God In The Flesh

In one of my articles last week, I shared with you that our focus must not be on what our enemy is doing, but rather, it should always and ever be upon the risen Christ and His cross. However, such a focus does not negate the necessity of us being wise to our enemy’s schemes (2 Cor 2:11). There is a difference between being focused on the enemy versus understanding him.

There are too many people who do not understand that evil will tell you snippets of truth all day long, simply for the sake of gaining enough of your trust to lead you astray with his lies. What most people don’t understand is that Satan can be nice. The enemy of Jesus Christ can quote Scripture and can be sincere (Matt 4:6). Satan has no problem saying abortion is wrong, or that Jesus died on a cross, or that God is powerful and created everything. Satan speaking facts does not make him truthful, nor does it make him honorable or worthy of trust and respect.

Satan can speak truths when he needs to, but he will not act in humility. Therefore, there is one truth he simply will not speak. Satan will not say that Jesus Christ is God. For to do that, would be to humble himself to humanity, it would be to acknowledge that humanity has been lifted up above himself, because Jesus is both fully human and fully God (John 8:56-58; 14:11; Phil 2:5-8; Col 1:19; 2:9). God became a human being to restore us back into relationship with Himself and that human being is Jesus Christ. Do not think that someone is trustworthy simply because they speak random facts about God and say nothing of the deity of Jesus Christ. Our litmus test in these days of religious and political chaos must be those who call God by the name of Jesus.

The antichrist spirit will not confess God in the flesh, and to confess God in the flesh is to say that Jesus Christ is God. That is what the Apostle John is talking about at 1 John 4:2,3. Therefore, in the days ahead as you hear more and more talk about the three Abrahamic religions being in unity under the same God, you will know that is a lie. The battle line has been drawn and that battle line is Jesus Christ. There is no fellowship with those who deny the Son, because whoever denies the Son does not have the Father. And entering into any religious agreement with those who deny the Son, is to enter into a covenant of death.

(1 John 4:2,3) By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and which is already in the world at this time.

(2 John 1:7) For many deceivers have gone out into the world, refusing to confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.

(1 John 2:23) Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, but whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.

(John 5:22,23) Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father Who sent Him.

(1 John 5:19,20) We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him Who is true; and we are in Him Who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.