1 John 2:22-23 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also.
The crucial question of our lives is this: what will we do with Jesus? Will we accept him as the Messiah, the Incarnated Word from God? Will we accept the relationship of Father and Son? There are groups today who claim certain things about Jesus that are not found in the Bible (but perhaps their own “scriptures”). They even claim to be “Christian,” but their theology is wrong because this misunderstand or misinterpret the person of Jesus. John says some very strong things in this verse about the basic requirement of confessing Jesus as the Son of God. Without Jesus, we cannot have relationship with the Father. In the early church, the basic confession of faith for Christians was, “Jesus is Lord” (see 1 Corinthians 12:3). What will we do with Jesus? We can reject him, ignore him, study him, or follow him. We must do something once the light dawns in our awareness.
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