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Warnings Against Denying the Son
Dear children,
this is the last hour; and as you have heard
that the antichrist is coming, even now many
antichrists have come. This is how we know
it is the last hour. They went out from us,
but they did not really belong to us. For if
they had belonged to us, they would have
remained with us; but their going showed
that none of them belonged to us.
But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth. I do not write to
you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie
comes from the truth. Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a
person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has
the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you
also will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he promised us—eternal life.
I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray. As for you, the
anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you.
But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not
counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.
God’s Children and Sin
And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and
unashamed before him at his coming.
If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been
born of him. 1 John 2:18-29
“See, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered,
nor will they come to mind.
But be glad and rejoice forever
in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight
and its people a joy.
I will rejoice over Jerusalem
and take delight in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying
will be heard in it no more.
“Never again will there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not live out his
years; the one who dies at a hundred
will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach[a] a hundred
will be considered accursed.
They will build houses and dwell in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their
fruit.
No longer will they build houses and others
live in them, or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,
so will be the days of my people;
my chosen ones will long enjoy
the work of their hands.
They will not labor in vain,
nor will they bear children doomed to
misfortune; for they will be a people blessed
by the Lord, they and their descendants
with them.
Before they call I will answer; while they are
still speaking I will hear.
The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
and dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.
Isaiah 65:17-25
The Doors Are Open
Which Do You Choose?!
Therefore, remember that formerly
you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those
who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body
by human hands)— remember that at that time you were separate
from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the
covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the
world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have
been brought near by the blood of Christ.
For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and
has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting
aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His
purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two,
thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to
God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He
came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to
those who were near. For through him we both have access to the
Father by one Spirit.
Consequently, you are no
longer foreigners and strangers,
but fellow citizens with God’s
people and also members of his
household, built on the
foundation of the apostles and
prophets, with Christ Jesus
himself as the chief
cornerstone.
In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a
holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together
to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
Jew and Gentile
Reconciled Through
Christ
Where Are You Headed?
Matthew 13:36-43
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