Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is 1 John 2:18-29. Let’s go!
1 John 2:26 (NIV)
26 I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray.
What is going on in these verses? The apostle John is warning his readers about false teachers. These false teachers were originally part of the church that John led, but they left the church (v19) and were now teaching that Jesus is not the Christ (that is, not the Messiah that the Jews were waiting for nor the Saviour that we all need) (v22).
These teachers were likely telling the people in John’s church, “You do not know the truth” (v21), accusing John and the other apostles of lying to them. In response, John reassures his people that “you have an anointing form the Holy One, and all of you know the truth” (v20). With more reassuring words, John writes, “I do not write to you because you do not know the truth but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth” (v21). He urges them to continue in the faith and not to feel insecure just because these false teachers were saying “You’re missing something!” (v27-28).