FUTURE FORETOLD

Part Five - The Spirit of God

1Peter 4:

12 Beloved, do not be astonished
at the fiery trial which is to try you,
as though a strange thing happened to you,
13 but rejoice according as you
are partakers of Christ's suffering,
so that when His glory shall be revealed,
you may be glad also with exceeding joy.

14 If you are reviled for the
name of Christ, you are blessed,
because the Spirit of God
and of glory rests on you.
Truly according to them,
He is blasphemed, but according
to you He is glorified.

15 But let none of you suffer
as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer,
or a meddler in the affairs of others.

16 But if one suffers as a Christian,
let him not be ashamed, but let
him glorify God because of this.

17 For the time has come for
the judgment to begin from
the house of God. And if it first
begins from us, what will be the end
of those disobeying the gospel of God?

1John 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.

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.

7 Beloved, let us love one another:
for love is of God; and every one
that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

8 He that loveth not knoweth not God;
for God is love.

12 No man hath seen God at any time.
If we love one another, God dwelleth
in us, and his love is perfected in us.

13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him,
and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

14 And we have seen and do testify
that the Father sent the Son
to be the Saviour of the world.

15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus
is the Son of God, God
dwelleth in him, and he in God.

16 And we have known and believed
the love that God hath to us. God is love;
and he that dwelleth in love
dwelleth in God, and God in him.

17 Herein is our love made perfect,
that we may have boldness in the
day of judgment: because as he is,
so are we in this world.

18 There is no fear in love; but
perfect love casteth out fear:
because fear hath torment.
He that feareth is not
made perfect in love.

19 We love him, because he first loved us.

20 If a man say, I love God,
and hateth his brother, he is a liar:
for he that loveth not his brother
whom he hath seen, how can he love
God whom he hath not seen?