Peter Barnes | 1 John 2:18-19
SERMON NOTES
BEWARE OF COUNTERFEIT CHRISTS!
Ezekiel 13:1-23; 1 John 2:18-19
– focus on the right Christ
1. We live in the last hour.
– 2:18; the Old Testament looks to that day (Amos 9:11-12; Isa.2:2-4)
– Acts 2:17; Heb.1:1-2; 1 Peter 1:20; we live between the first and second comings of the King
2. Many counterfeit Christs will come before the Antichrist.
– 2:18; the man of sin is probably the Antichrist (2 Thess.2:1-12)
– the temple is probably the Church (1 Cor.3:16-17; Eph.2:20-21)
– anti means ‘for’ or ‘instead of’ in Mark 10:45; the problem is a counterfeit Christ (like 2 Cor.11:3-4); like the Christ of the cults, the mass, the televangelists; note Col.2:9.
3. True Christians persevere to the end.
– 2:19; John 10:26-28; 17:12
– on Tanna in May 1941 there was a sudden apostasy to embrace the John Frum cargo cult.