Christ and Antichrists

Date
July 4, 2021
Speaker
Mark Neely
Topic
Community, Love
Series
Genuine Community
Book
1 John

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Throughout the letter of 1 John, the goal remains the same: to charge the people of God to embody undying love for God & one another. If Jesus Christ is our model of love, who is the antichrist, and what threat do they pose?

1 John 2:18-25

1 John 2:18-25 / New International Version (NIV)

Warnings Against Denying the Son

¹⁸Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. ¹⁹They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.

²⁰But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.^[a] ²¹I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth. ²²Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son. ²³No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

²⁴As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. ²⁵And this is what he promised us—eternal life.

Footnote

[a] Some manuscripts: and you know all things

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