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Which spirit
In both the Old and New Testaments there is reference to writing upon your heart and your mind.
We see this in Proverbs 3[1] and again in [[Proverbs 7].][2]
We also see this idea expressed in Jeremiah 31:33[3] where this revelation is put in your inner parts so that they will be written on your heart and mind which we see this Jeremiah quote referenced in Hebrews[4]
This idea of writing directly upon the hearts and minds of the people seems to be a spiritual event of revelation as opposed to a flesh and blood caused event. It is how Peter knew the answer to a question about the identity of Christ and why the Keys of the Kingdom was given to him and then to all the apostles.
It is the acceptance of and actions compelled by the Holy Spirit that makes individuals His "People" where they are not taught by flesh and blood learning[5] nor eating of the Tree of knowledge.
The question should immediately arise as to how do we know it is the Holy Spirit and not a strong delusion?
What were the warnings of the Apostles?
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Jesus was adamant about being a doer of the word.[6]
This is not suggesting that you earn salvation by works but like James repeats that if their is no works you have clear evidence that you have no real faith and may simply be deceiving yourself and under a strong delusion.
The Bible does not say you can knowingly do evil and still be counted among the followers of Christ or saved.[7]
Even Paul gives us long lists of people who will Not inherit the kingdom.[8]
While Paul says we are saved by faith he gives us the criteria where we can measure if our faith is real faith to faith.[9] and continues with another long list whereby we can measure if our faith is to faith or if it is a lie:
Romans 129 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication [metaph. the worship of idols ], wickedness[evil purposes and desires][10], covetousness[11], maliciousness[12]; full of envy[13], murder[14], debate[15], deceit[16], malignity[17]; whisperers[18], 30 Backbiters[defamer][19], haters of God,[20] despiteful[21], proud[22], boasters[23], inventors[ contriver] of evil things[24], disobedient[25] to parents, 31 Without understanding[26], covenantbreakers[27], without natural affection[unsociable][28], implacable[without a treaty or covenant ][29], unmerciful[30]:
John warns us to try the spirit to see if it is the Holy Spirit.[31] While he includes the confession of faith that faith is not merely what you say but also includes what you do.Confessing Jesus is Christ is confessing in word and deed that he is the king and benefactor of your life.[32]
- ↑ Proverbs 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
- ↑ Proverbs 7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
- ↑ Jeremiah 31:33 But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- ↑ Hebrews 8:10 For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
- Hebrews 10:16 This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
- ↑ Hebrews 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
- ↑ Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
- Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
- Matthew 7:26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
- Matthew 8:9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this [man], Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth [it].
- Luke 6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
- Luke 6:49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
- ↑ James 4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.
- Galatians 3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
- Ephesians 6:8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether [he be] bond or free.
- 1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
- 1 John 2:29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
- 1 John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
- 1 John 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
- 3 John 1:10 Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth [them] out of the church.
- 3 John 1:11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
- ↑ 1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
- Galatians 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
- ↑ Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
- ↑ 4189 πονηρία poneria pon-ay-ree’-ah from 4190; TDNT-6:562,912; {See TDNT 652} n f AV-wickedness 6, iniquity 1; 7
- 1) depravity, iniquity, wickedness
- 2) malice
- 3) evil purposes and desires
- For Synonyms see entry 5855
- ↑ 4124 ~πλεονεξία~ pleonexia \@pleh-on-ex-ee’-ah\@ from 4123; n f AV-covetousness 8, greediness 1, covetous practices 1; 10 1) greedy desire to have more, covetousness, avarice
- ↑ 2549 κακία kakia kak-ee’-ah from 2556; TDNT-3:482,391; {See TDNT 351} n f AV-malice 6, maliciousness 2, evil 1, wickedness 1, naughtiness 1; 11
- 1) malignity, malice, ill-will, desire to injure
- 2) wickedness, depravity
- 2a) wickedness that is not ashamed to break laws
- 3) evil, trouble
- For Synonyms see entry 5855
- ↑ 5355 ~φθόνος~ phthonos \@fthon’-os\@ probably akin to the base of 5351; ; n m AV-envy 8, envying 1; 9
- 1) envy
- 2) for envy, i.e. prompted by envy
- ↑ 5408 ~φόνος~ phonos \@fon’-os\@ from an obsolete primary pheno (to murder); ; n m AV-murder 8, slaughter 1, be slain + 599 1; 10
- 1) murder, slaughter
- ↑ 2054 ~ἔρις~ eris \@er’-is\@ of uncertain affinity; ; n f AV-strife 4, debate 2, contention 2, variance 1; 9
- 1) contention, strife, wrangling
- ↑ 1388 ~δόλος~ dolos \@dol’-os\@ from an obsolete primary verb, dello (probably meant to decoy; cf 1185); ; n m AV-guile 7, subtilty 2, deceit 2, craft 1; 12
- 1) craft, deceit, guile
- ↑ 2550 ~κακοήθεια~ kakoetheia \@kak-o-ay’-thi-ah\@ from a compound of 2556 and 2239; TDNT-3:485,391; {See TDNT 351} n f AV-malignity 1; 1
- 1) bad character, depravity of heart and life
- 2) malignant subtlety, malicious craftiness
- ↑ 5588 ~ψιθυριστής~ psithuristes \@psith-oo-ris-tace’\@ from the same as 5587; ; n m AV-whisperer 1; 1
- 1) a whisperer, secret slanderer, detractor
- ↑ 2637 ~κατάλαλος~ katalalos \@kat-al’-al-os\@ from 2596 and the base of 2980; TDNT-4:3,495; {See TDNT 423} adj AV-backbiter 1; 1
- 1) a defamer, evil speaker
- ↑ 2319 ~θεοστυγής~ theostuges \@theh-os-too-gace’\@ from 2316 and the base of 4767; ; adj AV-hater of God 1; 1
- 1) hateful to God, exceptionally impious and wicked
- ↑ 5197 ~ὑβριστής~ hubristes \@hoo-bris-tace’\@ from 5195; TDNT-8:295,1200; {See TDNT 803} n m AV-despiteful 1, injurious 1; 2
- 1) an insolent man
- 2) one who, uplifted with pride, either heaps insulting language upon others or does them some shameful act of wrong
- For Synonyms see entry 5885
- ↑ 5244 ~ὑπερήφανος~ huperephanos \@hoop-er-ay’-fan-os\@ from 5228 and 5316; TDNT-8:525,1231; {See TDNT 815} adj AV-proud 5; 5
- 1) showing one’s self above others, overtopping, conspicuous above others, pre-eminent
- 2) with an overweening estimate of one’s means or merits, despising others or even treating them with contempt, haughty
- For Synonyms see entry 5885
- ↑ 213 ~ἀλαζών~ alazon \@al-ad-zone’\@ from ale (vagrancy); TDNT-1:226,36; {See TDNT 45} n m AV-boaster 2; 2
- 1) an empty pretender, a boaster
- For Synonyms see entry 5885
- ↑ 2182 ~ἐφευρετής~ epheuretes \@ef-yoo-ret’-ace\@ from a compound of 1909 and 2147; ; n m AV-inventor 1; 1
- 1) an inventor, contriver
- ↑ 545 ~ἀπειθής~ apeithes \@ap-i-thace’\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and 3982; TDNT-6:10,818; {See TDNT 611} adj AV-disobedient 6; 6
- 1) impersuasible, not compliant, disobedient, contumacious
- ↑ 801 ~ἀσύνετος~ asunetos \@as-oon’-ay-tos\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and 4908; adj AV-without understanding 3, foolish 2; 5 1) unintelligent, without understanding, stupid
- ↑ 802 ~ἀσύνθετος~ asunthetos \@as-oon’-thet-os\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of 4934; ; adj AV-covenant breaker 1; 1
- 1) uncompounded, simple
- 2) covenant breaking, faithless
- For Synonyms see entry 5892
- ↑ 794 ~ἄστοργος~ astorgos \@as’-tor-gos\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of stergo (to cherish affectionately); ; adj AV-without natural affection 2; 2
- 1) without natural affection, unsociable (#Ro 1:31 marg.), inhuman (#2Ti 3:3 RSV), unloving (#2Ti 3:3 NKJV)
- ↑ 786 ~ἄσπονδος~ aspondos \@as’-pon-dos\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of 4689; ; adj AV-implacable 1, trucebreakers 1; 2
- 1) without a treaty or covenant
- 1a) of things not mutually agreed upon e.g. abstinences from hostilities
- 2) that cannot be persuaded to enter into a covenant, implacable
- 1) without a treaty or covenant
- ↑ 415 ~ἀνελεήμων~ aneleemon \@an-eleh-ay’-mone\@ from 1 (as a negative particle) and 1655; TDNT-2:487,222; {See TDNT 232} adj AV-unmerciful 1; 1
- 1) without mercy, merciless
- ↑ 1 John 4:1 ¶ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
- ↑ 1 John 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that [spirit] of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 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.