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Protection for the Child of God
1 John 2:18-29
A father knows how to protect his children.
A few years ago, when asked how he would handle his 12-year-old daughter’s future boyfriends, NBA hall-of-famer Charles Barkley responded, “I figure if I kill the first one, word will get out.”
God protects His children.
He can protect us physically.
If you travel to Colorado Springs and visit Focus on the Family’s campus there, they’ll show you the bullet that’s still lodged in the woodwork in the main lobby.
It’s a testimony to God’s protection.
The visitor’s center is a busy place – 100,000 visitors yearly.
That’s how it was Thursday May 2, 1996.
Laurilee Keyes was tending the reception desk when a man abruptly yelled, “Hang up the phone!”
Trying to politely finish her conversation, Laurilee didn’t look up and gestured for the man to wait.
“Laurilee!”
shouted Judy Baker, sitting next to her. “Hang up the phone right now!”
Laurilee looked up and saw a gun pointed right at her.
The gunman started screaming that he wanted everyone else out of there.
The man stripped off his clothes to the waist, and put on a vest that he said contained explosives.
He held the gun in one hand and a detonator in the other.
For the next 90 minutes, the Judy Baker and Laurilee Keyes talked calmly with the man who was holding them hostage.
“What’s your name?” Laurilee asked as Judy offered him a glass of water.
“Kerry Dore,” he said, accepting the water.
They asked about his family and learned he had children.
When Dore told the women that he planned to end his life that day, Laurilee tried to dissuade him, telling him that his children didn’t want a dead father.
Then, Dore was on the phone with the police negotiator, and the women heard him say he wouldn’t hurt the hostages.
He never looked at the women to give them permission to leave; they didn’t look at each other; no one spoke; Judy and Laurilee simultaneously got up and slipped out the door.
Both women walked to safety, and a short while later the gunman surrendered peacefully.
God’s ability to protect us is amazing.
You don’t even know how many times your heavenly Father has protected you from …
· An accident on the highway.
· A deadly sickness.
· A harmful relationship.
· An emotional hurt.
But God’s protection is not only physical and emotional.
He also wants to protect us from anything that would harm us spiritually.
Several warnings in this book:
· Warned about the conflict between light and dark in 1 John 1:1–2:6.
· Warned about the conflict between love and hatred in 1 John 2:7–17.
Here, God warns us about a third conflict: the conflict between truth and error.
A serious warning we need to hear.
Here’s why:
[Read 1 John 2:18]
Notice two important words and phrases in this verse:
· “the last hour”
· “the Antichrist”
Both terms show us that …
· We are living in an hour of crisis.
· We have an enemy that we must guard against.
The “last hour” reminds us that a new era has dawned on the world.
· Important to understand that the last hour is not a /duration /of time, but a /kind /of time.
· The last hour began with the death of Jesus on the cross and His resurrection from the tomb.
· The last hour will end when Jesus returns.
· All of OT history prepared the way for what Jesus did on the cross.
· All of history since His resurrection is preparation for His return.
· “The last hour” began back in John’s day and has been growing in intensity ever since/./
· We are living in “the last time,” “the last hour” – days of crisis.
The term, “antichrist,” is used in the Bible only by John.
It describes three things:
1. a /spirit/ in the world that opposes or denies Christ;
2. the /false teachers /who embody this spirit; and,
3. a /person/ who will head up the final world rebellion against Christ.
The prefix “anti” in antichrist has a double meaning – /against/ or /another/.
· It can mean “against” Christ.
· It can also mean “another” Christ.
Satan is fighting /against /Jesus Christ, and He is /substituting/ /counterfeits/ for the truth of Jesus Christ.
The “spirit of antichrist” is in the world today.
· False teaching of the /Da// Vinci Code /is antichrist – against Christ, and offering another Christ.
· Any other type of false teaching that would deny the Christ of the Bible /or/ alter Him into someone He never was – is antichrist.
It will eventually lead to the appearance of a “satanic superman” whom the Bible calls “Antichrist” (capital A).
He is called (2 Thes.
2:1–12) “the man of sin” (or “lawlessness”).
In these last days, how can believers be on their guards against false teaching – the spirit of antichrist, and false teachers – those who themselves are “lowercase a” antichrists?
God offers protection to His children from false teachers.
This passage shows us three ways that false teachers – antichrists – can be identified and guarded against.
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*False teachers can be identified by their …*
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Departure from God’s Church*
[Read 1 John 2:19-20] \\ “They went out from *us, *but they were not of *us.*” - the word “us” refers to the fellowship of believers, the church.
Evidently, there were false teachers who had arisen among God’s people in the church’s in Asia Minor, to whom John wrote this letter.
Initially, they had seemed like part of the church family and fellowship.
· Worshiped with the other believers.
· Prayed with the other believers.
· Partook of the Lord’s Supper with the other believers.
But then, perhaps slowly and gradually, they began to go their own way.
Special meetings where they taught their “new and mysterious doctrine.”
Eventually, stopped being part of the church altogether.
One of the marks of being a true Christian is affiliation and fellowship with a local body of believers – the church.
IL: First church I pastored, no Sunday evening services.
Wanted to preach.
So, I volunteered to go and preach at t local nursing home.
The residents would make their way to the parlor, sit in a semicircle, and I would preach to them as loud as I could preach.
Man who said, “Preacher, I’m 91 years old, and I haven’t heard a word you said.
I just come to these meetings sos ever’body will know whose side I’m on.”
One week, a nice couple, in their fifties, came to provide music.
She played the piano.
He sang.
Sang beautiful old gospel songs.
“Let Us Have a Little Talk with Jesus,” “Love Lifted Me,” “Whispering Hope.”
Wonderful, heartfelt singing.
I preached.
After the little service was over, I asked the man, “Brother, where do you and your wife go to church.”
You could almost see the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end.
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