Anointing of the Holy Spirit | 1 John 2:20-27

Alright, does anybody know where we're at?

Not second John.

First John chapter 2, but I knew what you meant.

So good job.

And we're gonna wrap up first John chapter 2 today.

Can y 'all believe it?

We're getting through the longest chapter in first John.

I'm getting a lot of surprise faces like we'll believe it when we see it.

Yeah, so something important that we do every single time is we talk about context and I always want to review

the context.

So that's fresh in our minds as we examine the current text.

So a few things that we've talked about for a number of weeks now is fellowship.

Okay, so sometimes people understand fellowship is all we just kind of get together and have a good time.

But that's not what that's not how John has been using the word fellowship.

Aaron help me out.

What is Christian fellowship look like?

Being together, but not just together.

It's being together.

Knowing that we are.

In the word.

Yeah.

We're we're together in a different sense with how the world gets together and does stuff.

We get together in truth.

We get to gather to worship God.

So it's so much deeper so much richer so much full like you're getting it.

We have a togetherness that is distinct from the world and.

So our fellowship is with the Saints and with God and so John has been talking about

how our koinonia our fellowship is with the Father and necessarily with the Son and.

So y 'all may remember last week.

We talked a little bit about the Spirit right.

You either have the Spirit I say last week.

It was two weeks ago.

We either have the Spirit of Christ or the Spirit of remember.

Antichrist.

So it's important and really those the only the only two categories you can be in you're either a

son of God or son of the devil you either have the Spirit of Christ or a Spirit of Antichrist.

So when we're in fellowship so much deeper.

Right.

What's something else?

We've been talking about in first John Liberty, what do you

remember?

Yes, so especially in verse 5 of chapter 1 God is light and in

him.

There is no darkness at all.

So what's something that we've we've talked about their Liberty with what God is?

God is sinless.

He is holy and I believe it's James chapter 1 that tells us that God is so holy that he cannot

even be tempted.

With evil much less tempt us right.

God is sovereign has a purpose in all things.

But if they understand Satan is the great temperature, right we get easily enticed bar by our flesh.

But God altogether something different.

He is set apart meaning he is holy.

Right, and that's the standard and we all fall short of that standard.

So good.

We've also talked about walking in the light and walking in darkness.

What's the differences there?

What do you think Josiah?

What's walking in the lightning?

Perfect answer obeying God.

I mean, that's perfect walking in the light as he is in the light obeying him desiring to know him

more.

Avery what is walking in the darkness?

Yes, which remember we talked about I think it's first John chapter 2 verse 16

all that's in the world.

Lust of the eyes lust of the flesh and the pride of life, which is sin.

Living a life devoid of glorifying God, what's the chief end of man someone help me up?

Yes, chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever.

However, if you don't enjoy him if you don't know him if you don't look to Jesus in faith alone.

You still will glorify God, but how

I know I know how to I know.

The right mindset, but I don't know how to say it.

They best want to hop in there.

How can somebody who's not enjoying God and sweet relationships still glorify God with their

life and the Day of Judgment?

Avery.

They're doing his will and God will be glorified in his justice and his

wrath against him.

So my point is I would rather enjoy sweet fellowship with God, right?

Rather than my life be to his glory.

With his justice and his wrath, you know, I mean.

But it what's wonderful is when you're saved.

The Creator is no longer your judge, but Heavenly Father and we're adopted into a loving family.

But so someone who doesn't know God is father.

He is their judge.

You know what?

I mean?

And so that's the situation.

Every man is in is we're all.

We've all sinned before God we've all chose to rebel against our Creator and we'll be held accountable for that and

so the gospel is paramount the utmost importance and so we've talked about

two different kinds of teachings or Spirits that rival the gospel of grace.

Do y 'all remember the two L's?

Nailed it.

Do you so what is legalism?

Yeah, Lauren, what do you got for Lee?

What is legal?

Why is it?

Why does legalism war against the gospel?

No, no works righteousness.

My works of obedience are what's going to save me and keep me saved.

That's legalism to the core in legalism will look at verses.

Like in chapter 2 verse 5 that said well and look at verse verse 4 and 5 together.

Whoever says I know him but does not keep his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him.

But whoever keeps his word in him truly The love of God is perfected and so the

legalist is gonna say see you got to keep the commandments.

You have to keep his word or you cannot be saved.

And we're like, mmm, that's not what John's saying.

He's talking about if you have a transformed heart by the Spirit if you are in fellowship with the Son

and with the Father.

You desire to keep these how do we know that well that word know whoever says I know him.

But does not keep the commandments.

Well, he doesn't truly know him because if you're in sweet relationship With Christ, then you desire to

live your life to glorify him.

You know, I mean so Legalism is wrong when you're looking to yourself to do good works to earn favor with God

and some people say well Yes, I'm doing all I can to obey.

But that's not earning salvation.

I'm like that's literally the definition like if you're looking to yourself and your obedience and not to the perfection of Jesus.

You're literally trying to earn Salvation like the Pharisees did and the Pharisees who are trying to earn

their salvation by keeping the law.

Which is holy righteous and good and they're not getting in then that means whatever other system that's trying to earn

God's favor With obedience is gonna fall short.

You know, I mean, so that's legalism.

And then what's the other extreme opposite Justin said licentiousness.

The other word is antinomianism.

What is that?

Avery.

Avery but aren't we no longer under law but under grace.

So doesn't that mean that I can just kind of sin so grace may abound that's what Paul says.

Am I taking those verses out of context?

Oh Man context is so huge because Paul's point is we're no longer under the ceremonial laws.

Jesus fulfilled all that that were pointing to him and our heart isn't to try to

Outsin God's grace.

No, we want to live life to the glory of God.

Why would we go back to the old self when Christ rescued us from the old self?

That was in opposition to God doesn't make sense.

So no, we don't have a license to sin.

But when we do we have an advocate with the Father so Lauren, what do you

remember about advocate?

Kind of like the the middleman I really like that a mediator.

Which is another key term elsewhere in Scripture that Jesus is our mediator the Holy Spirit is our mediator

the Holy Spirit is also called our advocate or Most translations say comforter or helper.

It's the same word used about Jesus in first John 2 1.

So, what do you remember in the courtroom setting about what an advocate looks like you remember we talked about defense attorney.

Think about God the Father is judge.

Jesus is our defense attorney and who's the prosecutor?

Who's the prosecutor trying to hurl?

Accusations against against us that we're not worthy Satan he's the great accuser

right and Jesus has the best arguments that comes to our defense and says no.

He's mine, right who can bring a charge against God's elect.

No one nothing in all of creation could possibly separate us from the love that we have in

Christ Jesus.

Isn't that beautiful?

So if you're looking to the biblical Jesus in faith meaning that you love him then that's from

outside of this world.

That was granted from above.

So for those of us that have taste and seen that the Lord is good.

We know as 1st John 5 13 says John says I write

these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

That you may know you have eternal life.

It's eternally settled right when we're walking in the light.

That's permanent.

And that awesome, you know, you may say.

But oh man, and does that mean I can't sin sometimes and does that mean that I can walk in darkness?

Well for the person that's walking in the light, that's permanent, but we still war against sin.

We don't desire to live our lives in sin and find joy in that no when Christians sin.

It's convicting because we have the Holy Spirit indwelling us, right and we fight against it.

We get Christian accountability like this when we're like, hey, we call up a Brother in the

faith and say I need to talk about spiritual truths.

That's things that we get to do as we're walking in the light so a lot of that's helping us with

context and so I Remember two weeks ago We

talked a lot about Antichrists and we talked about people leaving the

church and what do we make of that?

Isn't it discouraging on one hand when people leave the church?

Absolutely.

But.

Verse 19 says they went out from us.

But they were not of us for if they had been of us They would have continued with us, but they went out that

it might become plain that they were not all of us.

And so this is the Antichrist.

This is someone who possesses the spirit of Antichrist.

Especially in the immediate context of John in the first century.

These were the Gnostics.

Does anybody have any idea what Gnosticism taught back in the day?

The Gnostics said well, you know, we believe in God who is spirit.

But we also believe and he's good but then matter is evil and so the the two

can't touch and.

So does anybody know why this totally takes away an important doctrine to Christianity if God is

spirit only and cannot Become flesh and become matter and matter is evil.

What key doctrine in Christianity?

Does that take away?

The entire idea of God becoming man.

100 remember the name the important name of that doctrine when he took on flesh the

incarnation.

So this is like John chapter 1 literally in the beginning was the word the word was with God and the word was God.

Verse 14 in the word took on flesh and dwelt among us.

And that awesome.

So the word is Jesus.

Jesus took on flesh because he represents humanity.

It's like Lauren said it defeats the whole purpose to say that God can't become a man because

we need a perfect perfect Representative on our behalf to account for our sin.

That's what Jesus did on the cross.

So check out the the profound mystery of what had to occur.

You you have to pay for your own sin.

It has to be dealt with like a human has to account for that but for an eternal

standard.

Something that man cannot do unless he's going to be punished for eternity.

So literally God who is eternity took on flesh to represent us.

No, you well I hear arguments all the time like God cannot become or

so this thing humanity was added to Divinity, so they're not

contradictory and I would say because God is omnipotent all -powerful.

He alone can do that.

So on the argument says that God Can't take on flesh.

The point is well if he's if he's not all -powerful.

Maybe he can't but since he is he basically gets to determine the rules.

You know, I mean now he's never gonna lie.

He cannot lie.

He can't deny himself.

Scripture tells us that but I would actually say the Old Testament Predicted that God would

become a man.

I remember one of the famous Christmas verses.

What is it Isaiah 9 6 for for unto us a child is born a son is

Given and his name will be wonderful counselor mighty God everlasting father.

These are categories that only point to God and he's going to be a child remember

Isaiah 7 14 says that a virgin will bear a child essentially.

Well, this is talking about the virgin birth of the incarnation, right?

So I would actually I think that's a great question to ask is basically how can God become flesh?

Well, I would say number one.

It is a miracle.

It's a miracle on par with God speaking the universe into existence.

The God that can speak the universe into existence can take on flesh in one of the persons of the

Trinity.

If that's the plan, that's what I'm saying.

If we're gonna allow for miracles and there's no logical contradiction there, but because

he's omnipotent because he's God.

Because Jesus condescended I would say that that is the answer of all answers.

And this ties back to the context because the Gnostics here in the first century.

They wanted to take the incarnation away so remember how.

Look at 1st John chapter 4.

He's telling us to test the spirits to see whether they're false prophets if they're Antichrist.

They're out in the world verse 2 by this.

You know the Spirit of God that every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has

come in the flesh is from God.

So this is Lauren kind of the standard to see who affirms that reality or

Outright denies it because if they deny it, they don't have the spirit right?

They are Antichrist.

So excellent point something we definitely need to think about so we were talking about Antichrist.

And y 'all remember we talked about the parable of the sower What do you remember about that candy?

Well, how did that correlate to us talking about the spirit of Antichrist and the Spirit of Christ?

Well, there were three.

No, that's good, are you gonna add to that Justin?

Yes, so there was four but three is where I thought you were getting at three were

Spirit of Antichrist where the seed was scattered.

Was sown, but then it was quickly scattered whether it was birds that came away and swooped it which was spiritual warfare.

Where you had the thorny ground which the the cares the world choked the gospel out.

People were like I want to go I want to go back to what the world has to offer.

Right, or you had the stony ground which kind of represented persecution because the world hates

Christians, right?

And so when people are like, oh, I don't I didn't know I was signing up to be persecuted.

That's proving someone had a heart.

That was stony and had the spirit of Antichrist and like you're saying Justin

The fourth ground the fourth soil was what?

Good soil right that received the seed it took root and produced much

what?

Fruit no roots.

No fruits.

And so the fourth ground Represents a heart that the Holy Spirit is transformed

and has the spirit of Christ you're like, I think that's

right.

No, absolutely.

So I did want us to be careful and sensitive to the context that first John 2 19.

The Antichrist is mainly talking about false teachers that left the church, but think about the practical implications

they usually will bring a following with them and They're showing that they have the principle of the

the spirit of Antichrist and we're just saying oh well you can in principle.

Have the spirit of Antichrist in many different ways shapes and forms, right?

Any ideology any teaching that just opposes Christ first?

John is just so happy to talk about a very particular one one of the Gnostics that denies that God can take on

flesh.

So that's a little bit of the context.

So if you would look with me, let's look at verses 18 through 27.

Children it is the last hour and as you have heard that Antichrist is coming.

So now many Antichrist have come therefore we know that it is the last hour.

They went out from us, but they were not of us for if they had been of us They would have continued with us,

but they went out that it might become plain that they all are not of us.

But you have been anointed by the Holy One and you all have knowledge.

I Write to you not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it and because no lies of the truth.

Who is the liar?

But he who denies that Jesus is the Christ.

This is the Antichrist.

He denies the Father and the Son no one who denies the Son has the Father.

Whoever confesses The Son has the Father also.

Let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you if what you heard from the beginning abides in you then you too will

Abide in the Son and in the Father and this is the promise that he had made that he has made to us

eternal life.

I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you and you have no need that anyone should teach you.

But as his anointing teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie just as it is taught

you abide in him.

So we read that last time right?

I remember we started talking about In the children the last hour has come meaning

that during this Temporal age as we are waiting for Christ's return, which I'm excited.

That's we're gonna get into next week.

There's false teachers trying to deceive you teaching you false Doctrine that's trying to distort the

gospel of grace.

And so when we talked about the spirit of Antichrist and how God's build Jesus said I will build

my church and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

So when people we see people leave our heart breaks for him.

We pray for him, but we trust in God's sovereignty.

The church is being purified.

Remember we talked about that word last time.

Purification is kind of this refinement process like it's becoming stronger.

Okay, so I want us to think about the contrast though because he's talking about those

False teachers Antichrist with true children that possess the spirit of Christ.

We have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

That will make sure that we will be brought to the day of Jesus Christ that good work that God began in

us.

Will bring it to completion.

So look with me at verse 20.

Here's where we see the contrast but you who's the you?

Yes, all of us right member in verse 18.

He says children.

So he's talking about the children of God.

Remember we even talked about spiritual maturity.

How you have children in the faith young men young women in the faith and then you have fathers of the faith right those who are

Mature so children in the faith.

You have been anointed by the Holy One and you have and you

all have knowledge.

So question, what do y 'all think this anointed by the Holy One is

talking about?

Given the Holy Spirit.

Oh.

Yes, so let me ask you this.

So actually this was this was tough.

So who's the Holy One here?

So this I struggle with this for a while.

I thought cuz look back with me verse 20, but you have been anointed by the Holy One.

So we're gonna look at verse 27 here in a moment.

But verse 27 seems to make a distinction between the anointing that we possess what you're

absolutely right is the Holy Spirit.

But the Holy One would be consistent to look at Jesus Christ.

He's the Holy One, but we've received his anointing.

So I think back to his baptism who floated down like a dove onto Jesus at his baptism

Holy Spirit and so he is being anointed as the high priest that the Old Testament kind of pointed to.

So we partake in that anointing meaning it that the Holy Spirit regenerates transforms our heart and then

Indwells us gives us a gifts compels us to learn all things that has been

revealed to us.

So I'm gonna give you props because the anointing I think is definitely talking about The Holy

Spirit and notice it says but you have been anointed by the Holy One and you all have

knowledge.

What do you think this kind of knowledge is getting at Josiah?

Knowledge of God.

Absolutely, which we get from his word.

Which is inspired by who by the Holy Spirit got which which God used man

to bring about his word to inspire his word.

Are you about to add something else?

Or that dream?

Well, you said by by who but I said through man, but Yeah, you

yeah you brought into my mind that was by the Holy Spirit.

Yes, and I like how you're you're trying to say, okay, but main is involved, right?

Now it's interesting because a lot of people doubt Christianity because they say well didn't men write the Bible and we're like

Technically God wrote the Bible but used man like this.

Lauren if I asked you Did I write this essay or did the pencil write the essay?

Yes, it was a means it was an instrument used by me.

You know, I mean and so we could say yes to both but God used certain men as an instrument

and in some ways Use them through their personalities through their linguistic style to

bring about Scripture and so the unified author of Scripture is God inspired by the Holy Spirit, but

he used Many different prophets apostles over 1 ,500 years which

shows a beautiful testimony of Scripture and its truth.

So look with me at verse 27 these kind of go hand -in -hand together when we're trying to ask, okay.

Who's this anointed one?

And and then we read that you all have knowledge.

Well, like Josiah said this is knowledge of God.

Look at 27, but the anointing which like Aaron said is the Holy Spirit you have received

from him the Holy One Abides in you and you have no need that

anyone should teach you.

But as his anointing teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie just as it is

taught you abide in him.

Okay, someone help me out here.

What we read here is we had the Holy Spirit that abides in us.

But what about this part where he says you have no need that anyone should teach you.

Does this mean since I have the Holy Spirit I have my Bible.

It's my Bible me under a tree and I don't need the body of Christ.

Is that what it's saying that I can learn everything that I need to know by myself.

You have no need to be retaught that but.

Sure.

Remember John's writing against Antichrist.

The he's writing against the devil and his schemes.

He's giving us the will of God.

I write these things to you that you can be informed that you can rest assured in your salvation.

And so the point is so much thing like this Lauren.

We had the Holy Spirit that teaches us truth.

Like Josiah said things about God we don't listen to human wisdom from the

world.

That can't give us truth.

They give us a bunch of opinions about things that they don't know either.

They're just telling us about their limited life experience, which cannot give us truth.

But the Holy Spirit the anointing that we have from the Holy One, which is Jesus teaches us all

things concerning truth.

What do you think?

Sounds good and So that's the thing.

It's not that we don't need teachers.

We have the Holy Spirit that's gifted us teachers in the church Fellowship to discuss truth.

We don't need teachers of the world to try to tell us Why we're here what the meaning of life

is whether what is our purpose?

Right, like like we've been talking about God's clearly revealed that to us.

It's actually want to have you turn with me to 1st Corinthians chapter 2 the Apostle

Paul weighs in on this conversation he mentions a number of these same things that we've been talking about and.

So look with me at 1st Corinthians chapter 2.

What do you might like to read?

Verse 6 through 14.

We do however speak a message of wisdom among the mature.

But not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age

who are coming to nothing.

No, we declare God's wisdom a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our

glory before time began.

None of the rulers of this age understood it or if they had they would not

have crucified the Lord of Glory however as it is written.

What no eye has seen what no ear has heard and what no human mind has conceived.

Though things that God has prepared for those who love him and

These are the things God has revealed to us by his.

Spirit.

The spirit searches all things even the deep things of God.

For who knows a person's thought except their own spirit within them

in the same way.

No one knows the thoughts of God except the spirit of God.

What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God

So that we may understand What God has freely given us?

This is what we speak not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by

the spirit explaining spiritual realities with spirit taught words.

The person without the spirit who does not accept the things that come from the spirit of God, but considers themself

Foolish and cannot understand them because they are dis discerned

only through the spirit.

Perfect. Thanks so much Aaron.

All right.

So did anybody catch any details that Paul Mentioned here in this passage.

Anything.

Jump out.

There is a spirit of the world and spirit of God.

Right, but like I said, there's two different voices.

Speaking got kind of the spirit of the world and then you got the spirit of God.

That's what you kind of start off and see it in verse 6 yet among the mature.

We do not impart Wisdom, although it is not the wisdom of this age or the

rulers of the age.

Because they are doomed and are passing away.

But we impart secret and hidden wisdom from God.

Which God done all these things from before the foundation of the world.

And so this is exactly what John is talking about is we don't need anyone of the world to try to teach

us about truth.

It's just it's the Holy Spirit.

It's God and his fullness that reveals these things to us in Jesus Christ

and so look down at Verse 12 that Aaron read now.

We have received not the spirit of the world.

But the spirit who is from God that we might understand the things freely given

to us by God.

What has God given us?

He's given us salvation he's given us his word to be able to understand his perfect will and Then he says

in verse 13 and we impart this in words.

Not taught by human wisdom, but taught by the Spirit.

Right, so I just think Paul is really driving the home the point home.

We listen to the things of God.

We've been given his spirit.

We are children of God.

We are children of the light.

We don't walk in darkness.

Not that we don't sin, but when we do sin we have an advocate because we're walking in the light.

So if you would turn back with me to first John chapter 2 I Really want us to talk about that

anointing is the Holy Spirit that we have.

And he teaches us in accordance to his word and one thing we've been talking about is God's

Word is truth.

Meaning it cannot deceive us.

That's why we spend so much time in the word.

I mean, this is beautiful if you if you understand this as a living breathing

Word from God not just ink on a page.

Well, this tells us about truth.

This is more fundamental more Foundational in our experience than the things that we

get up and do.

I'm just saying this actually gives the proper context of why we're here on earth.

That's incredible.

This ties everything together.

This gives us true insight about who we are and who everyone else is and why we're here.

So look at verse 21 real quick.

Because remember he's saying but you have been anointed by the Holy One and you have all you all have knowledge.

I write to you not because you do not know the truth.

But because you know it and because no lie is of the truth.

So remember the context is the Antichrist are Distorting God's truth and they and as

they do it they make themselves known that they are not truly of us.

They are denying the truth that God took on flesh in Jesus Christ the incarnation

and for people that say well Well, that's not possible.

My question would be how do you know?

It's not possible.

Has God revealed that that's not possible.

Does that somehow contradict his nature?

Well clearly no.

He added humanity to his nature.

So he is the God -man.

There's no contradiction in that.

Now does that blow our minds does that require a miracle to happen?

Absolutely.

Definitely requires a miracle and so what I love about this is

We want to know more about the truth.

We should we should care about things that are logical and be able to detect things that are illogical.

But the only way to do that is to base our worldview on how God has revealed himself to

us in his Word.

Right, and then he gives us the proper categories.

He says and there is no lie.

That is of the truth.

And so I know some of y 'all in homeschool study logic.

Is that true?

And so one of the most basic laws of logic is called the law of non -contradiction.

And so I'm just saying here's a clear affirmation of God telling us no lies of the truth.

Don't believe things that are false.

Right, and we had the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit will guard us from trusting in something

that is false.

So so take rest in that because our are we gonna be confused at times potential?

Are we gonna cross paths with false teachers?

Yes, but if we're trusting in the biblical Jesus the second person of the Godhead.

Then we have been given his anointing the Holy Spirit that will guard us from trusting anything else

to lead us astray.

Isn't that awesome?

You remember one of the fundamental points that John is teaching us is that we can rest assured in Eternal life

knowing that we are saved.

And so you got the Saints you got the ain'ts you got the Spirit of Christ you have the Spirit of Antichrist.

Jesus says you're either with me or you're against me your child of God or your child of the devil.

You're walking in darkness or you're walking in the light.

And so I'm just saying we can know that if we truly.

Not perfectly, but if we truly love Jesus not with the perfect love, but with an

imperfect love.

We're eternally settled in our salvation in him, what do y 'all

think?

That's good news in that right and that's good news to the Christian.

Who's already has their sins forgiven because there's a lot of Christians that struggle with the question Oh, no, am I still

saved am I saved to begin with and it's like look the answer is always look back to Jesus.

What do you think about him?

Oh, I love him.

I want to spend time with him.

Oh, that's God given right beautiful truth.

And so look at verse 22.

So we get the contrast remember He's writing to you children, but then verse 22 who is the liar, but he who denies

that Jesus is the Christ.

This is the Antichrist he who denies the father and the son.

No one who denies the son has the father.

Whoever confesses the son has the father also question.

Last week we were in the church building that one guy that was up there teaching.

What was he teaching on?

The Trinity.

So I love what John is saying here because if you deny the father.

Well, I guess what you deny the son you don't have eternal life.

If you deny the son that he came in the flesh guess so guess who you also deny.

You deny the father you you deny the father and ultimately reveal that you don't have the spirit.

You have the spirit of not Christ, but Antichrist.

So my point is this is Trinitarian Doctrine 101 right here because you see that the father

is not the son and the son is not the father.

God is one essence or one in being and three Persons.

Okay, and so that was one of the big points that I drove.

I tried to drive home.

Y 'all tell me if this made sense, but God is not one in three in the same way.

He is one being one essence.

He's eternally existed.

But he's also three persons personhood and being are not the same thing.

And so if we understand those two categories, then we avoid being illogical.

Because if someone says we worship one God and three gods, does that make any sense at all?

No.

And remember no lies of the truth.

The truth will not contradict itself.

God cannot deny himself.

God cannot lie.

Those are all verses.

So my point is if someone says they believe that the son is the father they do not understand

who.

God is one being three persons.

And if you deny the father you deny the son.

If you deny the son you deny the father.

Well, let's continue.

So remember that the Antichrist went out from us proving that they were not actually of us.

But look at the security that the believers have.

Let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you.

If what you have heard from the beginning abides in you then you too will abide in the son and

in the father.

And this is the promise that he has made to us.

Eternal life.

That awesome.

Eternal life.

Guess what is eternal if you could lose eternal life, it wouldn't be eternal.

And so a lot of people struggle with this.

And I get it.

I get it to all the debates and all the discussions.

I do it.

So y 'all don't have to.

But it's so beautiful to rest assured in Jesus.

But when you start looking more at yourself and the things you do you start thinking I love Jesus.

But man, I got a whole lot of sin going on my life.

Yeah.

That's called sanctification, right?

We're work.

We're a work in progress.

Now point is the sin though will be discouraging, right?

We war against it.

Yes, but oh when we keep our gaze on Jesus the perfect one, that's where he rests secured.

I am eternally secure not because of the good things that I can do.

But because he is perfect because he died on my account.

I'm looking to him.

And that's where he says.

Yep.

You got Antichrist that leave that fall away.

But for us we have the promise of eternal life when God makes a promise.

Liberty, can he lie.

No, that's why later in first John.

It says our hearts may condemn us because they will.

But God knows all things.

So when God makes a promise, he knows all things it can't fail, right?

And so I think that's beautiful.

As we wind down I was wanting to talk about I want to cycle back to something because

I I've talked with people that say well since I have the Holy Spirit I Can

I?

Had this special knowledge that you know.

Just me apart from everybody else and I had this thing with God and I always push back with

people to say Well, the Holy Spirit is never going to give you a personal revelation that

contradicts his word.

Because the word is also inspired by who?

Lauren.

By God, yeah, the the scriptures have been inspired by the Holy Spirit and so I

wanted to have y 'all turn with me to John chapter 8 or we see a really good example of

The Holy Spirit teaches us.

Yes by truth but also by gifting teachers.

With insights to the Word of God and help us learn and understand.

It's like what we're doing now, right?

We're all together.

Being taught all things that are true from God's Word, but we don't learn it through osmosis.

If I just you know, put my head on my Bible somehow, I'm gonna soak up all the facts.

No, it's through a process.

It's through fellowship.

It's through Your pastors your elders those who are discipling you by going to the word and

looking at.

Context.

Okay.

So this is one of my favorite stories in the book of Acts.

Has anybody ever heard of the Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts chapter 8?

Oh Sorry, that was the first mistake I ever made.

Y 'all don't believe that do you?

Acts Kenny's like, ah, we've heard more mistakes from you before.

So has anybody ever heard of the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch?

Brings a bill.

Yes.

Well, let's look at the story and I want you to be thinking about okay, how can we be taught?

Spiritual truth since we have this anointing the Holy Spirit that teaches us all things.

We don't need any human wisdom to tell us truth.

Just think about this story.

So look starting in verse 26 in Acts not John.

Acts chapter 8 starting verse 26 now an angel the Lord said to Philip pause.

Philip is a deacon of the early church who was full of the Holy Spirit meaning that he was saved

and he was Obedient to what God had called him to okay.

And the Lord said to Philip rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to

Gaza this is a desert place and he rose and went and there was an Ethiopian a

eunuch a court official of Candace Queen of the Ethiopians who was in charge of all of her treasure he

had come to Jerusalem to worship and was written and was returning seated in his chariot and he was

reading the Prophet Isaiah and The Spirit said to Philip go over and join

this chariot.

So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the Prophet and asked do you understand?

What you are reading.

And the eunuch said how can I unless someone guides me?

And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this.

Like a sheep that that was led to the slaughter like a lamb before it shears is silent.

So he opens not his mouth in his humiliation justice was denied him who can describe this

generation?

For his life was taken away from the earth and the eunuch said to Philip about whom I ask

you.

Does the Prophet say this about himself or about someone else?

Then Philip opened his mouth and beginning with the scripture He told him the good

news about Jesus and as they were going along the road They came to some water and the

eunuch said see here is water.

What prevents me from being baptized.

And he commanded the chariot to stop and they both went down into the water Philip and the eunuch and he

Baptized him and when they came up out of the water the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away and the eunuch

saw him no More and went on his way rejoicing but Philip found himself in Exodus

and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he had came to Caesarea.

Now this was a Evangelistic encounter so I get that The eunuch wasn't a

part of the church yet, but there's so many good principles here because someone that really you know

Knows a lot might say yeah, I'm Philip and I just need to teach everybody else.

Well understand.

You know as we're making application here We're all The eunuch at times right?

How can I understand the scripture unless someone guides me?

And that's why God gifts many teachers in the church to go into exegesis to go

into the original text and draw out its truth and Explain it and boldly declare it and exhort us

to live lives to the glory of God.

But we also need to be prayerfully be Phillips right meaning we need to

disciple other people.

We need Paul's in our life right those that we can look up to disciple us.

We need Timothy's to pour our lives into right remember we talked about spiritual maturity, right?

We need those a lot of us are mere babes in the faith.

Right that are just saved and teach me right children in the faith that have their sins forgiven.

But many of us have grown to be young men and women in the faith putting on the the whole

body armor of God and Make war with the enemy which is who?

Which requires us to be spiritually mature to no sound doctrine.

So we won't be swept away by every wind of doctrine that that Human cunning and the deceitful

schemes of the enemy tries to throw at us when our hearts filled up with the word.

Then we can rightly know truth from error.

Jesus said it is written.

It is written.

It is written and Satan tried to twist God's Word out of context.

But that's why we talk about context every time right?

So I just wanted to say like the Holy Spirit guards us from

embracing error.

He who is in you the Holy Spirit is greater than he who is in the world the

devil.

The spirit of Antichrist and so once again the Holy Spirit is integral so

important to our Christian walk because That is who began that good work in us and seals us

to the day of redemption.