THE DOUBLE STANDARD- DID CHRIST COME IN THE FLESH? #1385/ WITH DR. GEORGE WATKINS

THE DOUBLE STANDARD-DID CHRIST COME IN THE FLESH?

Fifty years after Christ's ascension, the apostle John set pen to paper and gave us the first, second, and third John in the Scriptures. This is the same disciple who leaned on Jesus's breast during the Last Supper. This is the one they could not kill, so they put him on the Isle of Patmos, where he wrote the revelation of Jesus Christ.
In first, John the fourth chapter, he's dealing with a crisis that is happening in the Christian church. In a short five decades after Jesus ascended, 50% of the church did not believe that God actually came in the flesh. The teachings and revelation that the apostle Paul had 50 years previous to this had been taken over by perversive teachers that entered into the bloodstream of the church.
We often use this passage of scripture in our modern situation, challenging an evil spirit or a person who may be under the influence and bondage of an evil spirit. We ask them if they can confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh.
It's not unusual for us modern-day Christians to believe that the entire Bible was written just for us today. When we do, we miss some of the most powerful reasons why the Scriptures were pinned in the first place.
I have witnessed all too often while identifying which spirit someone moves in that this scripture is still valid today for this challenge.
However, we can miss the point of why John wrote the book if we don't identify the perversion that was trying to kill this infant Christianity that God had brought through Jesus Christ.
The apostle John tells us in chapter 4, verse two in the Passion Bible: here's the test for those with the genuine spirit of God: they will confess Jesus is the Christ, who has come in the flesh.
Verse three: everyone who does not acknowledge that Jesus is from God, has the spirit of antichrist, which you heard was coming and he's already active in the world.
Two standards were being lifted concerning who Jesus really was. One was the truth that the original apostles had laid out for the church, that Jesus was God and man together. God manifested in the flesh.
The second standard crafty teachers were raising was that Jesus was just a prophet talking about God. John clearly identifies that spirit as the spirit of antichrist, which was already working in his day.
When the Scriptures tell us to lift a standard, it directs us to hold up the banner of truth concerning Jesus, why he came, and who he was and is today.

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