Holding Fast to Christ

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🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This is the final hour, and many antichrists are here or have come. So we hold fast to Christ and call on the Holy Spirit for power, courage, and an overflow of sustaining joy until the end.

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0:00.0	You're listening to audio from the Village Church. If you'd like to check out more resources or give to our ministry, please visit us at the village church.net.
0:09.4	Good morning, church. My name is Sidney Richard, and I have the pleasure of serving in Little Village and on the student leadership team.
0:16.4	Before I met Jesus, I was angry and living solely for myself.
0:21.6	But because of the cross and the great love of God, I no longer walk in the passions of my flesh,
0:26.6	but in the freedom of Christ and in fellowship with his people.
0:35.6	Our scripture this morning is from 1 John 2, verses 18 through 29.
0:40.3	Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that Antichrist is coming, even now many Antichrist have come.
0:48.3	By this we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had
0:54.9	belonged to us, they would have remained with us. However, they went out so that it might be made clear
0:59.4	that none of them belong to us. But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the
1:05.5	truth. I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you do know it,
1:10.4	and because no lie comes from the truth
1:12.7	who is the liar if not the one who denies that jesus is the christ this one is the antichrist the one who denies the
1:20.4	father and the son no one who denies the son has the father he who confesses the son has the father as well. What you have heard from
1:29.2	the beginning is to remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then
1:34.1	you will remain in the son and in the father. And this is the promise that he himself made to us,
1:39.8	eternal life. I've written these things to you concerning those who are trying to deceive you.
1:45.0	As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you don't need anyone to teach you.
1:50.6	Instead, his anointing teaches you about all things and is true, and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, remain in him.
1:59.3	So now little children remain in him so that when he appears
2:03.5	who may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming if you know that he is
2:08.5	righteous you know this as well everyone who does what is right has been born of him this is the word
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