1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:01,960 Hi there. Welcome back to the podcast 2 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:03,600 again. This is Wade again. 3 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:07,160 And like I mentioned before, we are missing a couple lessons in 4 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:09,760 our First John series from the recordings. 5 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,440 So you'll be hearing in this kind of personal format again 6 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:18,960 today as we approach the second-half of First John 2. 7 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,320 So First John Chapter 2, we're calling this Part 3 in the 8 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:28,400 series and 1st John. And so let's jump in first John 9 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:33,720 chapter 2 and verse 18. This section I set aside in this 10 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:39,200 lesson because it deals with some, some kind of hot topic or 11 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:44,440 buzzwords, you might say, of the anointing and the Antichrist. 12 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,040 And I think there's a really beautiful picture of what these 13 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:52,240 mean and their connection here in in the in the Scriptures. 14 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:56,480 So let's dive here into first John chapter 2 verse 18. 15 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:02,720 It says there little children, it is the last hour and as you 16 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:06,680 have you and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming 17 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:12,400 even now many antichrists have come by which we know that it is 18 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:17,880 the last hour. So this time is crucial time. 19 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:22,720 As I understand this phrase, the last hour is, is to denote a 20 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,800 time of high importance. It is high time. 21 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:30,600 It is it is a kind of a crucial, pivotal time here being the last 22 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:35,240 hour. And Jesus has just completed a 23 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:41,520 huge work in crushing the devil and the devil's forces through 24 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:44,760 his sacrifice and through his his work on earth. 25 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,880 And so we have a huge surge from the protagonist, you might say a 26 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:54,600 huge surge from the good guys. And whenever there is a special 27 00:01:54,920 --> 00:02:01,080 protagonist positive surge, the opposition logically will 28 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:07,080 respond with all of its efforts. And, and in this crucial time, 29 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:12,200 the Antichrist, whatever is contrary to Christ, anti against 30 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:14,280 Christ. That's what we're talking about 31 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,280 here. So there is something that 32 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,600 counteracts Christ that is working hard against what Christ 33 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:25,880 has done. Now, there are some things about 34 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,480 the Antichrist that I think we can learn very clearly from 35 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,480 this, from this Scripture. People say a lot of things about 36 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:36,680 the Antichrist. They start connecting all these 37 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,000 passages and they weave this big web throughout the Bible that 38 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,920 I'm not very confident is valid. And you can listen to people 39 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:52,760 with a lot of opinions on these things with a lot of details. 40 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:58,200 I have not been convinced when I've heard or read different 41 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,560 studies that people have communicated about the 42 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:07,160 Antichrist trying to make a lot of cross scriptural connections. 43 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:13,080 But what I do want to do, I don't feel the need to convince 44 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:17,520 you that those are wrong. I want to talk about in this 45 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,640 lesson the things we know for sure about the Antichrist. 46 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:24,000 No matter what you believe about the Antichrist, there are some 47 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,040 things that we need to know from this section of scriptures that 48 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,080 it is clearly talking about in context. 49 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:33,160 Number one, I think we need to know it's danger. 50 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,920 We need to know what the risk of this Antichrist is. 51 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:41,480 Number 2, we need to know how to avoid it, how to avoid the 52 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,600 influence, and how to avoid following after whatever this 53 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,360 Antichrist is. And #3 we need to know how to 54 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:53,520 not be like it ourselves. And I think this passage will 55 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,200 equip us with enough information to do just that. 56 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:00,880 So to know the danger of the Antichrist, we should know 57 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,720 John's profile. So as someone might be building 58 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,400 a profile and investigation of somebody, I'm going to start to 59 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,600 build a profile of this Antichrist just from the 60 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,240 Scriptures we're considering here in first John. 61 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:18,680 So the first thing we read is in that passage, verse 18, he says, 62 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,240 as you've heard that the Antichrist is coming. 63 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,720 Even now many antichrists have come. 64 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,240 OK, so the first thing, if we're building our our Antichrist 65 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:33,880 profile of this individual or this, let me rephrase, not the 66 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:41,320 individual, this entity, this Antichrist, there are many who 67 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,280 carry the influence and the work of the Antichrist. 68 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,920 So some people really want to focus on this being one person 69 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,000 and I don't see that in scripture. 70 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,920 I see the message of the Antichrist as an entity. 71 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,760 But here it's saying that there are many who carry this 72 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,760 influence and work. Many antichrists have come. 73 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:07,680 So that's that's number one goes on to say in verse 19, they went 74 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,200 out from us, but they were not of us. 75 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:16,120 For if they had been of us, they would not have continued with 76 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:20,640 us, or they would have continued with us. 77 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:26,600 But they went out that they might be made manifest or made 78 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,040 evident or clear that none of them were of us. 79 00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:34,960 They weren't with us the whole time or they were they at some 80 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,400 point left to distinguish that their identity was no longer 81 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:43,640 with Christ. So the second thing is we're 82 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:47,040 building a profile. We now know that they, this 83 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:49,960 Antichrist started out as Christian. 84 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,480 OK, so that's, that's John's profile. 85 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:57,640 There's many who carry this work and this entity or these people 86 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:01,240 started out who are Christian originally verse 20. 87 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:07,520 But you have an anointing from the Holy one and you know all 88 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,680 things. OK, so here we have that other 89 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:16,240 buzzword come up of anointing, and I'm going to make a side by 90 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,760 side profile of the anointing. So we're making a list of what 91 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:23,000 the Antichrist is and we're making a list now of what the 92 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,240 anointing is and that anointing. He just gave us our first clue 93 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:31,360 about that anointing. He says, but you have an 94 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,840 anointing from the Holy One. Who is he talking to? 95 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:35,920 He's already said the little children. 96 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,480 Who are the little children? Those are the Christians, the 97 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:42,520 people that he is looking after and mentoring with his words. 98 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,640 So all of these people, these Christians had it. 99 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:56,200 They all had this anointing. OK, now that is supported by 100 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,080 other Scriptures in second John or excuse me, in Second 101 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:04,360 Corinthians one verse 21, it says now he who establishes us 102 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:08,440 with you in Christ has anointed us is God. 103 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:12,040 So he's writing to the Corinthians there. 104 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,960 Paul's writing the letter to the Corinthians, and he has said 105 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:21,360 they as the Corinthians have been anointed just like Paul had 106 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:25,840 been anointed by God. So there's an anointing that all 107 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,920 of these Christians have. It's not unique to just a few 108 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,560 select Christians who have some special knowledge. 109 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,480 This is to all Christians. So number one, they all had this 110 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:40,840 anointing #2 about the anointing is that this anointing 111 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:46,080 counteracts the influence of Antichrist because in that 112 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:54,160 verse, So first John 220 said, but against the Antichrist when 113 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,920 he said these people left, that none of them were of us. 114 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,440 Verse 19, verse 20 starts by saying, but you have an 115 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,800 anointing from the Holy One and know all things. 116 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:08,040 So this anointing is presented as a counteract, counter action 117 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:14,200 to the Antichrist. And thirdly, on this list of 118 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,240 things we now know about the anointing is it is related 119 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:21,600 somehow to complete knowledge. He says, but you have an 120 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:27,240 anointing from the Holy One and you know all things the ESV 121 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:30,080 says, and you all have knowledge. 122 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:32,919 So we're going to talk about what that means there and what 123 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:35,320 it might not mean later on in the study. 124 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:39,640 But he says there you know all things and or another 125 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:42,159 translation is and you have all knowledge. 126 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,880 So we'll talk about later. What does that mean? 127 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:50,960 What is this anointing resulting in complete knowledge. 128 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:53,080 We'll dive into that later with some more clues. 129 00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:56,120 But the the thing I want to point out here is we now have a 130 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:01,880 contrast between the Antichrist and the anointing goes on to say 131 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:07,600 verse 21 of first John 2. I have not written to you 132 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:11,920 because you do not know the truth, but because you know it 133 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:17,800 and that no lie is of the truth. Sometimes we can feel like, can 134 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,680 I really know? You know all these high things 135 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:23,440 of God? Or someone might say, man, this 136 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,560 is just a bunch of religious mumbo jumbo. 137 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:29,720 No, the writer is writing a very simple letter. 138 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:33,400 He simplifies. He says don't do that, You know 139 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:35,440 this, don't over complicate this. 140 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,720 He says I'm not writing to you because you don't know the 141 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,240 truth, but because you already know it. 142 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:44,600 You already know this stuff and so you're getting the sense that 143 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:51,320 he's trying to take the eyes of the reader off of some deception 144 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,800 and focus them on something. You guys, you already know this. 145 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,920 He's trying to focus them in on something that they already 146 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:03,240 know. Verse 22, who is a liar, but he 147 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:05,920 who denies that Jesus is the Christ. 148 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,720 Christ is is a phrase that means the Messiah. 149 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:15,520 He is Antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. 150 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,280 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either. 151 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,920 He who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. 152 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,520 I love that last line. Jesus. 153 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:34,560 Jesus claims us and when we claim Jesus and we follow him, 154 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:42,160 we get Jesus, but we also get God the Father also is part of 155 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:44,520 that package deal that we have access to? 156 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,240 Wonderful stuff. OK, so from that section of 157 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:51,000 verses we now have another thing to add to our list of the 158 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:54,920 profile of the Antichrist. We know first of all from 159 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,760 earlier there are many who carry the influence and work of 160 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:01,000 Antichrist #2 these people started out Christian, they went 161 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:05,040 out from them. Now thirdly on this list, the 162 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:10,760 Antichrist denies the Son. OK, so denies the Son. 163 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,000 We get some more clarity about that in first John 4. 164 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,920 So skipping to later in the letter it says this, beloved, do 165 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:22,360 not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they 166 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:25,600 are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the 167 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,760 world. By this you know the Spirit of 168 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:31,600 God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in 169 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:35,280 the flesh is of God and every spirit that does not confess 170 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,320 that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. 171 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:43,480 Here it is and this is the spirit of the Antichrist which 172 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,240 you have heard was coming and is now already in the world. 173 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:53,600 So that thing we added to list that the Antichrist or 174 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:58,000 Antichrist denies the sun and more specifically later in the 175 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:03,000 letter what that means the Antichrist denies the sun by 176 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,280 denying that the sun came in the flesh. 177 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:13,320 OK, so how do we know what lines up with God? 178 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:20,080 If if this Antichrist is teaching something that doesn't 179 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,200 line up with God, how do we know? 180 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:29,440 Well it says to test the spirits in chapter 4 and it's all about 181 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:33,800 what lines up with his word. He says by this you know the 182 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:38,200 Spirit of God and he goes on to re teach what the Bible already 183 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,480 says. So don't be afraid that you need 184 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:45,520 to have some special knowledge. We can know what lines up with 185 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:47,560 God's word based on what his word teaches. 186 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:51,520 OK, so we've we've got to check to see if what people say is 187 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,200 true and we're going to talk about that testing the spirits 188 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:57,160 in a later lesson in this letter. 189 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:02,760 But we know that the sun that the the Antichrist denies that 190 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:06,760 the sun came the flesh contrary to what Scripture teaches. 191 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:12,560 OK, verse 24. Therefore let that abide in you 192 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:14,840 what you heard from the beginning. 193 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:19,360 If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you 194 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:22,760 also will abide in the Son and in the Father. 195 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:24,840 So back up. Let's start again that verse. 196 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:29,240 Therefore let that abide. The phrase let it is, is talking 197 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:31,120 about a surrender. It's a submission. 198 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:37,000 Let, let this thing happen. There is a tendency when things 199 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:42,560 get hard to look for other solutions, other answers that 200 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:45,600 people may provide. When you struggle with your 201 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:51,280 faith, you might want to look around and and when things 202 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:55,960 challenge you, you might want to say, man, there must be an 203 00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:59,880 answer somewhere else. But part of the message of this 204 00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:04,680 letter is to not get too quick to look elsewhere for answers, 205 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:10,520 sometimes in the middle of a trial or a challenge or someone 206 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:12,560 challenging their faith like we're reading about in this 207 00:14:12,560 --> 00:14:15,600 letter. He says let that abide in you 208 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:17,040 that you heard from the beginning. 209 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:24,000 Let let it sink in and meditate on the things that you've 210 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:29,120 already learned. These early Christians were 211 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,240 facing false teachers, people who are trying to deceive them, 212 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:36,520 as we're later going to learn, as we today face difficulties, 213 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,040 confusions, questions in our faith. 214 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,840 John's message is to listen what the Master has told you this 215 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,720 whole time. When we have doubts, it's common 216 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:51,680 to want to throw out everything we already know because we need 217 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:54,360 to reboot, we need to reset. That's how it works. 218 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:56,680 When you are challenged in something, it can make you 219 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:00,640 question everything you think, and sometimes that's a good 220 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:04,400 thing because you need to reevaluate, but other times it 221 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:08,160 can be harmful because you can throw out things that you are 222 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,360 established and that are already true. 223 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:17,720 So part of John's comfort is to establish and stay and settle in 224 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:19,480 the things that you already know. 225 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,400 Don't. Don't let these false teachers 226 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,760 pull you into thinking everything you think about your 227 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:29,760 faith is wrong or it's false because they are providing a 228 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:32,080 challenge. Don't let them do that to you. 229 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:35,120 He says stay with what you've learned the whole time. 230 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:41,200 Don't be disillusioned and wonder May my whole foundation 231 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,680 is off because that happens with all with all of us. 232 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:49,200 I think we run into challenges with our faith and it can feel 233 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:54,520 at times like man, I'm questioning this and makes me 234 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:59,080 question everything. Go back to what you know for 235 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:03,760 sure. Focus on the truths that you are 236 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:08,280 confident in from God's Word and you can deal through. 237 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:11,920 Work with those things you have questions about, but don't throw 238 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:16,560 out the baby with the bathwater. Don't throw away all the things 239 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:20,160 that you have made progress in and have learned and have become 240 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:24,720 established in. It's usually or often I might 241 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,880 say it's often an issue of working through a current 242 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:33,560 circumstance and turn to the source of the truth for those 243 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:39,480 specific questions we have first Peter 119 has some some 244 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,840 comforting advice in this. It says there. 245 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,600 And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do 246 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:51,520 well to heat as a light that shines in a dark place, wherever 247 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:58,080 your dark place is, until the day dawns and the morning star 248 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:02,200 rises in your hearts. Don't give up on truth. 249 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:06,440 Let truth have its way, and though those things might come 250 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,359 up to detract from your faith and challenge you in your faith, 251 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:12,839 there's going to be a light that dawns. 252 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:16,400 The sun is going to come up on the darkness, and if you're 253 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:21,000 holding on to what's true even in the darkness, you'll make it 254 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,079 through the night, and that light will rise on your faith 255 00:17:25,079 --> 00:17:29,080 and hope will come alive like it never has before. 256 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,120 Don't forget the things you already know. 257 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:35,800 That's what John is telling them. 258 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:43,080 As a side note, as he's just told us, let that abide in you 259 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:44,400 that you heard from the beginning. 260 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:48,400 If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you 261 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:50,760 will abide in the in the Son and in the Father. 262 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:54,800 A side note of that. May we learn to abide in the 263 00:17:54,800 --> 00:18:00,760 peace of the Son and the Father. Relax and enjoy. 264 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,480 Sometimes we can make it harder for so much harder than it 265 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:11,000 really is. Now, I'm not saying relax and 266 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,560 and do whatever you want. I'm saying maybe we as 267 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:21,560 Christians sometimes need to learn to to enjoy and relax and 268 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:26,840 to take peace. I was wisely told by another 269 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:33,800 teacher when I started teaching high school, that teacher told 270 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:38,960 me be comfortable because if you are come because if you are 271 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,120 uncomfortable, your students will be uncomfortable too. 272 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:47,440 Spiritually speaking, if we want to help others feel the joy and 273 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:51,600 the love in Christ and and take away some of the negative 274 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:55,000 narratives we can acquire as Christians or or members of the 275 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:02,680 church, we have to start here. We have to start with the 276 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:07,040 attributes that make us different, the peace that 277 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:11,760 surpasses understanding, with the joy that fills our hearts. 278 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:15,760 Sometimes we need to remember to abide in the peace and the joy 279 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:21,120 of the Father. Maybe sometimes we don't make 280 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:25,320 others feel and enjoy peace and joy. 281 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:31,240 You know, people were trying to actively convert to the faith. 282 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:35,560 Maybe sometimes we don't make them feel that or learn that 283 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,440 peace is because we don't feel it ourselves. 284 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:47,600 It can feel like we are the only victim in a crime of a living 285 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:55,240 anxious, angry, lacking peace, lacking hope, not living the 286 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,760 abiding joy and peace. It can feel sometimes like we 287 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,080 are the only victim in that if we live a life. 288 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:07,160 That is characterized by those things, but but others are 289 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:12,320 affected because we are robbing others of an example that would 290 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:18,840 show them Christ and what it means to walk in the light and 291 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:24,920 the warmth of His light. It's not a victimless crime when 292 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:30,120 we neglect abiding in the peace of the Son and the Father. 293 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:35,640 So sometimes we need to learn to smile, relax a little bit, enjoy 294 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:41,480 our life. So back to the context. 295 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,120 So you just said let that abide in you, what you heard from the 296 00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:46,840 beginning. So let's remember he's talking 297 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:50,360 about an anointing that will counteract the spirit of the 298 00:20:50,360 --> 00:20:54,160 Antichrist. And he's and he, he's using this 299 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:59,480 statement to use the anointing to counteract the Antichrist in 300 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,160 the way that you are letting things abide in you that you've 301 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:06,280 heard this whole time. That is the counteracting 302 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:11,720 influence. So we learned from Romans 10/17 303 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,400 that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 304 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:20,760 So as we build our definition of this anointing, it's related to 305 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:25,000 complete knowledge. But he just said that he says 306 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,440 let that abide in you what you heard from the beginning. 307 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:32,040 So the things that that is filling them with knowledge is 308 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,520 things that they have been hearing. 309 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,840 So complete knowledge, whatever it is, has to come from hearing 310 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,520 verse 25. And this is the promise that He 311 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:50,360 has promised us eternal life. These things I've written to you 312 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,360 concerning those who try to deceive you. 313 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:59,320 So as we build the the profile of the Antichrist, we have 314 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:00,680 another thing to add to the list. 315 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,840 The Antichrist lives in others through deception. 316 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,480 So he's writing to us concerning those who are trying to deceive 317 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,360 us. So that's how the Antichrist 318 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:13,240 works. The Antichrist lives through 319 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,640 deception. Verse 27. 320 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,360 But as the same anointing teaches you concerning all 321 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:23,160 things, there it is again the contrast between the Antichrist 322 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:27,200 and the anointing verse 27 But as the same anointing teaches 323 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:32,720 you concerning all things and is true and is not a lie, and just 324 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:37,280 as it has taught you, you will abide in Him. 325 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,040 So this anointing, as we go back to our definition of the 326 00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:50,480 anointing, it teaches complete knowledge because he says there 327 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,560 this anointing teaches you concerning all things. 328 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,640 So this anointing teaches complete knowledge. 329 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:01,680 Now here's where maybe we can start to ask some questions. 330 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:08,120 Is this knowing all things, a miraculous complete knowledge? 331 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,120 Is it getting knowledge from God that you have an anointing and 332 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:16,640 so you have some miraculous ability, a miracle ability to 333 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:20,000 have knowledge of everything? Well, we have to remember a 334 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,000 couple things from other scriptures. 335 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,840 Sometimes it helps to rule out other things. 336 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:32,760 To clarify, in First Corinthians chapter 12 we learned about how 337 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:36,200 miracles worked and the and what we learned from First 338 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:41,040 Corinthians 12 is that only some had this. 339 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,640 Not everyone had this miraculous knowledge. 340 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:52,480 So there was bits and pieces of a group of people who had 341 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:54,960 miraculous knowledge. So if we go back to where we 342 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,240 started this conversation, we learned that every Christian has 343 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:03,240 this anointing. So the kind of miraculous 344 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,080 knowledge of God's word that is taught in First Corinthians 12 345 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:09,920 says that only some people have it. 346 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,520 So now we we know that these two things aren't lining up. 347 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:16,480 Not everybody had miraculous knowledge. 348 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:18,800 Some people had gifts in this area. 349 00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:22,360 Some people had gifts in another, and not everybody had 350 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:24,320 miraculous knowledge of God's Word. 351 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:26,880 So that's First off. In First Corinthians 12:00 we, 352 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:32,760 we learned that in First Corinthians 14, we learned that 353 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:37,280 only part of God's Word was revealed to the people who did 354 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:43,040 even have miraculous knowledge. So let's say you know you are 355 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,920 you are person #1 and that person #1 did have some 356 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,280 miraculous knowledge from the power of the Holy Spirit. 357 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,640 They knew things about Scripture miraculously. 358 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,800 Well. First Corinthians 14 teaches us 359 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:02,040 that that person didn't have complete knowledge of God's 360 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,840 Word. They didn't know it all. 361 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:06,920 They had a piece of it miraculously. 362 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:13,400 Now they can learn more of God's Word by study, by asking 363 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,920 questions, by being taught, by reading the letters from the 364 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,960 apostles. But they didn't miraculously 365 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:24,480 just have all the scripture knowledge of God's Word in their 366 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:31,600 head. So they were told to one by one 367 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,000 share their prophecy. They were told to take turns 368 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,520 sharing what God had given them to teach. 369 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:46,400 OK, so when we consider this this anointing, it now does not 370 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:51,080 fit into the criteria of miraculous complete knowledge. 371 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:57,160 This anointing does not mean that some people or all these 372 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,760 Christians had complete knowledge of God's word by 373 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:03,040 miracle, right? Because that's been disproved by 374 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:04,960 First Corinthians 12 and chapter 14. 375 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:11,040 OK, so the next question does this anointing that makes us 376 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:15,120 know all things is that the Holy Spirit giving us direct 377 00:26:15,120 --> 00:26:19,480 knowledge, just popping information straight in our head 378 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:24,800 from the Holy Spirit? Well, that is not a pattern that 379 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:32,880 is given in Scripture. The Holy Spirit would then that 380 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,160 would be a hotline of God revealing his word. 381 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:39,840 Like I just get to, you know, I get to tell people that God told 382 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,120 me this. God told me that. 383 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,400 And we all know that there have been people who have said things 384 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,240 that God told me this and it was a complete lie. 385 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,840 So if we can just all say, you know, God told me this, that's a 386 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,600 hotline for God's Word. And that is not a pattern in 387 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:01,360 Scripture. So the Holy Spirit giving direct 388 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:03,480 knowledge is is not really the pattern. 389 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,880 Let's look at Romans 10. Romans 10 tells us the pattern 390 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:10,040 in verse 14. It says, how then shall they 391 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,480 call on him and whom they have not believed? 392 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:16,600 And how shall they believe in him on whom they have not heard? 393 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:19,720 He says they need to hear it first. 394 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,280 And how shall they hear without a preacher? 395 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,200 They need to have somebody to teach them. 396 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,920 Verse 15 and how shall they preach unless they are sent? 397 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,920 Goes on to say verse 16, But they have not all obeyed the 398 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,960 gospel for Isaiah says Lord, who hasn't believed our report? 399 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,680 Who's believed our teaching? Verse 17. 400 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,120 So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 401 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,000 So if we're wondering, you know, is this anointing the Holy 402 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,840 Spirit just popping knowledge in people's head. 403 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,000 That's not really the pattern for how knowledge is passed on 404 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:57,600 in Scripture. So I think here's where we can 405 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,600 build that anointing profile a little bit. 406 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:04,760 Nor anointing is where the Holy Spirit teaches us complete 407 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:12,000 knowledge that sets us apart. So in light of the Gnostics 408 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,840 believed often times that they had some special knowledge. 409 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:23,160 Now, if these people literally knew all things, if these 410 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:27,520 Christians he's writing to literally knew all things, like 411 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,640 this was a miraculous knowledge, why would John even be writing 412 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:33,960 to them? Because they already had 413 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:36,560 miraculous knowledge. I don't think that's the case. 414 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,560 I think that's why John is writing the letter to them, 415 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,720 because they don't have complete miraculous knowledge. 416 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,600 Now in light of this special knowledge, you know, because 417 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,280 getting it from the Holy Spirit through some mystical things 418 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:56,160 sounds, sounds kind of special. Would it be cooler or more 419 00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:01,000 exciting if I had some miraculous special knowledge as 420 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,840 opposed to something that I've learned from God's Word or by 421 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:05,960 somebody teaching me plainly from scripture? 422 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,760 Would it be cooler or more exciting if I had some 423 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:13,280 miraculous knowledge? If God wants to anoint me 424 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:19,720 through reasonable means like His Word, shame on me. 425 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,320 If I look down on that. If I think that God's way to 426 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:28,080 communicate and annoyed me with with His Word by his Holy Spirit 427 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:32,640 is from people teaching me his word or me reading his word, If 428 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:34,240 I look down on that, shame on me. 429 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,400 If God chooses to work in my life, that's his. 430 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,440 That's his decision. And may I not think, oh, it 431 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,520 would be better if I got taught this way. 432 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,480 You know, if I got some poof special knowledge sitting in my 433 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:54,200 living room without doing any reading or just popped into my 434 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:59,080 head, I shouldn't look at that like that's any better than the 435 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,480 way God taught me, the way God teaches me through His word. 436 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,040 Now I have to ask myself, if I do think it'd be cooler to get 437 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:12,120 some special miraculous knowledge from God directly, why 438 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:18,400 would it be cooler? I would argue that it's because 439 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:25,800 of selfish desire, because when it would be rare, right, It 440 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,000 would be rare. It would be unheard of if you 441 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,360 got some special knowledge from God. 442 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:37,280 Rarity is all based on I have something and other people 443 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:41,400 don't. That that's what makes fancy 444 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:47,760 things so important to people is because not everybody has it. 445 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,040 Not everybody drives a Lamborghini. 446 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,800 If everybody drove a Lamborghini, it would not be 447 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,680 that cool. But because they're rare, man, 448 00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,800 it's cool. And so it's, it's for it's can 449 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,760 be a selfish desire to be above someone else. 450 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:09,000 And so may I not look at it like, oh, I didn't get some 451 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,320 miraculous knowledge. That's not as good as if, you 452 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,480 know, I just got some knowledge from reading God's word. 453 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:20,480 May I not look down on God's Word that way, because to prefer 454 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,480 something else than what everybody else gets would be 455 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:32,640 kind of a selfish desire. Now, maybe it would make me feel 456 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,960 special, right? If God gave me miraculous 457 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,560 knowledge, I might feel special. He gave that to me. 458 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:45,280 If I can't read the scripture of all God did for me and feel 459 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,800 special. If I can't read scripture and 460 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:53,720 get that, it's a focus issue and I would soon dull to a special 461 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,160 message, right? If God popped some special 462 00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:00,600 message miraculously in my head, I would get dull to that sooner 463 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,280 or later. That wouldn't be cool anymore. 464 00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,800 I would need something else to make me feel quote UN quote 465 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,840 special. I can feel special by reading 466 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,480 God's word, by studying and learning what He did for me. 467 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:18,360 And man, you can't be more special than having someone 468 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:24,120 sacrifice their child for you. So let's sum up the anointing, 469 00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:30,400 the Gnostic view. The Gnostics did have a view of 470 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:36,880 anointing like they had some special knowledge and the 471 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:41,080 anointing is to work against. And so in light of that, that 472 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,960 that Gnostic view, there is the true Christian anointing which 473 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:49,760 is from the Holy Spirit. Now the anti Christian 474 00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:56,560 principles were against the anointing and these Gnostics 475 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:58,760 said they had a higher knowledge, they had something 476 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,520 special from God that other people didn't have access to. 477 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:08,560 Well John's response to this anti Christian idea and this 478 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,760 higher knowledge quote UN quote that the Gnostics had. 479 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,800 John's response in my own words is these guys say they had this 480 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,280 special knowledge, don't listen to them. 481 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:24,320 You all have all you need. That's what I believe the 482 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,560 anointing is. He's saying you have everything 483 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,720 you need. You are being taught by the Holy 484 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:32,440 Spirit himself now. It doesn't have to be mystical. 485 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,480 However, the Holy Spirit was teaching them during this time. 486 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,000 However, the Holy Spirit is teaching us today. 487 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:41,440 We are anointed by the Holy Spirit. 488 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,960 Now maybe we haven't talked about the word anointing enough. 489 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:49,000 So I'm going to do an extended cut on anointing for a second. 490 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:53,800 And if if that's a little too you don't want to go into that 491 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,400 rabbit hole, that's fine. Maybe Fast forward a few 492 00:33:56,400 --> 00:34:00,280 minutes, but looking at Scripture anointing in 493 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,080 Scripture, where do we read this? 494 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:06,600 Well, four times in Scripture it refers to how God anointed Jesus 495 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:12,600 with the Holy Spirit and Luke 4, Acts 4, Acts 10 and Hebrews one, 496 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,800 we learned about how the Holy Spirit anointed Jesus. 497 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,120 OK. And in Luke 4 verse 18, it says 498 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:25,040 the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to 499 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,159 preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the 500 00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:31,360 broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and 501 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:36,280 recovery of sight to the blind. So that is a piece of how the 502 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,120 anointing happens there. I'm not going to go through and 503 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,360 read all those. That was just one in that list 504 00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,760 of the Holy Spirit anointing Jesus. 505 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,400 But other uses of anointing in Scripture. 506 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:52,679 We read about anointing priests and kings in the Old Testament 507 00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:58,040 with oil, for example, in Second Samuel 1 verse 16 and Exodus 30 508 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,760 verse 30. It was a process of setting them 509 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,440 apart. So anointing in the Old 510 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,360 Testament set people apart as different. 511 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:12,760 We're we are marking them as something special and different 512 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:19,360 kings and priests right in in Exodus 30, verse 30, it says 513 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,440 anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them so that they may 514 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:27,560 serve me as priests. And he goes on to say, you know, 515 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:31,320 if if anybody else don't make any other thing like this, don't 516 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:35,480 replicate this, If anyone does something similar to this and 517 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,240 tries to kind of make their own anointing, he says let them be 518 00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:43,760 cut off from the people. So this anointing was serious 519 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:45,280 because it has an important role. 520 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,400 And that should make us feel special because we consider that 521 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,480 we are anointed by the Holy Spirit. 522 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:56,960 What an honor. We are anointed with great 523 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,960 intention, with great authority, and great individual 524 00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:03,480 acknowledgement of our role and value in God's service. 525 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,240 OK, now let's talk about some more reasons. 526 00:36:07,240 --> 00:36:11,040 And the anointing was used. It was used in medicine. 527 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:16,200 People were anointed with oil in Luke chapter 10 verse 34. 528 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:21,720 So you would take a, an oil, you would rub it on someone for, for 529 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:24,160 medical uses. You know, you take the extract 530 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,840 of the plant. We use essential oils today for 531 00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,600 medical things. You rub peppermint on the bottom 532 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,320 of a baby's feet and they start to feel better. 533 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:35,320 There's all kinds of things we do with oil to anoint and, and 534 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:39,360 to rub on. It's for healing and medicine 535 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:44,840 and Jesus uses and the word anointing, the Bible uses for 536 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,720 Jesus's anointing of the blind man's eyes with spittle as he 537 00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:52,040 mixed it with with dirt in John Chapter 9 verse 6. 538 00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:56,360 So kind of a way to summarize the word anointing. 539 00:36:56,360 --> 00:37:00,440 It's to smear something on. Jesus smeared the spittle on the 540 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,280 eyes of the blind man. It was oil smeared on in 541 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:07,600 medicine. It was smeared on in the act of 542 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,280 anointing the kings and the priests in the Old Testament. 543 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:20,240 We are healed by the anointing of God's word just like they 544 00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:22,000 were in medicine with the anointing of oil. 545 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:26,320 We are set apart as Christians and identified as workers for 546 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,640 God and we are Kingdom of priests today. 547 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:34,320 We are anointed and set apart by God's Word. 548 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:39,600 So as I summarize the anointing, I'm going to put it this way. 549 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:44,720 We are set apart or anointed by a supernatural teacher and 550 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:48,760 supernatural teachings. The ultimate teacher is the Holy 551 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:52,320 Spirit who inspired the words of scripture that were from the 552 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,040 beginning. These words give us what we need 553 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:59,400 to overcome the anti Christian ideas that would hold us back. 554 00:37:59,960 --> 00:38:03,120 So there's the contrast between the Antichrist and the 555 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:09,560 anointing. OK, hopefully that wasn't too 556 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:15,280 hard to communicate over over just audio. 557 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,960 I know it maybe help a little bit to have some visuals in 558 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,800 front like a PowerPoint, but hopefully that was OK. 559 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:26,000 So the Antichrist, let's summarize the Antichrist now in 560 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,680 the profile of the Antichrist. The Antichrist started out 561 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:33,560 Christian denies that the sun came in the flesh, undermining 562 00:38:34,240 --> 00:38:38,680 God's word by saying they had some higher knowledge of, of 563 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:40,600 Scripture. They had their own quote UN 564 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:45,960 quote anointing from the the Antichrist that we know that we 565 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:47,640 have as Christians, a true anointing. 566 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:52,440 So the Antichrist says there are there are many, though there are 567 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,600 many who carry the influence and work of the Antichrist and it 568 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,000 lives in others through deception. 569 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:01,680 OK, So that's kind of the profile of the Antichrist that 570 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,080 it's a danger. That's how we need to avoid it. 571 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:09,280 We need to avoid its influence and I'm not going to go past 572 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:13,040 that, the context of first Sean to talk about these things. 573 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:16,880 But to end this study in a positive note, I want to go back 574 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:21,120 to verse 25 because verse 25 said something super 575 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:25,680 encouraging, he said, and this is the promise that he has 576 00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:35,600 promised us eternal life. God has promises for us that 577 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:40,400 will change our life, you know, change our perspective on the 578 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,640 world we're living in and how we see it. 579 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:49,920 He says he's promised us eternal life. 580 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,200 The the concept of eternity is hard to wrap my mind around. 581 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:58,040 I love the analogy that I was told from a young age that stuck 582 00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:02,600 with me and and I was taught that it that eternity is like if 583 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:09,040 you took a a bird and that bird. Picked up a grain of sand on the 584 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:14,360 beach, and that bird proceeded to fly the miles and miles and 585 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:19,160 miles and thousands of miles all the way to the moon. 586 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:24,560 And that bird dropped off that grain of sand at the moon, and 587 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,960 it proceeded to make the long journey, miles and miles and 588 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:32,200 miles back, flying all the way back to Earth, where it picked 589 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,680 up another grain of sand way back to the moon, dropped it 590 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,600 off, came all the way back, picked up a third grain of sand, 591 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:39,400 flew all the way back to the moon. 592 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:47,760 Eternity. Is as if that bird flew all the 593 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,640 way to the moon. And dropped. 594 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:55,960 Off the entire planet Earth on the moon transferred the. 595 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,120 Entire. Earth over to the moon. 596 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,240 That is just the beginning. Of eternity Think. 597 00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:05,280 About how long? How many? 598 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:10,440 Years it would take to to just transfer a handful of sand from 599 00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,720 from a local beach here in California, just a handful of 600 00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:18,120 sand would take, I'd have to imagine, thousands of years. 601 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:20,880 Much. Less the entire. 602 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,920 Coastline of California, much less. 603 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:30,240 All of the the landlocked states of the United States, much less 604 00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:39,240 the entire depths of the ocean, all those miles and years of 605 00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:43,120 flying back and forth that is just. 606 00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:44,720 The beginning of. Eternity. 607 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:48,960 The Bible. Says God has put. 608 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:53,280 Eternity in our hearts. We have a concept, but we can't 609 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:57,720 wrap our minds around it and. He has promised us eternal. 610 00:41:57,720 --> 00:41:59,640 Life. A life that will never end. 611 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:03,920 A life that you you consider that it's unfathomable. 612 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:05,440 And yet, that's just the beginning. 613 00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:12,640 Of what's coming after this. Brief vapor of life that we are 614 00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:16,600 living in He. Says he's promised us eternal. 615 00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:18,880 Life. Now let's focus on that word. 616 00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:22,680 Life you. Know we don't really truly. 617 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:28,600 Experience true life here on earth for the most part when. 618 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:34,560 You read the Bible, true. Life is free from death, and 619 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,280 every single thing we've ever been through in this earthly 620 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,840 life had. Kind of a background of. 621 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:45,480 Death. You might have wonderful 622 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:46,440 moments. In your life. 623 00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,280 But there is. Something hanging over you of. 624 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:54,000 Death in the good times, you know that they're not always 625 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,640 going to last. In the smiles. 626 00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:04,800 There are there is sorrow for some in every circumstance in 627 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:08,080 life you may. Have had something good. 628 00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:11,440 Happening, but there were also things around that event that 629 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:15,520 were not so good. Around the birth of my. 630 00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:18,640 First child, one of the best days of my life. 631 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:24,240 It was came shortly after my father-in-law had had almost 632 00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:28,040 died. Had a had a life. 633 00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:33,160 Altering. Health crisis. 634 00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,600 And it even in the good time, there was something so severe 635 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:41,960 and tragic and scary that there was, it was a big, it was a big 636 00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:45,440 time. Life is full of. 637 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:50,160 Moments that are good and around it there are still things that 638 00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:56,000 are the stain, the sting of sin in life and the. 639 00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:59,240 The pains that come. Along with even the good things 640 00:43:59,240 --> 00:44:02,200 in life, I almost. Think about it like a. 641 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,800 Like a, Like a. Sock when you if you. 642 00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:10,320 Ever, ever been hiking and walk through through the brush, you 643 00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,680 come out the other side and you have all of these, these burrs 644 00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,840 in your sock or, or foxtails in your sock and they, if you sit 645 00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,720 down and take time to pick them all out, your sock was full of 646 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,280 hundreds and it took so long to remove all those thistles and 647 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,920 burrs. I think sometimes life is. 648 00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,640 Like that, if you really sat down and looked at your life, 649 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,480 you'd be able to say, well, I picked that one out. 650 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,760 There is a there's a problem there and there's a problem 651 00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:37,040 there. There's a problem there even 652 00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:38,280 though there's good things happening. 653 00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:42,920 You could pick out all of these things in the sock of your life. 654 00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,800 Even in the good times. And so I I said all that to say 655 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:55,160 this we don't truly know what true life is every. 656 00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:59,040 Bit of life we've ever. Experienced has had some death 657 00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:03,720 in it. Because of the curse of. 658 00:45:03,720 --> 00:45:08,640 Sin. I can't imagine a life. 659 00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:13,680 Where there's no pain. Where you are at a. 660 00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,680 At a birthday party and the grandparents are there and you 661 00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:22,560 don't have to have that feeling in the back of your mind of this 662 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,680 is special, wonderful moments, but but those grandparents 663 00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:30,000 aren't always going to be there. Sometimes in the positive and. 664 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:36,640 The happy there are sadnesses. We don't know what true. 665 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:41,120 Life is really like. But there's going to come a day. 666 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:47,680 Where there will be true life, and you and I have experienced 667 00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:54,520 beautiful pieces of life that are snippets and excerpts and 668 00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:57,640 just a taste of the good that is to come. 669 00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:04,320 Because everything in. Heaven and in life, in life, in 670 00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:08,400 true life in heaven, is going to be free from the burdens and the 671 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:14,000 pains that detracted from life's pure joys. 672 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:16,720 So. It says this is the. 673 00:46:16,720 --> 00:46:19,720 Promise that He has promised us eternal life. 674 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,240 It's going to be forever and it's going to be something 675 00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:25,760 that's better and beyond anything that we have ever 676 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,360 experienced in this life. Combining all of the good 677 00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:33,160 memories and separating them from anything negative. 678 00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:39,120 It's going to be good. I can't quite fathom it, but 679 00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:46,280 it's going to be good. And so to conclude this. 680 00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:53,000 Study, May we hold on to God's word and may we follow Him 681 00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,920 closely and walk in the light and avoid the influence of anti 682 00:46:56,920 --> 00:47:00,200 Christian ideas. And remember that we are 683 00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:04,840 anointed by the Holy Spirit that teaches us truth, that we don't 684 00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:06,720 have to fear what others would teach. 685 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:10,320 We don't have to fear Gnostic teachings or any other teachings 686 00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:13,800 that would detract from the message of Christ, but the we 687 00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:20,280 are taught from God himself and we can believe and have faith in 688 00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:23,440 him. Finishing up in verse 28 and now 689 00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:29,240 little children first John 228 abide in him that when he 690 00:47:29,240 --> 00:47:33,880 appears we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him in 691 00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:36,080 his coming. If you. 692 00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:39,480 Know that he is righteous. You know that everyone who 693 00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:43,920 practices righteousness is born of Him.