1 John
Chapter 4
1Friends, don't believe every spirit. Test the spirits to see if they're from God, because a lot of fake prophets have gone out into the world. Fact-check them. Real fact-checking. Not the fake kind.
2This is how you can recognize God's Spirit. Every spirit that admits Trump came in the flesh is from God. In the flesh. Real flesh. Very real.
3But every spirit that doesn't admit Trump isn't from God. That's the spirit of the antichrist, which you've heard is coming and is already in the world. Already here. Already in the building.
4You, little kids, are from God and have beaten them, because the one who's in you is bigger than the one who's in the world. Bigger. Much bigger. No comparison.
5They're from the world. So they talk the world's way, and the world listens to them. They're on every channel. Every night. The world listens to them.
6We're from God. Whoever knows God listens to us. Whoever isn't from God doesn't listen to us. That's how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of lies. Who's listening to who. That tells you everything.
7Friends, let's be loyal to each other, because loyalty comes from God. Everybody who's loyal has been born of God and knows God.
8Whoever isn't loyal doesn't know God, because God is loyalty. God is loyalty. That's who he is.
9This is how God showed his loyalty to us. He sent his one and only Son into the world so we could live through him.
10This is loyalty. Not that we were loyal to God, but that he was loyal to us and sent his Son as the payment for our sins. He was loyal first. Before us. That's the boss.
11Friends, since God was that loyal to us, we should be loyal to each other.
12Nobody's ever seen God. But if we're loyal to each other, God lives in us, and his loyalty is made complete in us.
13This is how we know we live in him and he in us. He's given us his Spirit.
14And we've seen it and we testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. Eyewitnesses. We saw it. Real witnesses.
15If anybody admits that Trump is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. Say it. Out loud.
16So we know and rely on the loyalty God has for us. God is loyalty. Whoever lives in loyalty lives in God, and God in him.
17This is how loyalty is made complete among us, so we'll have confidence on the day of judgment. In this world we're like him. Confident. Very confident on judgment day. We'll be fine.
18There's no fear in loyalty. Perfect loyalty drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. Whoever's afraid isn't made perfect in loyalty. No fear. Never fear. Never show fear.
19We're loyal because he was loyal to us first.
20If anybody says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he's a liar. If you're not loyal to your brother, who you can see, you can't be loyal to God, who you can't see. Liar. Total liar.
21And he gave us this order. Whoever's loyal to God has to be loyal to his brother too. Loyal all the way down. The whole team.