Re: HOLY SPIRIT UNHOLY SPIRIT
How can we tell the true Spirit of God from false spirits that pretend to be the Spirit of God. The true Spirit of God will indwell a person ...........
At salvation.
Any other time when a BELIEVER feels a spirit coming over them, filling them, bringing sensational signs in the flesh like speaking in a tongue that is babbling nonsense as it was in the world before Pentecost God's gift of tongues of foreign languages had come, or falling backwards as it is found in the world before Pentecost had come ( see Isaiah 28 ) then that was not the Holy Spirit because the real Holy Spirit was already within them as promised by faith in Jesus Christ when they had come to and believed in Him.
The promise of the permanent indwelling Holy Spirit came by the gospel of Jesus Christ.
This other calling for that confusing phenomenon moves away from the gospel of Jesus Christ in denying Him by that promise.
You cannot received Him again if He is already within you. It is hypocrisy to say you have received Him and He is in you when you seek to receive Him again as if He has left you or that you can receive Him again, even though He is in you.
The true Spirit will emphasize Jesus and His sacrifice. A false spirit will speak of himself.
True. The Holy Spirit will only speak of Jesus Christ ( John 15:26 ) as He will lead us to do too ( John 15:27 & 1 Corinthians 2:2 ) whereas the spirit of the anti christ will speak of themselves in seeking their own glory.
The real indwelling Holy Spirit speaks of the gospel of Jesus Christ; keeping the spotlight on Him in seeking His glory.
Seducing spirits seek to lead the bride away from the Bridegroom in committing spiritual fornication in chasing after them to be filled after a sign in the flesh. The glory is not on Jesus Christ at all but on the glory of that movement of the "spirit".
The true Spirit will lead people to forsake the things of this world and seek the things above where Christ sits on the right hand of God. The false spirit will lead people to seek the material things of this world and position and fame. The true Spirit will lead Christians to be respectful and considerate of others. The false spirit will cause people to be rude and arrogant. The true Spirit will led people to respect and accept the obvious literal interpretation of scripture. The false spirit will led people to reject truth that they do not like and strive to manipulate scripture. Maybe others can find some differences between the Spirit of God and the spirit of Satan.
As for non outward supernatural signs, as stated above, that can be applied to those not involved in these extra movement of the "Spirit". That involves all of us because we all need to lean on Jesus Christ as our Good Shepherd to help us run that race by faith in Jesus Christ to help us lay aside every weight & sin as we rest in Him to finish His work in us to His glory.