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Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast Episode 024 – Antichrist: In the Pew Next to You?

picture of young people in a pewIn the pew next to you?

Review of Last Episode

  • Evolution of teaching about antichrist, from the Apostle John and Polycarp up through modern dispensationalism
  • A brief overview of some of the more famous people “conclusively proven” to be antichrist
  • Hints and highlights from passages of 1 John so far
  • A look at the page from Strong’s Concordance which shows that all five references to antichrist appear only in three verses in 1 John and one verse in 2 John — never in a prophetic passage.
  • According to Greek scholars, the preposition and prefix anti- never has the meaning of against in New Testament writings; it always means in the place of, instead of.

Going Through the Relevant Details about Antichrist in [click to continue…]

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Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
Episode 020 - Do You Have Indoor Plumbing?

Water Pump and Bucket

Is this your experience of the Christian life, or do you have indoor plumbing?

Review of last week’s episode, What We Don’t Know About the ‘Anointing, the second installment in our study of 1 John 2:18-29.

Abiding

  • What is the significance of what we learned about ‘the anointing’ last week?
  • Do you have indoor plumbing?
  • Most Christians don’t have indoor plumbing, and find it hard to believe or even conceive that other people do!
  • Living water (John 4:1-42)
    • What does “living” mean?
    • The water becomes a “well springing up to eternal life” (v. 14)
    • An insignificant fact?
    • Left her waterpot (v. 28) — why is this small fact important?
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    Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
    Episode 019 - What We Don’t Know about “The Anointing”

    Strong's Concordance entry

    Part of a 'Strong's Concordance' entry on the word 'anointed'

    Review of last week’s episode, An Unhappy Heresy, the first installment in our study of 1 John 2:18-29.

    Study on the words anoint and anointing

    • No one in the New Testament ever prayed for “the anointing,” so why are so many Christians praying this way?
    • If orthodoxy is right belief, what the early Christians taught and believed, then..
    • Orthopraxy is right practice, that is, how the early Christians lived out what they believed.
    • In all the prayers we read in the Book of Acts, in Paul’s epistles, etc.—in other words, in any passage that would give us insight into New Testament orthopraxy—nobody ever “prayed for the anointing.” What was it that New Testament Christians understood that we don’t? [click to continue…]
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    Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
    Episode 018 – An Unhappy Heresy

    Review of Last Week — Loving the World = Spiritual Adultery

    Street-Corner Heretic

    If only all the heretics were this easy to spot!

    Historical setting of 1 John and 1 John 2:18-29

    • Response to heresy? What is heresy?
    • A belief or teaching that denies an accepted fundamental truth of the Christian faith, usually falling into certain categories:
    • Beliefs about God, e.g.,
    • The Holy Spirit is not a person, but an “it” or an “influence”;
    • The Persons of the Godhead are not co-equal and co-eternal;
    • There are many gods;
    • Human beings can become god.
  • Beliefs about salvation – basically that something else (works, for example) must be added to the work of Christ to gain heaven.
  • Beliefs about Christ – usually the major category.
  • Can’t study early church history without studying theology, and vice versa.
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