If you confess the Son, you also have the Father

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"22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also."

(1 John 2:22,23)

Anyone who denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar, antichrist. The one who is present as the anointing in me and you is Christ, our Savior. People want to know about the Second Coming Jesus, but they don't know much about the Christ who comes into us as the spirit of life. We don't know much about Christ, who came into us by the Spirit of truth and made us born again through the grace of the redemption of the cross, so that we can receive the forgiveness of sins and become one spirit with us. It is because you are being attacked by the antichrist. Even though you have heard about Christ, you do not believe that He dwells in you. It is not knowledge that Christ is in us, but a fact. That is why those who do not have revelation claim only Jesus who died on the cross and Second Coming Jesus.

The Jewish religion still believes that the Messiah will come. Christianity can become like the Jewish religion. Why would people do that? Once Jesus Christ is seated in heaven, they  will be at peace. The nature of man belonging to Adam is good when he is as far away from God as possible. Man's sinful nature wants to keep God as far away as possible. Since we were born with a primitive religious view, we cannot say that God does not exist, but we insist that God is in heaven. Those who place God in heaven only and deny Christ, the Son who came within them, are antichrists and synagogues of Satan.(Revelation 2:9) Not all who call on God's name are God's people. When people come to church, they think they are all colleagues and friends. Listen to the words that come out of people's mouths. Christians can only speak words in the name of Christ.

Before the Holy Spirit came in us, the more we boasted to others, the more excited we were. But after the Holy Spirit came in us, the more we boasted about ourselves, the more He rebuked us. When the Holy Spirit comes in me, the Holy Spirit hates me if I talk about worldly things or trivial trifles. Then, later, the mouth becomes stiff. Those who claim to have received the Holy Spirit and talk about worldly things savagely, we must fack-check. We have to look inside. He tells us to know the tree by looking at the fruit of our lips. When the Holy Spirit comes, you cannot speak carelessly. Even if you can't say a good joke, the Holy Spirit hates you. The work of the Holy Spirit is volatile and disappears due to wrong thoughts or words. Christians should be unable to say anything apart from the truth. That is the standard for discerning whether you are a child of light or a child of darkness. It is a standard that can be recognized at once when looking at a person.

Jesus said to the Jews, "Your father is the devil, and he has been a liar from the beginning"(John 8:44). Because they are children of a lying father, they are children of the devil, the father of lies. Jesus said so to the  Jews who called on the name of God. Don't try to discriminate between people in the world. We must take a good look at those among them whose grain has turned white and need to preach the gospel, and we must be able to discern the people among us very closely. In the last days, the church is judged, so the judgment takes place first within the church. People outside are not worth the judgment. It's already over, so it's not worth watching again. However, it  is not serious when looking at this world, but when looking at the church, it is considered very serious. The apostle John warns in advance that the antichrist exists in the name of the church.(John 2:19) How can he lies so blatantly? That's because he doesn't know the truth. Lying is not about telling ethical and moral lies. If you tell a lie like that, your conscience will already judge and accuse you.

However, lies about God put the name of God in the foreground, so people cannot discern it. If you don't know the truth, you don't know what a lie is. Antichrist is anyone who denies Christ who came in the flesh.(1John 4:2) Who is the liar? They are those who deny the Father and the Son who  dwell within us. They deny the Lord's prayer that we may have Jesus Christ in us and that we may be in Jesus Christ and thus be one in the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ.(John17) Those who deny this are liars who deny the Father and the Son. The problem, however, is that we fall prey to lies because we inherently do not want to become one with the Father. I've met a very outspoken person before. After realizing his mistske, he said, "Pastor, I know that this is wrong, but I prefer hearing someone say 'yes' rather than saying 'no'.

The image in the person is the problem. The basics of capitalism are buying and selling, but if you don't have greed for money, you can't make money. First of all, if a person wants to earn money, he must be full of greed. The rich come into the church carrying the image of money because of their greed. If the image of money has been brought in, where will the image of God enter? In the last time, it is the battle of this image.(Rev.13) The reason why strange thoughts keep coming in is that there is a different image inside the person. For example, if you watch a drama once, their image comes into your brain and become embedded. We have the heart to serve God first and to be loyal and devoted to God someday. But what drives us now? The image within us moves. The image drags us around. When we're immersed in something, that thing becomes an image, and thoughts run around in our head. When people who pray spend a day in vain, their prayers do not work well.  Even if you do that for one day, you will not be able to pray, but after years of debauchery, it will be difficult to return. That's why God knows very well that you can't just leave it alone and uses his hand. That's what punishment is. If you don't have it, you're an illegitimate child.

God is bound to form His image in us. When Jesus Christ enters us, our self-image becomes good. Because your image improves, you think of the Lord more. The thought drives the action. If you deny the Son, the Father is automatically absent. If you acknowledge the Son, of course the Father also exists. If I confess that the Son is in me, the Father is also with me. If I deny that the Son is in me, I do not have the Father either. Without a father, he is an illegitimate son. Without a father, no one is responsible. He's an orphan. Even if Pastor shout out the new covenant in which Christ,  His Son, is in the flesh, people grossly do not believe it. If the Son and the Father are not in him, he will be more preoccupied with other things. get hooked. No matter how hard people try to entrust their problems to the Father, they cannot. First you must receive the Son, attend him in your heart, believe in him, and confess him. If there is the Son, God is our Father through the Son, and from then on, the father takes care of us. The father feeds the son, but the son feeds the father is a wrong family.

The important thing is to stand firmly on the faith that first there is the Son in us and then there is the Father in us. From then on, the Lord takes responsibility. The Father never leaves us to our detriment. Therefore, faith in the Father in Christ the Son is important. For salvation, constructive salvation can be achieved only when the basic salvation is done properly. Our Heavenly Father never wastes our life. He will never put to shame those who call on the name of the Lord. People are ashamed because they do not achieve basic salvation. The problem is that people turn away from this blessing because this faith has no material value. Since the Son and the Father are in me because of God's love, if we are living in them, what should we worry about?

If you can gain life according to the truth in Christ and walk  confidently toward God the Father,

you will not be afraid even if wild beasts surround you.

Also in John 14:21-23, " He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me...we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." 

If the president came and lived in my house, would he just come and live? Install advanced equipment, build a guard building, and fix the house big and nice? And when he eats, isn't he going to share it? So, the first important thing is that we have the Son and the Father. Once we have them in us, they take care of us from then on.

Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.

Translated by  Nancy Chung

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