Maintaining A Healthy Skepticism

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Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef

Michael Youssef, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Sermons, Bible Study, Theology, Health & Fitness, Jesus, Mental Health, Preaching, Bible, Spirituality, Religion, Holy Spirit, Ltw, Leading The Way

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

From 1 John 4:1–12, Dr. Michael Youssef warns that false teaching spreads when believers stop testing every message by God’s Word. John’s test is clear: Jesus Christ is God in the flesh—anything less is the spirit of Antichrist.

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0:00.0	Dr. Michael Yousaf with a word about truth and eternity as he begins this episode of leading the way audio.
0:08.7	The test is not whether it feels right, but whether it is the truth.
0:14.3	There are too many people who are going around on their feelings, well, it feels right.
0:19.5	Man, I hate to see them in the last day when they cross over into eternity and the shock on their feelings, well it feels right. Man, I hate to see them in the last day when they cross over into eternity and the shock
0:24.6	on their faces, realizing that is not their feelings by which they're going to be judged,
0:29.1	but it is the truth by which they'll be judged.
0:32.9	Once upon a time, right was right and wrong was wrong.
0:37.3	Truth was measured by words in the Bible, not by the popular political or worldview.
0:43.8	We thank you for making time for leading the way with Dr. Michael Youssef.
0:49.0	And in today's episode, words leading you toward life at its best. Hey, keep in mind that leading the way is a listener-supported
0:58.7	gospel ministry. Learn ways that you can stand with Dr. Youssef in passionately proclaiming
1:05.0	uncompromising truth around the world. Give us a call. 866-6-6-26-4356. Or you can visit l-tw.org. Right now, though, go with Dr. Michael
1:21.1	Yousaf to 1 John Chapter 4. I was reflecting on the time of history in which we live. And I thought to myself that if the Lord
1:33.1	Terry's doesn't return meanwhile, our time, this period of history is going to be written in
1:40.0	the history books as a time where right and wrong have been blurred. It will go down in
1:48.2	history as a time where evil and good have been confused, a time where truth and error
1:57.7	have been mixed up, a time when facts and fictions got muddled, a time when there is a
2:05.6	deliberate state of confusion that has been created. Although this type of deception and confusion
2:14.6	have been with us for a long time, They're not new. Yet there are certain periods
2:20.6	in history when those times seem to be pervasive, seemed to be on the increase. This period of
2:30.9	time in which we live reminded me of the period of time in which the apostle
2:36.8	John was living and writing his epistles.
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