Thu Sep 18 2025 11:14:14 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Thu Sep 18 2025 07:14:14 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

1 John 2:22-24

Who is the liar but the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This one is the antichrist: the person who denies the Father and the Son.  Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also.  As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

As believers in Christ the gospel should burst forth from our lives so that God's grace and offer of mercy goes out to all people. It is true that creation also speaks the truth about God and leaves no excuse for rejecting the Son of God. Yet, even though these things and more are at work in order to place Jesus Christ on display as the way, the truth, and the life; some people will reject Him as Messiah. The hard thing to say is this: eternal torment awaits all those who reject Jesus as the Christ, and it is impossible for them to believe in God the Father as long as they reject His Son.