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The sixth issue of the mysteries is found in 2 John 9: “Everyone who goes beyond and does not abide in the teaching of Christ does not have God he who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.” What does it mean to go beyond and not abide in the teaching of Christ? The teaching of Christ is that Christ, the Son of God, was incarnated and, after thirty-three and a half years of living on this earth, was crucified in our stead, shedding His blood to redeem us He was buried and arose from the dead to become the life-giving Spirit today we have His blood and His Spirit. Anything that takes the place of this life is an idol. An idol in principle is anything that substitutes for God. Whatever you take when He has said no is an idol. To have an idol, there is no need for you to go to a heathen temple. He has come through the water, the blood, and the Spirit and is now the seed, living within you.
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Our God today is not only the Creator, living in the heavens. Whatever is against this inner life, in His eyes is an idol. If the Lord within you says no, yet you insist upon buying it, even this Bible has become an idol to you. It might even be a leather, gilt-edged Bible. If you bring home something from your shopping that the Lord has said no about, you are bringing home an idol. The same may be true in regard to your shopping. You cannot bear to go along, and beg the Lord to tolerate your hair the way it is for a while longer. Suppose, for example, the life within you says that you should get your hair cut. This very life is the true God whatever is not this true God in our experience is an idol. Do you say that the God you worship is in the heavens? The God in 1 John is in us as our life, overcoming sin, the world, and Satan. This life is a seed within, a life that overcomes the world and that Satan dares not touch. What is the true God? It is the Triune God experienced by us as our life in a practical way. Idols, we can see from the context, are whatever is not the true God.
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This is the true God and eternal life” (v. What are the idols? Notice the previous verse: “We know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding that we might know Him who is true and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. It seems like a strange conclusion, after the mention of the wonderful matters of life, fellowship, abiding, the anointing, the divine birth, the divine seed, and the water, the blood, and the Spirit. “Little children, guard yourselves from idols” are the closing words of 1 John (v. If we are filled up with them, Satan will stay away to avoid disaster. If in our prayer meetings we pitifully beg the Lord to deal with our enemy, we are short of life, short of these seven mysteries. What a glory to the Lord and what a shame to Satan when a church is so on fire! He will tell his demons to stay away, lest they get burned because the fire is so hot. Today, on this earth, the church can be that threatening to Satan! Even in an evil city like New York there can be a church that the evil one does not touch. If a poker is heated white-hot in a fire, no one dares to touch it for fear of being burned. We must pay attention to what this verse says. Our fallen concept is that Satan will always bother us, that he is too much for us, and that we cannot overcome him. Even if he is invited, he will stay away!įirst John 5:18 concludes, “The evil one does not touch him.” This is the only verse in the Bible that contains such a declaration. He is out to make gain, but he finds out that whenever he touches that church, he suffers a loss. Fourth, Satan cannot touch such a church.