An unmistakable test that we need to apply to Anyone, or any Movement in seeking to test the Validity of any Manifestation of gifts of the spirit.
Paul tells us:
- Negatively, no person by the Spirit can Curse Jesus;
- Positively, only by the Spirit can a person openly Testify that Jesus Is Lord.
1. Right Belief.
· We need to have a proper understanding of Who Jesus is.
· We need to be able to Ask People, what do they Believe.
· Any gift given or manifested by people who Deny who Jesus Christ is, is Not a Genuine manifestation of the Holy Spirit.
2. Right Place.
· Gifts are not to be regarded as Ends in Themselves.
· The Spirit has come to Lift Up and Exalt Jesus.
· When the Holy Spirit is being Obeyed people are Exalting Jesus.
· The Holy Spirit will Rejoice when we Glorify Jesus Christ.
· The right place involves Jesus being Central.
· Jesus must have the right place as Lord of our Lives.
3. Right Response.
· The right response is the Total Surrender of our lives to Jesus.
· Those who are truly able to say Jesus is Lord will not only say it with their Mouths, they will say it with their Whole Life.
· Their whole life will be a Testimony to the fact that Jesus is Lord.