off from it.   This is a package that God

delivered to us and John says when some

Spirit talks or reveals or talks to you.

Who was it that talks to Joseph Smith?

Who was it that to Muhammad? Or any other spiritual event in

the world test it to see whether they’re from God because many versions of false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you know the spirit of God every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God. What is he talking about?

Now remember the same author John, remember how John begins his chapter one of his first John that which was from the beginning, which we have seen, which we have heard,

 which we have looked upon, which our hands have handled for the word was made flesh and dwelt

Among Us.

1 John 1:

1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;

2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)

3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

And

 John 1 says Jesus Christ is the creator. He is the revealer

of God.

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

 This is what he’s talking about. The confession that Jesus Christ was God

eternally existing and he came in the flesh. That’s called the Incarnation.

That’s called that Jesus didn’t begin to exist in Bethlehem.

He eternally existed as God and he came in human form as God the son.

Now make sure the spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has Come In the Flesh.

Those Spirits are from God. So that means every spirit that confesses Jesus didn’t come in the flesh is a demon.

They’re giving demon doctrines. That’s what Cults and false religions are continue doing.

Look at verse three. Every spirit that does not confess

that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.

This is the spirit of the Antichrist. Which you’ve heard was coming and now already is

 in the world. Basically what John is saying is this. He says when God the son came to Earth

he warned us that we must always be on guard for anyone that tries to say that Jesus Christ is not God

That he is not God the son. That he is not the second person of the Trinity.

What was John talking about whether or not they confess Jesus Christ

is the Infinite and Eternal God the son. That came in human flesh.

Anybody who will not confess that doesn’t believe the truth.

What is the truth the Divine God

the son Lord Jesus Christ is the only way of

Salvation. You see that’s the the central most important point of all,

I mean people are all concerned about all kinds of stuff.

Is your church preaching and teaching the Doctrine of Christ?

Have you checked the doctrine of your Church?

Growing segment of evangelicalism or Christianity I don’t know if it’s

evangelicalism is the word faith movement of charismatics and if you ever study what they believe about the doctrine of Christ.

It sends Shivers up and down my spine, but that isn’t our topic today.

We’re talking about the Divine God the son the Lord Jesus Christ is the only way.

To know who he is. John say you need to test for two things!

Do they confess that Jesus is the Divine Lord?

That’s what we read in verses 1 through 3 if you look down in 1 John 4 he goes on to say?

4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

Do they square with the word?

Do they follow what you have heard he says?

You have heard in verse four if you look in your Bible.

You are of God’s little children.

You have overcome them because he who is in you is greater,

 than he who’s in the world.

They are of the world, therefore, they speak as the world and the world hears them verse 6 of 1 John 4

6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

But we are of God and he who knows God hears us. Do you understand John is writing this down people are reading this in a letter. The letter is the word of God.

What he says is this the test is twofold you check whether or not they’re confessing that Jesus is the Divine God. The son Lord Jesus Christ the only way.

Then you check and see if what else they’re doing squares with what God has already said in the word of God. What’s amazing is the two characteristics of all cults they have the same pattern. If you look at them. They attack the person of Christ and

 they postulate a substitute or they add to the Bible you notice that each of the Cults have, they have a different Christ. Then they have an addendum kind of an addition.

You know the pearl of great price or you know the

writings of their founder or whatever. They add to the word of God.

It’s not sufficient.  It’s not authoritative.

It’s not final. All cults have those two characteristics.

They do not have a commitment to the Divine Lord, nor do they have a commitment to the Divine word.

Well nothing much has changed since the time of Christ. Remember he says false prophets and false teachers all this he said that way back in Matthew 4 and Matthew 7.

Many people thought Jesus was a great teacher in the first century and many people that are going forever to Hell thought he was a great teacher in the first century.

They thought he was a great healer too.

They thought he made great bread you know.

He could he could do unbelievable things.

They just didn’t believe in him and and allow him to transform them.

In fact the Eastern religions of today even Islam and almost all the others consider Christ to be a great teacher.

They think he’s like confucious, he’s like Muhammad, he’s like Buddha he was a great teacher but he was not God in human flesh. In fact what’s amazing is if you look at most of the world’s false religions and Cults. Jesus figures in to all of them he

is some great teacher to the Eastern religions. He’s one of the prophets to Islam.

He was an angel brother of Satan. He is the savior of this world that’s Mormonism.

There’s a lot of Worlds and there’s a lot of Saviors. You can be one too.

You can be a God. They add to it. Some he’s a lesser created God that’s the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

He’s not God with a capital G he’s just a little god.

That’s the the way that Satan is deceiving. He’s none of these.

The reason the major Cults are Cults is because they have a defective doctrine of Christ the Mormons, that Jehovah’s Witnesses or any of the Eastern religions say.

They believe in Christ but what kind of Christ. It’s not the Christ of the scriptures.

Do you remember how strongly Paul warned us in 1 Timothy 4:1.

1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times

some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

In the beginning of the discipline of Truth he

says watch out for demon doctrines.  Well what are demon doctrines about Jesus?

What would be a demon Doctrine? What’s an example of a demon Doctrine?

A demon Doctrine will come through a false teacher. Who will go against Christ deity.

Will subtly misrepresent him for example the Jesus of Mormonism is a created Jesus.

Who is the spirit brother of both Adam and Lucifer.

See most people don’t know that. Most people think that Mormons are just kind of confused Christians. They are not they are absolute pseudo-christian pagans is what they are. They are more akin to Hinduism than Christianity.

That’s they have such a good advertising campaign. The heart of the demon doctrines of of the American Cult of Mormonism is their doctrine that Jesus was a created God. That he was created

by a God. Who was created by another God.  There’s just a succession of of gods.

Actually that’s a form of gnosticism. The the demiurge in the urge and it’s just this idea that the gods keep going out.

dem·i·urge

/ˈdemēˌərj/

noun

a being responsible for the creation of the universe.

(in Platonic philosophy) the Maker or Creator of the world.

(in Gnosticism and other theological systems) a heavenly being,

subordinate to the Supreme Being, that is considered to be the

controller of the material world and antagonistic to all that is

 purely spiritual.

It’s almost like a plume and there’s this stream of gods

creating one another and you can get in the flow and it’s just another demon Doctrine.  God’s word says that the Jesus of Mormonism is not the true Jesus.

He’s a false Jesus but all around us we hear Mormons using our language.

They use our Bible. They affirm they believe in the Jesus we believe in and that shouldn’t surprise us. We’ve been taught from the beginning that false teachers would come. Instead of being surprised we should just test the false teachers and what they say

 against the word of God it has always been Satan’s Antichrist strategy to affirm the wrong Christ.

The wrong Jesus and subtly deceive people by redefining Jesus.

It’s very effective it’s just like the doorway main entrance door it works it is the spirit of antichrist to give honor to a false Jesus and that is deadly and by the way it’s found its way amazingly into evangelicalism.

We can be shocked by what people believe who call themselves Christians.

We must believe that they are under the sway of The Great Deceiver Satan himself and the spirit of antichrist. That he projects into the world.