A Warning Against Anti-Christs

Believers Life Style Bible Study
Warning Against Anti-Christs
1 John 2:18-27
Presented by Mike Webb

Open It

  1. Who are the enemies of the Church today?
  2. What do you think is the best defense against cults and other false spiritual teaching?
  3. *What effect do you think warning labels on cigarettes and alcohol have?

Explore It

  1. What time did John say it is? (2:18)
  2. *Who was coming and who had come at the time John wrote this? (2:18)
  3. What did John say about those who had left? (2:19)
  4. What did the readers of 1 John have? (2:20)
  5. What did the readers of 1 John know? (2:21)
  6. How is the antichrist identified? (2:22)
  7. *In what way is denying (or acknowledging) the Son related to having the Father? (2:23)
  8. *What did John encourage his readers to do? (2:24)
  9. What did the Father promise? (2:25)
  10. Why did the author write these things? (2:26)
  11. What was the relationship between the anointing these believers received and their need to be taught? (2:27)

Get It

  1. What makes you think that we are living in the last hour today?
  2. What antichrists are among us today?
  3. What truths do we know about Christ?
  4. What have we been taught by the anointing of the Holy Spirit?
  5. How can we remain in or have fellowship with Jesus Christ?
  6. *What groups of people are trying to lead believers astray today?
  7. *How can we protect ourselves against false teachers and antichrists?

Apply It

  1. What will you do this week to deepen your fellowship with Jesus Christ?
  2. *What steps do you need to take to better prepare yourself against antichrists and their false doctrines?
  3. Who is someone you can encourage in their relationship with Christ this week?

 

Deceptions of the Last Hour

18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the[a] Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you[b] know all things. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

Let Truth Abide in You

24 Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life.

26 These things I have written to you concerning those who try to [c]deceive you. 27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you [d]will abide in Him.