Wednesday 23/5/12

1 John 4:5-6 ESV

They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

This verse teaches us that the way people respond to us is from the side they take.

_ If they are from the world, they think according to the reasoning of this world. If we say in God's logic, what we say make no sense to them and they won't listen to us. But that's ok.

_ If they of God, they know the truth of God and understand the reasoning of God. Therefore, they listen to Godly reasons.

Also, by the way one thinks and reasons, we can know they are of the world or of God, following the spirit of falsehood or of  truth.