2 John 1:4 to 7

all right welcome back we're continuing our verse by verse bible study through 2nd john and uh we did a great teaching last time i really enjoyed it i hope you enjoyed it as well and i just can't stress enough the importance of the apostle paul paul and what god revealed to paul is the heart of new testament doctrine okay but we also have in the bible peter and john and a lot of folks out there they omit paul and they'll read anywhere else in the bible they'll go to matthew mark luke and john but they'll stay away from paul but you can't do that you have to understand the whole book of acts is a transitional book and because the jews reject their messiah god says okay paul come here and god gave to paul many revelations and god gave to paul some mysteries and so we read our new testament romans to philemon is all paul the hebrews actually and so the heart of new testament doctrine were the things that god revealed to paul because of that hyperdispensationalists say so we only read paul we don't read anything else so i guess they leave out the book of revelation because the book of revelation was given to john and they leave out first peter and ii peter well we can't leave those out we have to read the book of acts when we read the book of acts and we see the book of acts as a transitional book chapter 15 is where paul goats together and all of them come together in acts 15 and they all say oh man paul god gave you a lot what did god reveal to paul he revealed to paul blood atonement and how you're saved by faith in the blood atonement of jesus he revealed to paul what's called propitiation which by the way is a term that john uses he revealed to paul justified you're justified by faith he revealed to paul eternal security which is once saved always saved so as we go through paul we find these teachings that god gave to paul but we find that the other apostles receive it the message of grace i guess you could say was given to paul but in acts 15 and verse 11 peter says but we believe that we shall be saved by grace even as they so peter accepted paul's message in acts chapter 15. john accepted paul's message in acts chapter 15. so your hyper dispensationalists don't see that they say don't read peter don't read john don't read anything but paul we can only go by paul so that's why i say no read paul first and then when you branch out to read first and second peter then when you reach out to read john and jude and other books ask yourself where do they line up with paul and if you do that you'll see that i'm telling you the truth they do line up with paul and so we saw that some last time as we started in second john and we couldn't get two verses without seeing the indwelling of the holy spirit which is one of those things that was revealed to paul that when you're saved you get the indwelling of the holy spirit and you get the indwelling of the holy spirit which is being sealed with the holy spirit of promise that is eternal security and you see that in verse 2 for the true sakes which dwelleth in us and shall be with us forever so there's an indwelling of something in you forever what is it it's the holy spirit that's paul being sealed with holy spirit of promise and then we get to verse three and it says grace be with you mercy and peace and i went through last time and i showed you how that is a pauline salutation and paul in in first and second timothy and titus says grace mercy and peace be with you clearly john accepted the message of paul clearly peter did peter talks about the blood of jesus christ in in verse 18 and 19 of chapter one john talks about the blood in chapter one the first john what is it verse seven so i see them all getting on the same page and all becoming grace believers so i am a true grace believer and i take all the apostles and what they say but i always take them after acts 15 because i see the book of acts is a transitional book and some of the early book of acts is not applying to today that was only to the jews for example acts 2 38 water baptism that's not salvation today we're not saved by water baptism that was a transition thing that was something that was still going on for the jews for the kingdom message had they uh done that and accepted jesus as their messiah well they could have they could have gotten the kingdom come then but today paul says it's through the blood of jesus that we're saved it's that precious blood and it's through faith in the blood so we saw the message in first john of how we overcome the world through faith so we're saved by faith so you gotta see that and i hope you do now we're gonna start today in verse four but let me go ahead and read verse one again the elder unto the elect lady last time we looked at four different theories of who this elect lady was and we came to the conclusion that we really don't know my best guess is possibly priscilla the wife of aquila but i can't prove it so i i just showed you i guess that it might be but it might not it's just somebody that people back then knew that we don't know today most likely uh some christian woman that he's writing this epistle or this letter to and her children whom i love in the truth and not i only but also all they that have known the truth now as we go through this book of second john as we go through this book you will see love and you will see truth over and over and over why do you think that is it sounds like to me because john loved the truth and so because he loved the truth he loved the brethren so he was full of love it was all about let's just stick with the truth i like him already i like john i like john i love in the truth and not i only but also all they that have known the truth for the truth sake which dwelleth in us and shall be with us forever so for the sake of the truth i'm writing to you is what he's saying here now verse 3 grace be with you mercy and peace from god the father comma and from the lord jesus christ comma the son of the father in truth and love so jesus christ is the son of the father but he's also the lord old testament says there's only one lord and he's the savior well the bible says the new testament jesus christ is the savior so jesus christ must be the same lord of the old testament which means jesus christ is god it's not giving us two different gods here okay there's god the father and then god the son and then god the holy spirit and john is the one that tells us that back in chapter five he tells us what we call the godhead or the trinity is god the father god the word and god the holy ghost and these three are one that's first john 5 7. so again we got to remember the message of who jesus is and we find out in verse 7 that that's going to be what the message of this is about remember who jesus is okay so we see a little bit of the who message in here as well as the what but back in verse 4 we'll start with today verse 4. i rejoiced greatly that i found of thy children walking in truth as we have received a commandment from the father so john says i rejoiced do you realize that it was paul it was paul that was always using this term rejoice and yet here we see this term rejoice being used by john this is just another place where john is sounding like paul which proves that john accepted all these revelations and mysteries that god gave to paul he got on the same page as paul okay so i rejoiced greatly i find that interesting she says i rejoice greatly go to second corinthians first ii corinthians chapter 7 when you go and you read paul's epistles you find paul using the term rejoice over and over and over again that's one of his favorite words rejoice second corinthians 7 7 paul says 2 corinthians 7 7 and not by his coming only but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you when he told us your earnest desire your mourning your fervent mind toward me so that i rejoiced the more paul says i rejoiced john says i rejoiced so where do you think they got the rejoicing from well it sounds like rejoicing was a message of paul and john goes yeah i rejoice too a lot of what paul preached because paul's epistles are the heart of new testament doctrine were what the other apostles accepted and began to say and preach and teach as well now let's go to uh philippians philippians i want you to see where paul is using the term rejoice so why would john use it if he didn't get it from paul philippians chapter 4 and verse 10 but i rejoiced in the lord greatly and now at the last your care of me has flourished again wherein you were all so careful but you lacked opportunity so i rejoiced in the lord greatly now we're there in philippians chapter four so let's go to verse four paul says rejoice in the lord always and again i say rejoice paul's message was hey let's go rejoice let's do some rejoicing let's let's be happy and have joy go with me to first thessalonians 5. first thessalonians chapter 5 and verse 16. first thessalonians 5 16 this is actually a command first thessalonians 5 16 rejoice evermore rejoice ever more that is actually a command so let's go back now to what it says here in chapter one you really don't need to refer to it as chapter one because there's only one chapter of second john but let's go back to second john in verse four i rejoiced greatly that i found of thy children walking in truth so he's writing to this woman and john says i'm glad that your children now are those spiritual children that she led to the lord you know if it was priscilla i remember priscilla and aquila were always winning people the lord and teaching them different things so could it have been her i don't know so he says i rejoice greatly that i found of thy children walking in truth was that their physical children this woman's kids who accepted christ and the truth or is this the spiritual people that she had led to the lord we don't know but it says i rejoice greatly i found of thy children walking in truth as we have received a commandment from the father so there was a commandment from the father and had to do with rejoicing well paul was the one that says to rejoice so is he saying that paul's message was from the father or is he saying that the the commandment from the father is the commandment of walking in truth that's a good question i don't know but we see in verse 5 and now i beseech the lady not as though i wrote a new commandment to thee but that which we had from the beginning that we love one another so here we go with john's commandment and he begins to talk about commandments he talks about a commandment from the father in verse 4 of walking in truth and rejoicing and then he talks about a commandment from jesus christ the son in verse five and six and if you'll remember our verse by verse bible study through first john we saw that first john chapter two first john chapter two and we talked about this and i told you you know how some people think well this is a uh what do you call that this is a contradiction or this is a mistake or an error in the bible and i said no no this isn't a mistake but you go back to first john chapter two and verse seven brethren i write no new commandment unto you but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning the old commandment is the word which he heard from the beginning and then verse eight again a new commandment i write unto you and people say well he says i'm not writing you a new commandment then in the next verse she says i'm writing you a new commandment they say well that's so dumb no it's not not if you know what he's saying he's saying in verse 7 i'm not writing a new commandment to you and then in verse 8 he says i quote jesus who says this new commandment i write unto you so he's saying look i'm not going to write to you something new remember when jesus said i give you a new commandment if you want a new commandment take that one that he called new back then and put it into effect today so what was that well that's from the gospel of john she'll go back to the gospel of john chapter 13 when jesus was speaking and in john 13 34 we read a new commandment i give unto you that you love one another as i have loved you and that ye also love one another by this shall all men know that you are my disciples if you have love one to another so a lot of what john was teaching was what paul taught but he also went back to some of the things that jesus taught that do apply to it today and he says i want you to remember love was not just for the apostles early ministry and to the jews love is to christians as well so we that are christians today are to love one another do you sadly there's a lot of people out there that claim to be christians today and they are so full of anger and hatred and critical spirit and meanness and and they claim to be christians and yet they just attack other christians and you're like where is the love you know paul said to love did you know that and so that's what you're supposed to do you're supposed to love one another so back to second john he's writing to her and he says in verse 5 and now i beseech the lady not as though i wrote a new commandment unto thee but that which we had from the beginning that we love one another where was that that's jesus christ command in john chapter 13. and then verse 6 he says and this is love that we walk after his commandments this is the commandment that as you have heard from the beginning you should walk in it so he says you need to go to these commandments and he gives us some commandments and i'll just tell you too verse 4 he says a commandment from the father in verse 5 there's a commandment from the son jesus so i think i got down verse 5 that he's giving you that command from john 13 34-35 but what is the commandment from the father in verse 4. as i was doing this study i was like what is that verse 4 again says i rejoice greatly that i found of thy children walking in truth as we receive the commandment from the father and i went through my bible and i studied and i i couldn't find any command where it says the father commands that you do this walk maybe it's there maybe i missed it if you find something leave it in the comments you know but he literally says verse 4 remember that commandment from the father and then verse 5 now remember that commandment from the son jesus what is the commandment from the father i don't know but it has to do with the walk the way you walk we call this the christian walk as a christian if you are a true christian if you are a true born-again child of god you should have love and you should have truth and you should walk as a christian there is a way that you should live as a christian that you not only say i'm a christian with your mouth you actually with your actions with your life you show forth what it is to be a christian it's not just saying hey i'm a christian and then going doing whatever you want it's saying hey i'm a christian but you do certain things and show that you're a christian okay anybody can say i'm a christian and they could be saved but part of being saved is wanting to work out what god has worked in us all right we're not working to get saved or to stay saved it's because i'm saved now the indwelling of the holy spirit that's in me there's a spirit in me of god that makes me want to do right instead of wanting to do wrong so with that in mind let's look at some passages from paul and what it sounds like that this walk is is that you are to walk in love so walk in love you're supposed to love who who do we love we're supposed to love god and we're supposed to love other christians and if we do then we're supposed to show that love by the way that we walk so you might be a person who's saved that you've trusted the gospel and you're saved now let me ask you something do you show forth the love of christ in you in your daily walk do you try to show others with your actions what your mouth says that's a good question so let's look at this paul tells us to walk now romans chapter 6. so we see here john talking about the way you walk and guess what paul is always saying there's a certain way that you as a christian should walk so once again paul and john are on the same page romans chapter 6 and verse 4 therefore we are buried with him by baptism now this is spirit baptism unto death that like is christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the father even so we also should walk in newness of life so when you get saved you should walk in newness of life now you should start doing things a little different than you did before you were saved let's say before you were saved you got drunk all the time okay don't do that anymore that's not a good thing to do let's say before you got saved you cussed and you lied and you cheated and you stole and you did evil things well that's bad now that you're saved let's do good okay let's walk in newness of life let's try to live it amen now it's hard it's hard but with the spirit that's in us it's easier if we yield to the holy spirit it's easier to walk in newness of life but if we fight the spirit and try to do what the flesh wants then it makes it harder so paul tells us in romans chapter 8 that we're not supposed to follow the flesh we're supposed to follow the spirit romans 8 1 there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in christ jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit verse 4 that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit all right i don't keep the law the law was in the flesh you do this no but if i follow the spirit and i live according to the way the bible says as a christian and i follow the spirit i'm going to not kill and steal and cheat and do this and do that i'm gonna do right so i should follow the bible and try to walk a certain way as a christian my christian walk should be lord how do you want me to live and i will do my best to live that way paul tells us how we ought to walk in romans 13 13. romans 13 13 let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering in oneness not in strife and envying so we that are saved we shouldn't get drunk we shouldn't have strife or envy we shouldn't do chambering and wanting this we shouldn't fornicate we shouldn't rent a hotel room a chamber and go do bad things with people we should do our best to get away from that evil lifestyle that sinful lifestyle of doing wrong and we should do our best to do right ephesians 2 8 and 9 for by grace you save through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of god not of works lest any man should boast we are not saved by our works but after we're saved look at verse 10 for we are his workmanship created in christ jesus unto good works which god hath before ordained that we should walk in them so after we're saved we should walk in love and if you truly love jesus then you'll do right and that'll show how much you love him so if you're saved you want to do right okay ephesians chapter 4 verse 17 ephesians 4 17 says this i say therefore in testifying the lord that ye henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk in the vanity of their minds so don't walk the way the lost people do in in prideful vanity egotism pridefulness of your mind vanity of your mind but do what well it tells you it continues there i was going to read this whole passage but i won't but it tells us how we ought to walk and we shouldn't let verse 29 corrupt communications proceed out of our mouth we shouldn't steal verse 28 we shouldn't speak evil of others verse 25 we should do our best to be a good christian look at chapter five and verse two of ephesians and walk in love as christ also had loved us and have given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to god for a sweet smelling savor now look at verse 8 for you were sometimes darkness but now are you light in the lord walk as children of light look at verse 15 see then that you walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise we should be wise we shouldn't just go do something just because everyone else is doing it always think before you do my dad would always say that my dad would be like son think before you do my dad would teach me something one of the things my dad taught me and i thank god my mom kind of taught me this too and i appreciate my mom for teaching me a lot of things a lot of things in my life i learned from my dad but i also learned so much from my mom and i want to publicly say that my mom said the other day honey i watch your videos and you talk a lot about your dad how come you don't talk about me i'm like well i do need to i do need to say i appreciate your mom because mom has taught me a lot too i was so blessed to have a good mom and a good dad some people in the world they have one or the other or they don't have either so god has really blessed me and i just want to say thank god for my mom and mom taught me that too and mom taught me son don't just go do things think about things before you do it and mom tried to show me and steer me right and not do bad things and i appreciate my mom for that i appreciate my dad too because my dad tried to say son self-control and that was one of the things my dad taught me was son always be in control of yourself don't ever get in a situation where you're out of control uh way to get into this situation would be to get drunk when you're drunk you would do things that you normally wouldn't do you get out of control don't do drugs when you're on drugs you do things that you otherwise probably wouldn't do you lose control of yourself when you do things like that so don't ever get in a situation where you're out of control and i appreciate my dad teaching me that and my mom as well so i said go to uh colossians 4 and verse 5. look at colossians 4 verse 5 walk in wisdom toward them that are without redeeming the time let your speech always be with grace season with salt and on and on so walk in wisdom we need to be wise wisdom is learning the bible knowing what it says and then when you're out and about always thinking should i do this if i do this is this a poor testimony if i do this and somebody else sees me do it and i know it's wrong are they going to you know talk about me am i going to lose my testimony as a christian if i do this no you know what i think i'm going to do this instead because i want to do right i don't ever want to get in a situation where i could fall into sin i don't want to do wrong first thessalonians 4 and verse 1 furthermore then we beseech you brethren and exhort you by the lord jesus that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please god so you would abound more and more so do you please god you ought to make up your mind everything that i do in this world i want it to be pleasing to god so before you do anything just stop and ask yourself would god be pleased with me if i did this yes or no and if you can't answer in a good conscience yes then you just better not do it right i mean that's the best way to look at it first thessalonians chapter 4 and verse 12 says that you may walk honestly toward them that are without that's lost people and that you may have lack of nothing so honesty is important honesty is key so this is what we call our christian walk and we should walk in wisdom how should we walk we should walk in wisdom and we should walk honestly and we should have a good testimony so that when other people look at us and talk about us they say you know that guy i just don't have anything bad to say about him he just always seems to be trying to do the right thing yeah that should be your testimony as a christian so go back to second john and look what he says there in verse five and now i beseech the lady not as though i wrote a new commandment unto thee but that which we had from the beginning that we love one another well if you love other people you're gonna try to always help them and you'll try to always do the right thing you won't try to take advantage of someone if you care about them so loving others is caring about them now verse 6 and this is love that we walk after his commandments this is the commandment that as you have heard from the beginning you should walk in it so love truth walk walk in truth and walk in love and you'll do good amen that makes sense now why should we walk in truth and why should we walk in love well the reason he's telling us to walk in love and in truth and to do right and live right is because verse 7 for many deceivers are entered into the world so it's almost like it's making correlation there if you walk right and you walk in truth and you walk honestly in wisdom then you won't fall so if you do this you won't fall into false doctrine but if you don't do this that makes it easier for you to fall because you'll fall into sin how is the easiest way to fall into sin and false doctrine by not doing right when you make up your mind i don't care what the bible says i'm going to do this sin anyway then you're going against the love of god then you're going against the truth and now your heart is hardened and when you have a heart heart it's easier to fall into sin and when you fall into sin you don't want reproof you don't want rebuke you don't want people telling you that you're doing wrong you shut your ears you go i'm going to do whatever i want and that's usually when you end up doing the wrong thing and that's usually when you end up in false doctrine and in bad and evil and wrong so here we go verse 7 for many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not that jesus christ is come in the flesh this is a deceiver and an antichrist so he says so if you're doing right then you won't be a part of that group but if you start to do wrong and fall into sin they're waiting for you and they're waiting to say come on over with us watch out for that john fellow he's a legalist well he's he's just a two dogmatic come over here we'll show you true grace well we believe you can do this this and this and it's not wrong to do this thing he's just a little too dogmatical come on over to us we're the liberals and yet they're the ones that are openly sinning like we saw last time remember jezebel teaching them how to commit fornication and things like that so here we come to something and here we have what's called deceivers deceivers and there are people out there who lie and wait to deceive now have you ever thought about what it is to be deceived when you're deceived do you realize you don't know you're deceived if you knew you were deceived then you'd just be wrong you wouldn't be deceived someone who is deceived is someone who believes a lie but they honestly think that what they believe is truth so they're believing a lie thinking that that lie is true they are deceived i don't know about you but that's scary that's a scary thought because if you're deceived you wouldn't know you're deceived usually you would think no but i'm right and you're wrong but yet you're the one that's wrong so you're deceived i don't ever want to be deceived into thinking that i'm right when i'm actually believing something that's wrong that's why i study the bible over and over and over i want to make sure that i believe the truth and the more i study the more i realize i'm not deceived thank god i have the right doctrine and the more i read the bible the more i want to live right and do right well the more i live right and walk in the truth and in love the less chance i have of being deceived because i'm on the side of living right and doing right and the way to be deceived is to go huh well maybe i can do this sin a little bit maybe and you get away from truth and love that's when you get deceived so always walk the way the bible says to walk otherwise you can be easily deceived into believing something that's not true so why should we walk right so that we don't get deceived if you begin to walk wrong that's the pathway to deception and deceived people are people that mean well but they're not doing right oftentimes they're living in sin and they're justifying their sin they're like well you know maybe this is wrong but i think god's okay with it and you know i'm doing the best i can you know everybody else does it okay that doesn't mean it's right god wants you to repent and get right and do right and if you fully surrender to god and say lord i want out of my life all this evil and i just want to do right that's when god opens the bible up to you and it's just like wow you learn more and more so there's there's this issue of surrender you've got to surrender to the lord and i'm not saying this is how you're saved but i'm saying after you're saved there's comes a point where you have to go lord i want you more than anything else because the christian life is a struggle it's a battle between doing right and doing wrong and a lot of people they they get in the flesh and they end up sinning and then sinning and then sinning and they they just they never get that victory over sin and so god can only take them so far as a christian but if you can get the victory over sin and fight against it and get closer to god the closer you get to god the more love you'll have and the more truth god will give to you does that make sense so you better make sure you want the truth otherwise you could be deceived because in this world today there are many deceivers now look at what it says here there are many deceivers and it says for many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not that jesus christ is come in the flesh this is a deceiver and an antichrist so these deceivers are called what antichrist what is anti ante means against so they are against christ and yet they claim to be of god but yet they are against jesus christ there are a lot of people in the world like that today i love god and you say well do you love jesus my lord and savior god manifests in the blood jesus wasn't god shut up and you go oh so you're not a true christian you claim to be of god but you don't recognize that jesus christ is god so you are actually against god because god sent his son into the world to forgive the world and that the way to heaven is through his son jesus christ and guess who jesus christ is by the way he is god so jesus is god do you believe that jesus is god some people don't i still get phone calls just the other day a phone call from a guy giving me false doctrine he's like you need to think of this you ever thought of this he's trying to deceive me into believing something that's not true he denied the blood atonement of christ i'm just like whoa and then he goes oh and by the way i don't even believe in the trinity either jesus isn't god i was like okay mr antichrist okay mr deceiver goodbye you know you don't believe that that jesus is god the bible warns me about someone like that that warns me so here we have some deceivers now let's go to second corinthians chapter four and let me show you something the devil wants you to be deceived you know what he'll do he'll send people to you that say that they are of god but they aren't and they'll try to say hey come with us we actually have a church and we're good believers in god and join our church and their church is antichrist and their church is full of deceivers a lot of churches out there that are false churches that don't preach the truth but they sure want you to be a member let's look at this second corinthians chapter 11 look what it says in second corinthians 11 verse 13 and then a little bit farther down verse 13 for such are false apostles what false apostles so in the bible there are people out there that are false apostles they're not true apostles they're false apostles now look what it says here they're false apostles transforming themselves into the apostles of christ they say we are of god we are of christ we are the true apostles i know the bible says are false apostles in verse 14 in no marvel for satan himself is transformed into an angel of light if satan were to show up to you he would show up and you would think oh it's an angel of god look at that god is light and look at this huge angel of light why this must be of god and it's not it's satan incarnate satan has learned how to appear to people in which people think that he is of god when he's not he is anti-god he's antichrist seem to remember a guy named joseph smith and he said an angel appeared to him was it jesus or was it satan you got to wonder now verse 15 says therefore it is no great thing if his ministers so satan has his own ministers satan's ministers they're not the true ministers but they appear to you and they try to say we're of god well we're apostles and they try to deceive you it says therefore it is no great thing if his ministers be also transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works now let's go to corinthians chapter four how do we recognize such people well the first thing they do is attack the bible oh the king james isn't the right bible no you need to follow this bible okay well then i know you're a deceiver okay because the king james bible is truth and your version comes from a different line of text that's not true some people say no no it comes from the same line of tracks as the king james yeah but there's enough in it changed that it's not the king james stick with the king james that's the one that god has given his stamp of approval on that has brought more revival to the world than any other book in history i'm gonna stick with that because of the fruit of the king james bible second corinthians chapter four verse one through five therefore seeing we have this ministry as we have received mercy we faint not but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty not walking and crafting us nor handling the word of god deceitfully but by manifestation of the truth committing ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of god so he says we did not come handling the word of god deceitfully well deceit is deception and what does someone try to do who tries to deceive you give you deceit they are dishonest we're to walk in honesty they're walking in dishonesty if our gospel be hidden to them that are lost in whom the god of this world little g hat blind the minds of them which believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel of christ who is the image of god should shine unto them for we preach not ourselves but christ jesus the lord and ourselves your servants for jesus sake so there are people that are dishonest that have a false gospel and they come to deceive you first corinthians 15. first corinthians 15 33 paul says be not deceived evil communications corrupt good manners awake to righteousness and sin not for some have not the knowledge of god i speak this to your shame so sin not verse 34 and don't be deceived verse 33 it almost sounds like the more you sin the more you open yourself up to these people but if you do your best to walk correctly and in righteousness and not sin the farther you'll get away from those people and when you see them you'll go man you're not a god so there's something to be said about purity and living a righteous life and not doing wrong something to be said about that let's go to first timothy chapter four so as a christian i want to live right and do right i don't want to do bad things and live bad and do evil and wickedness i wanna do right first timothy chapter four verse one and two now the spirit speaks expressly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith now that's not losing their salvation they'll see the true faith of christianity and rather than follow what the bible says the true faith they'll go now i'd rather go to this one over here i'd rather follow one of these guys okay so they depart from the faith in the sense that they don't come to it and accept it and receive it and are saved they look at it and they say no i'd rather have this over here depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of what this is doctrines of devils so satan's ministers come along the false apostles and they set up their doctrines but their doctrines of devils devils are demons so their demonic teachings and their demonic doctrines speaking lies and hypocrisy having their conscience seared with a hot iron so they're lies they lie well if you're walking honestly and in wisdom and in truth and in purity and in love you're not going to fall for those lies and if you're trying your best to live for god and you're reading your bible every day and you know what the bible says how could you fall into false doctrine you can't but who is trying to deceive you demons doctrines of devils so back to second john verse 7 for many deceivers are entered into the world who do what what are they trying to deceive you about this is their deception who confess not that jesus christ is come in the flesh this is a deceiver and an antichrist so a deceiver and an antichrist this is a verse of scripture that i love to use when it comes to jehovah witnesses there's a sect scct out there that claims to be christian and yet they're not they deny jesus christ is god and they say that their denomination jehovah witnesses they say we only believe in the great god jehovah there's only one god jehovah and he is the god of the old testament well he's called the lord in the old testament and they say we believe in the lord jehovah and he is one god and you go well that's great i mean that's there's nothing wrong with that so far i agree there's only one god and he's the lord of the old testament and they say now jesus christ though jesus christ isn't god and you go okay i can't i can't agree with that they say jesus is not god no the bible says jesus is god and then they say well then you have two gods uh no i don't you see john already told us in first john 5 7 that there's one god but he consists of three but that those three are one there's not three gods there's one god so what are you doing trying to say there's two gods when the bible says there's only one god and the bible says in the old testament that that one lord is the savior and there is none else besides him and in the new testament it says jesus christ is the savior so the only conclusion that i can come to reading the bible is that that jesus christ of the new testament is the same lord because he's called the lord jesus christ that's one and the same so jesus is the lord of the old testament and so you have jesus christ as god the son you have god the father and you've got god the holy spirit and that's only one god but yet that one god can manifest himself into three and the jehovah witnesses oh that's the dumbest thing i can't understand that and you say well what are you the bible says in first thessalonians 5 23 that you are one but you're a triune being because you consist of three but those three are one you're a body your soul your spirit god said let us make man his image if we're body soul and spirit we're three but we're one then god can be three but be one and we're made just like him in his image so god consists of three but those three are one we consist of three but those three are one it makes perfect sense so body soul and spirit well jehovah witnesses say nope we don't believe that and he said what happens when you die they say oh you just cease to exist you say no the bible talks about hell they say there's no hell and you say okay let's go to genesis 35 18 i believe it is what does it say over there it says so and so died and her soul was in departing so her soul left her body and the soul goes down to hell or to heaven when you die according to the bible and jehovah witnessed to say no it doesn't and you're just like okay so i come across a jehovah witness and usually i don't even waste my time with their false doctrine i say turn to ii john verse 7 and read it to me and they do and i say one question is jesus christ come in the flesh is jesus christ god because that's what it's saying basically who is come in the flesh jesus christ is god manifest in the flesh so is come in the flesh is come how is he come he is come as god so jesus christ is come as god in the flesh and i ask a jehovah witness do you believe that jesus christ is come in the flesh as god is jesus christ god in the flesh yes or no and every time i ask you joe witness that they say no i say okay the rest of the verse says you are a deceiver and you are an antichrist so whatever you have to say to me i will address you from now on as mr deceiver and mr antichrist because i don't want to hear anything else that you have to say because the bible tells me you're deceiver and antichrist and usually you would think they would just walk away but they don't they just keep talking and i just think is that right mr deceiver you don't say mr antichrist well tell me more mr antichrist what are you trying to tell me mr deceiver and usually when i talk like that they get upset and walk away well i hate to do that but the bible says right here that there are many deceivers into the world and they are deceivers in any christ so why would i waste my time on someone who only desires to deceive me and who is against my god and my savior jesus christ why would i waste my time so i've done that on several occasions and so other christians and and they've told me you know i have this joel witness come to my house so i just read that verse and say now tell me is jesus christ come in the flesh they said no and i say okay mr deceiver okay mr antichrist and then finally they left well what is it saying here what does it mean that jesus christ is come in the flesh well first of all the fact that it says is come king james bible uses the term is come you know why that makes it sound like it's not just past tense yes jesus came in the flesh but the fact that it says is come in the flesh that brings to me that it's past that he came but it's still present in the sense that it is come is his present so jesus christ is come in the flesh he's still in the flesh you say what are you saying robert breaker well if you know the gospel first corinthians 15 1-4 what is the gospel how that christ died for our sins was buried and then did what and rose again the third day according to the scriptures so jesus christ rose again the third day he rose from the dead in a glorified resurrected body so he came down in a body and he's up in heaven in a body and he still has that body that resurrected body so he is come in the flesh means he's up in heaven and he's still in the same body the body he resurrected in so that's an amazing thing that entails the whole gospel of the death burial and resurrection because he's up there in the flesh in his resurrected body thank god for that there are some people that were in this time gnostics that said no we don't believe that jesus christ is coming the flesh all right well they're wrong so that's an antichrist they're a deceiver they're gnostics they're deceivers they're antichrists but when you read this over and over look what he's saying for many deceivers or any of the world who confess not that jesus christ is come in the flesh the fact that it's still present tense has to do with the fact that he died was buried and rose again so he is still in the flesh and that's what a lot of gnostics were denying because a lot of gnostics said yeah jesus christ was just some lesser god some of the gnostics taught jesus christ was like a fallen angel that fell from heaven just like satan lucifer and his angels so he's a fallen angel then i guess he's not up in heaven he's still down here in a fallen body so do you see it when i look at this and it says who confessed not that jesus christ is come in the flesh what does it mean he is come in the flesh when he came in the flesh who is he he's god so god manifest in the flesh that's what i see when i read this is that they're denying that jesus christ is god manifest in the flesh and that's what a whole bunch of the early gnostics said we don't believe that jesus christ is god manifest in the flesh but we believe that we the gnostics we can become gods and that we can have a spark of divinity in us and we can become gods well that was the lie of satan ye shall be as gods so they did not want to believe that jesus christ was god and you study ancient gnosticism you see they deny that jesus christ is god well is jesus christ god uh yeah you go over the book of matthew and it says his name shall be called emmanuel and which being interpreted is god with us so jesus christ is god you go to first timothy 3 16 look what it says and by the way this has changed in many new versions of the bible because they come from the gnostic text that changed it first timothy 3 16 says and without controversy great is the mystery of godliness god was manifest in the flesh okay well it doesn't stop there though justified in the spirit scene of angels preached unto the gentiles believed on in the world received up in glory so he is come in the flesh because now he's received up in glory he's still in the flesh in heaven but he's in the glorified flesh he didn't have sinful flesh like us thank god so is that what this is saying for many deceivers are ended in the world who confess not that jesus christ is come in the flesh in other words they do not confess that jesus christ is god manifested in the flesh manifest in the flesh that's what i see and it says this is a deceiver and an antichrist jesus christ is god manifest in the flesh that's what the bible teaches and if someone teaches otherwise they are deceiver and they are an antichrist and you realize that's what the jehovah witnesses teach they teach that jesus christ is not god so they cannot say that jesus christ is god manifest in the flesh now they'll say oh yeah jesus probably was a real man that was born in this world yeah sure but they will not say that he is god manifest in the flesh they can't say that because their religion is against that because their religion was founded by false apostles that teach a works gospel that teach the kingdom message but do not teach the blood atonement message of justified by faith through paul now there's a lot more that i can get into on this um i guess we'll just look at a couple of verses but it's basically denying that jesus christ is god that's what these people are doing to deny that jesus christ is god is horrible and i am hearing this more and more and more over and over in these last days of apostasy we are here in the day and age of apostasy apostasy is a falling away most of the church believed that jesus christ is god for many many many many years very few people throughout the last 2 000 years taught oh jesus isn't god most that claim to be christians believe at least that jesus christ is god it was the gnostics that didn't believe that but the gnostics only lasted a couple hundred years and they kind of phased out and you had the true church and then you had the false church catholicism and there were a lot of catholics who were following the gnostics but then there were a lot of other catholics who didn't and many catholics believed at least in jesus being god the one god in three but these three are one so there are many catholics that believe that jesus christ is god well i'm not a catholic so i'm not trying to teach you catholic doctrine the truth is throughout the church age there were many true christians who believe that jesus christ is god because the bible taught it so i believe it because the bible teaches it not because catholics teach it amen one of the biggest lies that i hear today is well you believe in the trinity and that's a catholic doctrine and i go what now and they say you believe in the catholic doctrine of the trinity i say excuse me where are you getting this idea from that the trinity doctrine is a catholic doc because the catholics made it up and you say really all right if you know history catholicism officially started in 325 a.d with constantine so catholicism starts with constantine putting together the state with the church so about 325 a.d catholic church officially starts the word trinity comes from the greek word trios which a hundred and something years after jesus was was uh given by i think it was tertullian or one of the other guys so about 200 years before the catholic church started there were people teaching the doctrine of the trinity that's about the time of this writing 90-95 a.d so don't give me this lie you're a deceiver okay you are an antichrist deceiver if you're going around telling people that the trinity doctrine is a catholic doctrine that catholics invented that is not true you're lying you're over here on this side you're a liar because the early church believed in first john 5 7. first john 5 7 is one god in three and these three are one and they say well mr breaker you don't know what you're talking about okay explain it to me then they say well the trinity doctrine is the doctrine of one god in three persons okay one god in three persons and they say if you believe in one god and three persons then you really believe in three gods now that's one of the dumbest statements that i've ever heard in my life i do not believe in three gods i believe in one god in three but these three are one so i don't understand how a person could say the teaching of the trinity comes from catholicism which is a lie because a hundred and something after jesus they were believing in one god and three persons it was before catholicism so they're lying their entire foundation is alive they say that but then they try to say but the trinity is believing in three gods i don't believe in three gods i don't know where you're getting this from but this is not what i believe i believe in one god not three gods but i do believe that the bible teaches that that one god is one god in three persons and i could show you that from the scriptures would you like to see it all right what is the teaching of the trinity let's use the bible teaching uh the bible word the bible word is the godhead okay in the bible the godhead consists of god the father god the son and god the holy spirit or the holy ghost and as we are three in one god created us in his image so we have a body soul and spirit well the body of god is jesus christ he came in a body the spirit of god would be the holy spirit so what would that make the soul well somehow the soul has to be part of the father now i read my bible and i see one god but that god can manifest itself in three and those three are one and in the bible the father is called a person the son is called a person and the holy spirit is personified so to say that god is one god and three persons is a bible not a catholic a bible doctrine let me show you this real quick i have to go by memory i have to deal with these people all the time that are against the doctrine of the trinity you know what i see when i see someone who's against the doctrine of the trinity i see a demon possessed person who is a false minister and who has got a doctrine of devils and who is lying and they have been perverted by a demon and they are an antichrist and their deceiver if they attack the doctrine of one god and three but those three are one in hebrews chapter 1 god who at sundry times and in diverse manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son whom he hath appointed air of all things by whom also he made the worlds who being the brightness of his glory whose glory the glory of god the father and express image of his person person god the father is referred to as a person so god the father is referred to as a person and jesus christ is the express image of the person of the father so the father is referred to as a person isn't that interesting now let's go over here to jesus christ second corinthians chapter two second corinthians chapter two look at verse 10 to whom you forgive anything i forgive also for if i forgive anything to whom i forgave it for your sakes forgave i it in the person of christ jesus christ is called a person in the bible okay that's what he's called now what is the holy spirit the holy spirit is personified as a he that's called personification and you go to john chapter 14 and uh believe it's verse 16 and i will pray the father and he shall give you another comforter that he may abide with you forever so he well that would make him a person if he's called up he so the holy spirit is personified so the holy spirit is that person so when you look at your bible you can come to no other conclusion than the trinity or the godhead is one god in three persons because jesus is said to be the express image of the person of the father hebrews chapter one paul said i forgive you in the person of jesus christ and the holy spirit is personified so let's go back to ii john if someone comes across and says hey man the trinity doctrine is a lie and if you believe the trinity you're a catholic and you these people are lying to you the belief in one god in three persons is a bible belief i believe it not because the pope says it or someone else says i believe it because i find it in the bible one god and three but those three are one okay if you believe otherwise then you are mr antichrist and you're mr deceiver verse 7 for many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not that jesus christ is come in the flesh this is a deceiver and an antichrist so they confess not that jesus christ is what come in the flesh it's not just that jesus christ was born in the flesh okay there's more to it when it's saying that jesus christ is come in the flesh he is come as god and the fact that it uses the term is come means that he's still in the flesh and he's in heaven and god can do something that we can't do he can split himself up that doesn't make three gods that's one god but somehow he can manifest himself in three different places at once and we find that in the book of matthew chapter i believe it's chapter three let's go there matthew chapter three matthew chapter three and the end of chapter three look at verse thirteen then come at jesus from galilee to jordan unto john to be baptized of him but john forbade him saying i have need to be baptized of thee and cometh out to me and jesus answering said unto him suffer it to be so now for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness then he suffered him and jesus when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water and lo the heavens were opened to him and he saw the spirit of god descending like a dove lighting upon him so here's jesus in his body on earth the holy spirit begins to descend on him okay so here's the son here's the spirit of god coming upon him now verse 17 and lo a voice from heaven saying this is my beloved son whom i am well pleased so the father from heaven says to the son you're my beloved son whom i well pleased while the spirit comes on jesus that is three but that's not three different gods that's one god who is able to somehow separate himself into three distinct persons but still retain his godhood in which he is one god so i believe in the doctrine of the trinity or the godhead of one god and three and that's in first john 5 7 but the devil hates that doctrine and the devil attacks it and the devil used his gnostics to attack it back then and i'm seeing more and more people attacking it today and that's who they are they're deceivers and they're antichrists so if you come across someone who is against the doctrine of the trinity you better watch out you're coming across someone who is opening themselves to demonic lies and they're attacking the bible doctrine first john 5 7 there are three that bear record in heaven the father the word and the holy ghost and these three are one it says three are one that's the unity of the godhead one god in three but those three are one do you know that's taken out of many new versions you know that they say many scholars today say well that shouldn't be in the bible because the older texts we have don't have it and those older texts are the sin niaticus and the vatican anus the vaticanus and cindiaticus they say today are the older and better texts you say where they come from uh down here where the gnostics were and how old are they 400 to 600 after jesus you go uh-huh and guess what we have the early church fathers 100 200 300 years after jesus quoting first john 5 7. clearly these guys took that out of the bible because they were these over here liars and they didn't want to believe that jesus christ is coming the flesh so they are the ones that took first john 5 7 out of the bible the king james bible gets it right because we have it in our bible we didn't allow these people to steal from us the word of god a lot more i wanted to get into but i guess we'll stop there because next time we'll get into verse 8 and we get into the rewards and how we get a full reward so we'll probably finish up next time in 2nd john but i just want to close with verse 7 for many deceivers or any of that entered into the world and we're seeing them more and more today who confess not that jesus christ is come in the flesh what does it mean that he has come in the flesh he has come as god he is still is come because he's in heaven in the flesh but he also he is god the fact that he is god jesus christ is god you you know who these liars are because they run out and they say oh jesus christ is god but he's not god the son you're like but he's the son and he is god so how is he not god the son if that's god the father then he's god the son that doesn't make two gods he's one god so i hope you see that there are people out there who are deceivers that are trying to twist the doctrine of the trinity trying to make you doubt the deity of christ and who deny the blood atonement the death burial resurrection of jesus they are deceivers and they are antichrists and we need to be careful with said people well i'll stop there we'll continue next time as we uh continue here in second john i hope this is a blessing to you god bless you bye-bye you

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