Beware False Teachers: Identifying Deception and Judgment

Their target are unsteady souls, those that lack discernment, those who are already unsteady in their faith. And the idea here for Entice is to set up a trap or a snare for an unsuspecting animal. As this phrase comes between the description of sensuality and of greed, it's fair to say that false teachers both entice people by promising that they could live for pleasure and for material and material comforts in this life without any thought of judgment. It really is honestly an appealing theology. It's one that appeals to our flesh, but it's dead wrong. [00:52:43] (44 seconds)  #EnticedByFalseTeaching

These false teachers, their punishment will be severe. It will be in line with their blasphemy. It would have been better for them to never have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. These false teachers are left without hope for the future coming judgment as because they heard the message of the gospel and they rejected it, but not only did they reject it, they manipulated it for personal gain. [01:09:30] (31 seconds)  #JudgmentForFalseTeachers

And so this concept or this phrase of god told me or god is speaking to somebody, these are regular phrases out of false teachers' mouths because because it puts the position of having to challenge the authority of God rather than the authority of the speaker. Oh, well, if God told that person, who am I to say no? [00:45:48] (24 seconds)  #DontBowToGodToldMe

I would encourage you to lean into not only the fact that he died for your sins, but in accepting Christ as your savior, he has given you his righteousness and he has given you his holiness. So that if you feel inadequate, you have Christ's righteousness and holiness covering you. Our inadequacy does not define us, but Christ's work in our lives does. [01:12:33] (27 seconds)  #CoveredByChristsRighteousness

God's word and its commands are more than enough. As Peter himself said in chapter one verse 19, we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed. That the word of God and the message of the cross are more than enough to live a godly life and to grow in Christ likeness. Do not be enticed by the empty promises of false teachers. [01:13:25] (26 seconds)  #ScriptureIsSufficient

Word of faith teachers are a great example of people who use the same vocabulary that we would use, but have a different dictionary. They define things differently. They would say that they use their words to speak things into existence or to manifest good things to happen to them. These are ministries where you will likely not hear the message of the gospel. You will likely not hear that outside of life in Christ, you will die in your sins separated from God. [00:54:22] (34 seconds)  #WordOfFaithDeception

And so, by appealing to sinful desires, false teachers make their message more appealing because it places no demands on the follower or so would think. But in reality, it places the ultimate demand on them because it puts them in slavery to sin. They promise freedom, he says, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person to that he is enslaved. [01:04:49] (34 seconds)  #FreedomFalsePromise

To give to give false teachers the benefit of the doubt, I assume that many of them, maybe some of them, started with good intentions. But there are plenty of temptations and when you indulge in greed or immorality or pride or twisting scripture to make it say what you want it to say, then you have become overcome and enslaved. As you go down that path, you have to keep going down that path and it's difficult, almost impossible to turn back. But, the reality is is that the same can be true for us. We ourselves cannot let sinful desires become our masters. [01:05:48] (42 seconds)  #DontBeMasteredByDesire