Lord's Day: Jan 12, 2025 Preacher: Carlos Montijo Series: First John Topic: Doctrines of Grace Scripture: 1 John 2:20–26, 1 John 1:1–5, John 8:51, John 3:16, 2 Peter 3:14–18, 2 Corinthians 12:7–10 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie is of the truth. 22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. 24 As for you, let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise which He Himself made to us: eternal life. 26 These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you. 1 John 2:20-26 Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf was the founding bishop of the Moravian church, who had an authoritarian temperament and hyper-Pietistic compulsion,[1] which led to many imbalances, extremes, and excesses.He advocated Rigid Pietism, downplaying objective doctrine in favor of subjective experience and emotion, and in this case inappropriate sensuality, and a rigorous monastic-style mystical worship, followers practically lived in church every single dayFamous for saying: Preach the gospel, die and be forgotten.Only atheists attempt to comprehend God with their mind.I have one passion, it is He. Only He.I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself.Missions, after all, is simply this: Every heart with Christ is a missionary, every heart without Christ is a mission field.[2] “He allowed women to preach, to hold office, and to be ordained. Anna Nitschmann, the leader of the Single Sisters and later Zinzendorf’s second wife, seems to have functioned as a bishop among the women.”[3]He took age-segregated worship to an even further unbiblical extreme by organizing his followers to also live in age/gender-specific groups rather than with nuclear family[4]He oversexualized Christian theology, worship and hymns, with sensual “Blood and Wounds Theology”Zinzendorf proclaimed all souls to be female, including men’s, presumably to avoid the charge of homosexuality when the men “worshiped” Christ, and subsequently, the son of Zinzendorf proclaimed that the men were actually female and therefore eligible to be brides of Christ[5] “He compared the Holy Trinity to a family. The father, said he, was God [so far so good]; the mother was the Holy Ghost [and he referred to the Holy Spirit primarily as “she,” emphatically so: “‘she’ is the third person of the Godhead”[6]]; their son was Jesus [which can lead to another Trinitarian error, EFS]; and the Church of Christ, the Son's fair bride, was born in the Saviour's Side-wound, was betrothed to Christ on the Cross, was married to Christ in the Holy Communion, and was thus the daughter-in-law of the Father and the Holy Ghost. We can all see the dangers of this. As soon as human images of spiritual truths are pressed beyond decent limits, they lead to frivolity and folly [and imbalances and false teaching]; and that was just the effect at Herrnhaag [Zinzendorf’s failed religious commune]. The more freely the [Moravian] Brethren used these phrases, the more childish they became. They called the Communion the "Embracing of the Man"; and thus they lost their reverence for things Divine.”[7] We meet on Sundays for worship at 10:00am: ThornCrown Covenant Baptist Church4712 Montana Ave El Paso, Texas 79903 Contact us at: web: ThornCrownCovenant.Churchcall/text: (915) 843-8088email: ThornCrownCovenantBChurch@gmail.com Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc. LSBible.org and 316publishing.com [1] Diarmaid MacCulloch, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Reprint edition (Penguin Books, 2011), p. 744. [2] ‘8 Top Count Zinzendorf Quotes’, Soul Supply [accessed 11 January 2025]. [3] ‘Who Was Count Zinzendorf? – Zinzendorf’ [accessed 11 January 2025]. [4] Nathan Tarr, “Zinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig Graf Von,” in The Essential Lexham Dictionary of Church History, ed. Michael A. G. Haykin (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2022). [5] ‘Herrnhaag’, Wikipedia, 2023 [accessed 11 January 2025]. [6] Craig D. Atwood, ‘Holy Spirit as Mother – Zinzendorf’ [accessed 11 January 2025]. [7] J. E. Hutton, A History of the Moravian Church (Project Gutenberg), chap. VIII. THE SIFTING TIME, 1743-1750 [accessed 11 January 2025].
