Father I pray that you would grant us to feel the urgency of Antichrist and that we would feel the confidence that he who is in us is greater than he who is in the world.

And that we would feel and have in a mind, in our hearts, a discerning alertness to the threat

of false prophecy.

I ask these things in Jesus' name.

Amen.

So if you have a Bible, I hope you'll open it and keep it open to 1st John chapter 4 verses 1 to 6.

1st John 4 verses 1 to 6.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit

but test the spirits to see whether they are from God.

For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By this you know the spirit of God.

Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.

And every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.

This is the spirit of Antichrist,

which you heard was coming and is now in the world already.

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them for he who is in you is greater than he who's in the world. They are from the world, therefore they speak from the world and the world listens to them.

We are from God.

Whoever knows God listens to us. Whoever is not from God does not

listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

So I think this unit of scripture can be open to our understanding under three

headings. One, the threat of false prophecy or false profits, two, the victory, namely the apostolic truth and the power of God within us,

and three, the urgency, namely the Antichrist. So threat, victory, urgency, threat, victory, urgency.

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