LIVE IN THE LIGHT, Dr. Samuel Lee
REMAIN IN HIM
Passage: 1John 2:18~27  
Key verse: 24
Warnings Against Denying the Son
18 Dear children, this is the last hour;(A) and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming,(B) even now many antichrists have come.(C) This is how we know it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us,(D) but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.(E)
20 But you have an anointing(F) from the Holy One,(G) and all of you know the truth.[a](H) 21 I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it(I) and because no lie comes from the truth. 22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son.(J) 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.(K)
24 As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning(L) remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.(M) 25 And this is what he promised us—eternal life.(N)
26 I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray.(O) 27 As for you, the anointing(P) you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things(Q) and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.(R)
Footnotes
- 1 John 2:20 Some manuscripts and you know all things
Cross references
- 1 John 2:18 : S Ro 13:11
- 1 John 2:18 : ver 22; 1Jn 4:3; 2Jn 7
- 1 John 2:18 : 1Jn 4:1
- 1 John 2:19 : Ac 20:30
- 1 John 2:19 : 1Co 11:19
- 1 John 2:20 : ver 27; 2Co 1:21
- 1 John 2:20 : S Mk 1:24
- 1 John 2:20 : Jer 31:34; Mt 13:11; Jn 14:26
- 1 John 2:21 : 2Pe 1:12; Jude 5
- 1 John 2:22 : 1Jn 4:3; 2Jn 7
- 1 John 2:23 : Jn 8:19; 14:7; 1Jn 4:15; 5:1; 2Jn 9
- 1 John 2:24 : S ver 7
- 1 John 2:24 : Jn 14:23; 15:4; 1Jn 1:3; 2Jn 9
- 1 John 2:25 : S Mt 25:46
- 1 John 2:26 : 1Jn 3:7
- 1 John 2:27 : ver 20
- 1 John 2:27 : 1Co 2:12
- 1 John 2:27 : Jn 15:4
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1. Many antichrists (18-23)
An antichrist is an enemy of Jesus. Those who deliberately turn their backs on the work of God and on the body of believers to which they were called are antichrists (19). They discourage others, so their influence is destructive. Jesus is Christ. He is our King and Savior, and our one true hope. One who knows the truth but puts his hope in the world or seeks some other savior is a liar.
2. Keep God's word in your heart (24-27)
We have the anointing of the Holy Spirit. He leads us into all truth--if we hold on to the word of God which we heard from the beginning. If we keep God's word and his anointing in our hearts, we have eternal life, for the Son and the Father dwell in us. This is his promise. He is for real. We should not allow psychological humanists to rob us of what God has given.
Prayer: Father, thank you for your word and for your anointing. Help me to remain in Jesus until I meet him face to face.
One Word: Remain in him