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.

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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 =  Fruitlessness of False Teachers =  Fate of False Teachers = 20-22

Certainty of False Teachers 2 Pet. 2:1-9 Warns about false teachers Jesus warned - Matt. 7:15 Privily = secretly and slyly False = impostor Teachings KJV = “damnable heresies” NKJV = “destructive heresies” Denying the Lord v. 1

Certainty of False Teachers 2 Pet. 2:1-9 Followers Any religious teacher can get a following Does not prove correctness Matt. 7:13-14 Majority follow broad way Pernicious ways Destructive = NKJV Lascivious doings = ASV Sensuality = ESV v. 2

Certainty of False Teachers 2 Pet. 2:1-9 Covetousness is often a motive Greed Titus 1:11 “teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.” Feigned words = deceptive Judgment is coming for them They will not escape - doom is certain Several 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. 10 Lust of flesh Despise authority Angels hear but leave judgment to God - v. 11 Brute beasts - v. 12 Satisfy their own desires Eventually will perish Abandoned in sin - v. 13 Spots 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. 14 Lust after a woman - Matt. 5:28 Travel in pairs - sexual vice and covetousness Forsaken right way - v Once in the right way Balaam “loved wages of unrighteousness” Animal could see better than Balaam False teachers blinded by their love of sin.

Fruitlessness of False Teachers 2 Pet. 2:17-19 Dry Well Does not satisfy thirst False teacher does not satisfy truth seeker Rainless clouds Empty False 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 Faithful Escaped from world - through Jesus Entangled again Worse Two Pictures Dog returning to vomit Sow 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 Sunday Evening December 9, 2012