The World, the Antichrist, and the Anointing | 1 John 2:15-19
May 25, 2025

The World, the Antichrist, and the Anointing!

1 John 2:15-29
May 25, 2025
Pastor Steve Witt

I. We Need to

Reveal Answer

1 John 2:15-17
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life —is not from the Father but is from the world. 17 And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

[verse 15]
Do not love the world or the things in the world

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
Matthew 6:24

[verse 15]
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:4

[verse 16]
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life

  • The Desires of the Flesh -
    Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
    Galatians 5:19-21

  • The Desires of the Eyes –
    “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!”
    Matthew 6:22-23

  • The Pride of Life –
    Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.
    Proverbs 16:5
    Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
    Proverbs 16:18

[verse 16]
Is not from the Father but is from the world.

Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
John 18:36

[verse 17]
The world is passing away along with its desires

…those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away.
1 Corinthians 7:31

[verse 17]
Whoever does the will of God abides forever.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
Hebrews 10:36

II. We Need to Understand the

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1 John 2:18-25
18 Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. 20 But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. 21 I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. 22 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. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also. 24 Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.

[verse 18]
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming

They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”
Jude 1:18

For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect.
Mark 13:22

[verse 18]
Now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
2 Thessalonians 2:3-4

[verse 19]
They went out from us, but they were not of us

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.”
John 6:53-56

[verse 19]
For if they had been of us, they would have continued with us.

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”
John 10:27

[verse 20]
You have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed…”
Luke 4:18

…how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Acts 10:38

[vers 21]
No lie is of the truth

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.
Proverbs 12:22

[verse 22]
This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
2 Peter 2:1

[verse 23]
Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
John 14:6

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” 29 Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
John 20:28-29

[verse 24]
Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you

“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”
John 15:4-5

[verse 25]
this is the promise that he made to us—eternal life.

…in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began..
Titus 1:2

III. We Need to Understand the

Reveal Answer

1 John 2:26-29
26 I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you. 27 But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.28 And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

[verse 27]
The anointing that you received from him abides in you

And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
2 Corinthians 1:21-22

[verse 27]
His anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah 31:33

[verse 28]
Abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence

Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
Hebrews 10:35-36

[verse 29]
Everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
James 1:12