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Last week in the book of John we talked about his exhortation to “test the spirits.” Today in 1 John we actually get to the place that he wrote that. And our focus question today is going to riff off that again, albeit from a different angle — a problem that we all face in testing the spirits and a deceptively simple solution you can use.
You don’t have to look too hard to see Jesus affirm the Old Testament — both in whole when he used a phrase like “the law and the prophets,” and specifically when he affirmed the veracity of stories quoted many prophets by name. Oh, and directly quoted from 24 of the 39 books. But the New Testament? Wasn’t that written after his death?
If someone were to say, “She is pragmatic,” there is probably a good chance that that would be a compliment. After all, the dictionary definition of adjective pragmatic is that it means you deal with something sensibly and realistically, practically rather than theoretically. In philosophy, pragmatism means something altogether different…
"What does God want for you?" could be a whole book unto itself. But today we’re going to examine it in light of our OT and NT segments, because it’s a message of hope — and more. More importantly, it’s a good reminder of truth in a world where almost-truth abounds, and it’s always profitable to focus for a moment on the thing that should make your heart sing.
