THE REIGN OF CHRIST OVER ANTICHRISTS
1 Samuel 22.6-23
David: When Faith Takes The Lead – Part 7
1 John 2.18 “… as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come.” (esv)
IN A WORLD AGAINST CHRIST, WE MUST REALIZE …
THAT Antichrists Will Always Be Present
1 John 4.3 “… every spirit that does not confess Jesus … is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.” (esv)
Genesis 3.15 “I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring.” (csb)
1 John 2.19 “They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.” (niv)
THAT THEY WILL Always Serve God’s Ultimate Plan
vv. 18–19 “Doeg the Edomite … struck down the priests, and … Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword …” (esv)
Psalm 52.2 “Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.” (esv)
c. 2.31 “The days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.”
Acts 2.23 “… this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.”
THAT THEY WILL Never Succeed In Destroying God’s People
v. 20 “But one of the sons of Ahimelech … Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.” (esv)
v. 16 “You shall surely die, Ahimelech …” (esv)
v. 23 “You will be safe with me.” (niv)
Matthew 16.18 “I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (esv)