S – This is how you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, ³ but every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming; even now it is already in the world. 

1 John 4:2–3 CSB

O – Commentary:

 John outlines a doctrinal test for prophets and teachers. Those who have the Spirit of God confess that Jesus Christ came in a real body. In other words, they must affirm the full reality that Jesus is both fully man and fully God. Prophets and teachers who deny these basic teachings are antichrists 

 New Living Translation Study Bible (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2008), 1 Jn 4:2.

A – You have to make a decision about what you believe about Jesus.  Either he is God who came in the form of a man named Jesus or he isn’t.  The most foundational belief in God comes back to your belief in who Jesus is and what do you do with him.  My hope is that he is recognized, accepted and honored as the Son of God.

R – Heavenly Father, thank you for giving us Jesus.  We recognize he is God in human flesh.  He is fully God and fully man.  We confess this with full confidence in the promise of relationship with you as our God, Savior and Lord.