POSSESSION OF ETERNAL LIFE! And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life. —I John 5:11-13 Recently a Jehovah Witness cult member said, “You don’t have eternal life until after you die and so that is why you have to continue doing good works…” Talk about a statement that is anti-Christ.…

BE DISCERNING! Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. —I John 4:1-3 John, as he is led to write by God’s Holy Spirit, tells us how to identify false prophets. The…

HE IS ABSOLUTELY TRUSTWORTHY! Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.” —Daniel 4:16-18 No circumstances come into our lives which are not under the mighty hand of our Lord God Almighty. If God desires to do something then…

SCRIPTURE DISTORTERS He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction. —II Peter 3:16 Let us be aware that God’s Word can be and is “distorted” by “ignorant and unstable people.” Some of Paul’s writing, Peter says, “contain some things that are hard to understand.” But it is not only these “hard things” in Scripture that they distort. They also do this with “other Scriptures, to their own destruction.” Let us be wise and not distort God’s Word.…