destiny said:
Do you agree that the antichrist is simply anyone who denies that Jesus is the Lord God or the Christ.
I don't think this is altogether true, and not a good criteria for recognizing a spirit of anti-Christ.
Look at all of the false teachers, prophets, etc. out there who confess Jesus as Lord, yet they deny Him through their deceptive teachings and lives. We see it all the time here on the forums.
So, theres a lot more to it than mouthing words.
If you deny complete truth you deny the one who gave it, it doesn't matter what you confess out of your mouth if your life and actions speak otherwise.
I have heard so many people say, "well they believe Jesus is the son of God so they must be a christian".
So what? Even the demons believe and tremble.
Its about having the faith to believe evey word that proceeds out of the mouth of God through His word, and walking it out through obedience and personal relationship with the Son.
Spirit AND Truth!
Destiny
Amen and Amen.
You are so right. I for one will not stand by and let these people like spirit driven preach another Jesus. Simply by looking at Spirits posts, you can tell its not the same Jesus. Mutz. If your directing your post at me and I suspect you are, thats ok, because I will NOT deny Jesus Christ as GOD nor his deity.
My Jesus said that If I deny him before the father he will deny me. If I /we who know the truths as revealed by his Holy Scriptures can't stand up to false teachers on a forum, how will we be able to dod it face to face??????
Matthew 7:1-6 1 "Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and look, a plank is in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. 6 Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.
Ok, so what does all this mean?
Matthew 7:1-6
7:1 Sometimes these words of our Lord are misconstrued by people to prohibit all forms of judgment. No matter what happens, they piously say, “Judge not, that you be not judged. But Jesus is not teaching that we are to be undiscerning Christians. He never intended that we abandon our critical faculty or discernment. The NT has many illustrations of legitimate judgment of the condition, conduct, or teaching of others. In addition, there are several areas in which the Christian is commanded to make a decision, to discriminate between good and bad or between good and best. Some of these include:
1. When disputes arise between believers, they should be settled in the church before members who can decide the matter (1 Cor. 6:18).
2. The local church is to judge serious sins of its members and take appropriate action (Matt. 18:17; 1 Cor. 5:9-13).
3. Believers are to judge the doctrinal teaching of teachers and preachers by the Word of God (Matt. 7:15-20; 1 Cor. 14:29; 1 Jn. 4:1).
4. Christians have to discern if others are believers in order to obey Pauls command in 2 Corinthians 6:14.
5. Those in the church must judge which men have the qualifications necessary for elders and deacons (1 Tim. 3:1-13).
6. We have to discern which people are unruly, faint hearted, weak, etc., and treat them according to the instructions in the Bible (e.g., 1 Thess. 5:14).
7:2 Jesus warned that unrighteous judgment would be repaid in kind: “For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged. This principle of reaping what we sow is built into all human life and affairs. Mark applies the principle to our appropriation of the Word (4:24) and Luke applies it to our liberality in giving (6:38).
7:35 Jesus exposed our tendency to see a small fault in someone else while ignoring the same fault in ourselves. He purposely exaggerated the situation (using a figure of speech known as hyperbole) to drive home the point. Someone with a plank in his eye often finds fault with the speck in the eye of another, not even noticing his own condition. It is hypocritical to suppose that we could help someone with a fault when we ourselves have a greater fault. We must remedy our own faults before criticizing them in others.
7:6 Verse 6 proves that Jesus did not intend to forbid every kind of judgment. He warned His disciples not to give holy things to dogs or to cast ... pearls before swine . Under the Mosaic Law dogs and swine were unclean animals and here the terms are used to depict wicked people. When we meet vicious people who treat divine truths with utter contempt and respond to our preaching of the claims of Christ with abuse and violence, we are not obligated to continue to share the gospel with them. To press the matter only brings increased condemnation to the offenders.
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