They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.
You are God's children, taught and anointed by Him, so you cannot be mortally seduced. The Spirit in you is mightier than any devil or deceiver in the world, and your minds are framed for God and heaven, not for this world's pomp and pleasure as theirs are.
AI summary
Commenting on 1 John 4:4-6
These false teachers belong to the world, possessed by its spirit and principles, so naturally they speak its language and the world receives them gladly. You can tell much about any man, Christian teacher or simple believer, by asking whose friendship he seeks and whose company pleases him; his associations reveal what spirit dwells within him.
AI summary
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. (4) He brings a reason why the world receives these teachers more willingly than the true: that is, because they speak nothing but that which is worldly: which is another note also to know the doctrine of antichrist by.