Good Morning Friends,
“Dear children, this is the last hour; and as
you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have
come. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they
did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have
remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. But
you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. I do
not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it
and because no lie comes from the truth. Who is the liar? It is the man who denies
that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist – he denies the Father
and the Son. No one who denies the Son has
the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.” (1 John 2:18-23)
The bottom-line between truth and falsehood
lies in what is said about Jesus Christ. Jesus declared, “I am the truth.”
(John 14:6)
The surest way to identify a cult is to
examine what a group says about Jesus. When they deny or weaken the truth about
Jesus they have cut the foundation out from under the Gospel and have abandoned
it. When they declare that Jesus is an angel, or even an archangel, they deny
His true identity as God’s unique Son, co-equal with the Father.
When they say that Jesus is a created being,
even the greatest and most powerful created being, they deny the truth that
Jesus was from the beginning and all things were created through Him.
When they say that Jesus is a prophet or a
teacher, even a great prophet or the greatest teacher, they deny that Jesus is
the Word of God … the very source of all of God’s communication to men.
To say that Jesus is “a god” denies the truth
that Jesus is “the God.”
Examine what they say about Jesus and you’ll
discern the truth or the lie of their teaching.
Jesus is God’s bottom-line!
Here is the absolute truth: you can’t have
the Father without the Son. Jesus said, “No one comes to the Father except
through me.” (John 14:6) You can’t have a relationship with God without Jesus
Christ!
Cling to Jesus, He is God’s truth!
His, by Grace,
Steve
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