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False Teachers Exposed, Part 4

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
For part 3 of the series, please click, False Teachers Exposed, Part 3

To make it simple to identify these false Christians and teachers, let me show you who they are like, who they are similar to:

A false salesman and a false Christian teacher have the same characteristic: both emotionalize their presentation/preaching. Their message solely touches the emotional part of a human, numbing the prospect's/hearer's decision making side of the brain, to make an objective decision. Every time I hear 'I Surrender All' sung/played at the end of message, my alarm bells starts ringing-false teacher, false teacher. Decision or commitment made under the influence of emotions lasts as long as the emotions.

A pickpocket (PP) and a false Christian/teacher have the same characteristics: It is difficult to distinguish/identify a PP. He strikes when you are off guard. You realize your loss later.
Likewise, it is diff to distinguish a false teacher/Christian. Jude 12. They rub shoulders with you in the church. They eat with you, dine with you. They entice, allure, beguile you by their religious talks, false piety. II Pet 2:18. II Tim 3:5.They are immoral, filthy, unclean, greedy, and lewd. II Pet 14-18. They may never be caught but they will wake up in hell. Jude 13.

A false Christian/teacher and a forged currency note has the same characteristics: Unless you are trained to locate the marks, it is impossible/very difficult to distinguish or identify a forged note. They are not printed in the country's Reserve Bank. It is to destroy a country's economy, that a forged note is printed and circulated. It has no inherent value and is ultimately thrown into fire, when identified.

Likewise, these false Christians are very difficult to identify. They are not of God's factory, they do not belong to Him. They are of the devil and thus can only be identified by cross verifying them with God's word. They have crept in only with the purpose to destroy the church, to entice unstable and immature Christians. To lead them to hell. They roam freely and without fear in the church and are involved in church activities. In the end, they will be thrown into the eternal hellfire.

A prostitute and a false Christian/teacher have similar characteristics: Both are in it because of greed, for money. False Christian is in it for the position, flattering their way into people's lives and causing division. Both are bound in their sexual desires. They cannot control their passions. Their passions control them. They are liars, lacking integrity. Both are abominable, filthy, and unclean; do not have the Spirit of God, seducing people to fall in their trap. Both are damned to eternal hell.

To whom should I liken a false Christian/Teacher? A false Christian/teacher and a Mamba snake have similar characteristics: Both camouflage themselves in their surroundings, successfully. Both are deadly poisonous. Both defy God's authority. They kill your souls, damn you to hell. Both allow themselves to be used by the devil. Both entice, seduce, cheat, confuse, create doubt, dupe, and beguile believers who are weak and immature in faith and in the knowledge of His word. Both are devils icon, representative. Both have been destined for eternal darkness.

Who should I liken a False Teacher/Christian: They are like a monkey, who when a mango is thrown at it, will instead of gaining nourishment and nutrient out of it, will strike back or retaliate. False teachers retaliate when they are exposed and do not repent because they do not have the Spirit of God (Jude 19) who causeth us to repent, who enables us to have the longing to be holy, desire to be holy and to please God.

Paul in Eph 5: 11 says 'expose them'. I am in obedience to God's word, have exposed false teachers. I do not speak to the false teacher because Bible does not speak to them. Bible says, 'Beware of them' (Matt 7:15), that means, God is speaking to His redeemed ones, not to the false teacher/Christian. The Bible has nothing to say to the false teachers. They are the sons of perdition. They are reserved the blackness of darkness forever. Jude 13.

Do you know why you do not accept what I say? Because you do not have the love of God in you. Jn 5:42 You do not listen to me because you do not want honor from the Father above but love honor of fellow men. Jn 5: 44

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