"...every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world." 1 John 4:3 NIV
You've already met him. You already know him. Either you've accepted or rejected him, but one thing is certain. One day your decision, your acceptance or rejection, will be final. This is what he was like, what he is like, and what he will be like when you meet him again, perhaps for the last time.
There is something you really want, something that defines your life. You've been striving for this something since your first conscious thought about what makes you really happy. You've met someone who seems like he has exactly what you're striving for, possessing the happiness you've wanted all your life. But there is a problem. When you ask him what makes him so happy, or you watch him to find out his secret, you don't like the answer:
His happiness is God. He lives for God alone, and will accept no other happiness except God.
Now you know the secret of his happiness, but you want to forget...until you meet someone else.
You meet someone who also seems to be what you want to be, someone who also seems happy, almost happier than the man of God, but not quite as happy. This puzzles you, until ask him how he became so happy (yet not so happy.) You find out from this man that he lives to evolve into his ultimate self, that he himself is his ultimate happiness. He is in touch with his inner god, his Christ-self. His happiness seems as intense as cocaine, and as calm as marijuana. The buzz of alcohol seems normal to him. You like him better. He didn't have to surrender himself to a Lord; he is his own lord, and he promises to show you how to be your own lord as well...
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