The Truth and the Lie

1 John 2:22, 23, 25, 28
“Who is a liar but that denies that Jesus is the Christ. He is an antichrist that denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father. But he that acknowledges the Son has the Father also. … This is the promise that He has promised us – eternal life. … And now, little children, abide in Him that when He shall appear, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming.

“With regard to ourselves and our own personal feelings we are to endure anything and everything. We are not to stand up for ourselves. We are not to call people liars who attack us in person. But where the truth of the Gospel is concerned, where doctrine is involved, where the whole essence of the Gospel comes in, and especially the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, we are to stand and be strong.

As regards ourselves, let the world despise us malign and persecute us and say what it will concerning us. We are to go steadily forward expecting such things to happen. But when it becomes a question of truth which is absolutely vital to salvation and to the glory of God, there must be no compromise and there must be no attempt to accommodate ourselves to the other person's point of view. We are rather to take the position of John and say ‘who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ.’”