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This week we have Parris Reedhead with his
message, So Great is Salvation, Abiding in Christ.
Thank you.
Will you turn please to First John chapter
2.
I'd like to read verses 18 through 29.
I like to read the portion because I
want you to hear it.
By the way, if you've been making notes,
putting the little numbers in, I suggest you
put number five next to the 24th verse
of the second chapter.
Beginning with verse 18.
Little children, it is the last time and
as you have heard that Antichrist shall come,
even now are there many Antichrists whereby we
know that it is the last time.
They went out from us but they were
not of us for if they had been
of us they would no doubt have continued
with us.
But they went out that they might be
made manifest that they were not all of
us.
But you have an unction from the Holy
One and you know all things.
I have not written unto you because you
know not the truth but because you know
it and that no lie is of the
truth.
Who is a liar but he that denieth
that Jesus is the Christ?
He is Antichrist that denieth the Father and
the Son.
Whosoever denieth the Son the same hath not
the Father.
Let that therefore abide in you which you
have heard from the beginning.
If that which you have heard from the
beginning shall remain in you he also shall
continue in the Son and in the Father.
And this is the promise that he has
promised us eternal life.
These things have I written unto you concerning
them that seduce you.
But the anointing which you have received of
him abideth in you and you need not
that any man teach you but as the
same anointing teaches you of all things and
is truth and is no lie even as
it has taught you you shall abide in
him.
And now little children abide in him that
when he shall appear we may have confidence
and not be ashamed before him at his
coming.
If you know that he is righteous you
know that everyone that doeth righteousness is born
of him.
The main idea of this general epistle is
still fellowship with God.
That's what it's about.
These things are written we might have fellowship
with him said John in the first verses
and our fellowship is with the Father and
with his Son Jesus Christ.
So with that in mind you'll understand that
he is going to emphasize this again and
again.
In this portion I've read verses 18 to
29.
Fellowship with God is still the main thing.
To remain is salvation.
To go out is damnation.
The Antichrist went out and sought to induce
others to go out with him.
To remain steadfast to Christ requires that we
resist the seducers.
That we recognize truth.
That we remain faithful to the truth and
that we rejoice in the prospect of his
coming.
Somewhere along the line I ran into an
outline and as outlines sometimes have a way
of doing it stuck in my mind.
I'm giving it to you and will try
to follow it as time permits.
Now I don't remember from whom I got
it.
I know it's not mine and I don't
know to whom credit should be given.
I suppose I should do like one preacher
said he did whenever he started to speak.
He went like this and when he finished
he went like that and he said it
was quotation marks so that he could give
full credit for everything that he had used.
So I'll do the same now.
Verses 18 and 19, deserters.
D-S-E-R-T-E-R-S.
Deserters.
Verses 20 and 21, discerners.
Verses 22 and 21, discerners.
Verses 22 and 23, deniers.
Isn't that nice?
Oh I love a alliteration.
I heard about the canon from a church
in England who came to America and when
he got back two ladies sitting in the
congregation said, see he'd been here and he'd
found how we do all this alliterating.
He said when we sent him to America
he was a canon.
Now he's come back just a pea shooter.
Everything began with pea.
Well at any rate, verses 24 and 27
are defenders.
Verses 28 and 29, deservers.
Well I hope that will help to make
this graspable by you.
At least I'll try to explain it.
Now deserters, verses 18 and 19.
This is a very crucial time of which
the Apostle speaks.
It is the last time.
It is literally the final hour.
It denotes that period, the beginning of that
period that will ultimately conclude all things.
Well we're still in that period and I
would like to suggest that we're closer to
the last of the last times than we
were when John said it was the last
time.
And we shouldn't say well all things continue
as they were.
Nothing is changing because we must recognize that
we're something like nearly 1900 years closer to
the conclusion of all things than he was.
But it's been the last time for this
entire period.
It marks a period of time, long or
short, in which apostasy will occur.
It marks the beginning of a crisis of
enormous significance, that is the emergence of antichrists.
That's in the plural.
This will be marked, this time has been
marked by a turning away from Christ on
the part of many who profess to follow
him.
I think it's important for us to realize
what Paul said in writing to Timothy that
would characterize this period called the last time.
In 1st Timothy chapter 4 verse 1, And
now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the
latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of
devils.
In 2nd Timothy 3rd chapter verse 1 and
then part of verse 8, This know also
that in the last days perilous times shall
come.
And in verse 8, Now as Jannes and
Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist
the truth.
Men of corrupt mind reprobate concerning the faith.
In 2nd Timothy the 4th chapter and the
3rd verse, For the time will come when
they will not endure sound doctrine, but after
their own lusts or appetites and desires shall
they heap to themselves teachers.
Now there's a comma there.
I used to think it was teachers that
had itching ears, but it's not.
The people who heap to themselves teachers select
the teachers to put in the heap that
are going to scratch their ears and make
them feel comfortable with what is given.
I've heard it said that the preacher of
the truth should have two ministries.
One is to comfort the afflicted.
And of course that's a ministry with blessing
and we all should rejoice in it.
But the second is to afflict the comfortable.
And I think that we should be just
as diligent in the second as we are
in the first.
And therefore we would not be among that
number that consider it their primary purpose in
teaching and preaching to make people feel good.
I think our purpose is to understand what
God wants to say and not to be
among that number that give heed to seducing
spirits and turn away from the faith and
withstand the truth.
Now there have been last times of real
significance in the past.
And even as there will be some last
times in the future.
Our Lord spoke about it.
He said that we should beware of false
prophets.
They would come.
Many false prophets shall arise and shall deceive
many.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of
many shall wax cold.
In the 24th verse of Matthew 24.
For there shall arise false Christs and false
prophets shall show great signs and wonders.
And the 25th verse.
Behold, I've told you before, times of great
persecution are going to arise.
Well, we see that.
We recognize it.
We realize it.
Peter described it.
Again, we find that in the last, the
lifetime of many of you, perhaps not all,
but certainly many of us here, more people
have died for Christ, for persecution reasons, since
1949 than in all the centuries from the
time of Christ.
Until 1949.
I don't know that I made that quite
clear.
Let me repeat it so you're sure you
get it.
More people have died martyrs death.
In behalf of our Lord Jesus Christ, since
1949 than in all the centuries from the
time of Christ until 1949.
Hard to believe?
Well, two months before Nixon went to communist
China to open relations with that nation, Washington
Post carried on page 16, column 4, 5,
just a little two and a half inch
summary of report that had come out of
China that during the first 20 years from
49 to 69, China had found it necessary
to, quote, deprive of existence 30 million
people.
Half of them because of stubborn adherence to
economic systems inimicable to the purposes of the
revolution.
That is, they didn't take kindly to having
their money taken away from them.
And the other half was for stubborn adherence
to religions imported from the imperialist West.
Now, I suppose you could say Buddhism had
come from West and you could say that
Islam had come from West of China and
Christianity.
Now, let's assume we don't know the figures,
but let's assume that half of those were
died for their faith in Buddha or in
Muhammad.
And the other half died for their faith
in Christ.
That would mean that about seven and a
half million people died martyrs death.
I remember hearing in those days about children
that reported on their parents and the authorities
would put a cross down on the ground.
At one end would be the smiling child
that had reported his parents as being believers
in Christ.
And at the other would be the parents.
And if they would walk on the cross
to the child, their life would be spared.
But if they didn't, they would die.
Most who were confronted with that test elected
to die rather than to do as the
government was asking to walk on the cross.
When the Communists took over in Korea, we
are told, and I think quite good authority,
that in three months about 800,000 pastors,
elders, Christians in North Korea were killed, were
assassinated, murdered, sacrificed, martyred, call them what you
will.
Well, that's a great many more than you
have listed in the entire book of Fox's
Book of Martyrs.
It covered a couple of centuries.
In North, in Vietnam, we are told that
300,000 people died as Christians in about
eight months of persecution when the Communists took
over North Vietnam.
We know that on the Tet Offensive, two
weeks over Christmas, there were over 5,000
believers that were killed, lined up, a bulldozer
dug a trench, they were machine gunned and
pushed into the trench and covered with dirt.
So just from those three countries, not counting
what happened in Russia, not counting what had
happened in other countries, I think it's safe
to say that we may be living pretty
close to the last times when more people
died for Christ in a 20-year period
than died in about 18 centuries from the
time of Christ.
In Revelation chapter 6, verses 9 to 11,
we are told, And when he had opened
the fifth seal, I saw unto the altar
the souls of them that were slain for
the word of God and for the testimony
they held.
There have been a great many that have
died for Christ.
There's a supreme test that's given here in
this 19th verse.
They went out from us, but they were
not of us.
Christ declared that a test is required.
He that is not with me said, Our
Lord is against me.
And in the fifth chapter of 1 John,
the Apostle said, He that hath the Son
of Life, the person who refuses to recognize
and enthrone Christ as God, the Son, is
antichrist.
Everyone who opposes the gospel, as our Lord
delivered it, every teacher and writer who lowers
the gospel standard to the spirit and taste
of the world is an antichrist.
I didn't say the antichrist, he is an
antichrist, no matter where or among whom he
may be found.
This is a very sad statement, very sad
fact.
There had been in the time of John
a defection from the ranks of the followers
of Christ.
They went out from us.
Some of these went out because they loved
this present world and did not want under
any circumstances to be curtailed, as the scripture
indicates, that we should live holy lives.
Others went out because they had been seduced
by some of the current heresies of the
day, by Gnosticism, by Antinomianism.
There were others who went out as teachers
of these pagan philosophies that had crept into
the church.
And they went out because they were able
to exploit that which they could now use
to promote themselves as teachers.
They went out disgracing the gospel.
They had made their pernicious and evil opinions
a merchandise that they were willing to sell.
They had mingled pagan philosophies with biblical terms
and so were able to confuse the people.
They had turned the truth into a lie
and slandered God.
The Apostle declared, these are not our fellow
believers.
We abhor their creed and their conduct and
we never sent them to teach.
You've got to recognize they went out from
us because they were not of us.
And then it proceeds to say that they
went out that they might be made manifest
that they were not all of us.
You know, it's interesting, isn't it, how easy
it is for us to confuse external church
membership with vital fellowship with Christ?
By no means are they one and the
same.
They may be, but not necessarily.
When John Wesley began to preach, everyone that
he talked to were already members of the
Church of England.
They all had been baptized.
There was only the one fellowship and every
Englishman was inscribed in the local church records
at his baptism.
Isn't any wonder to me that the churches
in England closed the doors to Wesley, even
though he was in good standing as an
Anglican clergyman.
When he went to Epworth, where his father
had been pastor for many years, the then
rector of the church said, we'll not permit
this man to stand in the pulpit.
And so John Wesley went out.
Actually, it really marked kind of the beginning
of his open air ministry.
He went out and stood on the grave
of his father.
And of course, they had a good crowd
because the rector of the church got messengers
to go all through the town saying, don't
go listen to John Wesley, who'll be preaching
in the cemetery this afternoon.
About the only time the people obeyed what
the rector said was when he told them
what not to do and they did it.
So the whole town was there and Wesley
stood on his father's grave and preached the
truth that God had revealed to him because
he'd been a clergyman.
He'd finished his training.
He'd gone to Georgia as a missionary to
the Indians.
And while he was on the way over,
he saw the Moravians and the difference between
the Anglicans and the Moravians during that terrible
storm, convinced him that they had reality that
he and his people didn't have.
And then he was still with them and
saw that fellowship with them while he was
in Georgia.
And he was terribly abused by the powers
of Savannah.
In fact, they drove him out of the
church because he refused to serve communion to
the daughter of the mayor of Savannah, who
was living in open immorality with a man
in the community.
And so Wesley shook the dirt off his
feet.
In fact, there's a monument down there in
Savannah now.
A plaque on a stone.
This is the place that John Wesley shook
the dust of Savannah off his feet when
he left to return to England.
When he got back there, he discovered that
God had been working in the heart of
his brother and from of his friends.
And he attended a meeting at Aldersgate Street
when a Moravian brother was reading Luther's introduction
to the book of Romans.
And as he read about justification by faith,
Wesley said his heart was strangely warped.
And he knew for the first time in
his life that he had been born of
God.
And so that day at Epworth, when he
stood on the grave of his father, he
proclaimed to the people of England, that community
at least, and it then subsequently went to
the nation, that no one had the right
to think themselves a child of God because
they were a member of a church or
they've been baptized.
It was necessary for them to be born
of God.
And the evidence of the new birth is
the witness of the Spirit.
So this is an important truth that external
membership does not mean vital fellowship with the
Lord Jesus Christ.
It is possible that even Antichrist can and
do exist in the church.
Now, the function of the word ought to
be to divide soul and spirit.
It will do that if people will hear
it.
But that doesn't necessarily mean that those who
discover what the word is revealed are going
to acknowledge it or deal with it.
Sometimes the preaching of the word is a
savor of life to life and sometimes to
death to death.
So what we have here then in these
first two verses is this revelation that believers
in every age, including ours, must recognize that
there will be a falling away.
But in verses 20 and 21, he talks
to us about discernment, about being discerners.
He says that we have an unction from
the Holy One.
That's an interesting word.
I wanted to find out what unction was.
And the Greek word is prism, and it
literally means ointment.
It's an ointment that was used when the
Chi Hai priest was anointed.
And remember when God gave the prescription for
the ointment, he said, don't let anyone touch
it lest they be judged.
Well, this is an ointment.
This is God the Holy Ghost touching those
who have been born into the Father's family
with an anointing.
Here the English word is an unction that
enables us to discern between truth and error.
It's important for us to realize it.
In Psalm 45 verse 7, thou lovest righteousness
and hatest wickedness.
Therefore, God, thy God, hath anointed thee with
the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Those that have been born of God have
been anointed.
That's the word, an anointment put on the
Holy Spirit himself, not some concoction made of
various things that are put together as it
was in the time back when an ointment
was made for the dedication of the Chi
Hai priest.
This is God the Holy Ghost.
The same one who witnesses to us that
we're born of God is going to be
to us the means by which we can
discern truth from error, right from wrong.
This is from the Holy One.
We have an unction from the Holy One.
He that baptized us with the Holy Ghost
has given to us with the Holy Ghost
this knowledge of truth and error.
And it was done when we were born
again, but more particularly when we were baptized
with the Holy Spirit.
Isn't it interesting to realize that in the
New Testament, only kind of people that you
have are Spirit-baptized people?
But isn't it also interesting to realize that
all of the teachings given in the New
Testament were given to people that were baptized
in the Holy Ghost?
And all the exhortations in the New Testament
were given to people that were baptized in
the Holy Ghost.
And all of the warnings in the New
Testament were given to believers that were baptized
in the Holy Ghost.
You know why?
Because that's the only kind of believers you
have in the New Testament.
It's the only kind there were.
After they were baptized in water, they were
prayed for, and the Spirit of God came
upon them.
So all the warnings, all the teachings, all
the exhortations were given to Spirit-baptized people.
But even so, with all those warnings, all
those teachings, all those exhortations, we realize that
the believer has this unction whereby we can
know truth from error.
And it's extremely important for us to accept
the fact that we are so equipped and
to pay attention.
Have you ever been listening to something being
taught on, oh, perhaps in a service or
on television or radio?
And you've said, that doesn't sound right to
me.
I can't put my finger on it.
I don't have a verse, but there's something
about that that just doesn't sound right.
You know what could very well be happening?
God the Holy Ghost is causing that unction
to exercise in you.
And it's therefore extremely important for you to
become sensitive to what the Spirit of God
may be saying.
Why is it important?
Because it's this unction that will preserve us
against the antichrists now, for there are many.
Oh, we have them in atheism, in pantheism,
in deism, anti-supernaturalism.
And I must say with tenderness, because I
don't want to be less than tender, since
I was among them so many years, misguided
and misled, but nevertheless wanting truth, I have
to include dispensationalism and dispensationalists.
As I say again, among whom I was,
but hungry for truth and looking for reality.
Oh, what a burden that lays upon you.
I remember years ago when I was pastor
of the First Baptist Church of Little Falls,
Minnesota.
I was preparing a message from the Gospel
of Matthew, and the message just seemed to
fall there and open up.
And I was thrilled by what I was
seeing.
I said, I better go to Gableyne's Annotated
Bible and see if I'm kosher.
And you know, I discovered when I went
to it that I wasn't.
To show you the tyranny, I didn't just
crumple that sermon up and throw it into
the wastebasket.
I tore it in two.
This lengthwise, not crosswise.
See, you could read it if it was
half of it anyway, if it was crosswise.
I tore it lengthwise, and then I tore
it in little bits, and I put half
of them in one wastebasket and another half
down the hall in another wastebasket so nobody
would put them together and find out how
dangerously close to heresy I'd been.
Talk about living in bondage and living in
a straitjacket.
Well, I certainly was.
All right, the Spirit of God wants us
to be equipped so that we will not
be misled and captured by the Antichrist.
What is it that the Antichrist deny, verses
22 and 23?
They deny that Jesus of Nazareth is the
Messiah, that he's the anointed of the Father.
And in this respect, you can say that
the Jews up until the present are blinded.
They deny that Jesus Christ, our Lord and
Savior, is both God and man.
Originally, there was an attack on his humanity.
They said he was a spirit and not
man, that what appeared to be a body
was a theophany.
Today we live in a time when they
see him as man and not God, an
attack on his deity.
But the Scripture teaches us that he is
very God of very God.
God come in the flesh.
The Antichrists would teach us that Jesus is
not the eternal Son of God, and consequently
they would deny the Incarnation.
They would deny the authority of God's Word.
They would deny its inspiration and they would
deny its truth.
Oh, what attacks there are even today among
some who nominally would think of themselves or
have us think of them as being evangelical,
attacking the authority of the Word of God.
This denial involves the fact that they consider
there is no personal revelation of God, nor
is there any message of love from the
eternal throne.
No redemption, no Savior.
God's Word is no longer binding upon people.
We have something today that's approaching this.
I'm troubled by it.
I pass it on to you.
It seems to me it's dangerous.
I had talked to a pastor of a
rather large church, and I said, why aren't
you doing more permissions?
You were talking about this 5,000 to
7,000 people you have in attendance, and
I see from your published report that you're
giving just a very small amount of permissions.
Well, we are not only controlled by the
Bible, we're also controlled by the Spirit.
You see, we have both Logos and Rhema,
and we don't consider the Logos binding unless
under Rhema the Spirit of God emphasizes it.
I said, well, the people that have been
carrying the responsibility of missions for the last
200 years have the Word of God.
Well, that's true, but to us it doesn't
become binding until the Holy Ghost, by some
means.
And we've had so many prophetic messages, and
none of them have been challenging us to
do anything more about missions overseas.
I submit to you that, first, I don't
believe the Scripture teaches such a distinction that
can be hard and fast between Rhema and
Logos.
Secondly, that whenever the tradition of the elders
or the practice of the people makes the
Word of God of none effect, it is
approaching to this thing that we're talking about
here.
So we come to the test, the evidence
of eternal life, verses 24 to 27, wherein
we are told that let that therefore abide
in you which you have heard from the
beginning.
What did you hear?
What was it that God said?
What did God's Word proclaim?
Let that abide in you.
If there remains in you what from the
beginning you heard, you too, in the Son
and in the Father, will continue to remain.
That is the translation that Lenski gives that
I find very refreshing to my heart.
The light, the truth of the Word, the
commandment, the teachings of the Word are the
means of establishing for us the basis and
the foundation of our fellowship—fellowship with the Father
and fellowship with the Son.
And that's the whole purpose of this letter,
to make certain that we do understand and
that we abide.
Now, I've said in the past, and you've
heard it, that in this day, as in
other days, so it's nothing truly new, a
great many people who profess faith in Christ
fall away.
You've heard the statement that I've made, and
it's been made by many, and I'm not
being challenged on it, so I'm assuming that
however hard it is for us to grasp
or to accept, we do to some degree
at least.
And that is that out of every 200
persons that profess faith in Jesus Christ in
present day evangelism, at the end of a
year, there's only one that's going on effectively
for Christ.
Now, I know that you can find a
particular situation where there's more than one, but
you can find other situations where there aren't
any.
So this is the average, and it's not
my average.
It's from some very close to the main
evangelistic streams of our nation.
What does it mean?
It means that multitudes of people are professing
faith in Christ on some grounds or other,
and then within days or weeks or months,
they've drifted away.
They've gone back.
They're no longer found among the people of
God.
They're not abiding in Him.
Now, in John chapter 15, the apostle writes,
saying, Abide in Christ.
But that abiding has to do with a
relationship to Christ.
Abide in Christ, crucified with Him, and buried
with Him, and quickened with Him, and raised
with Him, and seated with Him.
And then he said, and I will abide
in you.
That is reciprocal indwelling, said F.B. Meyer,
where we live in Christ and our identification
and union with Him, and He lives in
us to make real His presence and minister
through us.
That is the abiding of relationship.
But that's not the abiding that the apostle
uses here.
This is the abiding of continuing, of standing.
So when you're sitting across the table from
someone who said to you, I am not
sure that I am a child of God.
I am not certain that I've passed from
death to life.
Please help me.
And you've gone through, number one, if we
say we have fellowship with Him and walk
in darkness, we lie and do not the
truth.
If we say we know Him and keep
not His commandments, we're a liar.
Any man who doesn't love his brother is
still dead in his sins.
Love not the world, the things of the
world.
Any man loves the world, the love of
the Father is not in him.
You brought them one, two, three, four.
Now you come to five.
Let that therefore abide in you which you've
heard from the beginning.
And you're saying now, are you abiding in
the profession of faith you made?
Are you abiding and continuing in the repentance
that you expressed?
Are you continuing to trust in the finished
work of Christ?
Are you staying?
Are you standing on that grounds in which
you came into your profession of being a
child of God?
That's the issue.
Because you see, the person that's gone out
from us, the all of the argument, all
of the evidence, all of the support is
that they were not of us.
And so when someone is talking to you
about this, you'd better bring them right straight
to the Word and let the Spirit of
God speak to their heart through the Word.
I've had people say, well, you know, my
husband was saved, but he's been backslidden for
many years now.
I can't get him to go to church.
I can't get him to do this.
He doesn't want to pray.
But I was in a church many years
ago now, and I told the people, I'm
here to help you.
And if there's anything I can do, I
want you to come to me and I'll
join you in prayer.
I'll be of all the help I can
in the few days I'm with you.
And the first one that came to me
was a lady, and she said, you know,
my husband made profession of faith in Christ
when Evangelist so-and-so was here.
And there's only one verse of Scripture in
the Bible that he knows, and she quoted
it.
And the Evangelist told him that if anyone
ever tried to say he wasn't a Christian,
that he should use that verse.
So he still continues in his drunkenness.
He still continues in his immorality.
And I know he's cheating and he's stealing,
but he claims he's a Christian, and that
it's just that he's weak.
And she said, I wish you'd pray with
me that my husband would be recovered from
his backsliding.
And I looked her square in the eye
and I said, I'm sorry, I can't.
And because I can't, of course, I won't.
She said, here I am, the first one
to come after you invited us to come
to you and that you'd help us and
join us.
No, I said, you misunderstand.
I didn't say I won't help you and
I won't pray, but I can't pray the
way you've asked me to pray.
You've asked me to pray that he'll be
recovered from his backsliding.
I said, I don't know too much about
it.
The Word doesn't have too much to say
about backsliding.
But I know this, you can't backslide till
your front slid sometime.
I don't think he's ever moved.
I think he's still dead in his sins.
And, you know, she looked at me and
she said, well, I've been suspicious about that.
You know, if you see a bird and
it's got a bill like a duck and
it quacks like a duck and it's got
webbed feet and it waddles like a duck
and it swims like a duck, I don't
think you're being prejudiced if you think that's
a duck.
Even though it may have a sign on
its chest that says, I am an eagle,
I still think you have a perfectly justified
in thinking that perhaps it was a duck.
And the Scripture tells us that by their
fruits we will know them.
And so it tells us also that the
ones that come and identify with us and
claim to be part of Christ and part
of the body of Christ, that give ear
to seducing spirits and follow heresy and go
back into the world and leave that which
they profess to have.
We have reason to believe that they are
in very serious problem and possibly have not
been born of God.
I think the apostle tells us that those
that are born of the Spirit should, must,
abide, continue to stay in Christ on the
very basis in which they came to a
profession of faith in Christ.
Fifth evidence of being born of God is
abiding, continuing in Christ, shall we pray.
Father Jesus, look thou upon us now as
a people that are concerned about ourselves.
We want to be everything that thou and
thy grace and mercy and love would have
us be, and in turn we want to
help everyone we can.
And so we ask thee, Father, that the
Word may have free course in us and
be glorified, and that we will abide and
continue to stand there.
We will resist every effort of a defeated
foe to deceive us, that we will permit
that anointing, that unction to function in us
to enable us to discern between truth and
error, and that we will ever stand loyal
and faithful to the truth as it is
revealed to us in Christ and in thy
Word, in Jesus' name and for his angel.
You've been listening to the From the Pulpit
in Classic Sermons series.
This week, you heard Parris Reedhead with his
message, So Great is Salvation, Abiding in Christ.
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speak about A World of Idols on From
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