2 Peter 2:10-22 - False Teachers & False Teaching Pt.2 - Bill Johnson False Teaching” in 2 Peter 2:1-10a Wherever the Truth of Jesus Christ is found, Satan will have someone there to deceive! Satan uses people to do his dirty work. He finds someone who will manipulate God’s word to do what they want to do, to have what they think they should have, or to satisfy themselves when all along they’re satisfying & serving Satan! Just enough Truth mixed in with the lies to make it sound convincing but it’s not of God. Don’t just listen to anyone! 1st John 4:1 tells us to test the spirits.... Do they affirm who Christ is? Do they confess Jesus as LORD? It’s not enough to just believe! Is there evidence of the Holy Spirit in their lives? Are they being transformed? More Christlike? God’s Word said, “Beware of; Pay Careful attention to; Watch out for; Guard yourselves against False Teachers/Teaching in the Body of Christ. False teachers are not always the Pastor! Don’t allow yourself to be Satan’s pawn by becoming a false teacher or allowing false teaching in the Church. Strive to keep the Body of Christ pure and undefiled! Have the right relationship with Jesus and each other! Be DEVOTED to Jesus! DEVOTED to God’s Word, To Fellowship, to Breaking Bread together, to Prayer. DEVOTED to Iron Sharpening Iron. Living out the change that God is doing in you! Today we’re getting into the rest of Chapter 2. Part 2 of False Teachers and False Teaching ~ “Get the Picture!” 2 Peter 2:10-22 As I studied this scripture, I thought about Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple Cult which ended in a mass suicide by drinking poison Kool-Aid. Here’s the thing.... Jim Jones started out as a preacher and civil rights activist. Ordained in 1957. By the time the 70’s rolled around the Peoples Temple was located in San Francisco and was politically and socially active in the community... Having over 3000 members... It seemed to be a successful Christian Church. Somewhere along the way Satan got ahold of him and planted a False Gospel in his heart. Investigations took place about abuses by Jim Jones. In 1977 around about 1000 packed up and moved to Jamestown, Guyana with Jones. Nov 18th, 1978 he ordered everyone at the compound to drink Kool Aid laced with cyanide! 918 died, almost 1/3 were children. Then Jones shot himself in the head. Why didn’t they recognize what was going on? Why didn’t they see the drift from Christianity to Cult? Jim Jones was a False Teacher who taught his congregation the False Gospel that had poisoned his heart! Both spiritually and literally, it poisoned those that followed HIM to Guyana. When they should have been following Jesus!! Peter’s goal was to equip us to stand on the Day of Judgement. But he knew that there are those that only seek to, as our scripture says today: “seduce the unstable” or “entice unsteady souls”. They are False Teachers with False Teaching! Peter has given them, and us, a warning... Today we’ll see Peter also gives us ways to Recognize the Deception by Recognizing the Deceiver! How to identify a False Teacher and False Teaching. * Peter gives us: A Picture of their Person... of Who they are! * Then, Peter gives us: A Picture of their Performance... of What they do!
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