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

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Sunday Evening December 9, 2012