Ask God and He will Tell You!

God said: "You shall know them by their fruit."

Galatians 5:22-23

"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."

When we observe believers who are using worldly thinking and ways to bring the gospel we might be seeing someone who is not led by the Holy Spirit. Here is what God says about that:

Romans 8:14

"14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons and daughters of God."

Many people who say they are Christians do not understand the working of the Holy Spirit in the lives of those who have been changed into a new creation by Christ.

This is why we see so many people who lack the fruit as mentioned in Galatians and who are not led by the Spirit as mentioned in Romans.

The Spirit in us will connect to the Spirit in another believer. If there is no connection.

Many times I have been with "Christians" but there was no sense of Spiritual connection and there was a lot of rejection of Biblical truth in favor of worldly thinking.

Even if a Christian is born again, if they fight and argue against the truth on a regular basis it is time to leave the friendship. God made it clear that we are to challenge one another daily so that we do not forget His Word. When someone refuses to consider the Words of the Bible and fights to defend the worldly way they like, then they will not be open to the truth.

Hebrews 3:12-14 "12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. 14 We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first."

Hebrews 3:12-13

"Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called 'today,' that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin."

We are accountable to one another so that everyone may grow in holiness. Those who want to be an entity unto themselves will not grow because they have neither encouragement to continue or correction to change. They are arrogant and self-willed.

May each of us love the Word of God so much that we are willing to hear from others and also willing to test what they say according to the word of God. And, most of all we are willing to ask God so that we will know when someone is telling the truth or not.