In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000

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Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a five-star

review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. Do you have a proper confession of faith in Christ?

And a proper confession, I would say two main elements for it to be proper. It must be a biblical confession and it also must be a

personal confession. Biblical and personal. Biblical, we see in 1 John, anyone who confesses that

Christ has come in the flesh or stated in the negative, he says, anyone who does not confess that Christ has come in the flesh. Or stated in the negative, he says,

anyone who does not confess

that Christ has come in the flesh

is the Antichrist or an Antichrist.

Many Antichrist have gone out into the world.

And one of the ways that you can know them

is that they deny that Christ has come in the flesh. They deny the incarnation.

And that might seem so general, as though it's not specific enough, but there is much

that inherently comes with that one statement of Christ coming in the flesh. One of the things

that comes with it is that it presupposes it assumes that Christ existed

before his incarnation, before he came in the flesh.

Meaning what?

It assumes by necessary inference that Christ has come in the flesh, that he pre-existed before coming in the

flesh, that he is eternal, that he is God. And not only that he is God before the flesh,

but he is the God man, fully God, fully man. That statement includes with it the hypostatic union that he is the second member of the trinity

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