“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.” 1 John 2:22
June 28, 2023
In a 1997 movie a successful attorney, having made lying a craft of the trade, forfeits all his meaningful relationships His wife leaves him. His son challenges him to stop lying for 24 hours. In determining to speak only the truth, a career-deciding case is his to win or lose. What happens?
Lying is not God’s way of living. Lying about who Jesus Christ is is a spiritual felony. Those who refuse to accept the apostolic teaching concerning Jesus Christ are antichrists. The apostle John makes it clear that false teachers may be well disguised but their teaching paves the road to hell with their lies about Jesus Christ. Don’t be fooled. Denial of the deity of Christ is a lie. Denying that Christ was true humanity is a lie. Teaching that Jesus Christ was two persons is a lie. Making out Christ to be merely a great ethical teacher is a lie. Teaching that Jesus Christ died for no other reason than to give us an example of God’s love is a lie. What can we learn from this? Jesus Christ must be acknowledged as the Christ who is the Christ of the gospel. Only the Christ of the Scriptures can save us from our sins. If we attempt to be our own attorney representing ourselves before God, the infinitely holy, righteous, and just Judge, our eternal destiny, heaven or hell, hangs in the balance.
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“O God of all truth, the last thing I want to believe is believing in the wrong Jesus Christ. I want to trust in He who said, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”