False Teachers Will Arise
False Teachers Will Arise
5/20 Reading Portions: Numbers 29; Psalm 73; Isaiah 21; 2 Peter 2
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5/20 Reading Portions: Numbers 29; Psalm 73; Isaiah 21; 2 Peter 2
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But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 Peter 2:1
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There were false prophets in the days before Christ. There will be false teachers until the Lord Jesus returns. These false teachers are filled with greed and will exploit us with false words (2 Pet 2:3). This is one of the reasons why Peter exhorts us to stay rooted and grounded in the more fully confirmed prophetic word of the Scriptures (2 Pet 1:19-21). These false teachers will even go as far as to cause those who hear them to deny the Master who bought them. Their destructive heresies are many, yet they avoid the power of Christ’s sacrifice. They deny the power of His shed blood. They deny the power of his amazing grace and His atoning death. They deny the power of the wrath Christ suffered on our behalf. They deny the necessity of Christ’s dual nature as fully man and fully God, rejecting His role as the only Mediator between God and man (1 Tim 2:5). To these false teachers, Jesus is not all-important. To them, Jesus is marginal or incidental. If He is mentioned at all, Christ is only secondary at best by their words, even tertiary, but never primary. If they use Scripture at all, it is to provide practical application to your life without Christ’s exaltation. Indeed, we should have practical application from Scripture; yet if our application does not cause us to love Christ, trust Christ, know Christ, and most importantly, exalt Christ, the application is sin and as worthless and vile as fecal waste.
If it’s about building bigger churches, flee! about your best life now, flee! about health, wealth, and prosperity, flee! If it’s about miracles while forsaking the Messiah, flee! If it’s not about the Lord Jesus Christ, above all and all in all, flee!
Jesus is the name most blest,
The only One to whom we cling;
Through His cross He gives us rest,
Therefore, we live and praise and sing.