1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,400 This is City Post Church, we're about three things, build 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:09,000 equipped and send all under the lordship of Jesus Christ, a 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,300 small Church Plant in Fort Worth Texas, who decided to do things 4 00:00:12,300 --> 00:00:16,000 a little differently. I would almost I had to Crystal, 5 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:19,000 I love City Post because of the people. 6 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:22,100 It's where I belong, we truly preach the word. 7 00:00:22,100 --> 00:00:24,100 I love City Post because of the community. 8 00:00:24,100 --> 00:00:25,800 We've been able to build to do ministry. 9 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:28,800 Like Jesus perlite to push back Darkness. 10 00:00:30,100 --> 00:00:39,200 This is City, Post podcast. You know, like the weather's 11 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,100 great. It's spring break time, it's 12 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:47,200 Ricky's birthday. You know, celebrate one for me 13 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:53,500 and the Temptation is like I can just like stay at home be on the 14 00:00:53,500 --> 00:00:58,300 couch today but instead we're like nah that's not enough. 15 00:00:59,100 --> 00:01:03,300 And if there's nothing better than coming together as a body 16 00:01:03,300 --> 00:01:07,600 of Believers to worship our King and For you guys that are 17 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:09,600 watching online. We have a lot of people out 18 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:13,000 traveling today. So, Steven shout. 19 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,800 I know you're watching and, and it's Terrebonne and Wally, and 20 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:21,400 if I missed too bad, but too many, ow. 21 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Hey, but it's going to be good. So it is my birthday and I'm so 22 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,500 excited because we get to talk about the Antichrist. 23 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:34,200 Well, a man whose line this up, like man. 24 00:01:34,900 --> 00:01:36,700 If you guys are new here, we just kind of walk. 25 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,100 Through books of the Bible and we just see what God's word has 26 00:01:39,100 --> 00:01:42,500 to say to us. And whenever we hear this term 27 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:46,500 Antichrist, we kind of use it to kind of make fun of somebody. 28 00:01:46,500 --> 00:01:49,700 Like, man, my in-laws like she's the Antichrist, you know. 29 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,600 I'm not this is an example, y'all chill out will get me in 30 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,400 trouble, right? Or like man, like my ex was like 31 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:00,400 Antichrist, you know. So we throw this term around in 32 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,600 our culture, not really knowing what it means and what we're 33 00:02:04,607 --> 00:02:07,600 going to look at today. And first John, First John is 34 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:12,100 going to call out the false, teachers the false prophets, the 35 00:02:12,100 --> 00:02:16,100 false people that are inside of the church, spreading these 36 00:02:16,100 --> 00:02:19,600 false doctrines and he's like, not like you guys are actually 37 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,800 like the Antichrist and he's actually going to use it in 38 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:26,200 Pearl a plural. So last week, we talked about 39 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:30,500 what it means, not to love the world and it was kind of a heavy 40 00:02:30,500 --> 00:02:34,100 sermon and the next couple of weeks, it's actually going to be 41 00:02:34,100 --> 00:02:37,000 a little bit harder. Some some teachings are To be 42 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:39,800 tough are going to push against our worldviews. 43 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:43,200 It's going to push against cultural Christianity, but like 44 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,500 I said, last week, you don't run from hard things, you run toward 45 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:51,300 them and ask questions, lean into what God is saying because 46 00:02:51,300 --> 00:02:55,900 his word is infallible. So let's go ahead and dive in. 47 00:02:56,100 --> 00:03:00,500 Look at Verse 18, where, in 1st, John Chapter 2, and we're going 48 00:03:00,500 --> 00:03:06,600 to look at verses 18 to 23. Go ahead and read that for us. 49 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:11,000 And this is what the word of the Lord has to say, dear children. 50 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,400 This is the last hour and as you have heard that the Antichrist 51 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,000 is coming. Even now, many antichrists have 52 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,500 come. This is how we know it is the 53 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:26,900 last hour they went out from us but they did not really belong 54 00:03:26,900 --> 00:03:31,200 to us for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained 55 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:36,800 with us but there are going but they're Polling showed that none 56 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,300 of them belong to us. But you have an anointing from 57 00:03:41,300 --> 00:03:44,700 the Holy One and all of, you know, the truth. 58 00:03:45,300 --> 00:03:50,300 I do not write to you because you do not know the truth but 59 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:55,900 because, you know it and because no lie comes from the truth, who 60 00:03:55,900 --> 00:03:59,200 is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus 61 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,500 is the Christ. Such a person, is the 62 00:04:02,500 --> 00:04:05,400 Antichrist. Denying, the father, and the 63 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,400 son, no one. Who denies the son has the 64 00:04:08,408 --> 00:04:12,400 father Or whoever acknowledges the son has the father. 65 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:16,200 Also, so God, we pray. Lord that you speak to us 66 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:20,100 through your word, this morning. Father, I pray that we're able 67 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:25,200 to just limit distractions god with so much going on this week 68 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,600 with spring break and just travel and everything I read 69 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,900 that were able to just focus on your word today. 70 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:34,400 Lord, I pray for myself, God that you helped me to organize 71 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,200 my thoughts that you have me to remember everything that was 72 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,900 studied and Lord that All these thoughts come from you and not 73 00:04:40,900 --> 00:04:43,000 from myself. And Lord, we praise you. 74 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,200 And we thank you because you are a good God, your name. 75 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,300 We pray these things. Amen. 76 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,000 All right. So let's go ahead and just dive 77 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,800 right into it. These are one of those passages 78 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,300 where you're you're like, man. Is there a story I could say at 79 00:04:53,300 --> 00:04:56,100 the beginning and they're like, no we're just going to dive into 80 00:04:56,100 --> 00:04:58,300 it. All right, so look at Verse 18. 81 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:02,900 It says Dear children. This is the last hour and as you 82 00:05:02,900 --> 00:05:07,100 have heard that this Antichrist is coming even now many 83 00:05:07,100 --> 00:05:11,300 antichrists. Have come see how to throw that 84 00:05:11,300 --> 00:05:14,400 plural in there. So that way, we understand kind 85 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,300 of what he's talking about. So dear children, we know this 86 00:05:17,300 --> 00:05:21,900 word is Padilla, which is the Greek form of the word children. 87 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,500 We talked about this a few weeks ago, which means he's addressing 88 00:05:25,500 --> 00:05:30,300 those who belong to God. So John is addressing those who 89 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:33,700 are in Christ the body of Christ the church. 90 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:36,000 So if you're not a follower of Christ, I'm going to give you a 91 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,300 heads up, this really ain't for you. 92 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,800 Like you're not gonna understand what we're talking about a 93 00:05:41,808 --> 00:05:45,300 little bit and my prayer is that you come to realization that you 94 00:05:45,300 --> 00:05:49,800 need a savior and we will love to introduce you to him but we 95 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,700 got to stick to the text. It says Dear children those who 96 00:05:52,700 --> 00:05:56,500 are found in Christ and then he goes in this is the last hour. 97 00:05:57,100 --> 00:05:59,400 Alright so we got to we got to ask these questions. 98 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,600 What is the last hour that John is referring to? 99 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:07,500 So, out of second Peter chapter 3, verse 3, he's talking about 100 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:10,900 the period of time between The first and the second coming of 101 00:06:10,900 --> 00:06:13,800 Christ. So when Jesus shows up to, when 102 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,900 Jesus returns again, that is the final days. 103 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:22,000 Those are the latter days. Let's the, the last, the final 104 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,700 hour that he's talking about now, some of us are like, Well, 105 00:06:24,700 --> 00:06:29,400 Ricky, like I've seen left behind Isn't that the final 106 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,500 days, is it? No, that's the tribulation. 107 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,600 And I don't want us to get lost in all that, because that's not 108 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,600 really what this text is about. But I want us to understand that 109 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:43,200 we are in the final hour. We are in the final days because 110 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,200 Jesus came, and he will come back again. 111 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:47,900 One day. And that's a promise. 112 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:53,000 And as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming. 113 00:06:53,900 --> 00:06:58,000 Interesting? Why would John use the example 114 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,400 of an antichrist? Why would he say the Antichrist 115 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,600 is coming? So we have to break that word 116 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:10,200 down Antichrist. And the Greek is anti-christ us, 117 00:07:10,900 --> 00:07:13,800 the word Kristoff's means Christ, which is the anointed 118 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:19,600 one, the Messiah, the sent one, and then anti which is again Or 119 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:24,400 in place of. So the Antichrist is someone, 120 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:29,000 who is against the actual anointed one, the one who is in 121 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:34,500 place of Christ, who is Jesus, and this is a real person. 122 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:39,500 If you read Revelation, 13 and Revelation 17, you'll see 123 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,700 everything that he's addressing here. 124 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:46,200 So when Jesus came Satan being the ruler of the world, which we 125 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,800 saw last week, was a little bit energized, and his whole goal is 126 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:53,300 to destroy everything that God has created. 127 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:59,600 And we see that Genesis chapter 3, so everything with Jesus, the 128 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,500 Antichrist is everything that opposes Christ. 129 00:08:03,300 --> 00:08:06,300 So this Antichrist one. Who's going to come in 130 00:08:06,300 --> 00:08:10,400 Revelation, he's going to be an intimidating fighter, a superior 131 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:14,100 intellect and and Incredible Communicator. 132 00:08:15,100 --> 00:08:17,000 He's going to be. He's going to possess Advanced 133 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,600 military and economic expertise. And something that he's going to 134 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,100 do is that he is going to bring everyone together and then he's 135 00:08:25,100 --> 00:08:28,400 going to turn on Israel and he's going to set up shop in the 136 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:30,900 temple. That Israel rebuilds. 137 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,100 This is all in Revelation, 13 and 17. 138 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,500 But you know what I think is really interesting about this 139 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,600 because John is going to show us the Antichrist is actually going 140 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,000 to come from with inside the body of Christ, not from the 141 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,200 outside. So I know that we're all 142 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,900 freaking out like when we see everything happening in the 143 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:51,900 World where like, oh my gosh. What's going to happen? 144 00:08:51,900 --> 00:08:53,800 I'm like, we need to look at home. 145 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:57,500 We need to look at what's happening on the inside. 146 00:08:57,500 --> 00:08:59,800 What is being taught in our churches? 147 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,000 Because John is about, to point something out. 148 00:09:03,100 --> 00:09:06,100 He's like, it's going to come from within man, that's a scary 149 00:09:06,100 --> 00:09:08,800 thought. So what is this? 150 00:09:09,100 --> 00:09:13,400 So John what he's doing is that he knows Jewish eschatology, 151 00:09:13,900 --> 00:09:17,100 people know about the Antichrist because it's written in the book 152 00:09:17,100 --> 00:09:19,800 of the Major Prophets. Like, we, we learned about last 153 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:21,600 Wednesday. I'm just being through this 154 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,400 because there's some other things we need to get through 155 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,800 for time sake. So what is John saying? 156 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:34,000 He's like, listen, any denial deviation Distortion of any 157 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,700 scriptural view of Jesus Christ? AKA like his Incarnation, that 158 00:09:38,700 --> 00:09:43,900 he was both fully God fully man, that he was the promised Prophet 159 00:09:43,900 --> 00:09:46,100 priest, king Redeemer. Anything that goes against. 160 00:09:46,100 --> 00:09:48,100 That is the spirit of the Antichrist. 161 00:09:49,300 --> 00:09:51,200 Be careful. What you tell your name, too. 162 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:56,900 Anything that is anti-biblical. Anything that goes against. 163 00:09:56,900 --> 00:10:00,500 The scripture is not again, is not of God. 164 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:05,300 It's of the spirit of that who opposes God and John is calling 165 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:08,100 it out and he was like, listen in your churches. 166 00:10:08,100 --> 00:10:11,400 Be careful what you tie yourself to be careful. 167 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,800 What you believe understand that there's some Theology and that 168 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,100 there's some doctrinal stuff that you can't say, I aligned 169 00:10:18,100 --> 00:10:21,500 with that because that's not from him, that's from the 170 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:24,200 spirit. Of the Antichrist and John is 171 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,700 saying in verse 18, he's like you've heard of this Antichrist. 172 00:10:27,700 --> 00:10:29,000 Right? Well, guess what? 173 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,100 There's a lot of them now. And those are the anti teachers. 174 00:10:33,100 --> 00:10:36,000 Those are the false teachers that have infiltrated. 175 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,000 The church the gnostics the you know we talked about who John is 176 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:45,300 writing this to and this is how we know it's in the last hour so 177 00:10:45,300 --> 00:10:49,000 he's about to point things out. Now, before we dive into 19, 178 00:10:49,300 --> 00:10:51,900 something that we're going to have to understand here. 179 00:10:53,100 --> 00:10:55,900 Because a lot of this stuff could actually throw Christians 180 00:10:55,900 --> 00:10:59,700 off, it could throw your devotion off, it could, it could 181 00:10:59,700 --> 00:11:03,400 kind of hinder your spiritual confidence, but a true follower 182 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:07,000 of Christ does not deviate from the faith. 183 00:11:07,900 --> 00:11:11,800 He does not leave the faith. Whenever I hear people like man, 184 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:13,800 I let you know what it ain't about that. 185 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,800 It's not you know they hurt me. No no you never were. 186 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,300 Because if you were, you do not leave the faith, you might 187 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:25,800 struggle with it, you might wrestle with it, but you don't 188 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,500 leave, and we're about to see that right here. 189 00:11:29,300 --> 00:11:33,600 Alright, so look at verse 19, So how do we know we're in the last 190 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:35,000 hour? Look what it says in verse 19. 191 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,700 They went out from us but they did not really belong to us. 192 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:44,200 For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained in us. 193 00:11:45,100 --> 00:11:47,200 Now in the hip hop world, those are called bars. 194 00:11:47,900 --> 00:11:50,900 I know y'all miss that. Like, did you just hear what 195 00:11:50,900 --> 00:11:53,600 John said here? This is crazy. 196 00:11:54,100 --> 00:11:57,900 Some of y'all will read this and be like, that's no no, break it 197 00:11:57,900 --> 00:11:59,400 down. I we talked about this. 198 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:02,700 How John writes is this great stuff? 199 00:12:03,100 --> 00:12:05,300 They who are they? They went from us. 200 00:12:05,300 --> 00:12:09,600 These are the Antichrist. These are the false teachers 201 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,100 John. Kind of showing everybody. 202 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:15,500 What these folks look like because it's happening in the 203 00:12:15,500 --> 00:12:20,000 church and the gnostics are doing it in this time period. 204 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:22,700 They went from us, that means that it's going to come from 205 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:27,300 with inside the body of Christ. So people are going to come 206 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:30,300 inside the church inside the body of Christ, and they're 207 00:12:30,300 --> 00:12:33,700 going to start spewing Doctrine out there. 208 00:12:33,700 --> 00:12:36,600 Going to start twisting things around, they're going to start 209 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:40,400 kind of putting in their own like Earthly philosophies. 210 00:12:40,500 --> 00:12:42,900 And they're going to put in their own two cents about 211 00:12:42,900 --> 00:12:46,300 everything that they learned in school, but it's not scripture. 212 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:51,100 So you say no like they came from us but they did not really 213 00:12:51,100 --> 00:12:54,000 belong to us. So even though they were here 214 00:12:55,300 --> 00:13:00,100 They're not a part of us. Kind of like, Cowboy fans in the 215 00:13:00,100 --> 00:13:02,800 playoffs. You know, say like there's 216 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:04,900 people that like, go Cowboys, like, where have you been all 217 00:13:04,900 --> 00:13:07,700 season? They're not from us. 218 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:10,200 Y'all just showed up because we're winning now, right? 219 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,100 But if you talk to a real fan, they'll be able to like talk 220 00:13:14,100 --> 00:13:18,500 about their team years past years past years, not just oh 221 00:13:18,500 --> 00:13:20,700 yeah, we're here about a jersey. Like man you don't even know 222 00:13:20,700 --> 00:13:21,700 him. It's right. 223 00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:28,600 So For if they belong to us, they would have remained with 224 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:34,500 us, but they're going showed that none of them belong to us. 225 00:13:35,500 --> 00:13:39,000 How do we know that? They don't belong to us? 226 00:13:39,500 --> 00:13:43,800 Is because they come in and they leave, not, they don't just 227 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:48,000 leave, you know what they do. They try to drag everybody with 228 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,200 them. AKA misery loves company. 229 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,400 So these folks are going into these churches, they're 230 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:59,100 spreading all this stuff that's not real, that's not biblical 231 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:02,200 but they're trying to take people with them. 232 00:14:02,900 --> 00:14:07,400 That's how you know the spirit of the Antichrist you see they 233 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:09,700 they weren't with us because they didn't belong to us. 234 00:14:09,700 --> 00:14:13,300 He sees being plural here. He's talking about those who 235 00:14:13,300 --> 00:14:17,900 leave and let me just say I know it sounds bad but honestly this 236 00:14:17,900 --> 00:14:22,400 is purging the church. This is eliminating those who 237 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:24,800 really weren't of the faith in the first place. 238 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:28,600 So listen, if you're going to follow Fulani toe out the door 239 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:33,800 because of the stuff that he spreading Go for it. 240 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,700 You know, so what John is doing when he's fighting against this 241 00:14:38,700 --> 00:14:43,600 whole anti scripture, he's fighting this anti truth and 242 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,200 he's like man they're going to go, they're going to, they're 243 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,400 going to follow that. The wide gate and the wide path. 244 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,300 Let him go. It's going to happen. 245 00:14:52,300 --> 00:14:56,900 This is what we're seeing here. But also what John does here is 246 00:14:56,908 --> 00:15:01,600 that he's pointing out that the real Believers, real faith has a 247 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:05,700 longevity tied to it. There's a consistency tied to it 248 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:10,300 that you don't leave the faith. Now, I want to be very careful 249 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:16,200 here because there's I've heard this text used in other ways. 250 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,200 Like if people leave a church they're like well you must have 251 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,900 not had Faith. You must have not been one of 252 00:15:21,900 --> 00:15:23,900 us. You must have not been a person 253 00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:25,900 of faith. And it's Like no, hold on a 254 00:15:25,900 --> 00:15:28,700 second. Because God might have called 255 00:15:28,700 --> 00:15:31,900 you somewhere else to serve. God might have have been leave. 256 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:36,200 Maybe you left because there was a false teacher up here. 257 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:40,800 So be very careful and cautious. He's not talking about the 258 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:44,300 church physical, he's talking about the church. 259 00:15:44,300 --> 00:15:47,800 The real definition of the church, the body of Christ. 260 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:50,600 The faith, that's what John is. Addressing here. 261 00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:54,100 They accept the faith. And they do not remain faithful 262 00:15:54,100 --> 00:15:56,400 to it, that you never were in the faith. 263 00:15:57,300 --> 00:16:00,800 And that's a hard teaching, is hard to comprehend because a lot 264 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:06,200 of us kind of tie this to events in life is that he was hurt, is 265 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:07,700 that they went through Something else? 266 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:12,100 No, it doesn't matter. You stay faithful to the one 267 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:13,800 true God. You don't follow man. 268 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:18,600 You follow him. So, false teachers deceivers. 269 00:16:19,300 --> 00:16:22,300 This is part of who he's calling this. 270 00:16:22,300 --> 00:16:24,700 These are the ones that went out from us. 271 00:16:25,900 --> 00:16:29,800 So the ultimate test of true Christianity is endurance. 272 00:16:30,300 --> 00:16:36,200 That's how to Mark, 13 verse 13. so, if you departure the 273 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:40,000 departure of people from the truth, is literally there, 274 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:44,600 unmasking So when people leave the truth, they're just kind of 275 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,600 showing who they really are. They were just kind of putting 276 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:51,800 up a facade for a time which is kind of sad. 277 00:16:52,100 --> 00:16:55,800 So John is calling it out here and then look at verse 20, but 278 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,700 you have an anointing of the Holy One. 279 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:01,400 I love this. You have an anointing of the 280 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,800 Holy One and all of, you know, the truth. 281 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:09,800 So even if there is someone inside of the body of Christ, 282 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:14,599 that is showing of False Doctrine and he's doing all this 283 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:19,500 Antichrist opposing Jesus, talking about like his deity in 284 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:23,300 the wrong light. You don't follow along because 285 00:17:23,300 --> 00:17:26,300 you are a follower of Christ and you have the anointing in. 286 00:17:26,300 --> 00:17:32,000 You aka the Holy Spirit lives in us, he resides in US. 287 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,000 You see that word? Anointing means oil. 288 00:17:35,100 --> 00:17:39,400 It means like an ointment. It's like a covering and on some 289 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:41,700 Churches you guys are not experienced. 290 00:17:41,900 --> 00:17:46,100 People pray with oil on their hands and it's not like it's 291 00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:49,000 magical Crisco. No, it's a symbol. 292 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:54,000 It's symbolic of an anointing how they want you to be covered 293 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,100 in the holy spirit, so you have an anointing of the Holy One. 294 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:02,200 How do we know what truth is? Because we have the Holy Spirit. 295 00:18:02,700 --> 00:18:06,100 So if you are a follower of Christ, that means that you have 296 00:18:06,100 --> 00:18:09,300 said, yes to Jesus. You have put him in your life, 297 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:10,400 you have surrendered your life to him. 298 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:13,900 He has forgiven you And then he has put the Holy One inside of 299 00:18:13,900 --> 00:18:16,200 you. He has given you his Spirit. 300 00:18:17,100 --> 00:18:22,000 Now that you have his Spirit, you're able to understand his 301 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,500 word, things are going to start being more clear to, you see 302 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:28,800 those who do not have the Holy Spirit. 303 00:18:28,900 --> 00:18:32,100 Look at the Bible, and they see it as some storybook. 304 00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:35,500 They don't understand it. And I'm like, of course, you 305 00:18:35,500 --> 00:18:38,000 don't understand it, you don't have the Holy Ghost in you. 306 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,400 You don't have the Holy Spirit in you, you are lost. 307 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:44,400 So this is not going to make sense. 308 00:18:45,700 --> 00:18:48,100 But you know what? Also this tells us and I want to 309 00:18:48,108 --> 00:18:53,000 be a little sensitive cuz I know some of us have come from some 310 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,700 pretty interesting backgrounds in our churches. 311 00:18:57,700 --> 00:19:00,800 But the gnostics were going around and they were telling 312 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,200 everybody. They were enlightened like they 313 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:07,900 had some secret, like God gave them like this, like secret 314 00:19:07,900 --> 00:19:12,300 little side Spirit, that's better than everybody else. 315 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:17,000 So like they were saying like, hey, you know, we have the 316 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:22,300 special secret, we have this Transcendent spirit so God is 317 00:19:22,300 --> 00:19:25,800 going to show me something that none of you guys could ever 318 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:30,200 understand in his word and what John is calling us like no you 319 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:34,100 have that same Holy Spirit you know, God's word. 320 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:38,300 So don't allow somebody to say you have to listen to me because 321 00:19:38,300 --> 00:19:40,600 if you read this by yourself you're not going to understand 322 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,800 anything. If you're a follower of Christ, 323 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:49,100 you rely on the Holy Spirit and he will speak to you through his 324 00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:51,500 word. So be very careful that you 325 00:19:51,500 --> 00:19:56,300 don't buy into that stuff. And I love John's rebuttal here 326 00:19:56,800 --> 00:20:00,100 in verse 21. Look at verse 21 and he goes, I 327 00:20:00,100 --> 00:20:04,700 do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but 328 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:09,200 because you do know it and because no light comes from the 329 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,800 truth. So, John's, like, listen, I'm 330 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,400 not writing to you guys because I'm, I'm like pointing you out. 331 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:18,500 I'm not exposing you. I'm not calling you all out. 332 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:22,000 No, this is actually an encouragement. 333 00:20:23,300 --> 00:20:24,500 You know, I find it's interesting. 334 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:29,400 It's like it's a rebuttal to the false teachers, but it's also a 335 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,900 reassurance to the Believers, right? 336 00:20:31,900 --> 00:20:34,200 So he's like, no, like you guys have the Holy One, you have the 337 00:20:34,208 --> 00:20:37,300 Holy Spirit in you and I'm telling you this because you 338 00:20:37,300 --> 00:20:40,400 know, the truth, you know exactly what the truth is. 339 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:42,400 You are a follower of Jesus Christ. 340 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,900 You have his word you know the truth because you have the 341 00:20:44,900 --> 00:20:47,200 spirit and then look how he throws it out. 342 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:51,200 But because you do know it and because no lie comes from the 343 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:52,800 truth. It's funny. 344 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:56,900 How Jon wraps that up, you know it and also no light comes from 345 00:20:56,900 --> 00:20:59,600 the truth. You know, I read stuff in the 346 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,400 Bible sometimes and I'm like, why would he be so repetitive? 347 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,500 No lie comes from the truth. Don't you know that? 348 00:21:06,700 --> 00:21:10,500 So what he's doing here? Is that what he says? 349 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:15,000 Like, there's truth cannot be true and false at the same exact 350 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,600 time. You know, I know sometimes we 351 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,000 throw those things around. I mean, it's, it's either true 352 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,800 or false. I mean, it's like baseball 353 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:28,100 Champions, Texas Rangers. Andrews like that hurt. 354 00:21:28,500 --> 00:21:31,700 So it's like you're say like they are baseball Champions but 355 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:35,500 the Rangers ain't it. So I'm telling you the truth but 356 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:39,700 at the same time, if there's a false in that it's like saying 357 00:21:39,700 --> 00:21:45,400 man, you find an ugly. That's so confusing. 358 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:47,200 How are you? Fine. 359 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,200 And ugly. At the same time, there's a true 360 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,900 and a false to that. That's how Monica picked up my 361 00:21:54,900 --> 00:21:55,700 gravity. That's right. 362 00:21:59,100 --> 00:22:06,800 So you find an ugly right? Like you see, like so it's like 363 00:22:06,900 --> 00:22:09,800 there's the ways true this because there's no lie in the 364 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,800 truth. Like so what John is doing is 365 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:17,500 that he's eliminating any way, people can say that it's 366 00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:20,900 subjective. And what he's saying is that 367 00:22:20,900 --> 00:22:24,400 truth is not subjective. Truth is absolute. 368 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,700 So you cannot shake truth, it doesn't matter how you feel, it 369 00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:31,900 doesn't matter what you think it, doesn't matter what culture 370 00:22:31,900 --> 00:22:33,600 you're in, it doesn't matter what the government says it 371 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,200 doesn't matter. Listen, truth is absolute. 372 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:42,100 You adjust to it doesn't adjust to you, and John is pointing 373 00:22:42,100 --> 00:22:45,300 this thing out and he's and he's putting a stamp on it that 374 00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:48,500 there's no light that comes out of Truth. 375 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,300 And I want to go, I want to talk a little bit about the holy 376 00:22:52,300 --> 00:22:56,900 spirit because out of this text in verse 20, he talks about the 377 00:22:56,908 --> 00:23:00,900 Holy One is in US. So as a follower of Christ, I 378 00:23:00,900 --> 00:23:05,100 have the Holy Spirit and in this text, I just want to break it 379 00:23:05,108 --> 00:23:08,900 down in two ways. So what does it mean that you 380 00:23:08,900 --> 00:23:13,100 have the Holy One? When it comes to false doctrines 381 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,100 and World philosophies and things that are trying to end 382 00:23:16,100 --> 00:23:20,300 like come into the church? So number one, when we he talks 383 00:23:20,300 --> 00:23:23,700 about having the Holy Spirit having the anointing on your 384 00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:25,500 life and we're going to see this next week. 385 00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:29,300 We'll dig a little bit more into it next week but the Holy Spirit 386 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:32,700 guards serves as a guard from error. 387 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,800 So whenever you hear something that's not right. 388 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:42,200 The holy spirit is like a guardian that tells your heart. 389 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,600 That's not the truth. Kind of serves like a bouncer. 390 00:23:46,300 --> 00:23:50,400 He has a little bouncers. Y'all centers, right? 391 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,800 All right. So so so for me to explain it to 392 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,500 you guys. Like so if there's an owner of 393 00:23:57,500 --> 00:24:02,800 an establishment and this owner has a mission and a vision and a 394 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,900 way that he wants his establishment to operate. 395 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,500 So as you're going to be all ages, is it going to be 18 and 396 00:24:08,500 --> 00:24:09,900 up? Or is it going to only be 21 and 397 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:11,200 up? It depends what they're serving 398 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:16,600 their the owner decides. He also the type of folks that 399 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:17,800 are going to come to establishment. 400 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,300 So he set some boundaries, he said some some rules, some 401 00:24:21,300 --> 00:24:23,300 regulations you cannot wear sneakers. 402 00:24:23,300 --> 00:24:26,100 You you cannot wear long t-shirts. 403 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,500 If you go to West 7th, you know what I'm talking about. 404 00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:35,200 Because you're trying to keep out a specific population or 405 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:39,100 specific person, it's all up to the owner, he gets to decide how 406 00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:43,300 he wants to run his business. Now the owner so busy, he's not 407 00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:47,800 able to stand at the door and see who he wants to come in and 408 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,600 out. So, what he does is that he 409 00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:54,100 brings in a bouncer, the bouncer is trained. 410 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:59,900 To stand at the door and to check proper identification to 411 00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:03,000 look at the rules and the regulations that the owner puts 412 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,500 in his establishment. So he stands at the door, he's 413 00:25:06,500 --> 00:25:09,100 like, let me see your ID, not you're too young. 414 00:25:09,100 --> 00:25:11,900 You can't come in your under dress code, you're gonna have to 415 00:25:11,900 --> 00:25:13,700 go change your shoes so you can't come in here. 416 00:25:13,900 --> 00:25:17,200 So what he's doing is that he's filtering out what the owner 417 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:21,600 wants and you see the Holy Spirit serves that same way the 418 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,900 Holy Spirit stands at the door of your heart. 419 00:25:23,900 --> 00:25:27,500 And when Ron Um Doctrine comes in and when World philosophy 420 00:25:27,500 --> 00:25:30,700 start creeping in the Holy Spirit serves as that Guardians 421 00:25:30,700 --> 00:25:33,600 like wait wait wait a second, that's not biblical. 422 00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:38,300 That's not right and he alerts you because he knows what the 423 00:25:38,300 --> 00:25:42,100 owner wants. The owner is God, he wants his 424 00:25:42,100 --> 00:25:46,600 word in your heart for have your word in your hidden in your 425 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,800 heart. So that way I may not sin 426 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:54,500 against you Psalms 119 11. So the Holy Spirit serves as a 427 00:25:54,508 --> 00:25:58,000 guardian, he serves as a bouncer to your heart in your mind. 428 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,300 So when you start hearing stuff, there's going to be something in 429 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:02,100 your life. Just like, I don't remember 430 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:05,600 reading it that way. That's not that doesn't make 431 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,800 sense to me. Is it even in the scripture like 432 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,700 where you find out how to get? Like, there's something that 433 00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:13,700 should like jostle. You a little bit when you hear 434 00:26:13,700 --> 00:26:16,800 stuff, that ain't right. And that is the work of the holy 435 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,100 spirit. So the Holy Spirit doesn't just 436 00:26:19,100 --> 00:26:26,800 serve as a guardian. He also serves as a sorry, the 437 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,400 Holy Spirit also gives us like this built in light of tector. 438 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,800 This like, so that way, we were able to preserve truth. 439 00:26:36,300 --> 00:26:38,700 I like to call. I like to call it the BS meter. 440 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:42,600 So, whenever you hear something, that's not right. 441 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:44,000 Your BS. Meter goes off. 442 00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:49,700 The S stands for biblical. You know, that's right, 443 00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:52,800 biblically sound, right? So whenever something is not 444 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:56,700 biblically sound. Your meter goes off, it gets 445 00:26:56,700 --> 00:27:00,200 louder and louder. So when you hear something like, 446 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,700 hey you need a like you could lose your salvation, did it 447 00:27:04,700 --> 00:27:06,300 right? Like this, like your BS meter 448 00:27:06,300 --> 00:27:08,900 starts going off because it's not biblically sound. 449 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,400 When you hear stuff like, hey, you want to get back to, you 450 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,200 have to pay a little bit of money for that. 451 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,700 Mmm, that's not what God's word says, your meter starts going 452 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:20,400 off. It starts going to starts going 453 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,100 a few more, you know, there's a man. 454 00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:25,000 You know, when you die you might end up in purgatory. 455 00:27:25,100 --> 00:27:29,000 Tory, did it? It it it it I mean like whenever 456 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,300 the system or it's not biblically sound that lie 457 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:34,900 detector that BS meter goes a little bit higher. 458 00:27:35,700 --> 00:27:38,100 So whenever something is not biblically sound, there should 459 00:27:38,100 --> 00:27:41,500 be like an alarm that goes off in your heart and in your mind 460 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,700 to alert you that this is not of God. 461 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:50,800 You know, some might even say well you know, if you want to be 462 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,800 forgiven, you got to go talk to somebody that's more qualified 463 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,000 than you got to go sit in front of a priest and he's going to 464 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,300 tell you what you need to do in order to get your life, right? 465 00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:01,300 Did it. It I mean like it's just it's 466 00:28:01,300 --> 00:28:04,000 just sound in your head. Your BS meter. 467 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,100 Goes off your biblically sound meter. 468 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:08,900 Get your mind out of the gutter. All right? 469 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:13,200 So So these things the holy spirit gives you this. 470 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,800 He becomes a guardian. It also becomes like a lie 471 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,400 detector this m in your mind that starts like alerting you. 472 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,100 And then we look at and some of you are like, Well Ricky, 473 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:27,700 where'd you get that from So, he serves as a guardian, we see 474 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:32,600 that acts 10:38. And then he serves like as that 475 00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:36,300 we're able to kind of detect hearsay, an apostate, all that, 476 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,800 all that stuff. And we see that in John 14:26. 477 00:28:41,100 --> 00:28:44,000 We says the holy spirit will teach you and remind you things. 478 00:28:44,100 --> 00:28:48,000 So when Jesus is baptized the Holy Spirit, descends on him, 479 00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:50,600 and then he's able to go out into the wilderness. 480 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,800 And be tempted for 40 days and 40 nights. 481 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:58,600 And how does he know what to do? The spirit. 482 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,600 How does he defend it with the word of God? 483 00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:05,200 So, a Satanist telling me you're hungry, just make that rock. 484 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,000 A piece of bread. Did it right? 485 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,600 Like it just goes off. And he's like, well man shall 486 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,100 not live on bread alone. See how he's using scripture to 487 00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:19,300 combat everything that the Antichrist opposer comes and 488 00:29:19,300 --> 00:29:23,000 throws at you. The last couple of verses, so 489 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,200 John spews all this out. He's like, listen, man, like you 490 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,200 have the Holy One, you have the Holy Spirit. 491 00:29:28,300 --> 00:29:29,500 That's how you know, what's true. 492 00:29:30,100 --> 00:29:33,800 So there is no lie into truth. It's all absolutes, not 493 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,100 subjective. So then he wraps it up. 494 00:29:36,100 --> 00:29:39,400 Well then who's the liar here? Who's the liar, then? 495 00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:42,000 Because we're going back and forth. 496 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,400 So there's got to be a result to this who's the liar. 497 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:51,400 This is who the Liars. If, whoever denies Jesus is the 498 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,300 Christ. Such a person, is the 499 00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:56,300 Antichrist. Denying the father and the son 500 00:29:56,300 --> 00:29:59,500 AKA you get Jesus right wrong, you're the liar. 501 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:05,200 Any belief system that gets Jesus wrong is of the 502 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,700 Antichrist. It's of the one who opposes 503 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,500 Christ. If you don't say that, Jesus is 504 00:30:12,500 --> 00:30:15,200 the only way to heaven if you don't say that. 505 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,700 He was 100%, man. He was 100% God. 506 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:19,700 If you don't say that, he was born of a virgin. 507 00:30:19,700 --> 00:30:23,700 If anything against Christ is of the spirit of the Antichrist. 508 00:30:23,700 --> 00:30:29,300 And that is who the liar is. And in verse 23, no one who 509 00:30:29,300 --> 00:30:33,800 denies the son has the father. And whoever acknowledges, the 510 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:39,800 son has the father, also, he see the Son and the father. 511 00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:44,500 Go are connected hand in hand. If you get Jesus, right, then 512 00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:48,100 you're able to have a right relationship with the father, 513 00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:52,000 but if you don't get Jesus, right, you don't have a right 514 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,800 relationship with the father. All you have are religious 515 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,500 philosophies. And I would even say 516 00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:03,600 emotionalism, you feel great. We have got to understand. 517 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,600 That's all about Jesus to all about getting him, right? 518 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,500 So really kind of how I want to just kind of wrap this up, you 519 00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:18,900 know, I was I was reading this and and I'm seeing like, okay. 520 00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:22,500 So these false teachers these false prophets, these Falls 521 00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:26,600 people are coming from with inside and you and I we have one 522 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:31,100 of two options in our lives. We could hold on, let's wait 523 00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:32,700 afterward. Okay I got you. 524 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,500 We have one of two options. Options in our lives. 525 00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:40,300 We could either live our lives in a way that we're just kind of 526 00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:42,900 like in our bubble just terrified of the world. 527 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:47,600 We can stay in our bunker, watch 700 Club, any Chick-fil-A all 528 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:52,800 day but that's not reality. We're not called to do that, 529 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,600 we're called to be the light of the world, we're called to be in 530 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,600 that Darkness. We're called to go out into the 531 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:06,200 world to Proclaim Christ. so, I started thinking, you know, 532 00:32:06,500 --> 00:32:11,300 nothing takes God by surprise, our God is all Sovereign, 533 00:32:11,300 --> 00:32:17,100 all-knowing all-powerful. But I started like well then why 534 00:32:17,100 --> 00:32:21,000 if he sees this why did, why does this continue to go? 535 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,100 Like why are there people that creep into the church and start 536 00:32:24,100 --> 00:32:27,300 trying to destroy it and break it up and divide it and take 537 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:29,400 people with them? Like why does that keep 538 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,800 happening? So kind of what I want to do is 539 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:37,800 I want to look at it from a perspective on how God uses the 540 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,700 false teachers. For his body. 541 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:47,700 How does God use that those? That oppose him To actually 542 00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:51,400 glorify him because that's only something God can do. 543 00:32:53,300 --> 00:32:55,100 So, three quick things and then we'll be done. 544 00:32:56,700 --> 00:33:00,600 So number one, I believe that based on detects, he uses it to 545 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:05,300 purge the body of Christ. He uses it to purge the body of 546 00:33:05,300 --> 00:33:08,500 Christ. What we see in the text in verse 547 00:33:08,500 --> 00:33:12,100 19 is that this person, this this person does this 548 00:33:12,100 --> 00:33:14,900 Antichrist. Those who oppose Jesus is going 549 00:33:14,900 --> 00:33:17,400 to come in and as they leave, they're going to take people 550 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:21,600 with them. And instead of us being like, Oh 551 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:25,200 no, like our church is like shrinking or oh, no. 552 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,800 I miss my friend or oh, no. We should be like Lord. 553 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:32,900 Thank God that they're gone. Listen, there's times where God 554 00:33:32,900 --> 00:33:36,200 is ready to move forward, but you can't move forward because 555 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,700 their specific folks who are still there. 556 00:33:40,300 --> 00:33:43,900 And he needs to purge it out. We need the real ones. 557 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:49,000 We need those who are in the faith and what God does is that 558 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,900 he uses these situations for those who come into the Assembly 559 00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:57,800 of Believers to show that they are not of the fellowship man. 560 00:33:57,900 --> 00:34:01,500 As you leave, take the rest of them with, you will be better 561 00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:03,700 off. And I know that sounds kind of 562 00:34:03,700 --> 00:34:07,900 cold But God is so mighty and Powerful. 563 00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:11,400 It's hard for me to believe that that would catch him off guard. 564 00:34:12,900 --> 00:34:16,100 Everything is for the glory of God, everything is for him. 565 00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:20,100 So number one, God uses it to purge it. 566 00:34:20,300 --> 00:34:26,600 Number two, God uses this to show you that where you don't 567 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:32,100 belong, where you don't belong. So if we know that there are 568 00:34:32,500 --> 00:34:36,500 people, if we know that there are Faith leaders who are not 569 00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:39,900 teaching truth who are, who are aligning themselves with the 570 00:34:39,900 --> 00:34:45,100 world and you're sitting underneath one, it's time to go, 571 00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:49,600 leave doesn't matter. If they have a massive 572 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,100 playground for the kids ministry, it doesn't matter. 573 00:34:52,100 --> 00:34:54,800 If their worship team is like going to a concert every Sunday, 574 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,600 if their Doctrine is wrong, get out. 575 00:34:58,500 --> 00:35:01,500 I tell people all the time and keep me in check man, we'll talk 576 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:03,800 afterward if there's something, I say that's wrong. 577 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:07,600 That's how important this is. You need to get out and God uses 578 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:12,300 this to show you, where you should not be where you don't 579 00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:15,500 belong. I know some of us man, we get so 580 00:35:15,500 --> 00:35:18,500 caught up it with with relationships in our friends and 581 00:35:18,500 --> 00:35:21,700 emotionalism we get so tied to the pastor and and all these 582 00:35:21,700 --> 00:35:26,100 things and sometimes God has to use something like that. 583 00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:30,600 To get you out to get, you moving to put you in a place 584 00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:34,800 that aligns with his word and in the last thing and we'll close 585 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:39,200 with this. I think God uses some of these 586 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,300 false teachers to push us into our purpose. 587 00:35:43,100 --> 00:35:45,300 He uses this to push us into our purpose. 588 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,100 You know, we are human beings. A lot of us are people of 589 00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:53,100 routine. We could do the same thing over 590 00:35:53,100 --> 00:35:57,300 and over and over and over again, and be cool with it, but 591 00:35:57,300 --> 00:36:01,200 there's some times that we need to be shaken, we need to be 592 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,300 stirred up. Did you know, if you go to 593 00:36:04,300 --> 00:36:08,200 countries that are most persecuted in the world, the 594 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,900 church is thriving. There you go. 595 00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:14,200 To the church in China to church and I ran the church and Cuba. 596 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:17,300 All these places where the church is being persecuted. 597 00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:21,500 The gospel is exploding there. Why? 598 00:36:22,700 --> 00:36:26,500 Because that's all they have. And I think sometimes for some 599 00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:29,200 of us we're so worried about like what people are going to 600 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,100 like man sometimes I hope that happens. 601 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,800 And that is shakes us up. What is your purpose? 602 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,100 And my purpose to know him and make him known? 603 00:36:39,900 --> 00:36:44,700 That's the purpose of Our Lives is to know Christ and to make 604 00:36:44,700 --> 00:36:48,000 sure that make sure that other people know Christ as well. 605 00:36:49,300 --> 00:36:53,800 Faith can be a scary thing. Moving could be a scary thing, 606 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,100 not knowing could be a scary thing. 607 00:36:57,500 --> 00:37:00,100 So, I believe sometimes God uses opposition. 608 00:37:00,100 --> 00:37:04,200 I believe sometimes God uses pain and, and he uses some 609 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:11,000 unlikely methods, to push us forward into our purpose of 610 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:15,300 knowing him better and making him known not just in our city, 611 00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:20,500 but amongst the nation's You know, I was doing a lot of like 612 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:24,000 reflection over this, you know, today was my birthday. 613 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,100 So it's like you start thinking about like man last year and 614 00:37:27,107 --> 00:37:30,000 then the last five years it was like man I got kids, how that 615 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,600 happened? I mean I know I happened but you 616 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,000 know I'm saying right? Like now she's crazy. 617 00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:41,400 So but I was I was thinking like, how did we get to City 618 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:46,100 Post? And the way we got to city post 619 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:52,600 and I'm just talking to myself now was that I started seeing 620 00:37:53,300 --> 00:37:55,900 opposition to what God's word said. 621 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,700 And questions were rising up in my mind and I'm like, man, I 622 00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:03,500 know it can't be the church, cannot be this way. 623 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,800 That's why I felt the call for God to say, hey like you're 624 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,500 going to plant a church that's going to be about his word and 625 00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:12,600 about bringing people to the gospel. 626 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,200 We're going to be we're going to be light that pushes back. 627 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,300 Darkness we're going to be in some funky Partnerships but for 628 00:38:18,300 --> 00:38:25,500 the sake of the Gospel, But it took that push to get me out 629 00:38:25,500 --> 00:38:28,400 there cuz I'm like, I'm freaking out about this, like plan to 630 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:33,200 church of you out of your mind. But God uses these methods and 631 00:38:33,207 --> 00:38:36,500 these ways. So I want to encourage you. 632 00:38:36,500 --> 00:38:39,700 You guys have the Holy Spirit. You have the Holy One in you. 633 00:38:40,700 --> 00:38:45,000 You have the Holy One. He serves as the guardian of 634 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,500 Truth in our lives but he also serves as like this little like 635 00:38:48,500 --> 00:38:50,700 lighted. Just think of the BS alarm. 636 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,400 The biblically sound alarm that goes off when you hear things 637 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,800 that are not biblically sound. We have that. 638 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:04,100 So we know the truth so in Door persevere because that's the 639 00:39:04,100 --> 00:39:07,300 sign of a True Believer. Let me pray for us, then we're 640 00:39:07,300 --> 00:39:09,700 going to have some time of response and worship and we have 641 00:39:09,700 --> 00:39:11,100 some pretty cool announcements at the end. 642 00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:14,900 So let's pray together. Father, we love you and we thank 643 00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:16,500 you so much for all that you're doing. 644 00:39:18,300 --> 00:39:20,100 So Lord, I pray that you be with us. 645 00:39:20,100 --> 00:39:28,900 Father, I pray that you help us to persevere Lord, even when 646 00:39:28,900 --> 00:39:31,400 things get hard, I pray that you help us to pause. 647 00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:37,600 And instead of asking why we asked, why not, but what are you 648 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,200 doing in our lives? Father. 649 00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:43,000 So regardless of whether we understand or now we know that 650 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,900 you are faithful and we know that you are true. 651 00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:51,600 So we've got so God I pray that you help us to live in the 652 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,500 spirit. I pray that you help us to 653 00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:57,800 understand. Father, that your truth is so 654 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:02,000 important that we cling Our Lives to this week anchor. 655 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,600 Our hearts on this because without it, we'd be lost. 656 00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:08,500 So Jesus, we give this time to you and your name. 657 00:40:08,500 --> 00:40:09,600 We pray these things. Amen.