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

False Teachers Exposed, Part 2

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

There are many who think that all preachers, teachers, pastors are from God. All that is being preached in the church by the pastor, preachers, TV preachers, fly-by-night preachers are from God. No, it is not. You need to test the spirits as John says in I Jn 4: 1 says, 'Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.’ What is he saying here? Let’s see Prov 14: 15, ‘The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.’

It simply means do not believe in all what the preachers preach. Verify whether what they are preaching is in accordance with God’s word, God’s doctrine.

Acts 17: 10-12: Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. Therefore many of them believed and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men.

The saddest part is, still you do not want to study God's word. To study God's word and understand it, you need to be saved. It is not written for the unbelievers. An unbeliever like Gandhi may read it, but it is foolishness to them, for it is written under the inspiration of the Spirit of God (II Tim 3:16) and is thus, spiritually discerned. Another reason, for not studying God's word, even when you are an active member in the church, part of a choir group or hold prominent position in the church is, because you are not a child of God. Jesus said, "My sheep hear my voice". Jn. 10:27 Again He said, "You do not hear my voice because you are not of God". Jn. 8:47. He was referring to active disobedience on the part of the Jews. They heard the truth, they saw the truth but they wouldn't believe. You neither read or study God's word nor obey it when you read it or when you hear it, because you do not have the source, the indwelling Spirit of God to generate in you the desire to obey. The Spirit of God resides only in God's people. Rom 8:9b

There are many Christians who have been in the church for years, 40 years, 30 years, 20 years, 10 years, but still are spiritual babies, immature, unstable souls. How is it possible that you have been going to the church weeks after weeks, months after months, and years after years and still do not understand the basic tenets of Christian Faith? How could you be a Christian and not know God's word? You defend your doctrine, your church, your pastor but you do not want to defend Jesus, His teaching, His doctrine. You live a life of sin and then heap up preachers, teachers and pastors for yourself who do not condemn your sin, who do not criticize you of your sinful life, who distort God's word to make you feel good, who let you push your sins under the blanket and never confronts it, nor let you confront it. Then, you come to the Bible and seek the verses that correspond with the doctrine you heard, you want to believe, which is not condemning you for your sin and you conveniently ignore the true doctrine, and teachings of God's word.

For part 3, please click, False Teachers Exposed Part 3