Anti-Christ or Anti-Flesh?

A lesson on the need to give up forms and images in order to make the 144,000.

June 1, 2014

•  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 

Romans 12:1,2

•  2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 

Romans 12:1,2

• 7For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 

2 John 1:7

• 3And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

I John 4:3

Lesson Objectives :

• To define and explain surrender and separation, • To discuss the spirit of anti-Christ in the church and the world,• To prepare the congregation for a new level of surrender and separation to war against the flesh.

LegsVAU

KnowledgeBent Knees

BowelsHAYUnderstandingMercy

HeadYODWisdomHeadship

FeetHAY

PrudenceWalk in the Way

Whole Burnt Offering

• 18Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.

I John 2:18

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

I John 2:22

Spirit Anti-Christ An opponent of the Messiah

Denies Jesus Denies the Father

Denying the power of God to deliver us is Anti-Christ.

Anti-FleshAn opponent of the old nature

Bends the knee

Confess Christ Confess Guilt Gives up

blindness

The Bride is Anti-Flesh

•  7Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 

Revelation 19:7, 8

•  8And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Revelation 19:7, 8

• Naw-zar‘ - to hold aloof, abstain; specifically to set apart (for a sacred purpose), devote consecrate, separate self).

Separation

• Naw-than' - to give, add, apply, appoint, bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, commit, deliver (up), without fail, fasten, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, restore, sing, submit, suffer, thrust, trade, willingly, withdraw, yield.

Surrender