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Lesson 4 · October 28, 1893

Antichrists.—1 John 2:18-25

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  1. 1.To what time does our lesson especially apply?
  2. 2.Whose coming is foretold?
  3. 3.How fully has this prediction been fulfilled?
  4. 4.Of what is this the proof?
  5. 5.With whom have these antichrists been nominally connected?
  6. 6.Was the fellowship real?
  7. 7.What makes this plain?
  8. 8.Why do they withdraw?
  9. 9.What is given to the believers?
  10. 10.With what result?
  11. 11.What was the real reason for writing the epistle?
  12. 12.Who is a liar?
  13. 13.Who is antichrist?
  14. 14.How close is the relationship between the Father and the Son?
  15. 15.What is to abide in the believers?
  16. 16.What experience will follow?
  17. 17.What has been promised to them?

Notes

1. .—Apostasy is a characteristic of the last time (or hour, R. V.). The Saviour predicted this (), and the church had been warned of it more than once (; ). The incarnation is the testing truth (), and this really means the union of divinity and humanity in the believer (). This experience involves the death of self (), and giving up all things temporal (), and hence many, like Demas (), fail to endure the test. The power of God in the church is the best agency for relieving it of unworthy members (), as is shown in the early church (). Jesus was anointed by the Father (), and so are his followers (), and they are thus enabled to comprehend the things of God (), which are spiritually discerned ().

2. .—Christ being the image of God (), one with the Father (), through whom alone the Father could be known (), to see one was to see the other (), and a denial of one includes the rejection of the other (compare ; ).

3. .—Love to one another was the command from the beginning (), and this involves the new birth (), which results in the indwelling presence of both the Father and the Son (). Christ is the life (), and is from eternity (, margin), and so is called the eternal life (), which was promised before man fell (), and announced to him before he was driven from the Garden of Eden (). To believe on Christ is to receive him (), who is life (), and so believers have everlasting life (). When God gave Christ to the world, he poured out all the treasure of heaven in one gift (), and it will be our constant study to all eternity to learn what we have in Christ.

Bible texts in this lesson

1 John 2:18-20 · Matthew 24:11 · Matthew 24:12 · 1 Timothy 4:1 · 2 Timothy 3:1-5 · 2 John 1:7 · Colossians 1:27 · Romans 6:6 · Luke 14:33 · 2 Timothy 4:10 · Isaiah 52:1 · Acts 5:1-14 · Acts 10:38 · 2 Corinthians 1:21 · Ephesians 1:17-19 · 1 Corinthians 2:12-14 · 1 John 2:22 · 1 John 2:23 · 2 Corinthians 4:4 · John 10:30 · Matthew 11:27 · John 12:45 · 2 Peter 2:1 · Jude 1:4 · 1 John 2:24 · 1 John 2:25 · 2 John 1:5 · 1 John 4:7 · John 14:23 · John 11:25 · Micah 5:2 · 1 John 1:2 · Titus 1:2 · Genesis 3:15 · John 1:12 · Colossians 3:4 · John 3:36 · Colossians 2:9

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