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Bro. Otis Fisher
Open your Bibles to 1st John 2 .15. He tells us here to love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loved the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Now, what world is he talking about, David?
He couldn't be talking about the physical earth because that's something we admire and enjoy. What he's talking about is the world system, organized system. This is headed by Satan, and he leaves God out.
He's actually in opposition to God. The thing which we need to hate today is this thing in the world which is organized against God. Now, that has to be something that borders on the spiritual, for all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of the life is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Lust, pride, flesh. These are things that come about because of sin, and the world passes away and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever. Turn to Isaiah 65 17 and to Revelation 21 1.
We'll see what's going to happen to this world. 65 17. For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. In Revelation 21 1, I saw a new heaven and a new earth.
For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. Little children, it is the last time, and as you have heard, that Antichrist shall come. Even now are there many Antichrists, whereby we know that it is the last times.
Now this was during John's life on earth. He says that even at that time there were many Antichrists. I thought there was just one. How can we explain this, Greg? All right, how can we explain that Antichrist is more than one person?
Well, the scripture says that there are many Antichrists. Bird, you have any clue? They are false teachers. Antichrist is made up of two words, the title Christ and a preposition anti. It's important to see that anti has two meanings.
It can mean against. If I am anti something, I'm against that. And it also can mean in place of, instead of, an imitation. Therefore, it can be a substitute. It can be either a good substitute or a deception in its substitution.
I personally believe that there is going to be two persons at the end of the age who will fulfill both of these types. This is the Antichrist. Now anyone today that teaches that Jesus was not born of a virgin is Antichrist.
He is against Christ. I care less how much he preaches for him. They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. But they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
What's he talking about, David? And they've been doing that ever since he was here. Do you realize that the real had to come first? Even though they had made a profession of being a Christian in that day and had all the outward trappings of being Christians.
They bore the Christian name and they identified themselves with some local assembly, some church. They were baptized, immersed in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. But John says that the way you can tell whether one is really a child of God is that eventually he'll show his true colors and he'll leave.
But you have an unction of the Holy Spirit and you know all things. Now do we know all things? Is there someone here that knows all things? John says we do. How can we fit that, Greg? All right, that's it.
That's right. We know all things that we need to know to have a church. We know the truth as the Holy Spirit reveals it to us. Now he may reveal more to me tomorrow, but it's already written down. I'm not getting new information.
All things you need to know will be revealed as you study and through the experiences that he gives us, you learn the truth. This is possible only because you have the unction of God. Unction, that's a very, very interesting word.
Who wants to venture a definition of unction? All right, but that really doesn't explain it, because then I have to ask what is anointed? Birth? What? All right, you're getting awful close. Joy? That's true.
We're looking at the word unction means smearing. When I smear something, I have to touch it. So a touched by God is an unction. We have been touched, each one of us in his own way. Unction means a touching of God.
I have not written unto you because you know the truth, but because you know it and that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is Antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son.
You cannot deny one and love the other. Whosoever denieth the Son the same hath not the Father, but he that acknowledges the Son hath the Father also. So you cannot have one without the other, and if you have one you have the other.
Let that therefore abide in you what you have heard from the beginning, if that which you have heard. Is that the last of that verse? Read it. All right. God is that eventual. A man will show his true colors and will leave the assembly of God if he is not a child of God.
There have been some go out of this church for different reasons, they say. Some of them haven't been saved. Some of them believe different. But you have an unction from the Holy One and you know all things.
So you're now able to receive and understand the truth as the Holy Spirit reveals it to you. Greg, as you need to understand something, whatever it is at the moment, it's revealed to you. And you know all things that you need to know will be revealed as you study and through the experience.
Well that's repeated. 22. Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? Very simple. Now don't ever ask somebody if they believe in Jesus when you're trying to find out from them, because they'll say what you want to hear.
But just listen to them. Watch them. He is an antichrist, the one that thinks like that, that denieth the Father and the Son. Whosoever denieth the Son, let that therefore abide in you which you have heard from the beginning.
Well I must have repeated. All right. And this is a promise that he hath promised us. What is it? Eternal life. He has promised eternal life. These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
Are you above being seduced? Anybody? No. Don't think that you are. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you. And you need not that any man teach you. But as the same anointing touches to you all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, you shall abide in him.
And now, little children, abide in him that when he shall appear we may we will have confidence and not be ashamed before him that is coming. Will I be ashamed when he comes? Will you? If he was if he told us that it would be exactly ten years from today when he comes, what would you do?
I don't believe you would. If you know that he's coming ten years from today, for sure, at eleven o 'clock in the morning, on a Sunday, what would you do, Gray, now? Well, although we have an anointing, we do not know when Jesus is coming.
Now, what's the advantage to not knowing? David? Yes. Thank you. That's right. I know you. If it was ten years from now, you would have a feeling of ease. Now, right now, you don't think that because we don't know.
And wisely so, because if he's coming ten years from today, then I do not need to worry about living. But if he might come today, if he came right at this moment, he would catch me preparing this Bible lesson, and that'd be fine.
I hope he'll come at a time like that. But I don't know when he will come. There's a few times when I get behind a driver who won't let me get around him, and I think some unkind thoughts about him. That would be rather embarrassing that Jesus came at that time.
So you and I need to be living all of the time in the light of his imminent return. Twenty-nine. If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone that doeth righteousness is born of him. Just as our children look like us, so we look like our Father.
It's just as simple as that. Okay, that finishes chapter two. Is there anything anybody would like to ask or discuss? That's right. We are in him. Act like it. Let's stand and Greg dismisses, please.