False Teachers Exposed, Part 3

For part 1 of the series, please click, False Teachers Exposed, Part 1
For part 2 of the series, please click, False Teachers Exposed, Part 2

What is a sure sign of a false Christian/teacher?

1. He/she is sexually immoral. Jude 18, 19. In II Pet 2: 14, ‘Having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease to sin..’ All forms of sexual impurity. Nothing excluded. Pornography, premarital and extramarital sex, adult chatting, anything that arouses your sexual desire, passions. A false Indian Christian/teacher indulges in pornography because it is the safest, easiest and cheapest way to fulfill his/her lust of the flesh. They watch filthy programs on the TV, movies, view pictures of semi-clad women/men in newspapers, magazines, hoardings, and TV advertisements.  They walk in their own lusts. Lusts here do not refer to some lofty, good engagements pursued with great passion, intensity. Lust here is the same as referred to in Rom 6:12...Rev. Joseph S. Exell says, 'the root of their character is a love of sin, some form of gross immorality.'

They always argue, why not movies? What's wrong with movies? What’s wrong with so and so program? The acid test is given in Phil 4: 8, 'Finally brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy-meditate on those things.'

So, if that thing that you desire to watch or do, is true, noble, just, pure, lovely, of good report, virtue in it, praiseworthy, then do it. I Thess 5:22, 'Abstain from every form of evil.'

2. He/She mouth great swelling words. Jude 16. They boast of their knowledge, their great ostentation of learning, their vain and empty doctrines, their high flights, their rhetorical style, and bombast language. http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/gills-exposition-of-the-bible/jude-1-16.html

False teachers have a large vocabulary. There is nothing wrong in itself with a large vocabulary when it expresses true or exact thought. However, their objective is to impress people with their teaching. In their teaching, they cater to the prevailing opinion. http://versebyversecommentary.com/jude/jude-16/

A kind of speech full of high-sounding verbosity without substance.

3. He/She is a dreamer. Jude 8

Anyone who say the following statements are false Christians, false teachers and devils agents: 'I dreamt God/angel saying to me', 'God spoke to me in a dream', 'I saw angel(s) in my dream', 'In my dream I received a revelation from God'.

He/She/They reject the authority of God's word, the Bible. They follow, believe, teach, profess, and preach their own figment of imaginations.

4. They reject authority. Jude 8. Both, the Biblical as well as the world authorities. They do not have reverence. They make God's house, His church into a second hand books give away/take away/trading spot.

They do not believe that Bible is inspired by Holy Spirit. They won’t be verbal about it but during their preaching, any spiritual discussion, during any cross-examination, it is revealed. They do not believe that God, Jesus and Holy Spirit speak only through Bible. They believe there are many other sources which are equally inspired. They reject Bible as final authority.

5. They do not have the Spirit of God. Jude 19. If you do not have the Spirit, it opens a whole pandora box. That is why they do not understand God's word. God's word does not make any sense to them. And because it does not make any sense to them, they distort it. How will you understand God's word, since it is the work of the Spirit of God. II Tim 3: 16 says, ‘All Scripture is given by inspiration of God…’ II Pet 1:21, ‘For prophesy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. And it can only be spiritually discerned. I Cor 2:14, ‘But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.’

If they do not have the Spirit of God, then, they are none of His. Rom 8:9, ‘…Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.’ If they are not His, then they have to be the children of wrath (Eph 2:3) and sons of disobedience (Eph 5:6). They belong to the devil. They are still in their sins, unredeemed. They are destined for hell. The wrath of God still abides on them. They are cursed. They are still unforgiven.

If they do not have the Spirit of God, then they do not have the gift of the Spirit. Gal 22 and 23. They are a can of worms; they are tombs full of dead men’s bones.

For final part of the series, please click, False Teachers Exposed, Part 4