In this series, given in the early days of Waverley Christian Fellowship, Kevin Conner teaches through the New Testament letter of 1 John.
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Jewels from 1 John (Part 8)
In this podcast series, given in the early days of Waverly Christian Fellowship, Kevin Conner teaches through the New Testament Letter of One John. Be sure to get a copy of Kevin's new book on this topic. Visit kevinconner.org/onejohn for details. And verse 18 through to 29, and let's again read it as a church here. They said there's something about verbalizing the word that is good for us. And the devil does make it... OK, 1 John 2, verse 18 onwards. "Little children, it is the last time. And as you've heard that antichrist shall come, even now there are men antichrists, whereby we know that it is the last time. 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. They went out that they might be made manifest, that they were not all of us. But you have an ancient, the holy one, and you know all things. I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but because you know it. And that no lie is of the truth. Who is a liar that he that devises is the Christ? He is antichrist that denies the Father and the Son. Who's whoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father. That he that acknowledges the Son has the Father also. Let that therefore abide in you, which he have heard from the beginning. If that which he have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, he also shall continue in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he has promised us, even eternal life. These things have opened unto you concerning them, that seduce you. But the anointing which he have received of him laid within you. And you need not that any man teach you, but as the same anointing, teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie. And even as I have taught you, you shall abide in him. And now little children abide in him. That when he shall appear, we've managed to be comfort. Not be ashamed before him or his coming. If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone that do is righteous, this born of him, and the Lord blesses his word to our hearts. Now, last week we started on this area and we're going to not exhaust the subject, but finish the area tonight. What were the two key words that we were looking at in our session last week? What's sort of a theme of this passage here? What is it? Antichrist and the Christians. Right, everybody agree with that? Antichrist and the Christians, all right? And we picked out a particular, first of all, a particular word that has to do, a name that eventually became a proper name that involves the Godhead. And what was that name? What was it? I want another name. The name became a proper name. The believers of the disciples were called OK. And we said that this was a name that eventually came to involve the Godhead. How? What was the Greek verb, pre-omine? The anointe, the, I mean, the one who anoints, two anoint. Who's that? The Father, all right, and Christus. All right? The anointe, okay? And then, Christmas, the Greek word we have here, which is not in nineteen. Yes, smart love, aren't you? What's another word translated here? In verse twenty. Unction. So, whether we say "unction" and having "unction" in the function, or anointing, it's the "crisma" and what is the Greek word, "crisma" means? Oil. Did you say that, Sister Conner? Yes, smart tune. Yes, so, okay now. We're looking at, I'm going to put it this way tonight, so if you put it the other way last week, you can change it down this way. Unions and the Antichrist. All right, now, last week we saw together, as we continue tonight, that the Bible, and particularly the New Testament, gives us sort of a threefold revelation of both the Christ and the Antichrist. So, over here, we have the revelation of the Antichrist, which we were, that's what we're going to look at tonight, don't we? When we look at last week Christ, okay, and in this end we want to, you've got to bring our picture together. All right, so first of all, we said the first thing involved in the complete revelation of the Christ was what? All right, the Lord Jesus Christ, I'll just abbreviate this here. Who is the head of the body? No, true. And then we have the church, which is the body of Jesus Christ, so we have the head and the body. And then the third thing we have, did we get to the third thing? The spirit, right, in Romans 8, the spirit of Christ. All right, so we're drawing our little man. That actually did a very good one the other night. It was sort of a bit like mine, wasn't it? Okay, so in the total revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ, can anybody remember where we have a scripture that could not only cause Jesus Christ, the heads of Christ, but also the church. Anybody remember that scripture? 1 Corinthians. Let's just go back to that again because I want to make sure you got that right before we move on to our next area. 1 Corinthians 12, 1 Corinthians 12 and verse 12. "For as the body is one," so he's talking about the body of Christ, the church, which is the body. "For as the body is one and as many members," and all the members of that one body being many, one body, "so or so is Christ." So we have Christ's head, the anointed head, and Christ's the body, the anointed body. So we have the head and the body, or Christ's the head, and the Christians, the anointed one, this together constitutes the Christ. Now, as we said last week, so here we have the Lord Jesus Christ as the head, here we have the body, and the thing that unites them together is what? The spirit. Okay? The spirit of Christ, the spirit, the same Holy Spirit that was at work in their head. The same Holy Spirit is at work in the church, in the body, making up this body of many members, and in due time there's going to be a marriage between the head and the body. When the head and the body get together, that's two becoming one. At the moment we have a bit of a headless body and a bodyless head. But when the two come together, there's that union where the body of Christ and every member of the body of Christ is absolutely one with the head. Now, it's the ministry of the Holy Spirit to bring about that unity between the head and the body and that union. It's going to take place, so the total revelation of the Christ is the head, the body, and the spirit, the same spirit that's working in there. Now, the same thing is true in John's epistle. So, first of all, we want to look at the Antichrist. The Antichrist. Okay. Now, let's go back to John's epistle again, and here's the only one. John is actually the only one that uses this title concerning the Antichrist. There's many, many names for the Antichrist, but John is the one that particularly uses this title. All right. First John chapter two and verse 18. Little children, it is the last time. The last time is what? Greek. The escaton. And you've heard that. Antichrist shall come. As I said, some of the Greek scholars are divided over this, but we've got other scriptures to confirm it. But some of the Greek guys bring out that the article is before the Antichrist, and so I'm going to read it where with the article. Little children, it is the last time it's the escaton. And as you have heard that the Antichrist shall come. So the Antichrist and the Antichrist singular, just like the Christ, is only one Lord Jesus Christ. And Christians, which comprise the body of the church, but there's only one Lord Jesus Christ, one head. And there will be the Antichrist who is going to be the hand, the Antichrist, the head. But then in verse 18, he brings in the plural. Even though there are many Antichrist, so there's going to be the Antichrist and the number two, there's going to be the Antichrist plural, many Antichrist. So now you're just looking for one in a sense. There will be that one, but there's going to be many Antichrist and these Antichrist form that body. The justices, the body of Christ, the church made up of many members, there's going to be the body of Antichrist, many members. And I believe, and I think all of us who love the Lord Jesus tonight, decking Isis, that there, these two bodies are in formation today. How many believe that? These two bodies are in formation today. The body of Christ is being formed and God is adding members to the church worldwide. But the body of Antichrist is being formed and that's going to be many members and we've been talking about warfare and our Timothy leadership plan tonight, but I actually was confirming and sharing this to spiritual warfare. And we haven't seen any warfare as yet. If we think we're up against principalities and powers, wait till you see the formation of this thing and the formation of this. Then you're going to have the greatest spiritual warfare that the world has ever witnessed and we're living in the eschaton, the last of the last days. But at the moment everything's just in formation and everybody's finding their place in one of those bodies. I don't want to be in that body, do you? I haven't got time to do it tonight, but later on probably I'm going to be taking up what are the characteristics, some things I'll give you tonight, characteristics of these members that are becoming members of that body, the Antichrist. Go down to verse 22 where the Antichrist is used again. Who is the liar, but he the denier that Jesus is the Christ, his Antichrist, that denier the father and the son. All right, so we have Antichrist in verse 18 in the Singum, the plural, verse 22 Antichrist. Let's go over now to verse John 4. It'll take from verse 1 through to 3, 1 John 4, 1 through to 3, just to lead us into a setting here. John says, "Beloved, believe every spirit, but try the spirits, test the spirits, prove them, to the day of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world." I want you to pick up this thought of Antichrist and the false prophet. Here I know ye the spirit of God, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is coming the flesh is of God, and every spirit that confesses not, that Jesus Christ is coming the flesh is none of God, and this is that spirit of Antichrist. Well, have you heard that it should come, and even now already is it in the world? Okay, so we came to the same thing, the spirit of Antichrist. Now, just as the Holy Spirit, see, we have the contrast. He just as the Holy Spirit is invisible, and yet it works, and the same spirit was in the dead, who was characterized by submission to the Father's will, surrender of His self will, humility, and all that divine nature, and the nature of God the Father manifest in the head because the spirit of Christ was in Christ's head, and now He's trying the Holy Spirit at work in the church to make every member, the members of the body have that same chat, and same spirit, and so just as the head was in submission to the will of the Father, all the members of the body should be in submission. And the divine nature should be made manifest, and surrender the self will and so forth, because the Holy Spirit has to do in the body when He did in the head. Now, on the negative side, we have the same thing. The spirit of Antichrist, that spirit that's manifest in the head, and you see, the head is the seat of the brain, the thoughts, the reasons, the imagination, the head controls the body. Every member of my body is subject to the head. If it isn't, you know, my head says to the leg, go this way, and one leg says, "Well, I'll go this way," and the other leg goes that way, "I'm going to have a split." It won't be a banana split, either, see. Every member of my body is subject to the head, and the same nature and character that's in my head goes through my whole body, I think. Well, we see that on the positive side. The same nature and character that's in the risen head. The Lord Jesus Christ needs to be made manifest in every member of the body. And how many recognize the Holy Spirit's having a real job? Because He's got some rebel members. And once we get into rebellion, we are siding over here. And the tragedy is, as I said, we of over the years look for the Antichrist to come from the world. But John is clearly showing us the Antichrist comes from the church. You mean Christians? Yeah. Christians who have failed to come in submission to the head and his lordship and total submissions who have got into rebellion. Now, have you ever thought of cancer in the body? Do you know what cancer in the body is? Cancer is rebellion in the cells. And the body of Christ has got cancer in the day. Rebel cells. And the blood of Jesus has to do a lot of work to try and get rid of the rebel cells. Holding rebellion against the other members of the body in that path or against the hand. Let's go over to 2nd John, where John uses this Antichrist again in verse 7. For many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ has come on the flesh. This is a deceiver and an Antichrist. So we see that John has the thought of the Antichrist, many Antichrists, the Antichrists ahead, the Antichrists, many Antichrists, many members of the body and the spirit of Antichrists. That is, at work in both the head and the body to bring about a union too. So we have the same thing over here. That's in formation. Head and body. Deceiver and Antichrist. Now I want you to go over to the gospel of the moment and see if Jesus sort of gave John the key thought on this because really he did. And some of the Greek expositors may argue over the article being before the Antichrist or not. Jesus confirms it. Matthew is gospel. Matthew is gospel chapter 24. Matthew 24. Alright, and verse 23. Matthew 24 verse 23. Jesus speaking of the time of his second coming of the eschatom. He says, "Then if any man shall say unto you low, he is Christ. For there, believe it not. For there shall arise false Christ." Now what did we say the name Christ meant? Anointed one. Okay, so I've said this before but I want to say it again. We cannot go by the anointing because there's a true anointing and there's a false anointing. So people today, spiritual people and charismatic particularly are being deceived by the anointing. Well, that fellow's got the anointing. Well, how did we define the anointing? What is the anointing? We can't go by the anointing. What do we have to go by? The word. The word. What does the word say? So Jesus says, "For there shall arise false anointed one." So we have here sort of a similar thought. If anybody says here is Christ or there is Christ, don't you believe it? Because it's going to arise false Christ, false anointed one. And not only false Christ, false prophets. Which you'll show a great signs and wonders in semester if it were possible. They shall receive the very elect. Now that's exactly what John says in his epistle. The spirit of anointing Christ, many false prophets are going out in the world. You've heard the anointing Christ, you've come, even now there's many anointing Christ. And there's many false prophets and there's a spirit of anointing Christ. So John is just taking the same thought up that the Lord Jesus gave us in Matthew. In Matthew's Gospel chapter 24. I want you to turn over to Revelation chapter 13. In Revelation chapter 13, let's see if the Scripture I'm after. All right, I'll just comment briefly on here. I want another Scripture in Revelation. But Revelation 13 gives us a picture of two beasts. The first beast comes up out of the sea. Verses 1, 2, 2, 10. The first beast comes up out of the sea. That's significant. Romans 11 through to 18 is the second beast. I'd be held another beast coming up out of the earth. One beast comes up out of the sea. The second beast comes up out of the earth. You remember, perhaps you do, perhaps you don't. In chapter 10, when Jesus Christ sees Jehovah Angel comes down, he puts one foot on the sea and the other foot on the earth. Everything's under his feet. Now, why does he put his feet on the sea and on the earth? And that's symbolic act, because the first beast is the antichrist who arises out of the sea. What does the sea represent in Scripture? People, nations, kindred tongues, the wicked alike, the troubled feet. So out of the restless masses of humanity, the sea representing the restless masses of humanity and the cross-parents and undercurrents and political-parents and upheavals that are going on in the restless masses of the nations today. Jesus said, "You'll see the waves and the sea troubled and the waves roaring." And the wicked alike, the troubled sea and John sees and Daniel sees, the beast coming up out of the sea so out of the restless masses of the nations. And the political cross-parents and undercurrents are the antichrist comes up. And then along with the antichrist, the second beast is the false prophet. Now, you'll see, so let's go over to chapter 16, chapter 16 and verse 13. Revelation 16 and verse 13. And I saw three unclean spirit. Oh, what a contrast. Here, over here, what sort of spirit do we have working in this body? The Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit comes to make us holy. As holy as the head. Without holiness, no man should see the light. And, you know, I don't know if you ever think of this, but sometimes the thing that rocks me the most is that plenty hostile people and charismatic people who are the strongest believers and teachers of the Holy Spirit and the baptism of the Holy Spirit don't live the most holy life. You see, the contradiction, how can we claim to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and speak in tongues and not live a life of holiness? In fact, I've found out of my experience having come and from my fundamental church that there is more holiness of lifestyle and Pentecostal and non-charismatic groups than there are in the spirit field group. And that is through our shame, isn't it? So the Holy Spirit comes to make us holy. So speaking in tongues is not an issue of holiness. It gives you the spirit of no evidence of holiness. What is the evidence of an issue? A holy lifestyle, light living. So, here we have the Holy Spirit. But what sort of a spirit is it worth here? Uncleans spirit. And young people and older people, we have to watch the unclean spirit that's at work today. In every form of nogracy, films, TV, programs, magazines, there's an unclean spirit, unclean spirit. That is, that's at work. Or to form a body. And we are Christian companies getting involved in uncleanness. And then, like drugs, I'd like to get up on the drugs. Better better leave that for now. Come out of the mouth of the dragon, the father, Satan, and out of the mouth of the beast, the sun, the antichrist, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, now the feet of the curse. So a satanic godhead. So over here, there are unclean spirit at work. In the head and in this body. You see, this is where the line of demarcation is going to be manifest in the last day. A holy clean church. A holy clean church. And a carnal immoral church, all spirit fields. I've told you about it before. I don't like to mention it. Two filled homosexual churches. In the face. Charismatic homosexual churches. Operating the gift, speaking in tongues. Having healing. See what you see these things. And you understand what Jesus said. Many will come to me in that day and say, "Lord, Lord, have we not done many wonderful works tonight, no? Have we not prophesied? Have we not parked our devil?" Now, who's that refer to? Not the fundamental. He referred to. A man called for charismatic people who have the gift of the spirit. And he said he's part of me, he's workers of an equity, lawlessness. So the antichrist is a spirit. And that's right, he's made up. How many would like to have the fear of God? I mean, what might talk about the fear of God? Enough fear of God to frighten hell out of you. I mean that. That's why it sounds rough and uncouth. And then, I've got a desire for heaven. I've got a touch of heaven. I've got heaven on the way to heaven. Other people have got hell in them. They're living a life of hell. Because hell is a sinful place. And they're having hell on the way to hell. So it might sound rough and uncouth, but we need to frighten hell out of people. Put heaven in them. And then, now that you can't abandon it. When I explain it. Verse 14, "For they are the spirits of devils working miracles which go forth under the kings of the earth, and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty." The whole day come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches and keeps it his garments. Blessed he walks naked and they see his shame. I want you to look at the overhead for a moment and go back to 1 John chapter 2. And then I want to sort of show you a tremendous pattern here, I believe. The harvest time. Amen? We've got to. We're small-minded in Australia. Too small-minded. For the big vision, we talk about the church and the bride of Christ and the feast of tabernacles and the harvest coming in. And we have a small mentality instead of believing God. And we're challenged now with buying the land and looking to God to supply and so forth. What for? Not just to have an ornament, but to be getting in part of the harvest. But at the same time there's going to be a harvest, there's going to be a tremendous apostasy. And apostasy is not referring to sinners. Sinners have got nothing to apostate from. Apostasy is from. The apostasy is going to take place among Christians. They went out from us. Now John doesn't anywhere say, "Now look out in the world and see if you can figure out the antichrist. He's got ten horns and a long tail and a pitch ball." They went out from us. The apostolic company. Why? Number two, because they were not of us. They were not of the same spirit and character as the apostles. Number three, they would have continued or remained. It would have been the perseverance of the saints. They would have continued if they were of us. So they come in and would joy receive the word and say, "I'm marvelous, but after a little while, they yield to the unclean spirit." That spirit of rebellion and lawlessness that it were. That mystery of iniquity. And then before, why do they go out from us? Because they're not of us and they would have continued with us. Purpose is, they went out so that they would be made manifest. They're going out, expose them. And you see, the, the even we get to the Lord Jesus Christ and the more the Holy Spirit and I'm just praying for this. That the Holy Spirit will come in such convicting power in our midst. And convicted sin and righteousness and judgment that we will be a holy people and a clean people. We need some holy goes conviction. And that thing, when that happens, this won't be out of stand. They'll go out, they'll expose themselves. I can't stand that church. There's too much holiness around. I didn't mind why they sang the song of the Lord and spoke in tongues and had a good orchestra and a choir. I didn't mind that. But since they got into this holiness, you know, that squeezed me out. They went out from us so that they might be made manifest. Number five, they deny that Jesus is the Christ. And number six, and this is important to, they deny the union of the Father and the Son. I want you to notice how John links that all the way through. He is and a Christ that deny the Father and the Son. Who so deny the Son the Son of? Not the Father, but he that acknowledges the Son have the Father also. Now, as I've said many times on the side again here, this covers all religions because there are many religions. There are many religions who accept God, who accept the Father God. All God is the Father. Do you know the two basic doctrines of the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches? Which are not the true Church. Their two fundamental doctrines are the universal Fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of men. Both those doctrines are lies and are contrary to the Word of God. Because nobody on earth can say our Father which I didn't have unless they're born again. Now God is the creator of all men, but he's not the Father of all men. Amen, am I speaking truth tonight? So when they say the universal Fatherhood of all men, and God is the Father of all men and all religions, and they deny Jesus Christ. Oh, once you deny the Father and you deny the Son to deny the Son is to deny the Father and to acknowledge the Father is to acknowledge the Son. So Jesus says and John says, "I am the way the truth of life. No man comes unto the Father but by me." Not by Buddha or Muhammad or Hinduism or Hinduism or any otherism. So when religions accept the Father or their concept of the Father and reject the Son, you can't do it. If you deny the Son, you deny the Father. If you don't want the Son, you don't want the Father that you don't get it. If John is very strong on the union of the Father and Son, I am my Father or one. Not so one person that I am my Father on one in purpose and operation and spirit and character and will and plan. Amen? To acknowledge the Father is to acknowledge the Son and the number nine. I want you to look at these verses here on this lie on Truth a moment. Am I being too heavy to deny? I just feel agitated in my spirit. Not with you people. Just the spirit that's at work. Let's go through on this last one and I want you to notice in John's epistle this lie and the truth. Then we'll bring it all together. Okay, John chapter one and verse six. If we say we have fellowship with him in walking darkness, we lie and do not the truth. Verse eight. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. Verse ten. If we say that we have not sin, we make him a liar and his word is not in us. Chapter two verse four. Here that says I know him and keep if not his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him. Verse twenty one. I have not written unto you because you know not the truth but because you know it and that no lie is of the truth. Verse twenty two. Who is a liar that he that denyeth that Jesus is the Christ? Verse twenty. Well, that's okay. Second John seven. Second John seven. For many deceivers are ended into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ is coming the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Now, you'll notice the truth in the lie. Now, I want you to sort of bring something here. Let's turn over to John's gospel. John's gospel chapter eight to a very interesting seed thought. John's gospel and John's epistles here. John chapter eight. Where's John before Genesis, isn't it? John chapter. While you're just turning there, let me sort of bring this something that's very interesting. Can everybody see the choir there? Anybody seen that? Anybody seen that? John chapter eight. I want to reverse forty. Let's see verse where do you go with John? Verse three nine. The pretty hot chapter in Jesus is getting a little bit excited and agitated. How many know there's a divine agitation? How many know that? It should be agitated when people take the name of Jesus in vain. We need to get the holy agitation. Rebuke him. It reminds me of my working at a secular job when they take the name of the lie and die and I rebuke him. That's right, and they look right to me. One man got saved in self-defense once. All right, verse thirty nine will take them. They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. John chapter eight verse thirty nine. Jesus said unto them, if you were Abraham's children, you would do the walk of Abraham's works. But now you seek to kill me, a man that have told you the truth, which I've heard of God. This did not Abraham. You do the deeds of your father. Then we have one father, even God. Jesus said unto them, if God were your father, you would love me. So I proceeded forth and came from God. Neither came I of myself, but he sent me. Why do you not understand my speech, even because you cannot hear my words? Now do you think Jesus, gentle Jesus, me and my talking here? Why don't you understand me? Even because you can't hear my words, you are of your father, the devil. How do you understand my speech? Even because you can't hear my words, you are of your father, the devil. How do you understand my speech, even because you can't hear my words, you are of your father, the devil. How do you understand my speech, even because you can't hear my words, you are of your father, the devil. How do you understand my speech, even because you can't hear my words, you are of your father, the devil. How to win Jews and influence Greeks in six easy lessons. That's a problem that Jesus didn't go through our theological cemeteries, did he? Oh, verse 44, that's so cool up here. You are of your father, the devil, and loss of your father, you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and a bird, not in the truth, because there's no truth in him. Listen, when he speaketh a lie, who is a liar of the Antichrist? No lies of the truth, but you are the truth. He is a liar in the truth. He is a liar, and when he speaks a lie, he speakseth of his own, for he is a liar and a father of him, and because I tell you the truth, you believe me not, which of you convincingly have sinned, and if I say the truth, why don't you believe me? He that is of God here, if God's words, you therefore hear them not because you're not of God. Then answered the Jews and said unto him, say we not well, that you are a semality, you got a devil. And that's what will happen. Here's the Jews saying Jesus Christ was demon possessed, and I'll say it of you. But who was demon possessed? Now, let's sort of wrap this up into the interesting thing here. We said that the last time is what was the Greek word? Okay, let's put it here. E-S-C-H-A-T-O-N. Now, if it was the last time way back in John's day, the beginning of the church age, how much more is it? The last time now. The E-S-G-T-O-N. The last time. So we are living in the last of the last time, aren't we? The last of the last days. Now, another Greek word that's used is on a Confederate Greek. That sounds, I feel, good about it. This up here is the proton. What's the proton? No, not protein. Now we get it mixed up. Proton, Michael. It's the beginning. Dr. John, right? Tell me if I'm messing up the Greek. The Greeks don't know. This is the beginning. So let's put that up here. So the proton, the beginning and the E-S-G-T-O-N, the end, the last time. Now the church age opened up with three and a half years of the Christ, the head. The end of the age is going to close with three and a half years of the antichrist, the head. Right? The head is the truth. I am the way. I am a way. I choose a life. I am the way. That excludes all others. I am the truth that excludes all others. I am the life outside of him is there. Outside of him is a lie. Outside of him we're lost. And then this is the lie. And you know, these things, I hope you feel as proton as I do inside. All the world is going to believe one or the other. There's no neutral line. See, all him says, Jesus is standing in powerless hold. Neutral you cannot be. There's no neutrality. Everybody's ought to believe in the truth. Oh, they're going to believe the lie. Everyone's going to believe something. Right? Let's turn to 2nd Thessalonians, chapter 2. How many think little John's epistles are exciting? 2nd Thessalonians. Verse 7. For the mystery of iniquity, the mystery of lawlessness. 2nd Thessalonians 2, verse 7. For the mystery of lawlessness. There's all ready work. And I hear who now let us all restrains. We'll restrains until he be taken out of the way. And then shall the wicked be revealed. That wicked. Go down to verse 10. And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness. And then the parish, because they receive not the love of the truth. That they might be saved. Here is the truth. The love of the truth is to love him. He is the truth that's not a part. And for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe. Everyone's going to believe one or the other. How many would love to believe the truth? What cause? Because they receive not the love of the truth. God's going to send them strong delusion that they should believe. See? Jesus said, "I'm of the truth." But he said, "Satan's alive. The devil's alive." And he's the father of it. Oh, the father and the son. The father God. And he produced the son who is named the truth. The father of the devil, he produced the son who is alive. Then the strong delusion to believe alive. That they all might be damned who believed not the truth. It had unpleasure in unrighteousness. Just a couple of other things that were true. The head here was manifest in here. If I were the good artists, I'd like to do this. If you put the head there. On the day of Pentecost, what happened? The spirit came. You see? Is everybody getting what I'm saying? The head here in the finale. On the day of Pentecost, the spirit came. The spirit of Christ. The head went back to heaven. The spirit came down. And the spirit came down to follow what? Okay. We're in the age of the body. When the Christian. The body. This is the age of the body. That's for another way. When a baby is born, what is first born? The head. What is born first? What is first born? The head. What born first? The head. Oh God. Have these people. What follows? The body. Okay. The head is first born. Born first. The elongated head. This is the body he's following. And here we are, the last members of the body to be born, are they? The feet. Is that right? That's why I don't worry if you call me a heel. Because Genesis 3, 15, the feet of the woman will bruise the seventh head. And Roman 16, 20, God shall bruise, Satan under your feet, shortly in the feet on the body. The last members to be born. So who's, which generation is going to have the crushing ministry? Right? Come on, you should be getting excited. I could get a Pentecostal manifest if I didn't control myself. How's that time? I got about three on my watch. Okay, is everybody here what I'm saying though? Now, John said, now look at the contrast. John said back there, you've heard that the anti-Christ shall come. Now, when was the anti-Christ to come? The Bible says, and you just have to believe me for the moment. It's too bad for subject. I got about 78 names for the anti-Christ in the Bible. If we really did it properly, the head is going to be down here. So Satan always does things off as a God. Right? Um, John said back here, even now, the spirit of anti-Christ is at work. And that spirit is at work, a former, Marty. And where does the head get crushed? He was bruised in his feet at Calvary. But the head is crushed down here. All to break his skull. Okay, let's wrap it up. The Christ is the truth for three and a half years. He did signs and wonders. It was the first half of Daniel 70th week, and it was a half week in mercy. This brought about some believers. Believe, believe, believers. Spirit's being worked on the body. In contrast, we have the lie, and the lie is going to do signs and wonders. With all the sea-ableness of unrighteous citizens, lying signs and wonders, if it were possible to deceive the very elect. Signs and wonders back here, signs and wonders down here. The truth here, the lie here. Mercy here, judgment here. First half of the 70th week, last half of the 70th week. Believers, deceivers. So this dispensation of the Holy Spirit, when the mystery of godliness is at work, and the mystery of iniquities at work, the 2000 years is bounded by half a week, half a week, Christ, Antichrist, the truth, the lie, signs and wonders. Mercy, judgment, believers, deceivers. How many really want to stick over here? Be sure to visit kevinconner.org for more information about Kevin, his books, and his ministry. (gentle music) (guitar music)