Confessing Christ & Denying Antichrist | 1 John 4:2-3
ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church · Carlos Montijo
June 29, 2025
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Lord's Day:</strong> June 29<span class="sermon-listing-detail">, 2025 </span><span class="sermon-listing-detail"><strong>Preacher:</strong> <a class="speaker" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/preacher/p/19307/carlos-montijo" rel="p-19307">Carlos Montijo</a> <span class="sermon-series"><strong>Series:</strong> <a id="series-10" class="series" href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/series/first-john">First John</a></span> <span class="sermon-topic"> <strong>Topic:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/sermons/topic/discernment" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Discernment</a> </span></span><strong>Scripture: </strong>1 John 4:1–4; Luke 11:23; 9:49–50; Acts 20:26–32; Hebrews 5:14; 2 Corinthians 11:13–15; Matthew 15:13–14; Revelation 3:17; 1 John 2:22–23, 18; Matthew 7:15<strong><br /></strong></p> <p><strong><sup>2</sup></strong>By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, <strong><sup>3</sup></strong>and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the <em>spirit</em> of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. 1 John 4:2–3</p> <ul> <li>To confess Christ is to deny Antichrist</li> <li>Law of Excluded Middle: Luke 11:23 and Luke 9:49–50</li> </ul> <h4><strong>I. </strong>There are many false ways of relating to God, and “many false prophets have gone out into the world”</h4> <ul> <li>Acts 20:26–32</li> <li>Those who are in error are often completely unaware of their own biases and imbalances—self-deception</li> <li>They often assume that their errors/traditions are biblical, instead of carefully investigating them, instead of discerning all things, instead of testing every spirit</li> <li>Gresham Machen’s <em>Christianity & Liberalism</em>—Either/Or, Excluded Middle</li> </ul> <h4><strong>II. Confession</strong></h4> <ul> <li>What does it mean to confess Jesus Christ who has come in the flesh?</li> </ul> <h4><strong>III. Repentance</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Repentance is a form of discernment, a rejection of lies and acceptance of truth</li> </ul> <h4><strong>IV. What is “the <em>spirit</em> of the Antichrist” (v. 3)?</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Zeitgeist, spirit of the age, mindset that is of the Antichrist,<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"><strong>[1] </strong></a>allegiance</li> </ul> <p><strong>We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church</a></strong><br />4712 Montana Ave<br />El Paso, Texas 79903</li> </ul> <p><strong>Contact us at:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>web:</strong> <a href="https://www.thorncrowncovenant.church/">ThornCrownCovenant.Church</a><br /><strong>call/text:</strong> (915) 843-8088<br /><strong>email: </strong><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></li> </ul> <p>Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. <a href="http://lsbible.org/">LSBible.org</a> and <a href="http://316publishing.com/">316publishing.com</a><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1"></a></p> <p><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> Gordon H. Clark, <em>First John: A Commentary</em>, Trinity Paper, No. 2, 2nd ed. (The Trinity Foundation, 1992), p. 126 <https://www.trinitylectures.org/first-john-p-85.html>.</p>