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  I WRITE THESE THINGS TO WARN YOU
  by Ignatius of Antioch
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Summary: Ignatius of Antioch warns against vain doctrine and emphasizes
the importance of full assurance in Christ, highlighting His divinity,
humanity, life, death, and resurrection.

Topics: "False Teachings", "Assurance In Christ"
Scripture References: John 14:6, Acts 4:12, 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 2 Timothy 4:8, 1 Peter 1:21

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DESCRIPTION
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Ignatius of Antioch emphasizes the importance of guarding against false
teachings and encourages believers to have full assurance in Christ. He
highlights Christ's miraculous life, healing ministry, revelation of the
one true God, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, and future return
for judgment. Those who have a deep conviction and belief in these
truths are blessed, and Ignatius commends his audience for their love
for God and Christ, urging them to remain steadfast in their hope.

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CONTENT
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These things [I address to you], my beloved, not that I know any of you
to be in such a state; but, as less than any of you, I desire to guard
you beforehand, that ye fall not upon the hooks of vain doctrine, but
that you may rather attain to a full assurance in Christ, who was
begotten by the Father before all ages, but was afterwards born of the
Virgin Mary without any intercourse with man.

He also lived a holy life, and healed every kind of sickness and disease
among the people, and wrought signs and wonders for the benefit of men;
and to those who had fallen into the error of polytheism He made known
the one and only true God, His Father, and underwent the passion, and
endured the cross at the hands of the Christ-killing Jews, under Pontius
Pilate the governor and Herod the king.

He also died, and rose again, and ascended into the heavens to Him that
sent Him, and is sat down at His right hand, and shall come at the end
of the world, with His Father's glory, to judge the living and the dead,
and to render to every one according to his works. He who knows these
things with a full assurance, and believes them, is happy; even as ye
are now the lovers of God and of Christ, in the full assurance of our
hope, from which may no one of us ever be turned aside!

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