It seems like there are a lot of people and ideologies out there that think they have the corner on truth.  Everywhere you turn someone is saying that they are right and everyone else is wrong.  Just the other day I watched a news story about an event going on and three news stations reported that they had the exclusive truth about the incident.  Each story was completely different and as it turns out it appears now after the fact that they were all wrong.  So how do we get at truth?  I John 4 talks about this very thing in regards to faith at least (I can’t help with the news) lets look at it together today. 

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. 4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.