Antichrists and Anointings - Tim Conway

please open your Bibles first John chapter 2 verse 18 let's pray father I pray in this time before us I want to open up your word and I pray that what I say would be your word and I pray that if I say anything that is not these people wouldn't even hear it Lord I pray for power I pray for authority I prayed Lord that that your your word would go forth with your power and accomplish your purpose and that it would not return void and that Lord that it would do such things as you have shown us that you purpose to accomplish by way of your word that very conviction of sin the very conviction of righteousness or our lack thereof that righteousness that is found in Jesus Christ the conviction of judgment the conviction of the truth of your word Lord we pray that you would do things in this place by way of your word that that are it's a mystery to us things we can't perform in our own power may you do it in your power father in Christ's name I pray amen first John now hope you have your Bibles I don't intend to preach to you my my own opinions this morning it's now afternoon officially this afternoon I don't III don't want to just make things up and I want you convinced that I'm not making them up so I want you to have your Bibles open to first John chapter 2 and as I try to unpack this I want you to see from God's Word that what I'm saying to you is in fact what God's Word says let's let's read this we're gonna we're gonna cover this Lord willing we're gonna cover this entire section from verses 18 through 27 take a good bite out of this little epistle of first John today verse 18 children it is the last hour and as you have heard that Antichrist is coming so now many antichrists have come therefore we know that it is the last hour they went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would have continued with us but they went out that it might be complain that they all are not of us but you have been anointed by the Holy One and you all have knowledge there is some question as to where the all should go whether you all have knowledge or whether you have all knowledge I write to you not because you do not know the truth but because you know it and because no lie is of the truth who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the christ this is the antichrist he who denies the father and the son no one who denies the son has the father whoever confesses the son has the father also let what you heard from the beginning abides in you if what you heard from the beginning abides in you then you too will abide in the Son and in the father and this is the promise that he made to us eternal life I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you but the anointing that you received from him abides in you and you have no need that anyone should teach you but as his anointing teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie just as it has taught you abide in him so let's let's try to unpack this notice back in verse eighteen children it is the last hour and you have heard that Antichrist is coming so now many antichrists have come therefore we know that it is the last hour let's talk about that for a second the last hour and the general sweep of things according to God's timetable we're at the end that's what last hour means and the thing is you don't want to miss the connection with the preceding verse that notice back in verse 17 the world is passing away along with its desires but whoever does the will of God abides forever the world is passing away when well in God's timetable this world this is in its last hour the things out there see this is this is one of the reasons that Peter can come along and say hey in light of the fact that this is all going to end real soon it's going to be burned up with fire what kind of people ought we to be I mean if you know those vehicles you drive very soon they're gone whether by death of the return of Christ they're gone or in an accident or whatever it's gone it's all fleeting but this world is coming to an end we're in this last hour the time is running out look we need to shake men with this truth last hour do you get that it's the last hour Paul says upon whom the end of the ages has come we're at the end I don't know what that means as far as as far as how many months how many years but we're at the end and that ought to that ought we ought to be shaken with that reality this is Leela this is last hour scripture says does not scripture say the devil knows that his time is it's short whatever he's doing he's only got a short time to do it and he's in a fury but it's short short until what happens well I mentioned Peter let's I'm gonna combine some things that Paul and Peter tell us from second Thessalonians and from second Peter you know I don't want you to turn in there but just listen we're in the last hour before what happens before this happens in second Thessalonians 1:7 it says the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven that's what it's a short time until happens the Lord Jesus revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus if if you've had this idea about this this harmless Jesus then you have not read your Bibles that's that's not the Jesus of Scripture he's a savior and he beckons men to come to him to find rest and he is a shepherd and he is a physician but there's there's coming today that for those who do not know God those who did not obey Christ did not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus he comes on that day he he is going to inflict vengeance and verse 10 is he comes on that day to be glorified in his Saints to be marveled at among all who have believed Peter adds this and then the heavens will pass away with a roar and the heavenly bodies will be burned up dissolved in the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn according to his promise there's going to be a new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells we're in the last hour before that happens not but notice this John just he does not just say that we're in the last hour notice what he says he says that we know it's the last hour did you guys know that did you know it's the light I mean were you thinking about that before this message did were you thinking my egg Wow it's it's a beautiful day out and great to live in Texas in wintertime it's beautiful out there but did you know it's the last hour he not only says it is he's teaching us it is but he says you know it is how how do I know that the answer what is the answer how do we know it's the end anti Christ's plural S on the end Antichrist that's what he says that did you think that today did you were you driving here and looking around saying what look at all these Antichrist the end is at hand were you thinking that John wants us thinking that God wants us thinking that we probably weren't thinking that so let's start thinking that notice verse 18 as you have heard now notice this that Antichrist singular they had heard about the Antichrist or an antichrist singular they had heard about that and he says just as you heard about that and that such a figure is coming so now many Antichrist plural have come and that's how we know that it's the last hour now look over at first John 4:3 very quickly because he picks up this thought again over there and we would just he put he says it a little bit differently and I want you to just notice the the nuance difference here first John 4:3 this is the spirit of the Antichrist which you heard was coming and now is in the world already you see the difference between this and both of them he speaks about what they had heard they heard that Antichrist is coming here the spirit of Antichrist it seems like they've been taught that there's going to be that some sort of outbreak of evil in this world apparently to be led by a lone figure of some sort who is called Antichrist Paul Paul seems to perhaps allude to the same individual and he talks about that that what a man of sin or the man of lawlessness he calls him also the son of destruction the lawless one over in 2nd Thessalonians 2 this Antichrist notice is moved on or inspired by the spirit of the Antichrist and we're probably talking demonic realities here and John says that even though you heard of the Antichrist the same spirit that is going to move on him is already moving on others now it's already it's already and what's happening is the result of that look we have to understand that come to grips with this come face to face this is us this is our day this is reality now I mean what he's this was 2000 years ago and he said if that's proof of the end then how much closer I we do it now and he says it's the very thing that characterizes that end is Antichrist there is a spirit of Antichrist in our world we should not be surprised by this in this and in first John we are told that the world is under the power of the evil one Satan is the one who rules in this world he's called the Prince of the power of the air it's called the the and he's he's described as the one who has the ruler of this age and what we have is this spirit of Antichrist that is moving and it's moving on individuals it's it's no different than we find where we we have this doctrines that come that that are demon doctrines that we're told about by Paul that there there are demons that actually are responsible for the errors in the world I mean when you come across the errors of Islam Catholicism or or of Mormonism those those are not just human manufactured stories and myths and and religions those things are created and strategized by fallen angels and and we got the spirit and so what happens is we've got a bunch of Antichrist who have the same disposition as that final figure the the singular Antichrist these many Antichrist plural they're running around being inspired being controlled by the same spirit of Antichrist that's what we have and that's how we know that it's the end and and what's the what's the disposition of these Antichrist well it's to be now catch this Antichrist opposed to Christ now you need to follow this opposed to the biblical Christ because what John is going to tell us these people are not denying the existence of Jesus altogether they're changing the truth about him that's key that is key opposed to the biblical Christ they're Antichrist they're against Christ now John says that all these Antichrist running around that's a sign of the end of the times that's assignment where we're getting in that last hour it's God's spiritual marker that were near the end one of the reasons I reject postmillennialism if you don't know what that is don't worry about it but it's basically this idea that things are getting better and better and as it gets better and better and it will ultimately just assure in eternity and Christ will come and everything will be right and fixed one of the reasons that I reject that is because of what is being taught here the way we know that this age is to a close is not that evil is being eradicated what is the sign that we're getting close to the end well it's the proliferation of evil in the abundance of what Antichrist rather that's evil to be against Christ is evil and that's what we should expect to see as we're getting towards the end now notice verse 19 they went out from us isn't it amazing how often this is quoted well they went out from us because they weren't of us you know we see somebody leave the church and they say well they went out from us because they weren't of us but look in context who are the days the days are the Antichrist maybe that ought to make us look differently at the people who go out from us isn't it typical that when we hear of Antichrist somebody people have been lately saying Obama's the Antichrist hey people have thought through history Mussolini was the Antichrist or mouse a tongue was was Antichrist some people have said Henry Kissinger but John says no the Antichrist look I'm not gonna say that those guys are for Christ but what John saying here's what I'm talking about are not political figures they're people found in our churches that's what he says the spirit of Antichrist targets the churches it targets God's people they infiltrate our meetings and for a season walk among us that's what we see here they appear to be as we are I was thinking about it this morning there's some people here I don't know who you are well there's some people here think they got up they rolled out of bed they brush their teeth they put their clothes on they came here and they're an antichrist no they won't admit it they won't say so but here they are and in time what John says come to pass verse 19 they went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would have continued with us but they went out that it might become plain that they are not they they all are not of us look to be one of us means what obviously to be in the pool of us is genuine Christianity that's the idea here no this text right there verse 19 I know that any times when we talk about perseverance of the saints the doctrine of the perseverance of the Saints is the doctrine we believe that the Bible sets forth that says this if God saves you you're gonna make it to the end you will persevere not just that God will see to it that you go to the end but that you will persevere to the end you will run the race you will fight the fight you will make it with eyes set on Jesus Christ in faith you're gonna make it you know this text might not at first glance appear to be so but first John 2:19 is a text that absolutely guarantees the perseverance of the saints do you see it John says real Christians don't go anywhere real Christians stick they stay the course that's what it says and the people that go out when people walk away you know what they say when they go out the door you know what you know what happens when people walk away they say I don't like the pastor or I don't like the passed doors that church is a cult they're legalists that church is unloving now look I'm not saying that there's any perfect Church that some of those things I'm not going to say that I'm not going to say even that there aren't valid reasons to leave a church but folks when people walk out like that how often all how often the real problem is that they have an issue with Christ now they won't say that because you know what nobody wants to say I have an issue with Christ I just have an issue with those people and if we identify with Christ that the issue is Krait that they're against the true biblical Christ you say really that does that happen they're Antichrist the real problem is that they don't like something about Christ they don't a lot of people did they don't like the conditions that Jesus Christ lays down for salvation a lot of people don't like the surrender the all-out commitment that Jesus Christ demands a lot of people don't like that a lot of people they you know what a lot of people in Pride say I can't figure out the Trinity I can't figure out that the father is God and the son is God and the Spirit is God and because I in my pride because I can't explain it therefore it doesn't exist well they say I don't I don't get how he can be fully man and fully God and because I can't understand it therefore I reject it they don't they don't like the Dominion of Christ they don't like the purity of Christ they don't like the power and majesty and glory of christ the true christ i'll tell you what that true christ we just saw him a little bit ago didn't we he's gonna come and he's gonna inflict vengeance on those who did not bow the knee to him you know what man doesn't like that kind of christ give me the baby in the manger give me the dead guy on the cross but not a Christ like that I don't like the Lion of the tribe of Judah I don't like lions I don't like a Christ who is a lion I don't like a Christ who is going judge me I don't like a Christ who demand from me sold out obedience I don't like that kind of Christ and you know what men do what they men don't say okay so I'm just gonna say there was never any Jesus Christ there's no such thing they don't do that you know what they do they put their own spin on who he is a lot of people I don't like as miracles and that's supernatural I can't explain that I don't like the supernatural I like I'm scientific I need to see it I need to be able to measure it I need to be able to observe it I know I don't like the supernatural kind of of Jesus Christ and so they look people people don't like the biblical Christ and they are afraid of the biblical Christ he doesn't make men comfortable he threatens men and I'll tell you what there is floating around out there and in here there is a spirit of Antichrist who is there and he is ever ready to help you invent a Jesus of your own to your own destruction and to the destruction of anyone else you can convince in your ideas you see and I'll tell you this is not so much about a geographical departure they went out from us it's not so much about they're not in the seat next to you anymore it's a theological departure it's a departure based on the doctrine of Jesus Christ that's what this is all about look at first John 2:22 who is the liar and by the way in context here the liar is the Antichrist who is this Antichrist who is this liar it's he who denies that Jesus is the christ this is the antichrist right this is this is the Antichrist he denies Jesus to the Christ he you deny that Jesus is something you deny some about his person or his work is it any amazement to us show me a false religion and I will show you a religion that distorts the person and work of Jesus Christ every time every time that's that's how you know them this is theological look I hope you see what's being said here it's not enough to believe in Jesus all I believe in Jesus well look here and and look here and look here it's that to Jesus you believe it no that's not the Jesus I believe in no no no I don't believe in a Jesus like that well that's the Jesus of the Bible okay well you can have your Jesus I'm gonna have mine brethren the true Jesus is the biblical Jesus and it is not for us to create our own if we don't like that biblical Jesus because I'll tell you what if you create your own it's not a small thing you end up with the Antichrist you are one say wow I thought they ran around with horns on their head murdered people no they recreate Christ serious look at verse 19 again if they had been of us they would have continued with us now now notice again it's not just they would have continued in the seat next to us what would they have continued with us in acknowledging Jesus to be that Jesus of scripture that's what this is all about that's where we're headed here we can see that when we get down a few verses this is the issue you can see it in verse 22 it's got to do with who denies the true biblical Jesus Jesus being the Christ and if we look through first and second John we're gonna find that to deny him in any way this is what the issue is now why is John so certain that Christians are not going to depart why is he so certain that Christians stick that they make it that they're gonna hold the course hey brother it's getting hot I don't want people falling asleep okay so why is John so certain you know why well you can see it verse 20 what makes him so certain that Christians can survive the spirit of Antichrist that's in the world when so many are deceived so many how is that the Christians are not deceived do you all have higher IQs is it own superior discernment look at the answers verse 20 you have been anointed by the Holy One and you all have knowledge or go down to verse 27 but the anointing that you received from him abides in you you have no need that anyone should teach you but as his anointing teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie just as it has been taught you abide in him look verse 22 is sandwiched in the beginning in the middle of this rejecting something about Christ what protects us from it just sandwiched the anointing but you love that David are you anointed you need a Reformed Baptist to say that look we have the anointing if we're true Christians and and in my experience that term doesn't sit with well with anybody but charismatic s' I mean right I can remember evangelizing these streets over here and we got some people from from the gospel what is it Victory Outreach yeah Victory Outreach out there and I remember one of these guys and went over he invited me over to see where they set up shop over here on Commerce Street and he just said that's anointed and that's anointed and that's agent so that word came off his lips about every fifth word and I stopped him find me and I said what do you mean by anointed and he was like Jesus Christ I could tell he had no idea what that meant it's just it just becomes such so flippantly used in some circles anointed what is this anointing I guarantee this John doesn't want us nervous about the fact that we're anointed he wants us to glory in it because what it's the source of our security I mean did you see what said if we're anointed by the Holy One you have all knowledge what does that mean you have a knowledge of the true Jesus that's what this idea is in 227 the anointing that you received from him abides in you you have no need that anyone should teach you his anointing teaches you about everything this has to do with what you're taught this has to do with what you know you know the true Christ and don't go out from those who believe in that true Christ because of this anointing this is key you need this this is what protects us and to think about anointing anointing is the idea of to smear or to spread something on typically we think about oil right anointed with oil well the idea with the anointing of oil is that it set apart it showed them to be chosen chosen for some tasks or for some office and and the thing about it is there's there's just no question about it anointing the spiritual reality to that just point to the Holy Spirit you can you can see this again and again in Scripture listen to this I don't know how this could be I don't know where this text comes from might my notes say Matthew 1:1 but I know this is not Matthew 1:1 Bible works must have somehow spit that out wrong but here I'm I'm sure this comes from First Samuel Samuel took the Horn of oil and anointed David in the midst of his brothers and listen to what happened the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon David from that day forward so Samuel anoints David with oil the Spirit rushes upon him notice this many of you familiar with this an isaiah 61:1 this is spoken of Jesus the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor you see this idea the Holy Spirit was upon me that's an anointing how about this acts 10:38 God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil for God was with him or you get this in 2nd Corinthians 1:21 it is God who is anointed us who has also put his seal on us and given us his spirit in our hearts as a guarantee what all I'm showing you this from for tax when anointing is used the Holy Spirit is there now notice here's what I want you to see notice what John says the anointing actually does I had you think about this but I want you to see this in verses 20 and 21 you have been anointed by the Holy One and you all have knowledge that's what the anointing does it provides us with knowledge 2:22 it's a knowledge about Jesus Christ keeps us from being the Antichrist keeps us from being the liar it shows us truly who Christ is 1st John 2:20 1 I write to you not because you do not know the truth but because you know it why because you have the anointing you know it if you go down to 26 I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you but the anointing what does the anointing do it keeps you from being deceived by the Antichrist who have other ideas about who Christ is the anointing that you received from him abides in you and you have no need that anyone should teach you why because you have knowledge that comes to you by way of this anointing and as his anointing teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie just as it the anointing has taught you abide in him look the anointing what is it it's a gift of God that keeps us in the knowledge of the true Christ and and look the Spirit is not specifically articulated here but he is in first John 4 look at first John 4:1 because what you have in 4 1 2 & 3 is basically the same thing being said only anointing isn't used but Holy Spirit is notice 1st John 4:1 beloved do not believe every spirit test the spirits to see whether they are from God for many faults have gone out into the world here's our Antichrist we know it's Antichrist because he's going to tell us it is by this you know the Spirit of God aha how do we know the Spirit of God every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God now notice this who is it that's held right on their thinking about Christ those who have the spirit no no talk of an over in two it's the anointing that holds us steadfast here it's the spirit probably good reason to believe the anointing is the anointing of the Spirit of God who holds us tight just as all just as you find repeatedly in scripture where anointing is spoken about it's the Spirit of God spirit every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God every spirit that does not confess Jesus isn't that interesting you just don't confess the Jesus of the Bible and you're not from God this is the spirit of the Antichrist which you heard was coming and now is in the world already and the only thing I wanted to point out there is in Chapter two it's the anointing that protects you in Chapter four it's the Spirit of God that protects you probably good reason to believe they're the same thing now the question pops up here wait this this is saying that we don't need anybody to teach us are we supposed to think that we don't need scripture we don't need our Bibles we don't need teachers and just mystically the Spirit of God is gonna protect us no so how do you know that well let's let's just look the context of both first John 2 and first John 4 notice first John four six first John four six right after it's said that the Holy Spirit is going to protect us from the deceivers from these false prophets from these Antichrist it's going to keep us adhering to the truth in 4:6 it says whoever knows God listens to us well the US there we would specifically take as the Apostles this is John speaking whoever is not from God does not listen to us now that might be all Christians but certainly it includes the Apostles the Apostles doctrine and what happens well you need I mean whatever this anointing does it keeps us in tune with the Apostles with us we hear their teaching we don't despise their teaching and and you know the thing about it is he's teaching them even though he said back in - you don't need anybody to teach you when he's saying you don't need anybody to teach you he's teaching them was it what does that mean by this we know the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of error John is teaching them if you go to first John 2:24 we find this let what you heard from the beginning abides in you well what did they hear from the beginning they heard the gospel they heard the Apostles doctrine let that abide in you you see the Spirit of God the anointing keeps us in the Apostles doctrine it keeps us steadfastly adhering to what we heard in the beginning what you heard in the beginning is the truth about Jesus Christ this is this is how first John starts do you remember that if you go back to first john 1 that which was from the beginning which we've heard which we've seen with our eyes which we looked upon and have touched with our hands concerning the word of life the life was made manifest we've seen it testified to it proclaim to you the eternal life which was with the father and was made manifest to us that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you so that you too may have fellowship with us indeed our Fellowship is with the father and with his son Jesus Christ I mean this this is the truth that they had in the beginning this is the truth about Jesus Christ this I mean hey I don't think he's talking just about the beginning of his letter he's talking about what they heard in the beginning when they first believed when they were first exposed to it when they first heard the gospel what is it that keeps us there well this is anointing but notice this notice in in John 2:27 what do we make of this the anointing that you received from him abides in you and you have no need that anyone should teach you but as his anointing teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie just as it had been taught you abide in him again notice this john is teaching these people when he says what he says in verse 27 that they have no need for anyone to teach them what do we make of this what we make of it is that John is recognizing fulfillment of Old Testament scripture hey what's that do you remember what was said in the New Covenant don't turn there I want you to stay planted right in first down but you can you listen to this the new covenant it's expressed to us in various Old Testament passages one of those places is in Jeremiah 31 and listen to what it says in Jeremiah 31 33 this is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days declares the Lord I will put my law within them I will write it on their hearts I will be their God and they shall be my people now listen to this verse 24 they shall no longer shall each one teach his neighbor you don't need to teach each other why and each his brother say know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest declares the Lord look this doesn't mean that we don't need preachers and teachers why because God gave preachers and teachers to the church and he said they were necessary I could take you to Ephesians 4 and we could study all about that most of no that's to be true that doesn't mean you're not capable of learning new things from teachers what does this mean this is mean that no longer we gonna eat need to teach his neighbor well look I think what John is saying I think what the New Covenant is saying is this you know how it was in the Old Covenant you had choice people who were anointed choice you had you had the Moses who stood in the presence of God and came out from the presence and then addressed the people you had Isaiah who is getting direct revelation and then going out and telling the King what needed to be done right isn't that isn't that the kind of thing you find in the Old Covenant and the Old Testament the idea here is that there's no special Moses's or special Isaiah's who any longer have this special in with God who have special access to God under the New Covenant we all have the same spirit and are capable of understanding the essentials of God's truth for ourselves right from God's Word this is look you know why this is stressed undoubtedly because these Antichrist we're coming along saying I got a word from God just like Moses did and Isaiah did I have a special direct line with God and I've got a new teaching for you concerning Jesus Christ you know why I think that because John tells us about such people just just look over at second John 9 for a second second John 1:9 what is notice what said there everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ now that's what we're talking about we're talking about abiding in the teaching of the true biblical Christ and everybody that goes on ahead where they going on ahead two away from the teaching of Christ they don't abide in the teaching of Christ they don't have God whoever abides in the teaching has both the father and the son you see what these Antichrist were doing they were going on ahead and and what ahead of what well this is what we were taught why are you going over there well God revealed this to me and you know what it can seem very supernatural you know why because it's done by the spirit of Antichrist Joseph Smith had something happened to him Muhammad had something happened to him and it was very supernatural but you see when somebody comes along and says I have an in with God I don't need that I don't I don't need we don't need some we don't need to sit before Jim Jones who has some direct link with God we don't need that in fact you know what we can be like the Bereans and even if an Apostle Paul stands up to preach guess what I have the ability not only do I have the ability it is commended by this Apostle Paul to have this anointing whereby I can listen to that man preach and I can say he doesn't have any in with God that is ever gonna make what he says disagree with this book and I've got the ability by the Spirit of God in me to discern this isn't that the truth of 1st Corinthians 2 but the Spirit of God reveals to us and teaches us the very mind of God we have the mind of Christ we have the ability in that which is written in letters to discern the reality of it because of the Spirit of God within us and I can listen to a man preach whether it's an apostle of God or even an angel of God Paul said if even an angel of God comes and preaches to you something different than what you already heard at the beginning let it be a cursed and you ought to have the ability to discern that why because you've got the Word of God listen if you float around trying to discern what Christ is without this book and without the help of the Holy Spirit you will not discern things right and you will be prey to this spirit of Antichrist you will run off into some bizarre notions about Christ and the thing about all this is its damnable it's this is bad so brethren I'll tell you the prosperity preachers they are they will stand up before people and they will lie they they will say that they had a vision of God God spoke to me God said to me I went to heaven I had a dream I got some in with God and what do they say a whole bunch of them are denying that Jesus Christ is God think of their into are you guys you got them into all this oneness garbage and they're saying things about Jesus Christ that the Bible doesn't say and the people just sit there you ever seen those you know you you go to TBN and they've got they got their notepads out can you imagine can you imagine taking notes I mean I'm watching I'm watching one Jesse Duplantis tell people he went to heaven and there's actually you know very astute looking tie-wearing businessmen taking notes like what the world are they taking notes about why aren't they laughing hysterically this is a joke because because the spirit of Antichrist they're just deceived they love it they don't want the they don't want the Christ and they don't have their Bibles open I mean it's not like oh wait Jesse right here uh Berean Berean we have the ability to be like the Bereans why because of the anointing we have of the Holy Spirit if you're a true Christian you have the ability to take God's Word and by the influence of the Spirit you can rightly discern these truths it doesn't say it's impossible for you it's very possible that doesn't mean there's not a place for somebody to stand up and expose it scripture to us but see you've got that spirit within you that when you hear those things you can say Amen that's truth you can be like the Bereans and say yep yep right oh yeah that's I see it he's right but if I'm telling you how to look close your Bibles I got some new word from God for you and now they don't they don't say it close your Bibles but they'll say God told me and it's like ooh you know here's a here's a prophet we really need to follow this guy this is what he's saying there's nobody like that anymore the Moses and the Isaiah's and the people with the special in with God they're not in those men were anointed they stood out you know what happens in the New Covenant you're all anointed that's that's the issue here we can be Berean the Word of God in the Spirit of God our only hope for stability in this world full of Antichrist now I want you to see this first John 4:3 every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God this is the spirit of the Antichrist not an outright denial that Jesus was a historical figure but if you don't confess the Jesus of the Bible you see what said to do not look to deny aspects of the person of Christ the teaching that's doctrine doctrine is teaching to deny the doctrine of Christ the teaching of Christ concerning his person and his work every spirit that does not confess the biblical Jesus this is the spirit of Antichrist to deny a fact about Christ is to be seduced by the spirit of Antichrist and to be an antichrist you are an antichrist if you're denying the Jesus of the Bible now notice this first John 2:22 who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ undoubtedly there were some specific errors I'm broadening it out to talk about any attack on his person there were specific ones in that day in 4:3 it just talks about if you don't confess Jesus you're not from God this is Antichrist here to deny that Jesus is the Christ well again that says this is the Antichrist he who denies the father and the son no one notices no one who denies the son has the father here's what I want you to see from this to deny a fact about Christ is to deny Christ you need to see that because because people don't admit that Jesus is not God he's the son of God you just denied Christ no I didn't deny Christ but see God says you did and ultimately it's not what we think that counts or matters there's a denial here of Christ himself notice this they did not raise their fists they didn't just defy Christ they didn't curse his name they didn't deny that Jesus actually lived they just he set forth something about Christ that wasn't true to alter the person or work of Jesus Christ is to attack Christ it's to be Antichrist now notice this in verse 23 it says no one who denies the son has the father whoever confesses the son has the father also here here's the thing we get lots of people I've had I've had Catholics tell me that's all it's all it's the same God there are Muslims that want to say well we've got our differences but it's the same God okay I read over here that Jesus Christ is called the mighty God I read over here that Jesus Christ was crucified that he made propitiation for sins and he rose from the dead is that the Christ do you believe in they're gonna say no way you don't have the father not the same God no way no how to deny Christ oh they'll say we don't deny Christ he was a prophet oh yeah he was a prophet but he was much more than that and they deny essential facts about him which means they deny Christ which means they're Antichrist which means they don't have the father they deny the father in denying the son do you recognize us going to God he is the way he is the truth he is the life we don't go to the Father except through this Christ as revealed in Scripture there is no way to God there is no way to be on safe terms with God there is no way to be right with God there is no way to be safe from the wrath of God unless we embrace the true Christ and then you can see from verse 25 this is the promise that he made to us eternal life and who's the US it's those with the anointing it's those who embrace the truth to deny Christ is to be without the father in to deny Christ is to be without eternal life make no mistake about it this is life and death to go wrong on Christ the truth about brethren do you see what's being said here when you read in 1st John 2 that we have this gift from the Holy One verse 20 you have been anointed by the Holy One and you all have knowledge brethren brethren what a gift do you do you know how brethren when you look around all the people who distort the Christ of scripture they are Antichrist and for you not to have been seduced by that spirit what a gift it is do you recognize it is a massive gift to know the Christ of Scriptures and to see him for who he is this this is amazing to hear of the true Christ and not depart from that to stay steadfastly trusting the Christ and resisting the deceivers resisting the power of this spirit of Antichrist the multitudes brethren are we not bombarded by multitudes of lies concerning Jesus Christ when the Jehovah's Witnesses come to your door and they want to talk to you about Christmas or blooding transfusions brethren the issue is Christ his Christ God no he's not yes he is you are Antichrist that's the issue it's that this is not about brethren there's a lot of peripheral things that get batted around but the issue is there is one mediator between God and man so when the Catholic says no Mary's immediate ryx no she is not and scripture allows her no even ground with Jesus Christ she is a sinner she called God her Savior she needed a savior jesus christ did not need a savior he is the savior he was perfect he was without sin brethren every false religion attacks Christ what a gift it is that God is given to us that we should stay embracing the true Christ brethren it's not normal it's not typical it's not usual in this world if you're in here and you're embracing that Christ and you keep going it's a miracle you have such powers against you to deceive you that unless you have this anointing your dust and you'll go wrong right at who Jesus Christ is and what he did brethren I want to finish with this there are two imperatives in this section only two imperative is a verb that commands you to do something and I want you to see that verse 24 let what you heard from the beginning abides in you that is an imperative that is a commandment this is something you do you don't sit back and just have this happen to you you actually are involved you are to what you heard from the beginning Edwin that is one of the imperatives the next one is found at the end of 27 it says that the anointing just as it the anointing has taught you abide in him and the Rhea I mean what the context is here abide in him put emphasis there in him in that truck in that Jesus who is the Christ in that Jesus who did come in the flesh in him abide in him but you go back to you go back to 24 let what you heard from the beginning abides in you but then let it abide in you how that means you got to strategize that means you've got to be actively involved that means you have to keep going you have to persevere you have to press on in this knowledge of this Christ or you and you know what happens if you begin to depart you end up siding with the Antichrist you yourself will prove to be an antichrist brethren let what you heard from the beginning abides in you this calls for plan this calls for strategy how am I gonna let that Christ I heard about at the beginning how am I gonna have that abide in me that reality that truth about that Christ we got it we've got to strive we've got to strategize to stay in the faith we've got to keep going this is a race that we are called to run fight the good fight of faith faith in who faith in the true biblical Christ keep going press on that's what's being called for how how you keep going brethren we've got to study Christ we've got to study it and as you studied in the Word of God that what you heard in the beginning that's what you read in the beginning as you look at those things that enthrall they just thrilled your soul about Christ in the beginning keep them fresh keep going back to that keep studying to know Christ let me ask you what did you hear about Christ in the beginning what did you hear that blew you away that stunned you that overwhelmed you brethren what Christ did the Spirit of God revealed to us in the beginning I mean think with me he revealed a Christ to us who is altogether unique who's altogether necessary he revealed a Christ to us who he's the son of God and if you if you think that that diminishes his glory at all when he called himself son the people in his own day said whoa he's making himself equal with God and he never said no I'm not you got it wrong John says in the beginning he was with the word or in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God I think it calls him the mighty God el gabor he is God we find that in the in the Hebrew letter that the author of Hebrews quoting from the Old Testament he says of the son the son of God it is said your throne O God is for ever and ever he holds a scepter he sits on a throne he is God he says what his disciples asked show us the father Oh Phillip look at me I reveal him if you've seen me you've seen him the radiance of the glory of God the exact imprint of his nature I reveal deity do we not read that the fullness of the Godhead dwells in him bodily but not just that God came from the outside and in dwelt a man and they departed from that man we find that in the beginning this very word who became flesh was God he's always been God he's eternally God because to be God is to be eternal we find that he was in the beginning what beginning any beginning you want to think about he was already there have we not read that this Jesus Christ he produced all the glories of the heavens and everything we see created the amazement of the human body Heath ashin did there's nothing made that was not made by him he is the creator altogether glorious brethren have we not heard about that Christ who is the god man he is God with us he came and he was born of a virgin was he not supernaturally and he broke forth in his ministry and he had power and they recognized it he had power over nature and he had power over the hearts of men he could reveal the Father to whom he wished did he not have power to stop storms and to quench the waves and to behold back the wind he did the demons fled at a word they did not look any idea that there's some even fight between Jesus Christ and the devil all you have to do is look at the Legion they were crying out ah here don't throw us in the abyss hardly looks like an even boxing match right I mean what you have is Christ comes on the scene and the demons are terrified there's they're just looking for permission please don't send us into the abyss please please let's go over to these pigs okay but only on his word could they go he is master do we not hear him called King of Ages Lord of lords I mean is that not him do we not read that every knee shall bow and every tongue confess this is the Christ of scripture now he humbled himself oh he did meek and lowly and he robed his deity the glory that he had with the father before the world was he robed at times it bursts through when it did men fell on their faces every respect made like us do we not believe in the christ who had power to call down legions of angels and deliver him but he willingly went to that cross why because he went he came into this world to seek and save he came to win for himself a bride and had to do it by way of perfectly keeping the law that they could not keep by perfectly paying the penalty of that law that we dare not pay and he did it do we not believe in the Christ who rose from the dead do we not believe that there's an empty grave I don't believe that Muhammad's grave is empty it's not I've never seen the Pope's come out of their grade but he came out of the grape and he ascended and he is there and do we not read that he is gonna come again and when he comes he's gonna split the sky wide open and men are gonna call upon the mountains to fall upon them to hide them from his view do we not read that is that that the Christ we read about in Scripture all the kingdoms of this world are becoming the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ is that not what we read all are being made a footstool for his feet all will bow every tongue will confess is that not what we read in Scripture brethren do we not read about a perfect satisfaction do we not read about propitiation God has drained his wrath on his son do we not read that is this not the Christ that will save us to the uttermost that is constantly working to intercede for his people brethren eternally he will be man eternally he will be God the god man I don't explain every bit of that I can't but that's what Scripture teaches us and you know what when my mind can't wrap around what scripture teaches me that Spirit of God that anointing it puts it in me to bow not to say I can't understand it so in my own pride I'm gonna recreate what I can understand I bow to it because time and again I've come to understand later what I couldn't understand it first if I would have just denied everything that I can't understand it first rather than we don't understand a lot of things about the way our bodies work about the way that the universe is but what do we just deny it do we say it's not real because we don't understand it and forbid works finite yeah there's so much we don't know is it surprising that God is revealing stuff to us that is very difficult to understand hardly if he's way way beyond what we are we would expect there would be things about him that would be very difficult for us to get brethren do we not read in Scripture that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge come from Christ do we not read that he's altogether lovely brethren he is going to be the judge of the living and the dead do we not read that in Scripture and all brethren do we not read that he's making a way for us to see God face to face do we not read that we will behold him as he is and we will become like him brethren he'll be our delight through all eternity he's our only hope he's our only way to God he's the only he's the only manifestation of the radiance of the glory of God in this world they came to reveal the father brethren is this not the gut is this not the Jesus Christ that we read about in Scripture you hold fast to that to the end let that reality about Jesus Christ abide in you and cling to him and the promised eternal life

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Keywords: Tim Conway, trinity, oneness, antichrist, anointed, 1 John

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Length: 69min 28sec (4168 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 23 2015