There’s a lot of empty space with people making empty claims about God and Jesus and life and truth, but those quite frankly don’t add up, they sound good, but they’re hollow like this wall, and they can’t support the weight of your life, and if you try to anchor yourself to it, you’ll fall.

2. 1 John 2:18-27

3. Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard
that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists
have come. Therefore we know that it is the last
hour. 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 it might become
plain that they all are not of us.
- 1 John 2:18-19

4. “The” Antichrist: Specific figure in the future who will
sets himself up “against” Christ or “instead of” Christ
Antichrists: False Teachers In Every Generation

5. But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you
all have knowledge.I write to you, not because you do
not know the truth, but because you know it, and
because no lie is of the truth. Who is the liar but he
who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the
antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No
one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever
confesses the Son has the Father also.
- vv. 20-23

6. How Can I Tell When I’ve Got an “Antichrist”?

7. How Can I Tell When I’ve Got an “Antichrist”?
1) They Deny that Jesus is God
(but admit that he’s a really good guy)
No one who denies the Son has the Father.
Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.
- v. 23

8. Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to
be used to his own advantage;
rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!

9. Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every
name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is
Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
- Philippians 2:6-11

10. “They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them
on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not
willing to move them with their finger.”
- Matthew 23:4

11. How Can I Tell When I’ve Got an “Antichrist”?
1) They Deny that Jesus is God
(but admit that he’s a really good guy)
2) They Deny the Authority of the Bible
(but admit that it has helpful things to say)

12. How Can I Tell When I’ve Got an “Antichrist”?
1) They Deny that Jesus is God
(but admit that he’s a really good guy)
2) They Deny the Authority of the Bible
(but admit that it has helpful things to say)
3) They Want You Dependent on Them
(instead of “releasing” you to lead others)

13. What Can I Do To Make Sure I Don’t Get Deceived?

14. Let what you heard from the beginning abide in
you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in
you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the
Father. And this is the promise that he made to us—
eternal life.

15. I write these things to you about those who are
trying to deceive you. But the anointing that you
received from him abides in you, and you have no need
that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing
teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no
lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
- vv. 24-27

16. What Can I Do To Make Sure I Don’t Get Deceived?
ABIDE!