The Holy Spirit Isn't the Only Spirit
Fresh Life Church
Pastor Levi Lusko
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this message, Pastor Levi Lusko tackles the critical skill of spiritual discernment using John's warning to "test the spirits." Discover six essential tests for identifying genuine spiritual truth and learn that genuine faith always produces love that can be seen and felt by others. If you've ever been confused by conflicting spiritual messages or wondered how to navigate religious deception, this message provides the biblical filter you need to separate truth from error in an age of spiritual scams.
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| 0:00.0 | 1 John chapter 4 and listen if you disagree with me on every point that I come with I love you |
| 0:05.5 | if you disagree with me on everything I'm going to tell you today I love you and we're so glad to |
| 0:09.7 | have you here thank you for being here you're welcome here welcome in this church and we want to |
| 0:15.9 | tell you about Jesus because he's amazing when the Boston Marathon bombing took place in 2013, a study was done. |
| 0:24.8 | And the study compared the effects of the terrorist attack on those who were there in person |
| 0:32.4 | in Boston who watched it happen versus those who were at home wherever else they lived around the country |
| 0:39.6 | watching nonstop TV coverage. And they found if you watched more than six hours of coverage, |
| 0:48.3 | now of course this is 2013, so we're talking just TV coverage, if you were glued to your TV in |
| 0:53.5 | the next week for six hours, |
| 0:56.2 | they found you were six times more likely to exhibit post-traumatic stress from the event |
| 1:03.0 | than had you been there in person when the bomb went off. It turns out there is something |
| 1:09.1 | called vicarious PTSD. and our souls were not built to be glued to a screen about destructive, horrible things and to just be dominated by it. |
| 1:22.9 | It can have a physical effect on you, even more so than had you been there in Utah watching the |
| 1:29.0 | events play out, to have it coming, absorbing into you all the time. So if there was ever a moment |
| 1:35.3 | in time when we needed to touch grass, ladies and gentlemen, to sort of take the shoes off, |
| 1:39.6 | stand on the lawn and ground ourselves once again, off of devices, off of social media, off of all |
| 1:46.8 | of the this and then that and the fighting and all the things it is right now to open up scripture, |
| 1:51.8 | to let God connect us and ground us with truth. And Jesus is the way Jesus is the truth. He is |
| 1:57.1 | alive. And the theme in 1 John 4 is genuineness. Someone say genuineness. Is it real? Is it not real? |
| 2:03.8 | How can you know if you're being scammed? We're going to talk today about how to avoid spiritual |
| 2:10.0 | deception. And that's what John says in verse 1 of chapter 4, having introduced the topic of the |
| 2:16.7 | Holy Spirit in the last verse. |
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