false - pretended, impostor
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False Teachers. 1 John 4:1 “ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”. False - pretended, impostor. False Teachers. 2 Peter 2 Certainty of False Teachers = 1-9 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
1 John 4:1 “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”
False - pretended, impostor
2 Peter 2
Certainty of False Teachers = 1-9
Characteristics of False Teachers = 10-16
Fruitlessness of False Teachers = 17-19
Fate of False Teachers = 20-22
Certainty of False Teachers 2 Pet. 2:1-9
Warns about false teachersJesus warned - Matt. 7:15Privily = secretly and slylyFalse = impostor
TeachingsKJV = “damnable heresies”NKJV = “destructive heresies”Denying the Lord
v. 1
Certainty of False Teachers 2 Pet. 2:1-9
FollowersAny religious teacher can get a followingDoes not prove correctnessMatt. 7:13-14 Majority follow broad way
Pernicious waysDestructive = NKJVLascivious doings = ASVSensuality = ESV
v. 2
Certainty of False Teachers 2 Pet. 2:1-9
Covetousness is often a motiveGreedTitus 1:11 “teaching things which they ought
not, for filthy lucre's sake.”Feigned words = deceptive
Judgment is coming for themThey will not escape - doom is certainSeveral examples
v. 3
Dishonest gain
v. 4 = Angels that sinned
v. 5 = Flood - destroyed the wicked
v. 6 = Sodom and Gomorrah
v. 7 and 8 = Lot
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:” 2 Peter 2:9
Characteristics of False Teachers 2 Pet. 2:10-16
Worldly life - v. 10Lust of fleshDespise authority
Angels hear but leave judgment to God - v. 11
Brute beasts - v. 12Satisfy their own desiresEventually will perish
Abandoned in sin - v. 13Spots and Blemishes“lamb without blemish and without Spot” 1 Pet.1:19
Characteristics of False Teachers 2 Pet. 2:10-16
Eyes full of adultery - v. 14Lust after a woman - Matt. 5:28Travel in pairs - sexual vice and covetousness
Forsaken right way - v. 15-16Once in the right wayBalaam “loved wages of unrighteousness”Animal could see better than BalaamFalse teachers blinded by their love of sin.
Fruitlessness of False Teachers 2 Pet. 2:17-19
Dry Well Does not satisfy thirstFalse teacher does not satisfy truth seeker
Rainless cloudsEmptyFalse teachers are useless
Swelling words of vanity - just sound important
False Freedom - can’t deliver
Fate of False Teachers & Followers 2 Pet.2:20-22
Had Been FaithfulEscaped from world - through JesusEntangled againWorse
Two PicturesDog returning to vomitSow washed returned to mud hole
TRUTH ON THE SCAFFOLD
Truth forever on the scaffold Wrong forever on the throne Yet that scaffold sways the future And behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow Keeping watch above his own.
Have nothing to offer of any value
Father of all false teachers = DEVIL
The Devil has never given one good thing to man
Are of Great Value
Wells of living water for pilgrims seeking relief from the thirst caused by a sinful life.
Romans 10:15 “And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!”
Sermon by Arthur Pigman
Evans Church of Christ
515 Gibbs Road
Evans, Ga. 30809
706-855-1249
[email protected]@bellsouth.net
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Sunday Evening December 9, 2012