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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for collecting daily manna), make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Today's Passage : Today's Passage: Subject:Warning Concerning Antichrists Bible Verse:1 John 2:18-20 (ESV) "Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists 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." Message:
From the first, there have been challenges for evangelists: People denied Christ when He was alive, and after He died, arose, and ascended, people continued to deny Him, as they do today. This is and was the basic battle of Christian missions, bringing the gospel to people who did not know it or had not accepted it, that they might find Christ and eternal life in Him. Then came the problem of backsliding, that is, people who had been saved suffering from a lapse of faith.
But now, John finds, a new problem had arisen. He began to hear people who had been saved but then went wrong, not by simply lapsing into the world of the flesh, but by perverting and misrepresenting the truth, making up stories that they presented as the word of God, but which would lead listeners back into the darkness.
In John’s first epistle, we encounter the term “antichrist” for the first and only time. Our understanding of the term has been distorted by Hollywood, which has co-opted The Antichrist as a caricature for horror movies. The Biblical use is less colorful. John invented the term to describe Christians who stray from the truth, or people who simply invent some warped version of Christianity, and try to convince others to join them. They find Christ but then lose Him, by grafting onto His gospel ideas from their own, often insane, minds.
Many such false teachers were beginning to appear towards the end of the first century. Of course, they have been with us ever since, and we still have them today.
John calls the appearance of these false teachers the herald of “the last hour.” He does not mean that the end of the world is coming next week. God’s revelation to, and salvation of, mankind has come in stages or epochs, and the appearance of antichrists is the final epoch. There was the epoch of Adam and Eve; the epoch of Noah; then Abraham, when the first covenant was established; then Moses when the law was established; then the establishment and history of Israel; then Christ; and then, after Christ had ascended, the era of spreading the gospel.
Now, we are in the last era, the final hour. God has made salvation available to all nations, so that all might be saved. He has given us a final battle, the battle against those who would pervert Christ’s word. However long it may take, we are in the final stage of man’s relationship with God.
The antichrist is with us, in the form of aggressive atheism and perverted ideas about God.
Meditation : Prayer : Lord, in utter humility I thank you and glorify you, that you might hear the prayer of one so small as myself, amidst the billions of souls among billions of stars in one of billions of galaxies in your universe. Let me go forth in your peace, keeping your Spirit always in my mind; and bless me, I pray, that I might always follow your will and live in the radiance of your blessing. |
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