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