"Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him."
Today's lesson is yet another warning against those "antichrists" who confuse and alter the true meaning of the Gospel of Christ. Jesus Himself said there would come deceivers and false teachers who would try to destroy His truth; His prophecy has proven to be true many, many times over.
There are several major groups in the world today who flying the Christian banner while teaching blatant, unscriptural heresy. Those groups, Roman Catholicism and Mormonism, to name just two, have completely abandoned the doctrine that Jesus taught to create their own false doctrine whereby millions of lost souls have been deceived.
It behooves those of us who are indeed the true children of God through the shed blood of Jesus Christ to continually raise the warning against and expose those false teachers whom John called "antichrists".
The last part of today's quote again reassures us that through the righteousness of Jesus Christ we are also righteous; "If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him." "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." (1 John 3-9)~
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