Remain In HIM!

Hello! and happy good first day of the week to all of us, GUYS.  Our "daily bread" this Monday:

THE GOOD NEWS (02 January 2017)

"Who is the liar?

The one who denies that JESUS is the CHRIST.

This is an antichrist, who denies both the FATHER and the SON.  The one who denies the SON is without the FATHER, and those who acknowledge the SON also have the FATHER.

Let what you heard from the beginning remain in you.  If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you, too, will remain in the SON and in the FATHER.  And this is the promise HE HIMSELF gave us: eternal life.

I write this to you thinking of those who try to lead you astray.

You received from HIM an anointing, and it remains in you, so you do not need someone to teach you.  HIS anointing teaches you all things, it speaks the truth and does not lie to you; so remain in HIM, and keep what HE has taught you.

And now, my children, live in HIM, so that when HE appears in HIS glory, we may be confident and not ashamed before HIM when HE comes." - 1 John 2:22-28 

 

(Fourth criterion: to be sure we are walking in the Light, we must reject the antichrist and remain steadfast in the faith and in what faith teaches.  The believers of John's days knew that before the glorious return of CHRIST, an antichrist would appear.  John says: the person who denies that JESUS is the CHRIST already is an antichrist.  Today there are still many people who make a distinction: on one hand the man JESUS, lost in the mist of legend and on the other hand an idealized CHRIST adored by believers.  John says: "The one who has come in history, HE HIMSELF is eternal GOD."

You received from HIM an anointing, and it remains in you.  John not only speaks of the anointing of oil in baptism and confirmation.  "CHRIST" signifies precisely, "he who is anointed," and this anointing was the presence in him of the Spirit of GOD, his FATHER.  John adds: "You cannot receive passively just any instruction in the Church, but you must discern whether the word of GOD is being faithfully transmitted."

HIS anointing [Spirit] teaches you all things.  In writing that, John had in mind the prophets who were the animators of the churches: through their inspired words the Spirit taught the community [see Acts 14:2 and 1 Thessalonians 5:19].  Today the Spirit also maintains us in the truth through the leaders of the community and those who teach but we are not dispensed from seeking by ourselves the meaning of the Word and discerning what others tell us.)

  

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