1 John 2:22: Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
John gives us now the definition of antichrist. This will be the embodiment of the Antichrist, but there are many antichrists. There were some in John’s day; there have been some down to our day, and there are many today. Who are they? They are easy to recognize—they are those who deny the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, those who deny that Jesus the man is the Christ, the Messiah, the one who is God, the one whose name is Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the one who is pictured in the Old Testament. To deny that is being antichrist. We have many systems in the world today which deny Him. They are against Christ, and they also imitate Him and try to take His place. 1
Loving Him
The Lord Jesus Christ is not a designer God that we fashion however we like. He is the One and Only Savior of the world. You either have all of Him or none of Him. You either accept Him as the God-Man or reject Him as just another divine man. These days are urgent. If we do not get it right with God now, we will end up in the wrong place forever. By the grace of God, let us seek Him with the utmost diligence in this coming year.
For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. Jude 4
Loving Others
We are either all in, or not in at all. He has not offered us any other options. – TWEET IT
Changing Me
Lord, thank You for being the God of all truth.
1. McGee, J. V. (1991). Thru the Bible commentary: The Epistles (1 John) (electronic ed., Vol. 56). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
