“But you have an anointing from the Holy
One, and you know all things. 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.” (1 John 2:20-21 NIV)
The children of light have an anointing from the
Holy One. The anointing here indicates the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the
anointed by the Father God as the Messiah, the Savior of the world. The
children of God born of the Spirit have received Jesus Christ in their hearts. Once
Jesus Christ has come in the hearts of His children, He never leaves nor
forsakes them like orphans (Hebrews 13:5).
That’s the unshakable and immovable ground as the
children of the kingdom of light. All the genuine born again Christians have
been sealed by the Holy Spirit of God until the Lord Jesus Christ comes again
with power and glory, accompanied by thousands of thousands of angels and the
sound of trumpets. What an unsearchable riches of glory it is that we have the
anointing within forever!
Apostle John says that we have the anointing from
the Holy One and we know all things. Here, ‘all things’ doesn’t mean everything
in the universe. We cannot know it all. What John is saying is that we know
that since we are born of the Spirit through faith in Jesus Christ we have the
anointing in our hearts forever.
John says that he did not write this truth not
because they did not know it but because they knew it and because no lie comes
from the truth. Jesus Christ is the truth, the way, and the life. He is the
same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). Once they have been of the
truth, they shall remain in the truth forever.
Of course, we do sin and fail at times and will sin
one way or the other. However, the real Christians cannot continue to sin as
they did in the past, because they have Jesus Christ who indwells within
forever. They understand that if they confess theirs sins God will continually wash
and cleanse them away with the blood of the Son Jesus Christ (1 John 1:9).
But the antichrists who have come out of the church had
never been born again in Jesus Christ the Lord. They might have looked pious and
behaved like Christians but they were not the genuine. They were the tares
which the devil planted at night in the church. The antichrists are of the devil
the father of lie who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Otherwise, they would
remain in Him forever.
“Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is
the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son. No
one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the
Father also.” (1 John 2:22-23 NIV)
Those who say that they believe in God and yet deny
the Son Jesus as the Messiah are the antichrists. Were the Pharisees and the
scribes in the Lord’s earthly days the ones who proclaimed that they believed in
the God of Moses and Prophets but stubbornly refused to believe in the Son
Jesus Christ? No wonder our Lord Jesus Christ directly spoke them that they
were of the devil (John 8:44).
“Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father,
you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have
I come of Myself, but He sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech?
Because you are not able to listen to My word. You are of your father
the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because
there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for
he is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell the truth, you do
not believe Me. Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth,
why do you not believe Me? He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore
you do not hear, because you are not of God.” (John 8:42-47 NKJV)
Why is the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ
the liar? It is because they deny the mediator and thereafter they want to be
the gods on their own. In the Garden, the devil deceived the woman, saying the
lie that you would be like God and know good and evil. That is the fall of
human race! Man was designed and made to perfectly and completely recognize God
as the Lord of all in every area of life.
Man cannot know good and evil on his own. He can
know the truth only when he relates to God who knows good and evil in perfection
and completion. That is why no matter how much in history humans have been
putting every effort to improve the morality of humanity it is no avail at all,
absolutely nothing. Man is not a god but creature. Stubbornly refusing Jesus Christ
the Mediator is the evidence of truth that they are of the devil, not of the
Father God.
“As for you,
see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you
also will remain in the Son and in the Father. And this is what he
promised us—eternal life.” (1 John 2:24-25 NIV)
But those who have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord
have eternal life, real life. They are the ones who deny the lie, deeply
recognizing the mediator in every area of their lives. They know that they
cannot live on their own at all but on God only. They are the ones who by faith
respond to the tender drawing of the Father in their midst.
Whose side are you? Whose side am I? Jesus Christ
the mediator or the devil the father of lie? Truly and genuinely born of God,
you have the anointing from the beginning, who never leaves you nor forsakes you.
That’s reality and eternity.
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