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Yep. We've done it many many many many times and there's no no shame We don't question. We don't quiz you we just say okay good enough, you know, and we do that So we want people to learn their theology and learn what the Christian faith is a lot of times people just do not know Which reminds me just before I got on the radio here. I jumped in to clubhouse As I was getting ready to prep and stuff like that and to get on the show you know gonna do a couple things with some different platforms to get it all ready and I went into this room and they're attacking the doctrine of the Trinity and the deity of Christ So what I thought I would do here a little bit is go through a couple of odd not oddball But a couple of interesting ways To to deal with the deity of Christ that most people really aren't quite familiar with And they're really cool. They're good ways to do it And I think what I'll do is is that now in the meantime if you want to give me a call, please do 877-207-2276 I want to hear from you.
Give me a call All right. Now I'm going to show you something check this out. This is one of the ways there's different ways many ways, but I'm going to show you one of the the the ways to Show the deity of Christ and then what I want to do after the break is go through Hebrews chapter 1 But I'm going to show you something check this out If you were to go to Isaiah 40 verse 3 now, this is for those who are listening who don't believe Jesus is God Okay, I know that there's people who do listen to me who don't affirm that but this is what it says in Isaiah 40 verse 3 a voice is calling clear the way for Yahweh, that's his name Clear the way for Yahweh in the wilderness make smooth in the desert a highway for our God So that's really interesting Okay It says a voice is calling clear the way for Yahweh in the wilderness Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God. We'll check this out in Matthew Chapter 3. This is what it says verse 1 now in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea saying repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand For this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet when he said the voice of one crying in the wilderness Make ready the way of the Lord Make his path straight So that was a prophecy a voice is calling in the wilderness. That's John the Baptist and what is he saying? The voice of one crying in the wilderness make way make ready the way of Yahweh And who's it referenced?
Jesus It's referencing Jesus make ready the way of Yahweh make his path straight That is really interesting Also in Mark chapter 1 in the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God as it is written in Isaiah the prophet Behold I send my messenger ahead of you who will prepare your way Interesting the voice of one crying in the wilderness make Make ready the way of the Lord make his paths straight So that's who was preaching with John the Baptist in the wilderness And he was making the way of the Lord the way of Yahweh making his paths straight Because that's what it says clear the way of the Lord Clear the way for Yahweh in the wilderness Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God what make his path straight Make in the desert and we make his walking his going that's what it's saying Interesting interesting stuff isn't it so there you go. I think that's good stuff, and I like things like that There's another verse I was in this chat room Where they were denying that Jesus Christ is God in flesh and someone mockingly said if only there was one verse That said that Jesus was God, and I said you know Hebrews 1 8 And it says, but at the Sun he says your throne. Oh God is forever and ever and it was interesting I'm gonna get to this after the break. I'm gonna do a little teaching on Hebrews 1 because it's really good stuff in there I think the one of these These antagonists to who Christ really is said you can read the Old Testament. It's it's in the Old Testament That's what you got to read when I said yeah, I get it. It's in the Old Testament I saw in 45 verse 6, but the writer of Hebrews applies it to Jesus And I said that's a fact read it and there was no response after that So he's called God in fact that reminds me. I once flew up out to Texas at the behest of a single a father To talk before had me talk to his daughter who was in a cult the chrysadelphians And I said yeah, I'll go I did just to talk to one person, and I said the conversational probably very quick and It won't happen She won't come out because that's how it doesn't work like that generally, but I she said he said please try it I did and she was not receptive, but you know you plant seeds But I knew this one woman, and I got a conversation She said show me where it says Jesus is God in the Bible because they deny. He's God I said he was one eight, and I showed it to in the Bible, but of the son He says your throne. Oh, God is forever and ever it stopped her dead in her tracks.
She'd never seen it So you never know you know why you go someplace and what's going on to make something? Make it clear and understandable to to people the truth of God's Word is there This is why you need to know it. This is why you need to speak it This is why you need to be ready to be used of God, and if you're not being used of God You got a problem Because he says make disciples he talks about us doing this you're to do that in whatever capacity You're in Wherever you are Ultimately it's for the glory of God and you need to look for opportunities to spread that faith and spread the gospel message You don't want to be stupid about it, but you definitely want to be clever.
This is one thing you're supposed to be doing All right all right all right. Hey, there's the music when we get back I'll teach out of Romans excuse me out of Hebrews 1 a little bit. It's a great chapter It's great, and we'll we'll go through that so hold on be right back folks after these messages. Please stay tuned It's Matt slick live taking your calls at 877 207 2276 here's Matt slick All right welcome back to the show if you want to give me a call It's easy all you have to do is dial 87720722 76 all right now what I want to do is go through Hebrew chapter 1 a little bit might as well do some teaching okay, and I love doing this So it's a lot of fun for me, and I want you to understand something because the book of Hebrews is really interesting Now We'll go through it and Hopefully you'll recognize. There's a lot more than most people have kind of you know you read you go Yeah, yeah, there's good stuff.
You go on check this out. This is Hebrews chapter 1 starting verse 1 God after he spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets and in portions and in many ways Now right there. He spoke long ago to the fathers the fathers would be the you know Abraham Isaac and Jacob those greats of the Old-testament Period and people Moses and stuff like that And and the prophets so through the Old Testament is what he's saying that he spoke in different ways many portions and in many ways He spoke a lot to the prophets in the Old Testament now in these Last days he's spoken to us in his son now the term last days occurs five times in the New Testament now What's interesting is that in Acts chapter 2 starting at verse 17 it says and it shall be in the last days God says I'll pour forth my spirit and all mankind and So he's talking about the last days which is now So God after he spoke long ago in the prophets in These last days he's spoken to us in his son So the Old Testament was the way God communicated to us before through the prophets, but now it's through Jesus Real simple and this is interesting because in Mormonism for example.
They claim to have prophets today and And They had Joseph Smith, you know he's supposed to have restored the true church and all this stuff. You know it's whatever Islam Muhammad was the greatest of the of all the prophets and so but notice what the Bible teaches the Prophets were in the Old Testament sense, but now we have Jesus because the law and the prophets were until John Luke 16 16 anyway In his last days. He's spoken to us in his son whom he appointed heir of all things Now this is interesting because he appointed heir of Jesus of the Father Appointed Jesus heir of all things well people say well if he's God in flesh.
Why would he have to be appointed heir? Because Jesus is made under the law Galatians for 410 44 Wow could it's only verses so many times Galatians 4 4 he was made under the law and Hebrews 2 9 made for a little while lower than the angels so in that sense under the law He would be an heir because an heir H-e-i-r is someone who's Inheriting things who's benefiting things legally that's what's going on And those who this says he spoke to us in his son whom he appointed heir of all things Whoo all things through whom he also made the world this is really interesting stuff and What I think I'm going to do is I need to yeah, I'll get to it. That's okay, so When we go to Colossians check this out Colossians 1 15 it says Jesus. He is the image of the invisible God Now don't remember this because we'll get to it again a little bit He is the the image of the invisible God the first born of creation It doesn't mean first created first one is a transferable title for by him all things were created both in the heavens and on Earth visible and invisible whether Thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities all things have been created through him and For him he is before all things and in him all things hold together, so this is who Jesus is By him all things were created now. We go to John 1 1 in verse 14 Incidentally we go there we see similarities In the beginning was the word the word was with God the word was God And he was in the beginning with God all things came into being through him and apart from him nothing came into being That has come into being wow it's interesting so in these last days. He was one to God God this father has spoken to us in his son whom he appointed heir of all things through whom also He made the world so God made the world through Christ right, but that's before the universe existed Talking about this person of Christ which means he had to pre-exist when you go to Isaiah 44 24 It says this thus says Yahweh your Redeemer and the one who formed you from the womb I Yahweh and the maker of all things Stretching out the heavens by myself and spreading out the earth all alone Wait a minute God Specifically says that he does it by himself alone That's what he's saying. He doesn't buy himself alone All right, so we go back and we look at those other verses But in particular now we look at verse 2 of Hebrews 1 it says through whom Christ whom he also made the world Through whom well Jesus God said he did it alone So how does he make it through him?
What does that mean? This is elevating the person of Christ to the level of creation maker He's the creator He's not a created being because he is the one appointed by God as the heir of all things By whom and through whom all things are made Now if anybody it for a Jew listen to this the written of the Hebrews This is gonna blow your mind because you're like what the heck is being said Get this look at verse 3 and he as Jesus is the radiance of his as the Father's glory He is the radius of his glory and the exact representation of his nature What? The exact representation of his nature now in Greek it's correct air Correct air. That's what it is We get the word character And it means like an engraver who puts an impression of a signet ring and clay. It's the representation It's the exact form of that and that's the kind of a thing That's being said here that he is that impression that of God in flesh. That's Jesus now I Like to always think about the Hebrews When they're first sitting down in the synagogue or there they are and this is read to them the first three verses are gonna I Mean it's gonna take a month to get get over it because it's just so powerful So he Jesus is the radiance of his glory and the exact representation of his nature That's God's nature. That's what it's talking about.
The very first word of Hebrews is God So Jesus is the exact representation of the nature of God that can't be the case if he's an angel Cannot be as Jehovah's Witnesses teach and get this and he upholds all things by the power of his word How does he uphold all things by the power of his world his word because it says in Colossians 1 17 Paul says He Jesus is before all things and in him all things hold together Wow So I believe Hebrews was written by Paul. It's my opinion. I could be wrong, but that's what I believe and When we get back to the break because there's the music I'll continue with this but we'd like some feedback to see if you like this teaching want me to continue to do it because It's good Oh joy says the lines may be down maybe is maybe uh, okay the number is working good That's what they're saying. Hey folks. We write back after these messages, please Stay tuned It's Matt slick live taking your calls at eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six, here's Matt slick All right, buddy Welcome back to the show hope you're enjoying the teaching and if you want to give me a call all you do is dial eight seven seven two zero Seven two two seven six. I want to hear from you. Give me a call and I just want to let you know that We do stay on the air by your support. Please consider Supporting us and we always like that and appreciate that Alright.
Alright. Alright now let me get back on here and start continue teaching on this because I think it's good stuff Okay What I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna share this screen so that people can follow along in the in the text there. Alright so This is what it says Let me get back to Hebrews chapter 1 because oh man good stuff Alright, so I was in verse 3 and he is the radiance of his glory and the exact representation of his nature Alright, and it holds all things by the word of his power And I have odd habits. I like studying stuff like quantum physics.
I do and And odd oddities. I this is me and one of the things that is a question within quantum physics and Just normal stuff on the molecular level level level of assuming not molecules, but but atoms Where does for example, where does the electron get its energy to spin? It's a question that they don't have answers to yet also in the nucleus of atoms, they have neutrons and protons and Neutrons have no magnetic no electrical charge, but protons are positively charged now if you've ever taken Magnets where they have the North Pole the North Pole two different magnets and put them together You can feel that very strong force that is repelling each other Why is it protons are grouped together in a nucleus when they should be repelling, but they're held together in bond They're bound so My answer would be they're held together by the word of the power of God now what's interesting is that when you look at this and and I think it's 2nd Peter 3 A 10 but the day of the Lord will come like a thief in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the Elements will be destroyed with intense heat and the earth and its work to be burned up So they find out that when you destroy break apart these nucleus of atoms That incredible heat and incredible energy is released Interesting if God is holding every atom together in the universe by his exertion by his will Whoa, there's roughly 10 to the 80th Atoms in the universe something like that particles. This is insanely huge Anyway, I think stuff is interesting Alright, so he is the radiance of his glory and the exact representation of his nature and upholds all things by the word of his Power when he had made purification of sins He sat down at the right hand of the majesty on hide. So what does this mean purification of sins? Well when you look at the issue of what Christ did that the blood of Christ is the one he Who's offered to God because he offered himself as a sacrifice? So Jesus bore our sin in his body in the cross first Peter 2 24 So this is when he made purification of sins because he is the blood sacrifice by which Our sins are atoned for now this is found in Leviticus 1711 for the life of the flesh is in the blood I've given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your sins or for your souls Excuse me for it is by the blood is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement So this is fulfillment of the Old Testament law he made purification of sins in that he Cleansed us now purification of sins is a an interesting phrase because it deals with the Hebrews who would need Purification of themselves through ceremonies in order to have sacrifices offered and things like this And then it says in verse 3 he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high so the right hand is the place of authority the place of of power and we see this reflected in acts 7 55 through 60 because there is where Stephen was being stoned and he says in verse 55 but being full of the Holy Spirit he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God so at the right hand is that place of power and Authority and that's what Jesus has So when he made purification of sins he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high so to the Jew this would mean that he had Authority that he is the exact representation the nature of God and he sits down at the right hand of God the Trinitarian essence Now here's a question to think about why would the writer of Hebrews be speaking like this?
Were the Jews absolute strict Unitarians in that they taught that God was a single person a Unitarian sense, and that's all Not necessarily some people just assume that let me take you a little bit of a ride here. This is Deuteronomy 6 5 You should assume a 6 4 my bed. Oh here Oh Israel the Lord our God the Lord is one and that is a hard in Hebrew And it's used in many places to demonstrate composite unity like one cluster of grapes One group and it means that kind of thing in it now also What's really interesting is that in Genesis? 126 God said let us make man in our image according to our likeness so God referred to himself in the plural three times Let us make man in our image according to our likeness. That's very interesting Also check this out you go to Genesis 1924 and it says whoops it says this it says then Yahweh rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh out of heaven Yahweh rained fire brimstone from Yahweh what? Isn't that interesting and then when you go to Amos 4 10 and 11 all right God is talking.
He says I sent a plague among you after the manner of Egypt I slew your young men by the sword along with your captured horses I made the stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils that you have not returned to me declares Yahweh I Overthrew you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah Wait a minute wait wait what so Yahweh is speaking, and he says he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah the way God did it But yet when you go to where this is referenced in Genesis 1924 where it says the Lord Yahweh rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh out of heaven This is really interesting stuff at least it is to me so now if we go back to Hebrews We said he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high. This is really impressive It's really showing who Christ is and now let's go to verse 4 Having become as much better than the angels as he has inherited a more excellent name than they now Remember, this is critical. I will I've said this so many times that I've taught you've got to remember in context like this remember Hebrews 4 4 I mean excuse me I've done it so many times Oh my goodness, I just quoted it He's made under the law Galatians 4 4 and Hebrews 2 9 he's made for a little while more than the angels So in Galatians 4 4 he was made He was made under the law under the law means he has to keep the law requirements So therefore he will inherit things According to that law this is what the mindset of the Jews would understand all right He's become much better than the angels as he has inherited a more excellent name than they now This is where it gets even more interesting at least to me It does for to which of the angels did he ever say? The he here is referring to God the Father or we would just say God who's introduced in the beginning of verse 1 which of the angels did he God ever say you're my son an Angel isn't God's son In Jewish thought a son is you know it's like his father.
Just but not his father You are my son today. I've begotten you and again I will be a father to him and he shall be a son to me and when he again brings the firstborn into the world He says and let all of the angels of God worship him. Let's spend a little bit of time on this verse Because it's really important for us to understand this term firstborn So when we get to the issue of firstborn? Firstborn is a transferable title all right because what we find in Scripture what we find is for example with Ephraim and Manasseh in Genesis 41 51 Says and Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh and the name of the second he called Ephraim but in Jeremiah 31 9 Ephraim was called the firstborn and then David no David and Goliath David was the youngest But he was also called the firstborn in Psalm 89 20 and 27 Firstborn is a transferable title Okay, and we get back the break. We'll get through this more.
Please stay tuned be right back after these messages It's Matt slick live taking your calls at 877-207-2276 Here's Matt slick All right, I'm gonna welcome back to the show so I'm gonna do is continue on Looks like they are having some phone problems. We've had a couple people say they called and That no one was picking up so something's up with the with the phones what I'm going to do now what I will continue to do is continue to go through the book of Hebrews here and And get into this I love this stuff. It's good so as I said before the break Firstborn is a transferable title it does not mean first created So that's important now. Let all the angels of God worship him now. The word here is proskoneo and It can mean to do obeisance to bow down before Now the Jehovah's Witnesses for example in their false Bible Will say let all the angels of God do obeisance to him because they deny that Jesus is God in flesh But this is what is going on because it's a quote from the Bible that says that the angels of God quote from the Old Testament in Psalm 97 7 and We should worship him all you gods so this one phrase that is being spoken of here the issue of worship That's what it means in the Hebrew is used as the writer of Hebrews is Referencing the Old Testament as it relates to Jesus and pointing out to Jesus As the one who's fulfilling all these things so he is to be worshipped by the angels now This is important because in the Jewish mind the angels are pretty significantly powerful and important They were even means by which God Communicated in the Old Testament as I said earlier You know the Lord rain fire and brimstone from the Lord Yahweh from Yahweh and God is when doing this well There's many places where God is seen in the Old Testament You know as Adam and Eve were walking with the Lord, but you also have Exodus 24 9 through 11 where it says Moses Aaron Nadab and Abba who and 70 of the elders of Israel went up, and they saw the God of Israel, and there's lots of stuff like this you go to he Exodus 6 2 & 3 Where God spoke through the Moses and him I am Yahweh, and I appeared to Abraham Isaac and Jacob as God Almighty So he's saying these things that God sees them and a lot of times what they would do is say It was an angel of the Lord a special representation of God This was how they would deal with it a lot so notice what Paul I believe Paul saying the writer of Hebrews is saying that all the angels of God worship him Interesting from Psalm 97 7 So what is going on the listener? Who's a Hebrew is going to really be? forced To consider with the old test what it says And then it goes on his end of the angels He says who makes his angels winds and his ministers a flame of fire but of the Sun He says your throne Oh, God is forever and ever and the righteous scepter is a scepter of his kingdom now notice what this is going on now Sometimes people say well.
He says isn't there yeah, you're right. It's not there It's in the previous verse, and it says borrowed. That's how you write in Greek sometimes Yeah, but of and of the angels He says who makes it and of the Sun blah blah blah blah blah into these what he says in there So it says your throne. Oh, God is forever and ever now. That's a quote from Psalm 45 verse 6 Now this is important because I'm gonna get a little bit of Greek here for you in Greek the nominative and the optative are the same spelling so It's like saying oh my it's optative and The subject of something God was walking God is the subject well There's both spell spell the same omicron sigma ending and so your throne Check this out Thronos is as an OS ending and God is also an OS ending and so what we have here is something really interesting because What we're looking at is the issue of is it nominative or optative and the reason this is important I believe it's optative in reason. It's important is because you can legitimately translate this as God is your throne Forever and ever that's a legitimate Greek translation The problem is this is a quote from Psalm 45 verse 6 And you don't do that in Psalm 45 verse 6 in Psalm 45 verse 6 your throne Oh, God is forever and ever that's what is being said So false groups they alter the Word of God to make it to fit what they want Alright, so it says your throne. Oh God is forever and ever and the righteous scepter is a scepter of his kingdom So he's being called God specifically you have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness Therefore God your God has anointed you now what a lot of times people do is they will only go to verse 9 and They'll say God your God They'll say that's God the Father anointed Jesus so he's not God and they forget the rest of it that he's worshipped and that he's called God in verse 8 and that he's the Representation the exact imprint of God and he himself is upholding everything by the exertion of his will how does a creature do that?
Because a creation a creature doesn't hold all the particles together in the universe God does that okay? so Therefore God your God has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your companions so what the writer of Hebrews is doing is exalting the person of Christ and you Lord or Yahweh in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth and The heavens are the work works of your hands. They will perish, but you remain They will become like an old like a garment And like a mantle you will roll them up like a garment. They will also be changed, but you are the same and Your years will not come to an end And notice what says but of the Sun he says this and You Lord in the beginning lay the foundation the Overall context is in verse 8 that God is speaking of the Sun Then he says and and he's saying this now what the cults do is say that the word and there Then changes the subject back to God they have to say that because they're cults But nevertheless you Yahweh in the beginning lay the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the works of your hands But yet in the the previous part it says he upholds all things by the word of his power And that's it. It's just this is amazing, but he's saying Christ is okay They will perish, but you will remain etc. You'll and Like a garment they'll be changed in verse 13 But to which of the angels has he ever said sit at my right hand until I make you your enemies a footstool for your feet Are they not all ministering spirits as the angels sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation? so the writer of Hebrews here understands that the angels are the servants of God and That they serve in the capacity to minister to the people of God the chosen ones particularly the people of Israel and now it's expanded to others and that's other stuff later on because of the Priesthood of who Christ is and his offices. So this is what's going on the book of Hebrews chapter 1 is a clear declaration of the of the The deity of Christ his godness is God quality that he's above the angels And that he upholds all things by the exertion of his will this is a claim an Assertion of the deity of who Christ is his magnificence his awesomeness That's who it is. All right, so Um that Okay, well, I'm not sure which Using the other standard number that are using.
Yeah, we're in contact here with the People are at they are having phone problems there So he's gonna check out to the IT guys me that would be didn't have much calls last or last Friday I think it was something similar. We don't know. I don't know. It doesn't matter So look, I hope that was interesting to you Hope that kind of stuff is good because when you go verse by verse And you start going through slowly particularly in Hebrew chapter 1 you start seeing the the importance of who Christ is He is God in flesh now. Let me show you something else here.
I'm gonna do this. We've got a little bit of time I'm gonna go to a couple of verses Go to Exodus 6 starting at verse 2 God spoke further than Moses and said to him I am Yahweh, I am the Lord. I'm Yahweh what it is to in the Hebrew and I appeared to Abraham Isaac and Jacob as God Almighty But by my name Yahweh, I did not make myself known to them. All right, so What this is saying is God is saying that he appeared to Abraham Isaac and Jacob as God Almighty Now I've had many discussions with people on this and they like to say that it's an angel that was that was appearing Who has the name of God and will speak for God?
And so my response is okay, but you know that the word angel Doesn't necessarily mean created being it's a messenger, right? They don't like admitting that but the average person who criticizes that this verse about the deity of Christ I'll show you how they will admit that they will and I say so let me get this straight So what you're saying when it says God spoke further than Moses, it really was not God He says I am Yahweh. It really was not Yahweh So what you're saying to me is that an angel is claiming to speak for God and says that it would it that I am Yahweh So an angel is gonna say I'm Yahweh and that even though the text says it's God Is that what you're saying now? This is where they they have problems obviously for obvious reasons Why am I bringing this up because there's something really interesting here See God spoke to Moses said I am Yahweh and I appeared to Abraham Isaac and Jacob as God Almighty Now there's different places where we can see that but you can go to Genesis 17 1 pretty quickly and It says there when Abram was 99 years old Yahweh appeared to him and said to him I am God Almighty and that's what it says. It says Yahweh appeared to him But wait, God can't be seen right because you go to 1st Timothy 616 we don't have time to go through all of this to pray slowly, but it's talking about God and Jesus and it says in verse 16 who Well in verse 15 and he will bring about at the proper time He who is the blessed the only sovereign the king of kings and Lord of Lords who alone possesses immortality And dwells in unapproachable light whom no man has seen or can see I say to people see in 1st Timothy 6 16 God The it can't be seen and they'll say that's right, man. That's why it's not Jesus.
He's not God They think they have me and I you know help not a little bit further. I said go to John 6 46 Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who's from God. He has seen the Father now That's one who's from God is Jesus.
Okay? So he has seen the Father so no one has seen God the Father and I get him to admit that right they say Yeah, that's right But yet they were seeing God Almighty in the Old Testament because of what God says in Genesis 17 1 and Exodus 6 2 & 3 So if they were seeing God Almighty, but it was not the Father who else is God Almighty who's not the Father And That is when we get some really good discussions as they paddle Upstream trying to make sense of things and The the depths that they will go to twist God's Word Away from what it clearly teaches is amazing There are so many people who hate the person of Christ and they deny who he truly is They deny that he's God in flesh. And so they are ultimately of the spirit of Antichrist That's what first John 4 talks about the spirit of Antichrist is the one who denies that Jesus has come in the flesh And who is it talking about? Jesus who is God in flesh Amen, and amen Okay, there we go. May the Lord bless you and by his grace. We'll be back on there tomorrow hopefully the phones will be fixed fixed by then and we can talk and I'll give a great evening everyone. God bless Bye You another program powered by the truth network
