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A Closer Look At 1 John 2:18-29 , This is The Last Hour
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Feb 19, 2025
How do we know that the Bible isTrue ? See link below https://tayibs.com/2020/07/29/how-do-we-know-that-we-serve-the-true-god/ In our last session, we talked about what it means to live in the world but not adopt the ways of the world. Today John is going to briefly mention the end times and also give us specific instructions on how to recognize false christs. There has been an explosion of individuals who claim to be saviors and this is only going to get worse as time progresses. But God’s true children do not need to be worried about being swept away by all winds of doctrine. We’re going to explore 1 John 2:18-29 and find out what we can do to keep ourselves from falling into serious errors.
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hello good morning this is taipe at
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tives.com
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and i hope that you had a great um
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weekend
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it's been so nice uh in the last couple
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of days but yesterday was
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raining here in maryland but uh i hope
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that you've had uh an interesting
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weekend
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and today we're gonna continue our study
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of the book of john
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um we're gonna look at first john 2
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verse 18 to 29
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and the title is this is the last hour
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so let me jump into my intro and then
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we're going to
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get into the gist of this presentation
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now in our last session we talked about
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what it means to live in the world
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but not adopt the ways of the world and
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today john is going to briefly mention
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the
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end times and also give us some specific
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instructions on how to recognize
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our false messiahs or false christs
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there has been an explosion of
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individuals who claim to be saviors
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and this is only going to get worse as
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time
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progresses but god's true children
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according to john do not need to be
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worried
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worried about it because we are not
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going to be swept away by all wings of
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doctrines
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so we're going to explore first john 2
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verse 18 to 29
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and find out uh what we can do to keep
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ourselves
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uh from falling into serious errors or
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heresies
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so this chapter is going to focus on
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that portion of um
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teaching and so we're going to start
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with verses 18
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verse 18 i'm going to take you one verse
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at a time now john says
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dear children this is the last hour
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and as you've heard that the antichrist
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is coming
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even now many antichrists
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have come and this is how we know it is
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the last hour so what does all that mean
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john had just told his readers in the
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previous verses that the world
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and his system was going to come to an
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end he said there will be an end to the
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world and his system
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and the evidence of that is seen in the
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fact that there is an explosion
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of anti-christ now there will be someday
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the antichrist and that person
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that anti-class will represent
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everything
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that is against god but there are
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already in the world
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now many prototypes of this antichrist
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so basically john is saying that there
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is going to be
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the antichrist but now there are still
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many antichrist
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and john is warning us against that
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anti by definition means supplanter or
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usurper
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it also means one that is against so
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not only are these antichrists against
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jesus christ
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but they also want want to use serpent's
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position basically they want to be like
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him
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and john is saying that the presence of
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this false christ
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is evidence that we are in the last
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hours or the last day
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until judgment day so basically john is
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saying to us listen
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this is how we know that this is the
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last hour there are so many
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false messiahs out there there are so
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many false
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christs out there and because of it we
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know that this is the last hour
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and things are coming to an end so you
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say be vigilant
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be on your guard there's going to be the
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antichrist but as of dawn there are
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really
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there are a lot of minions little
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antichrists that have infiltrated the
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world
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and we need to be careful and this is
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what john is saying in this verse 18. so
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now we're going to jump to verse 19.
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now in verse 19 john says they went
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out from us they meaning those
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antichrist
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or those false teachers they went out
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from us but but they did not belong
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really to us for if they had belonged to
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us
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they would have remained with us but
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they are going
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showed that none of them belonged to us
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why is that so important see according
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to john these false brothers or false
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christ
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may have camouflaged themselves as true
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brothers
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but at some point they made themselves
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known
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by a way of defection okay they no
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longer
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wanted to be part of the fellowship now
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john isn't saying that just because
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someone leaves a church
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that makes him or her a mini antichrist
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but the emphasis is on the reason behind
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the defection
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basically remember in chapter one we
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talked about
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gnostic teachers who promoted uh
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licentiousness
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and the throne off of all moral
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restraints
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so those are the people that he's
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referring to because true christians
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saw through their duplicity and they had
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to leave the church
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those bad um seed they had to leave the
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church and go elsewhere
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to promote their heresies so their
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defection
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was the evidence that they were not
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authentic
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believers and it's going to happen more
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and more in our days
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and actually we're going to go to uh
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john
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6 40-69 when jesus himself
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talks about this kind of thing so let's
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go to that
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so since we are talking about defection
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we are going to see what jesus
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says here in in john 6 40 to 69 listen
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jesus says for this is the will of my
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father that everyone who looks on the
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son
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and believes in him should have eternal
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life
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and now raise him up on the last day
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so the jews grumbled about him because
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he said
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i am the bread that came down from
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heaven they said
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it's not this jesus the son of joseph
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whose father and mother we know
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how does he now say i've come down from
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heaven
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jesus answered them do not grumble among
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yourselves
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no one can come to me unless the father
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will send me drawing
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and i'll raise him up on the last day it
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is written in the prophet
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and they will all be taught by god
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everyone who has heard and learned from
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the father comes to me
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not that anyone has seen the father
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except he who is from god
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he has seen the father truly truly i say
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to you
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whoever believes has eternal life i am
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the bread of life
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your fathers ate the manna in the
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wilderness and they died
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this is the bread that comes down from
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heaven so that one may eat
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of it and not die i am the living bread
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that came down from heaven if anyone
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eats of this bread
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he will live forever and the bread
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that i will give for the life of the
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world is my flesh
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the jews then disputed among themselves
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saying how can this man give us his
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flesh to eat
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so jesus said to them truly truly i say
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to you
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unless you eat of the flesh of the son
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of man and drink of his blood
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you have no life in you whoever
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feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood
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has eternal life
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and i'll raise him up on the last day
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for my flesh is true food
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and my blood is through drink whoever
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feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood
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abide in me
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and i in him as the living father sent
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me
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and i leave because of the father so
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whoever feeds on me
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he also will live because of me this is
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the bread that came down from heaven not
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like the bread the fathers eat and died
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whoever feeds on this bread will live
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forever
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jesus said these things in the synagogue
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as he taught in capernaum
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now this is hard teaching even i read
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this and he's like whoa
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now when many of his disciples now
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listen carefully
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when many of his disciples those that
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were following him
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heard it they said this is a hard saying
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who can listen to it
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but jesus knowing in himself that his
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disciples were grumbling about he said
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to them
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do you take offense at this then what if
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i what if you were to see the son of man
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ascending to
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where he was before it is the spirit who
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gives life
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the flesh is no help at all the words
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that have spoken to you are spirit and
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life
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there are some among you we do not
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believe for jesus knew from the
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beginning
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who knows where we did not believe and
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who was
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betraying and he said this is why i told
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you that no one can come to me
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unless it is granted him by the father
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now listen to what happened
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after this many of his disciples
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turned back and
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no longer walked with him
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defection so at some point the true
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followers
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remain and the fake and the the phonies
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and the count of it will leave they
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followed jesus
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until it became no longer comfortable
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for them
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and they turned their back and no longer
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walk with him
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so jesus said to the twelve do you want
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to go away as well
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simon peter answered him lord to whom
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shall we go you have the words of
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eternal life
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and we have believed and have come to
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know that you are the holy one of god
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so this is isn't the same spirit that
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john is talking the defectors will
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always show themselves to be
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frauds at some point they may follow
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until a certain point and
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eventually there will be a sifting and
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that's doing the sifting
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they will eventually say i don't want to
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be part of this fellowship
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anymore and this is what john is saying
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so let's go back to our presentation
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so we just read about that so now let's
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go to verse 20 and 21.
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so what does the scripture say there the
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scripture says
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but you have an anointing from the holy
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one and all of you know the truth
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i do not write to you because you do not
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know the truth but because you do know
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it
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and because no lie comes from the truth
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so basically john is saying
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he's reassuring those who have his
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readers those of his readers that know
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the truth and saying that because
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the holy spirit lives in them they don't
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need to be worried
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this is similar to what jude says in his
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benediction
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we are going to look at that in a little
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bit because those that know the truth
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will not defect and then they will not
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embrace heresies because they are being
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taught
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by the third person of the godhead the
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holy spirit
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so those that know the truth will always
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be
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be remain because they are being carried
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by the holy spirit the anointing that
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john is talking about
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and jesus said in john 16 verse 12 to 14
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when the spirit of truth comes he will
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guide you into all the truth
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for he will not speak on his own
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authority but whatever he hears
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he will speak and he will declare to you
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the things that are to come
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he will glorify me for he will take for
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what is mine from what is mine
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and make it known to you and i also want
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us to look at the doxology
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in jude jude says not to him who is able
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to keep you from stumbling and to
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present you blameless before the
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presence of his glory
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give great joy to the only god our
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savior
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through jesus christ our lord with glory
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majesty
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dominion and authority before all time
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now and forever amen so basically this
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is what john is saying
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you have an anointing from the holy one
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and all of you know the truth
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true believers true children of god know
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the truth
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they know the truth and no lie comes
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from the truth because we know
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because we have been indwelled by the
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holy spirit
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and the holy spirit will always speak
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the words of god he will not speak
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anything else but the words of god and
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he will always bring glory
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to the name of jesus christ now this is
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uh
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one of the work of the holy spirit he's
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called the counselor okay
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he's the confident and he also is the
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teacher he will teach us
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the truth so no lie
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comes from the holy spirit and john is
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saying
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because we are believers and because we
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are the true children of god the holy
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spirit lives and dwells in you and he
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will guide you
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into all the truth and he will make sure
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the word of god
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comes to life and he will use the words
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of god
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to instruct you and i okay
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now let's keep going verses 22 to 23.
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scripture says who is the liar it is
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whoever
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denies that jesus is the christ such a
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person is the
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anti-christ denying the father and the
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son
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no one who denies the son has the father
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whoever acknowledges the son
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has the father as well okay so this is
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heavy stuff
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so basically the observation here
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genuine believers will always be able to
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spot heresies at some point
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they may not recognize it right away but
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eventually you become clear
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to them because of the presence of the
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spirit of truth in their lives
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jesus told his disciples that his spirit
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of truth would guide them into all the
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truth
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and i just mentioned that he will not
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speak on his own authority
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but he will always speak what he hears
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from the lord
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he's our counselor he is the helper and
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one of his role is to shield
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and protect us from counterfeits so john
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is also saying that no person who is of
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the truth
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will ever deny that jesus is the christ
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anyone that denies that jesus is the
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christ is a kind of it
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okay so when muslims or anybody say that
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jesus is a prophet and not who he say
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is they call jesus a prophet but they
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deny that he is the son of the living
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god
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so what they are saying essentially is
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that jesus is a liar
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okay so they are operating under the
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spirit of the antichrist
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so all people that deny the deity of
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christ
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the sonship of christ they are basically
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saying
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that jesus is not the son of god and
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they are operating
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under the spirit of the antichrist
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according to john
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i don't care how nice gentle or eloquent
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anybody is
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the enemy is also capable of
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camouflaging himself as an angel of
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light scripture says
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so anyone who denies that jesus is the
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christ is of the devil
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so if you do if you deny that jesus
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is the son of god then you are of the
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devil it's just
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plain and simple i don't wanna let's
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know the scripture says it
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okay and the person that denies that
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jesus is the son of god does not know
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god
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and you are worshiping the devil if you
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deny that jesus is the son of god
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then you are you don't know god and you
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are worshiping the devil and his demons
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so if you don't believe in jesus then
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you don't believe in the true god
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that's just plain and temple and jesus
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said no one
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can come to the father except through me
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and jesus also said he who has seen me
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has seen the father so how can you
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reject reject jesus and claim to know
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god
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if he is god incarnate okay so these are
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pretty simple
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and clear stuff i'm gonna go to hebrews
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one verse one through four
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to see what jesus what the scripture
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says about lord himself
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so let's do that let's see what the
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scripture says the supremacy of god son
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long ago at many times and in many ways
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god spoke to our fathers by the prophets
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but in these last days he has spoken to
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us by his son
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whom he appointed the heir of all things
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through whom
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also he created the whole world
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he is the radiance of the glory of god
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and the exact
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imprint of his nature and he upholds
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the universe by the word of his power
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after making purification for sins he
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sat down at the right hand of the
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majesty on high
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having become as much superior to angels
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as the name he has inherited is more
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excellent than theirs
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and i'm gonna stop here and we'll go
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back to our presentation
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so from scripture you see exactly who
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jesus
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is he is the son of the living god
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god himself so when you deny that jesus
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is the son of god you are basically
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calling jesus the liar and if that's the
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case then you are operating
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under the spirit of the antichrist and
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you are basically worshiping the devil
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so i don't care how nice the person is i
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don't care how compelling their argument
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is
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the scripture says whoever denies the
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son does not have the father
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okay and i actually wrote an article
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several
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months ago in which i showed why we can
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believe the word of god
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so i'm gonna give you that in the
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description okay because i'm not just
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gonna
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tell you this i'm also gonna back it up
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with facts
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okay there are facts that prove that the
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bible is the word of god and if the
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bible is the word of god then
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what john is saying here it is the
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absolute truth
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not just something relative or an
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opinion it is the
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absolute truth so if john says that
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whoever
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denies the son does not have the father
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he means it and that is
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the truth okay so let's keep going
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verses 24 to 25 so john is saying
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let what you heard from the beginning
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abide in you if what you heard from the
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beginning abides in you
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then you too will abide in the son and
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in the father
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and this is the promise that he made to
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us eternal life
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okay so john is pretty much exalting his
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readers to remain
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faithful to the message of the gospel
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they have heard from the beginning
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and i'm going to go to first john 1
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verse 1 through 4 at some point
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to show you that so john is also saying
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that there is only one gospel
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message and we've already proclaimed
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that to you john is saying
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there's only one message of the gospel
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and i've proclaimed it to you
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you have no need to learn new
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information or new data from anybody
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else
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paul faced a similar problem in the
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church of galatia and
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if you go to galatians 1 verses 6
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through
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9 listen to what paul says i'm
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astonished
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that you are so quickly deserting him
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who called you in the grace of christ
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and are turning to a different gospel
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not that there is another gospel
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but there are some who trouble you and
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want to distort the gospel of christ
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but even if we or an angel from heaven
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shall preach to you
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a gospel contrary to the one we preached
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to you let him be accursed and paul
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repeats that again as we have said
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before
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so now i say again if anyone is
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preaching to you
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a gospel contrary to the one you
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received
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let him be accursed and
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john is pretty much saying the same
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thing here
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say that sit with that whatever you've
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heard from the beginning remains in you
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and we're going to go to first john 1
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verse 1 through 4 to read about what he
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said in the in the beginning
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and now listen to how john begins
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uh first john chapter one we actually
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looked at it we looked at this before
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he says that which was from the
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beginning which we have heard which we
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have seen with our eyes
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which we looked upon and have touched
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with our hands
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concerning the word of life the life was
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made manifest and we have seen it
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and testified to it and proclaimed to
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you the
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eternal life which was with the father
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and was made manifest to us
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that which we have seen and heard we
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also proclaim to you
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so that you two have you two may have
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fellowship with us
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and indeed our fellowship is with the
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father and with his son jesus christ
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and we are writing these things to you
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so that our joy may be complete
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so john is saying listen i'm giving you
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factual data i'm giving you objective
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information
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we have seen him we have touched him
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we've looked at him
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and the life was being manifest the
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things that he has done we've also seen
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and we are proclaiming that to you
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and then the words of the prophet are
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being made more certain
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by the fact that whatever we saw from
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jesus
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was backed up by the council of
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scripture
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by the old testament scripture by the
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prophet
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okay so john is giving us that assurance
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in these words
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okay so let's go back to our
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presentation again
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so we must be careful not to listen to
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any other gospel about what we've
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received
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from the words of uh the apostles of
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jesus
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because they have what we call apostolic
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authority so those words from paul
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john peter mark matthew
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and jude and the book of hebrews all
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those
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were canonized so these are the words of
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god
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so we receive those as the words of god
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saying there is no other gospel about
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what we received
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so do not let anyone lead you astray
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okay so we have to remain
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faithful to the unadulterated gospel
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we've heard from the beginning
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and this is what john is saying here and
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now we're going to finish reverses 26
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and 29.
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now john is saying i write these things
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to you about those who are trying to
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deceive you
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but the anointing that you received from
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him abides in you and you have no need
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that
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anyone should teach you but as his
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anointing teaches you about everything
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and is true and is no lie
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just as he has taught you abide in him
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and now little children abide in him so
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that when he appears we may have
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confidence and not shrink from him in
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shame at his coming
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if you know that he is righteous you may
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be sure that everyone who practices
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righteousness has been born of him
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so basically this again was to warn his
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readers against false teachers
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we were promoting heresies so we are
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constantly
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to to be fully reliant on the holy
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spirit to guide us
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when i read verse 27 the first time when
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you made sense to me
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it was like a rev like i mean just like
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mind blowing
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listen to what john says but the
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anointing that you received
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from him abides in you and you have no
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need that anyone should teach you
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anything so basically johnny's saying
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don't let those
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gnostic teachers fool you okay you don't
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need them
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he's not saying just refute any good
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sound teaching
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it's good to listen to bible teachers
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there are very good ones
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out there but ultimately our greatest
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teacher
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is the holy spirit who always uses the
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word of god to instruct us you see
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mankind is valuable i'm valuable i can
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make mistake i can
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i can say something today and i realized
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oh what i said
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was not accurate but the holy spirit
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will never do that
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because he will always guide you into
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all the truth
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and we are told in second timothy 3 16
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all scripture is breathed
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out by god and profitable for teaching
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for reproof for correction and for
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training in righteousness
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and we have a duty to compare and
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contrast everything we hear
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to the word of god to make sure it is
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sound and the holy spirit will always
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guide us
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we can rely on god for that because you
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know psalm 23
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he leads us in in the past of
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righteousness for his name's sake
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the holy spirit will never contradict
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the word of god
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because he is god himself so the holy
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spirit
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always you see but as his anointing
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teaches you about
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everything and is true and is no lie
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just as the anointing thought you abide
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in him
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okay so we have that anointing from the
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holy spirit the holy spirit teaches us
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all things so we have to fully rely on
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him
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and stay in the word of god because the
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holy spirit
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uses the word of god to build us up
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to teach us how to recognize truth to
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teach us how to recognize
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counterfeits and heresies okay so unlike
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verse 29 see verse 29 says
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if you know that he is righteous you may
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be sure that everyone who practices
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righteousness has been born of him the
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key word the key word here is practices
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see what is something that you practice
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practice is something that's customary
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habitual
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or expected uh procedure or way of doing
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something
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so the person born of god will by
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default
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practice righteousness because the
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spirit of god
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dwells in him or her because if you have
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the spirit of god living in you
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will be automatic you practice
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righteousness because the spirit of god
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will also
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will always guide you to do that
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romans tells you in romans 8 we are told
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that those who are enjoying the holy
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spirit are the two sons and daughters of
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god
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okay and again why why is that so
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important because the spirit
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of god gives us that inner confidence
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and we don't live in dreaded fear
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anymore because we now we've received
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the spirit of sonship
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and by which we cry abba okay
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the spirit of god he comes and gives us
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that confidence that we are truly
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children of god
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and because we are children of god we
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begin to exude
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the fruits of the spirit love joy
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patience if you go to galatians 5
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the spirit uh we have the fruit of the
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spirit there
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so we know that the scripture says if
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you know that he is righteous
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we know that god uh is righteous we know
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that jesus is righteous
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so and and the scripture says you may be
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sure that everyone will practice his
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righteousness has been born of him
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and what is practicing righteousness is
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first of all acknowledging
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that jesus is the son of god so that is
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the number one thing if you don't
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acknowledge is that if you don't
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acknowledge that
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then you're not practicing righteousness
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because that is the beginning if you
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deny
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that jesus is the son of god then you
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are basically
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operating under the spirit of the
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antichrist and you are not practicing
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righteousness
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so this is where it starts and then the
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fruits of the spirit begin to unfold in
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our lives
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okay so what is the takeaway today the
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takeaway today is this
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you have to be careful who you listen to
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you have to
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constantly rely on the holy spirit and
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the word of god
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because the holy spirit will always use
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the word of god to edify
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you to build you up okay and you have to
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understand what you believe so i would
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encourage you to remain faithful to what
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you heard from the beginning according
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to what john said
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and you can believe the bible you can
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believe that this is the word of god and
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again
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i'll give you a link to see why we can
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believe that the bible is the word of
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god
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this is important guys you have to learn
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to recognize what the antichrist
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is and we have to spend time in the word
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of god to know his word
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because if you don't know the word of
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god we won't know how to recognize the
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counterfeit
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you can't be a believer and let your
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bible collect
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dust that's not good because what we
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have is the word of god
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these are the words of god scripture
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says in ii timothy 3 16
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all scripture is god grieved and it's
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good for the proof and correction so
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that we may be thoroughly equipped
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for every good work so we have to remain
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in the word of god
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this is the only weapon that we have
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okay
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so i will encourage you to do that and
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i'll see you next time have a wonderful
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day