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Aren't you thankful this morning
that the words of that song are 

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true? 
That God has loved us so much 

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that he sent His Son to die for 
those of us who have would just 

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trust in Him by faith, and He 
invites us to lean on Him. 

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I know what many say, right? 
Christianity is just a crutch. 

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I need something to prop me up. 
Christianity's just. 

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A crutch. 
So I can't live without Christ. 

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Christianity is just a crutch. 
I can't stand without Christ. 

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But don't you think that's just 
a crutch? 

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I can't walk without Christ. 
I need Christ. 

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And yet he and his love invites 
us to fellowship with him, to 

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commune with him. 
And it's OK because? 

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We're all going to go through 
those times where we. 

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Need to lean on something? 
He invites us to lean on Him, to

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lean not on our own 
understanding, but in all our 

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ways. 
Acknowledge Him and He will make

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our paths straight. 
Thank you Jesus, that we can 

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truly lean on you, dependent 
upon nothing in ourselves, 

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nothing of ourselves, but 
dependent upon you. 

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You have your Bibles. 
If you would turn to First 

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Timothy chapter 6 as we continue
our journey through the Pastoral

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Epistle of First Timothy, 
looking at biblical ministers 

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and biblical ministry, at the 
risk of causing all of you to go

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into a panic, this morning we 
will be covering verses 3 all 

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the way to verse 10 today. 
I know last week we covered only

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two verses and it took us a 
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Those who were in the first 
service are thankful that they 

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came to the first service 
because we have to get out. 

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For those of you in the late. 
Service we don't have to get out

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and so I intend on going through
all of these verses this 

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morning. 
Only kidding. 

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It won't take any longer than 
the normal tumor being removed 

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from your brain. 
When we look at this, and I want

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you to see that this is a topic 
that is not addressed nearly 

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enough, I want us to look at the
dangerous reality of false 

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teachers. 
Paul is going to point Timothy's

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attention now, in this third 
verse, back to false teachers 

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who are leading people astray in
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Now this is 2000 years ago and 
there was a problem with false 

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teachers infiltrating the 
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Let me just tell you this, it is
more so a problem today. 

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False Teachers false. 
Teaching false. 

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Ideology. 
And to many they would say this.

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Is it really that important that
we should take a whole Sunday 

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morning and address this? 
Yes, it is very important. 

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It is that important. 
I'll tell you how important it 

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is. 
Out of the 27 New Testament 

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books, 19 of them explicitly 
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False teachers, false prophets, 
or false doctrine? 

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Some of them? 
All three. 

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Three out of the four gospels, 
Matthew, Mark and Luke, they all

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record the Lord's warnings. 
That one of them we read a 

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moment ago in our scripture 
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They record the Lord's warnings 
himself about false. 

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Teachers and false prophets. 
How they come dressed as sheep, 

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but inwardly they are ravenous 
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Upon Paul's departure from a 
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knew this and he warned them. 
He said when I leave. 

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These ravenous, vicious wolves 
are going to come, these false 

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teachers are going to come in, 
and they're going to try to 

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destroy that which has been 
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sound teaching and upon the 
gospel. 

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Paul also doesn't shy away from 
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teachers and addressing those 
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Paul addresses the subject in 
Romans, First Corinthians, 

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Second Corinthians, Galatians, 
Ephesians, Philippians, 

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Colossians, First Timothy. 
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also in Second Timothy and his 
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very important to Paul that the 
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teachers and false. 
Teaching. 

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Other epistles, which would 
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teachers, would be Second Peter.
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Second Peter's Presley chapter 2
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First John. 
John and his epistle there. 

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That first epistle of John, he 
teaches against false teaching 

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and teachers. 
Second John, he does the same 

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Jude. 

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The brother of Jesus, he says, I
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salvation that we have. 
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the Gospel and he said, but I 
can't because I need to 

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encourage you to contend for the
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Why? 
Because there were false 

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teachers who had crept into the 
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In the Revelation, the end of 
your Bible, Jesus gives John 7 

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letters to seven churches in 
Asia Minor during his day. 

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And in those letters to the 
seven churches, Jesus warns 

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against false teaching and 
against false teachers. 

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And in fact, Jesus even uses 
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When he talked about the heresy 
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hate it. 
He hasn't changed his mind about

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the subject. 
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Ever or very rarely give any 
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explicitly warns against. 
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We can't get to this passage of 
Scripture and say, you know 

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what? 
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If we jump over this and ignore 
it because it makes people 

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uncomfortable and it bothers 
some people, we have to address 

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it head on. 
We're going to do that. 

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We're going to explore the 
dangerous reality of false 

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teachers, those who distort or 
who dismantle the word of God 

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for their own purposes, their 
own agendas, and in doing so, 

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they exploit weak and ignorant 
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And it's a very dangerous tool 
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We must be warned this morning 
because the majority of popular 

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teachings and popular teachers 
of our day, I make no apology in

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saying this, The majority of 
those teachers and teachings in 

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what we know as modern 
Christianity are unbiblical at 

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best. 
And we need to be warned of the 

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dangers of this unbiblical 
teaching because not only does 

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it lead to destruction for those
who are teaching these false 

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ideologies, but it leads to the 
destruction of those who are 

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following them. 
So as we open the Word of God 

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today, my prayer is that the 
Word of God would teach us all 

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that we need to know, to 
identify these dangerous 

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teachers, to discern them, and 
to safeguard against them as a 

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church and as individual. 
I wish I could be with you all 

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the time, but I can't. 
I wish I could actually take 

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your remote control away from 
you or take those religious 

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stations off of your television 
that spew heresy and false 

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teaching constantly. 
I wish I could warn you about 

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every author and every teacher 
who is leading people astray, 

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just as Jesus warned that they 
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Let me just make this statement 
as we begin to read our text. 

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Anyone who settles for an 
unbiblical Christianity has no 

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Christianity at all. 
There is no such thing as an 

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unbiblical Christianity. 
If you can't back up everything 

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that you believe and the reasons
as to why you believe it with 

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the word of God, you may have 
been duped already. 

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I pray today that God would open
your eyes to see the truth, that

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He would set you free from the 
lies of false teachers. 

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First Timothy chapter 6, verse 
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If anyone teaches false 
doctrines and does not agree to 

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the sound instruction of our 
Lord Jesus Christ and to godly 

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teaching, he is conceited and 
understands nothing. 

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He has an unhealthy interest in 
controversies and quarrels about

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words that result in envy, 
strife, malicious talk, evil 

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suspicions, and constant 
friction between men of corrupt 

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mind who have been robbed of the
truth and who think that 

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godliness is a means to 
financial gain. 

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But godliness with contentment 
is great gain. 

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But we brought nothing into the 
world and we can take nothing 

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out of it. 
But if we have food and 

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clothing, we will be content 
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People who want to get rich. 
Fall into temptation and a trap,

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and in the many foolish and 
harmful desires that plunge men 

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into ruin and destruction for 
the love of money is a root of 

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all kinds of evil some people 
eager for. 

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Money have wandered from the. 
Faith and pierced themselves 

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with many griefs. 
Let's pray together. 

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Father, in the name of Jesus, we
come to you now asking that your

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Spirit what teach us this 
morning as the Word is 

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proclaimed and as the Word comes
forth. 

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God, I pray that you would give 
us insight and wisdom into what 

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we hear and what we see from the
pages of Scripture today. 

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I pray that you would use it to 
sanctify Your children, that you

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would by Your word make them 
more like Christ this morning. 

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Lord, I pray that it also would 
open the eyes of the unbeliever 

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today that they would see their 
need for Christ and that they 

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would see their need for Christ 
according to the Word of God, 

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not the traditions of man, not 
the philosophies of man. 

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They would see the true gospel 
as defined by the Scriptures. 

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Lord, we thank you for what 
you're going to do now as we 

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devote our time to learn your 
word and we may teach others to 

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follow in the footsteps of 
Christ. 

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And we pray all these things in 
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Amen. 
As I said before, Paul makes a 

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zero apology in addressing false
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earthly ministry. 
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I want to make this clear today.
I make 0 apology for doing the 

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same this morning from standing 
behind the pulpit with the Word 

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of God opened up. 
I make no apologies. 

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Some of you perhaps would get 
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going to be said this morning. 
Let me remind you of this. 

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The things that I say are coming
from the word of God. 

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If you are offended by them, you
are offended by the very word of

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God, not the opinions of Kirk 
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And so we look at this this 
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afraid to address these things, 
that begins to teach Timothy the

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dangers of false teachers. 
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He starts with the doctrines of 
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And that's what I want to start 
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He says in verse three, if 
anyone teaches false doctrines 

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and does not agree to sound 
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Christ and to godly teaching, 
what he wants us to understand, 

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what he wants Timothy to 
understand so that the believers

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there in Ephesus can understand 
is that there really are false 

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teachers and they are dangerous 
and they need to be identified. 

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And one of the identifying 
markers is this, the doctrines 

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that they teach, the things that
they promote from the pulpits, 

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from the stage. 
Unfortunately, so many times 

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that's all it is. 
It's just a stage. 

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But what are they? 
He makes it very clear, He 

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begins with this, that the 
teachings of these false 

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teachers are contrary to the 
Savior's teaching. 

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He says that they teach false 
doctrines and do not agree to 

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sound instruction that came from
our Lord. 

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They actually in their false 
teaching, contradict that which 

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Jesus Himself, while He was here
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ministry, taught from His own 
mouth as recorded in the Gospel.

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They oppose the very teachings 
of Christ while claiming to be. 

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Christian. 
Now let me just help all you 

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folks out. 
If someone opposes the teachings

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of Christ while claiming to be a
Christian, mark this down. 

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That is a false. 
Teacher, because those who are 

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teaching true sound doctrine 
from the Word of God will never 

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oppose the teachings of Christ. 
And you say, well, Kirk, in what

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manner do they oppose the 
teaching of Christ? 

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Well, I'll start with this. 
How about how they distort the 

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gospel message? 
They preach the gospel these 

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days that does not include 
repentance at all. 

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In fact, they almost teach the 
gospel as if repentance is 

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optional at some point in your 
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But here's exactly what Jesus 
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Gospel. 
He says in Luke Chapter 9 verse 

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23, It says then he said to 
them, all these were people who 

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were saying, what must we do to 
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He said to them all, Whoever 
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deny themselves. 
That's surrendered, that's 

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surrendered to his lordship, 
that's returning from yourself 

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and your will and your sin. 
That's a turning to Christ. 

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He said. 
They must deny themselves and 

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take up their cross daily and 
follow me. 

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That is a willingness to 
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American church the whole 
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element of sacrifice and 
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of the equation. 
Therefore we don't have the true

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gospel at all. 
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When Paul addressed those people
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if anyone preaches a gospel 
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let them be a cursed. 
Yet we have false teachers 

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preaching a gospel that does not
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There is no surrender. 
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or suffering in our surrender to
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It's interesting that when Jesus
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message in Mark chapter 1. 
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preached. 
Here's the gospel according to 

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Jesus, not the gospel according 
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Here is the gospel according to 
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Mark chapter one, verse 15. 
Here's how he began to preach in

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his earthly ministry. 
The time has come, he said. 

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The Kingdom of God has come 
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Repent and believe the good 
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How can you preach the gospel 
that does not include repentance

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when Jesus himself, in his first
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repentance and faith side by 
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What am I saying? 
I'm saying that true faith will 

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always repent and true 
repentance will always believe 

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the 2GO hand in hand. 
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other. 
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the same coin. 
One can't have true salvation. 1

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does not have the true gospel. 
It does not include faith and 

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repentance. 
Gospel message that doesn't 

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include repentance. 
Let me repeat it again, is no 

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gospel message. 
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think that you can still live 
the same life that you've always

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lived and claim to know Christ. 
That is a lie hatched straight 

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from hell. 
That is the voice of Satan 

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speaking through false teachers 
who would have you believe 

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something contrary to Scripture.
These folks believe in that 

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gospel. 
It doesn't have to include 

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repentance. 
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relationship with Christ that 
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sanctification. 
We have a problem there, don't 

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we? 
That problem is this John 

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chapter 17. 
I hope that you have read John 

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17 and you have seen the Lord 
praying and the Lord praying for

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us. 
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17, he says sanctify them by 
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Your word is truth, but so often
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have this gospel that does not 
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you never have to become more 
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You're never set aside. 
There's never any amount of 

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holiness being built in your 
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Holy Spirit by the Word of God. 
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even the prayer of Jesus. 
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Imagine a lot of things in this 
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imagine is Jesus praying 
something that was in 

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contradiction to the will of the
Father. 

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In fact, when Jesus prayed 
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He taught us to begin with the 
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Not our will, but His will be 
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And Jesus himself said, I came 
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will of him who sent me. 
And Jesus here praying in John 

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1717, prays that the believers 
would be set apart, that they 

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would be sanctified, that they 
would be made holy through the 

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Word of God. 
It's so many false teachers in 

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our day leave sanctification 
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with their hyper grace 
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You can send all you want, do 
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done before because you have 
grace and that is the farthest 

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thing from the gospel truth. 
That's a lie. 

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They not only teach a gospel 
message that doesn't include 

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repentance in a relationship 
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sanctification, they teach a 
justification that's built on 

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our own human works. 
If you've been a key life 

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fellowship in any amount of 
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You have received ample teaching
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justified by grace alone through
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And that is it. 
Then our works do not justify 

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us. 
And why do we take that stand? 

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Because Scripture over and over 
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that is where we are to stand. 
I don't seek to revisit a 

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message on justification by 
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again today. 
Hopefully at this point you get 

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that, but there are these false 
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ideologies somehow act as if we 
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justification. 
That's the farthest thing from 

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the truth. 
John's Gospel, the 6th chapter. 

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In a conversation with the Lord,
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Verse. 28 of chapter 6 What must
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requires? 
He's talking about the works God

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requires to save a man. 
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conversation about works. 
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Jesus answered the work of God. 
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In the one he has sent. 
The only work that is going to 

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save you is faith in the Lord 
Jesus Christ and His work that 

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he did at Calvary 2000 years 
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His death is buried on his. 
Resurrection. 

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Yeah, there are these false 
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insert the idea that we can 
somehow work for salvation, and 

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that is the farthest thing from 
the truth. 

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It is by grace you have been 
saved through faith. 

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This is not of works. 
It's not of yourself. 

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It's a gift of God so that you 
can't boast about. 

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Is that not what Ephesians 289 
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Of course it is. 
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contradicting the Savior's 
teaching oppose the teachings of

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Christ. 
They also oppose the theology of

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Christ or the theology 
surrounding Christ, right? 

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They promote to this theology 
that says that Jesus isn't God, 

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he's just a good man, or he's 
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Or he's maybe from God, but he's
not necessarily God. 

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Can I, can I insert this for 
you? 

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John 11 in the beginning was the
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and the Word was God. 
He's always been God. 

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He always will be God. 
When he came to this earth and 

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he took on flesh, He is now God 
Incarnate. 

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The deity of the Lord Jesus 
Christ was not taken from him. 

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The humanity of the Lord Jesus 
Christ was given to him. 

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So don't mix that up. 
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Jesus is not God when Jesus 
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So I don't remember any 
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he is God. 
Then you don't remember John 

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chapter 8 and John chapter 8. 
Jesus referred to himself as I 

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am. 
He says in verse 58 very truly I

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tell you, Jesus answered before 
Abraham was born. 

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I am that term ego I me. 
That is the Greek term. 

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And it means just that I am from
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you. 
I am. 

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I am the same I am who spoke 
from the burning Bush to Moses. 

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Jesus always has been and always
will be God, the second person 

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of the Triune Godhead. 
You have many false teachers 

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refuse to teach, refuse to 
believe this, and lead others 

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astray by their false teaching. 
First John chapter 2 verse 22. 

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John says this. 
Who is the liar? 

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It is whoever denies that Jesus 
is the Christ. 

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Such a person is the Antichrist,
denying the Father and the Son. 

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When we talk about Jesus being 
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Jesus being that Savior who came
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referred to as Emmanuel. 
God, not some substitute God 

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himself with us and. 
So it's important that we 

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identify the doctrines of these 
false teachers, those who teach 

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against the deity of the Lord 
Jesus Christ, promoting a Jesus 

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who is not God. 
He's a lesser God. 

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This type of thinking goes all 
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They would teach a theory of 
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He is not a lesser God. 
He is King of kings and Lord of 

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Lords who will reign and has 
always reigned and will reign 

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forever. 
He's false teachers opposing the

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theology surrounding Christ 
promote a God who is not 

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sovereign. 
Second Peter identifies them as 

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this second Peter chapter 2. 
He says this in verse one. 

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But there will we're also a 
false prophets among the people,

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just as there will be false 
teachers among you, and they 

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will secretly introduce 
destructive heresies. 

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Here's their destruction. 
Destructive heresies, even 

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denying the sovereign Lord who 
bought them, bringing swift 

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destruction on themselves. 
Many would say I don't deny the 

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sovereignty of God, but then 
they would turn around and limit

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it. 
I want to propose. 

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This to all of you who bear the 
name of Christ this morning. 

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God is either. 
Sovereign or he isn't sovereign.

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There is no such thing as kind 
of sovereign or little 

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sovereign, but it's dependent 
upon your free will. 

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He is either fully sovereign or 
he is not sovereign at all. 

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There is no middle ground. 
Jesus taught that He is 

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sovereign, and I choose to 
believe that which Jesus teaches

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about His own Lordship that He 
is sovereign Lord of all. 

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So they teach things contrary to
the Savior's teaching, but they 

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also teach things contrary to 
the Scripture's teaching. 

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Look what it says and does not 
agree to the sound instruction 

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of our Lord Jesus Christ and to 
godly teaching. 

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And we know that we can get 
godly teaching from the Lord 

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Jesus Christ, But where? 
Else can we get godly teaching 

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from? 
From the Word of God we can take

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Genesis all the way to Malachi 
and we can say this. 

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Even those Old Testament 
scriptures are as much scripture

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as Matthew through Revelation. 
And we can trust in them. 

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We can trust in them for all 
godly teaching. 

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Why? 
Because everything that we need 

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for life and godliness is found 
here. 

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But these false teachers, they 
teach contrary to what the 

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scriptures teach, refusing to 
align with it, refusing to 

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acknowledge it. 
How do they do this? 

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How do false teachers repeats 
that which is contrary to 

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scripture? 
Well, first they do this and 

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I'll make it easy for you to 
remember. 

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All you have to do is remember 
some M words. 

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Are you ready? 
They do it first by 

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misrepresenting the scriptures. 
They have poor hermeneutical 

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practices. 
What what do I mean by that? 

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Hermeneutics. 
And I know that everybody's 

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going Herman who? 
It's not a man. 

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It's the science of interpreting
Scripture and before. 

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You get all crazy and think that
God and science are separate. 

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They're not. 
Only the liberal thinking has 

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separated. 
God in science, He is the God 

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over science, and he's given us 
a science so that we can 

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interpret scripture. 
And what is that? 

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To read Scripture as scripture, 
to read it in its proper 

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context, to read it in its 
proper historical context, to 

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see who the the proper audience 
is. 

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Who is he addressing? 
Why is he addressing them? 

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How does this apply to our lives
using good and clear 

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hermeneutical practice? 
Yet the false teacher does not 

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do this. 
Instead of exegesis, we had 

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properly interpret the 
scripture. 

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He uses what we know as 
eisegesis, where he, from his 

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own vantage point, the 
subjective view and that and 

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that alone, begins to analyze 
the scripture. 

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He makes the scripture in his 
mind say what he wants the 

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scripture to say. 
And isn't it easy to do that? 

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And that's what the false 
teacher does. 

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He teaches contrary to 
Scripture's teaching because 

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he's misinterpreting the 
scriptures. 

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Secondly, he's doing this. 
He's miss applying the 

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scriptures, completely missing 
the application that is given in

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the Word of God and what he. 
Does is if he doesn't. 

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Miss it, Maybe he sees it. 
He redirects it just to fit his 

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personal agenda. 
Second, Peter chapter 3 verse 16

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speaks of these ignorant and 
unstable people who distort the 

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scriptures. 
And yes, that is what Scripture 

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calls them. 
And so that's what I will call 

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them as well. 
They're ignorant and they are 

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unstable, contradicting the very
word of God by misapplying the 

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scriptures that God has given 
us. 

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Thirdly, not only do they 
misinterpreted misapply, but 

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they also mishandled the 
Scriptures, using the scriptures

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inappropriately to manipulate 
the weak. 

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And the feeble and the ignorant,
because the ignorant can only 

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get away with leading the 
ignorant right for those who are

458
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,600
sound. 
Biblically, you're not going to 

459
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,000
be LED astray by some ignorant 
false teacher. 

460
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,120
Why? 
Because the Word of God is going

461
00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:36,400
to give you wisdom that is 
beyond your humanity. 

462
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:38,560
You're going to know. 
Wait a second. 

463
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:41,280
This does not add up with 
scripture. 

464
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,360
They're not going to be able to 
prey on you because we're going 

465
00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:48,400
to see in just a moment, these 
teachers prey on weak and 

466
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:54,720
ignorant and unstable people, 
mishandled the scriptures, using

467
00:27:54,720 --> 00:28:01,520
them for their own desires. 
And then lastly, what they do is

468
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,880
they mutilate the scriptures. 
They mutilate the scriptures. 

469
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,160
What do I mean by that? 
They, they literally remove 

470
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:11,560
things from the Word of God. 
Sometimes they remove those 

471
00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,000
things by jumping over them. 
Sometimes they remove those 

472
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,520
things by not acknowledging 
them. 

473
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,560
Sometimes they act as if they 
don't exist. 

474
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,280
I don't really know how they 
pull it off. 

475
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,840
That is why it's so important 
that when we look at the Word of

476
00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,800
God, we teach the Word of God 
and we study the Word of God 

477
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:28,520
verse by verse by verse by 
verse. 

478
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,360
Why? 
So that we see it in its context

479
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,040
properly. 
We don't jump over something 

480
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,240
just because we don't like it, 
and we don't just preach the 

481
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,760
subjects that we do like or that
are easy to preach. 

482
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:44,520
Yet these false teachers, that's
what they do, always appealing 

483
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,600
to themselves and to their 
listeners by mutilating the Word

484
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:52,320
of God. 
Oh, there would be many who 

485
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:53,760
would tell me about this very 
sermon. 

486
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,880
You can't preach that to those 
people. 

487
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,840
People won't stay. 
If you preach those kinds of 

488
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,360
things, unbelievers won't. 
They'll either get saved or 

489
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:06,080
they'll leave the digital 
believer, the same Holy Spirit 

490
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,800
who lives in me, who lives in 
you, who inspired the very Word 

491
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,560
of God to be penned. 
He bears witness to the fact 

492
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:16,320
that this is the truth. 
We're not going to be LED astray

493
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,640
by those who pick and choose 
what Scripture they want to 

494
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:20,400
believe and what Scripture they 
want to leave out. 

495
00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,040
It's a very dangerous thing. 
We begin to mutilate the Word of

496
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:25,600
God. 
In fact, in Deuteronomy chapter 

497
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,600
4, we see a warning against 
that. 

498
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,120
God gives Moses commands. 
He tells the people to do these 

499
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:36,000
things verse 2. 
He then tells them don't take 

500
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,320
anything from it. 
Don't remove it then in 

501
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:42,920
Revelation we see in the New 
Testament a warning given there 

502
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:44,760
at the end, chapter 22, verse 
18. 

503
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,280
I warn everyone who hears the 
words of the prophecy of the 

504
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:49,480
scroll. 
If anyone adds anything to them,

505
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,680
God will add to that person the 
plagues described in the scroll.

506
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,000
If you've never read Revelation 
and know about these plagues, 

507
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:56,280
you don't want anything to do 
with them. 

508
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,960
He says if anyone takes words 
away from the scroll of 

509
00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:03,160
prophecy, God will take away 
from that person any share in 

510
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,160
the tree of life and in the holy
city, which are described in 

511
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,440
this scroll. 
And I know what many people say 

512
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:09,640
at this time. 
Well, Kirk, that's just talking 

513
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:11,960
about Deuteronomy, and that's 
just talking about Revelation. 

514
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,120
Why would you try to justify 
removing Scripture from other 

515
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:20,600
places? 
Is Deuteronomy any less 

516
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,120
scripture than Exodus? 
Is Revelation any less Scripture

517
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:25,880
than First Timothy that we look 
at today? 

518
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,920
Is Revelation any less 
scripture, any more Scripture 

519
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,520
than Genesis or Numbers? 
No, it is the Word of God 

520
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,800
completely. 
We're not to mutilate the Word 

521
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:38,320
of God. 
We're not to take that which we 

522
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,480
like and discard that which we 
don't isn't. 

523
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,720
That's what's happening in the 
American church, right? 

524
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:46,520
We have taken things that God 
has explicitly commanded against

525
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,200
and we have embraced them as 
alternative lifestyles, 

526
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,040
completely just removing it from
scripture and acting as if it 

527
00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:58,360
doesn't exist or it never 
existed. 

528
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:03,320
Or we look and look and look for
the most liberal translation 

529
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,360
that we can find so that it will
say what we want it to say. 

530
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,720
That's why the translation of 
scripture that you read from is 

531
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,360
so important. 
Don't read a paraphrase that's 

532
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:19,000
just for free said, well, I 
don't know if I can understand 

533
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,720
it in any other way. 
Pray that you can pray that you 

534
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:27,520
can read the word of God. 
Don't take anything away from 

535
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,200
it. 
They mutilate it. 

536
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,400
They mishandle it, misapply it, 
misinterpret it. 

537
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,120
They do exactly as Satan did 
when he deceived Eve in the 

538
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:38,400
garden. 
Do you know that's what he did? 

539
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,840
She knew that she had received a
command from the Lord and. 

540
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,880
Yet he talked her into thinking 
that it wasn't true. 

541
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,000
Isn't that what the false? 
Teachers are constantly doing as

542
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:51,880
they are led by these deceptive 
spirits controlled by Satan, 

543
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,360
saying, Oh yeah, I know the 
scripture says that, but that's 

544
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:59,040
not what it means. 
No, it means exactly what it 

545
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,000
said and it says exactly what 
God means. 

546
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,800
And you don't have the right to 
change the meaning just because 

547
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:10,040
you don't like the outcome. 
Exactly what Satan did in the 

548
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,560
garden. 
It's exactly what he tried to do

549
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,560
in Matthew chapter 4 when he was
tempting Jesus. 

550
00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,000
He tried to use the Word of God 
against the Word of God. 

551
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:22,640
Not a very smart thing to do, 
but how did he do it? 

552
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,880
He took it out of context. 
He left some things out. 

553
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,320
He added some things. 
It wasn't really what it was 

554
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,040
supposed to be. 
It's very dangerous when we 

555
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,240
handle the Scriptures this way. 
This is what these false 

556
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,720
teachers are doing. 
Exactly what Satan did in 

557
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,520
tempting Jesus. 
Exactly what Satan did in 

558
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,080
tempting Eve in Genesis chapter 
3. 

559
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,960
And so the teachings and 
doctrine of these false 

560
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,240
teachers, Paul wants that to be.
Clearly notated, he wants 

561
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,600
Timothy to know that if they're 
teaching these things, they are 

562
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,960
false teachers. 
Everybody understand that if 

563
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,560
someone is teaching something 
that is contrary to that which 

564
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,720
Jesus taught and something 
that's contrary to the rest of 

565
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,200
Scripture, they are false 
teachers. 

566
00:32:58,280 --> 00:32:59,880
We don't hug them and say, you 
know, they're Christians. 

567
00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:02,200
They're just a little in error. 
There's no such thing as I 

568
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,240
little in error. 
It is that a little leaven 

569
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:10,800
leavens the whole loaf. 
So we must see it as Scripture 

570
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,200
says that it is, and so we see 
the doctrines of false teachers.

571
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,280
Secondly, we see this is the 
demeanor of false teachers. 

572
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,160
I told you Paul wants the 
believers there at Ephesus to 

573
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,160
know the false teachers when 
they see them. 

574
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:24,120
And you can look at the demeanor
of a false teacher and you can 

575
00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,760
recognize some things very. 
Quickly, and Paul's going to 

576
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,880
outline that he says this about 
the false teachers that he's 

577
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,640
addressing to Timothy. 
He says he is conceited and 

578
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,520
understands nothing. 
He has an unhealthy interest in 

579
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,360
controversies and quarrels about
words that result in envy, 

580
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,400
strife, malicious talk, evil 
suspicions, and constant 

581
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,080
friction between men of corrupt 
mind. 

582
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,120
Who have been robbed of the. 
Truth. 

583
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,240
So who are these teachers? 
What do they look like? 

584
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:48,680
Right. 
That's what Paul is addressing 

585
00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,960
here. 
It's important that we know, 

586
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:52,640
isn't it? 
Important that we identify? 

587
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,760
Can we all agree that false 
teaching is an enemy to the 

588
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,560
church? 
Shouldn't we? 

589
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:01,600
Identify our enemies. 
Yeah, because we definitely 

590
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,920
don't want to shoot our friends.
So we have to identify our 

591
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:05,640
enemies. 
What? 

592
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,640
What do they look like? 
What is the demeanor of the 

593
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,320
false teacher? 
Why he says they're conceited? 

594
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,760
What does that mean? 
It means that they're controlled

595
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,320
and led by their own pride. 
Now, before you get worried, let

596
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,000
me ask you this question. 
How many of you struggle with 

597
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:22,440
pride? 
The ones who don't have their 

598
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,000
hands in the air. 
You're struggling right now and 

599
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:29,639
you're lying to yourself and God
and everyone else because we all

600
00:34:29,639 --> 00:34:32,040
struggle with pride. 
Here's the difference between 

601
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,480
ourselves, those who struggle 
with pride as believers, and 

602
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,040
that false teacher. 
He doesn't struggle with it 

603
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:37,920
anymore. 
He just full blown gives into 

604
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,480
it. 
He's conceited. 

605
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:45,080
He he is trusting in himself and
his own ability and that alone. 

606
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,920
He has his own agenda and he 
gives no regard to the will of 

607
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:52,560
God controlled by his own. 
Pride Second Peter, chapter 2, 

608
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:53,560
verse 10. 
Peter says this. 

609
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,120
This is especially true of those
who follow the corrupt, desires 

610
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,880
the flesh and despise authority 
he calls them. 

611
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,880
Bold and arrogant, they are not 
afraid to heap abuse on 

612
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,320
celestial beings. 
They they they heap abuse on 

613
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,720
things that they do not even 
know anything. 

614
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,000
About this is how foolish and 
arrogant they are. 

615
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,800
Let it be known today at the 
false teachers of our day, 

616
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,280
they're just as arrogant, just 
as conceited. 

617
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,800
Well, I would challenge you to 
do this, though I would also 

618
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:24,880
warn against it all at the same 
time. 

619
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:29,440
Turn on the Christian 
Broadcasting Network, which 

620
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,600
everyone you choose, and sooner 
or later you're going to find 

621
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,760
some false teacher. 
And if you'll be honest with 

622
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,080
yourself, you will recognize 
them because they are arrogant. 

623
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:42,560
Dressed in five or $6000 suits 
with $30,000 watches about to 

624
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:46,280
jump on their multi $1,000,000 
airplane to go to whatever next 

625
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,680
venue that they can go to to rob
people. 

626
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,080
When you listen to them talk, 
it's all about them and never 

627
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,320
about Christ. 
It's all about what they got 

628
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,840
going on their ministry. 
Can I say something to all of 

629
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,360
you? 
Any aspiring ministers in there?

630
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:01,600
You don't. 
Have a ministry. 

631
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,680
Your ministry is Christ. 
Your ministry is the gospel. 

632
00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:06,920
You have the ministry of 
reconciliation. 

633
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,040
That is the only ministry that 
you have, and Christ is in 

634
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:14,080
charge of that ministry. 
Stop lying to yourself or anyone

635
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,120
else about the fact that you 
have a ministry. 

636
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,120
If you have a ministry, you're 
in grave danger. 

637
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:24,760
These men are owned by their 
pride, they disguise it. 

638
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,680
Their bold arrogance is 
disguised as godly wisdom, 

639
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,560
sometimes even false humility. 
But Richard Baxter said this 

640
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:34,920
about these false teachers. 
He said take heed of a proud 

641
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:39,160
self conceited teacher. 
That thinks himself too wise to 

642
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:40,560
learn. 
You'll know them because they 

643
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,440
know everything. 
They they can't learn anything. 

644
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:43,520
You can show them the word of 
God. 

645
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,640
And if they already have their 
mind made-up, what they're going

646
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,080
to believe and what they're 
going to teach, as many of these

647
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,280
charismatic teachers do in our 
day, they are going to shun you.

648
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,480
They're going to say that you 
are somehow the one who's held 

649
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:56,880
in bondage. 
I'm held in bondage because I'm 

650
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,160
telling you plainly from the 
word of God that what you're 

651
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,320
teaching is a lie. 
And right here in black and 

652
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:03,400
white is the truth. 
And I'm in bondage. 

653
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,960
No, Sir, the truth has set me 
free, and you need to be set 

654
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:12,320
that free by that same truth. 
They're conceited, not. 

655
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:14,760
Only they're conceited, they're 
controversial. 

656
00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,480
He says he has an unhealthy 
interest in controversies and 

657
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:19,960
quarrels. 
No, just an unhealthy interest. 

658
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,240
Sometimes we have to stand our 
ground. 

659
00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:25,080
Sometimes we have to make a good
case for Christ. 

660
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,720
There's nothing wrong with that.
But he's talking about unhealthy

661
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:32,080
controversies and quarrels. 
Arguing for the sake of arguing.

662
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,800
We've all met those aspiring 
theologians who learn a little 

663
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,720
bit and then they want to argue 
about what little bit that they 

664
00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:40,280
know, and very quickly they run 
out of things to argue about. 

665
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:41,640
Because they don't know a whole 
lot. 

666
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,040
I've said it. 
Often, and I will say it again, 

667
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:49,000
the people who argue the most 
are usually the ones who know 

668
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,480
the least. 
Because a godly man knows this. 

669
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,320
Sometimes it's best. 
Just to shut your mouth. 

670
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,480
Sometimes it's best just to be 
slow to speak. 

671
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,880
It's going to become angry. 
I'm quick to listen. 

672
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,240
It's James Time. 
But these teachers, they're 

673
00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:06,080
controversial. 
They like controversy. 

674
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,320
They thrive in controversy. 
They're always the victims in 

675
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,520
the controversy. 
You just watch the charismatic 

676
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,720
movement. 
You will see this over and over 

677
00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:18,320
and over and over again when 
someone calls them out on their 

678
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,360
false doctrine. 
The person who called them out 

679
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,320
becomes the bad guy. 
And how's that person the bad 

680
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:25,920
guy? 
All he's simply doing is caring 

681
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:29,000
about the soul of that person 
and the souls of those that they

682
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,800
are leading astray. 
Yet a true Shepherd. 

683
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:37,040
Is then known as the bad guy. 
You know, the one who calls a 

684
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,880
wolf a wolf and wants everyone 
else to know that he is or she 

685
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,360
is a wolf. 
These false teachers 

686
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:48,360
controversial, bringing division
in the church. 

687
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:56,160
Wherever they show up, you've 
seen them, you know them. 

688
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,120
Everywhere they go, they go. 
There is some type of argument, 

689
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,040
there is some type of quarrel, 
there's some type of 

690
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,400
controversy, there's some type 
of division that is brought 

691
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,600
because of them. 
Pay very close attention to 

692
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:13,080
those people because they bear 
the mark, the demeanor of false 

693
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,360
teachers. 
Romans 1617. 

694
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:16,360
Here's what Paul says about 
them. 

695
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:17,560
He says. 
I urge you, brothers and 

696
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,600
sisters, to watch out for those 
who cause divisions and put 

697
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:22,960
obstacles in your way that are 
contrary to the teaching you 

698
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:23,720
have learned. 
What is the? 

699
00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:26,480
Teaching, they have learned the 
Scriptures, the true gospel, he 

700
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,360
says. 
Keep away from them. 

701
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,040
That's how dangerous they are. 
Stay away from them. 

702
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,560
I know, right? 
Because you haven't been trained

703
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,400
properly in the American church.
There are sometimes, and there 

704
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,960
are some people you just need to
distance yourself from. 

705
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,800
People who are about sound 
doctrine need to distance 

706
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,120
themselves from people who are 
about false doctrine. 

707
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,880
Period. 
You say, well, isn't that 

708
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:53,560
controversial? 
No, there's no controversy at 

709
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,040
all. 
I'm mandated by Scripture to 

710
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,160
live at peace with all men as 
much as it depends on me. 

711
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,520
And sometimes in order to live 
at peace with people, I have to 

712
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,800
distance myself from them. 
Learn that lesson from Scripture

713
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,160
with these false teachers. 
We need to distance ourselves 

714
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,160
from them. 
We need not fellowship with 

715
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:10,520
them. 
We need not. 

716
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,920
Commune with them. 
We need not go out to lunch with

717
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:15,600
them. 
We need not entertain their 

718
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:17,520
teaching. 
They're cancerous. 

719
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,640
Very controversial, he goes on, 
and he says after the fact that 

720
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,160
they're controversial. 
These are controversies and 

721
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:30,400
quarrels about words that result
in envy, strife, malicious talk,

722
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,360
evil, suspicion and constant 
friction between men. 

723
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,800
He says that they are of corrupt
mind. 

724
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,400
They're conceited, controversial
and corrupt. 

725
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:39,920
What is he saying here? 
Does this mean that they're just

726
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,760
having a bad day? 
No, he says, who have been 

727
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:46,240
robbed from the truth. 
Robbed of the truth. 

728
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,480
What is he saying? 
These men are totally apostate. 

729
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,680
They are unbelieving. 
They never have been Christians.

730
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:55,520
They have only posed as 
Christians. 

731
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,160
They are very dangerous. 
They are corrupt. 

732
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,720
To the core. 
Matthew 17 verse 16 back to our 

733
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:02,960
scripture reading for this 
morning. 

734
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:06,240
He says buy their fruit. 
You will recognize them if. 

735
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,200
People pick grapes from thorn 
bushes or figs from thistles. 

736
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,600
Likewise, every good tree bears 
good fruit, but a bad tree bears

737
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:14,880
bad fruit. 
A good tree cannot bear bad 

738
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,400
fruit, and a bad tree cannot 
bear good fruit. 

739
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,280
Every tree that does not bear 
good fruit is cut down and 

740
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,800
thrown into the fire. 
Thus, by their fruit you will 

741
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:26,680
recognize them. 
Look at their demeanor. 

742
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,480
Christian, listen to me. 
Do not apologize for being 

743
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,960
discerning. 
Especially in our day. 

744
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:36,280
If something doesn't seem right,
it's probably not. 

745
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,440
What right? 
Your grandma told you this. 

746
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:39,840
You didn't know she was so 
proverbial. 

747
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,640
But watch this. 
Wherever there is smoke, there 

748
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:47,760
is what fire? 
Unfortunately in regard to this,

749
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,240
where there's smoke, there's 
strange fire. 

750
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,520
Fire that is not biblical, fire 
that that does not point to 

751
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:58,960
Christ, fire that only reveals 
that their corrupt hearts Jesus 

752
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:02,240
calls him in Matthew 17. 
I mean, 7 verse 15, He calls 

753
00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:04,360
them ravenous wolves that are 
dressed like sheep. 

754
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,480
Ravenous wolves dressed like 
sheep, Agents of Satan in 

755
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,320
disguise. 
You better know what you are 

756
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,240
dealing with. 
See their demeanor, it will be 

757
00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:16,200
obvious. 
If you will just discern, it 

758
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,120
will be obvious and you're going
to see in a moment there are 

759
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:21,000
other reasons other than their 
demeanor that you can take note 

760
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,120
that they're false teachers. 
But this is a great starting. 

761
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,680
Point Acts 20, verse 29. 
Paul calls them savage. 

762
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:27,800
Wolves, you said. 
They're going to come in, 

763
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:31,880
they're going to do harm. 
Peter calls them springs without

764
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:35,400
water in his second epistle, 
meaning they promise the living 

765
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,120
water, but they don't know the 
living water. 

766
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:42,680
There is no water inside. 
Jude calls them ungodly people. 

767
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,760
These are not. 
People who were ever believers. 

768
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,880
These are people who they seem 
to be believers, who have 

769
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:51,520
apostatized them from the faith 
that they are not believers at 

770
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:53,880
all. 
They're not to be played around 

771
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,040
with. 
They're corrupt through and 

772
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,960
through, robbed of the truth. 
What does that mean? 

773
00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:03,840
Well, they've heard the truth. 
They've heard it with their 

774
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,600
ears. 
They've come to the knowledge. 

775
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:10,680
Of the truth. 
Yet they reject the truth, and 

776
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:12,680
one who comes to the knowledge 
of the truth and rejects the 

777
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,880
truth is no believer at all. 
They never were believers. 

778
00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:17,360
So we can't play around with 
them. 

779
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:18,800
We can't play around with their 
demeanor. 

780
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,600
We have to discern it. 
We can't apologize for that. 

781
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:25,440
We have to call it what it is. 
It's interesting that Satan has 

782
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:27,400
created a church culture in 
America. 

783
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,360
We're afraid to call a wolf a 
wolf. 

784
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,600
We're afraid to call a spade a 
spade. 

785
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:45,040
May not be so any longer that we
do our due diligence and calling

786
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,360
the false teachers exactly what 
they are so that others will be 

787
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,160
warned about them so they will 
not be LED astray. 

788
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:55,720
Thirdly, why do they do this? 
What do they get out of this? 

789
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,520
Because that's what the question
we ought to ask, what do they 

790
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:00,040
get out of this? 
What do they get out of knowing 

791
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,240
the truth of the gospel, knowing
a little bit about Christianity,

792
00:44:02,240 --> 00:44:06,280
even faking it to some degree, 
then leaving sound teaching 

793
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:07,760
What? 
How do they benefit? 

794
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,400
You know how they benefit. 
Let's not play around with this.

795
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,000
They benefit today the same way 
that they benefited 2000 years 

796
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:14,400
ago. 
Here's what Paul, Paul says in 

797
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,840
verse 5, the second part he said
and who think that godliness is 

798
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:23,320
a means to financial gain. 
There is the drive behind false 

799
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,680
teachers. 
The ball's going to give a 

800
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:27,960
lesson here, but godliness with 
contentment is great game. 

801
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:30,360
We brought nothing into the 
world and we can take nothing 

802
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:33,680
out of it, but if we have food 
and clothing we will be content.

803
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:37,320
With that, what's the drive 
behind these false teachers? 

804
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:41,120
The lust for cash? 
Make no beans about it. 

805
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:45,840
You know what they want? 
Money, Riches. 

806
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:47,680
The world. 
And you know what? 

807
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:50,360
They've discovered I can get 
that through the church. 

808
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,080
And how do I get that through 
the church? 

809
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:57,440
Through ignorant and uneducated 
Christians, I will come into 

810
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,280
their church. 
I will tickle their ears and 

811
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:03,040
tell them what they want to 
hear, and then I'll do the old 

812
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:04,520
bait and switch. 
Here's how it works. 

813
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,640
And I know it seems foolish to 
biblically sound people, but 

814
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:08,320
some of you have been caught up 
in this in the past. 

815
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:11,560
They will tell you this. 
God wants you to be rich. 

816
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,680
Well, the problem with that is 
scripture doesn't say that God 

817
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:18,120
wants you to be content. 
God wants you to be content with

818
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:19,600
godliness. 
He wants you to be content in 

819
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:20,920
Christ. 
He wants Christ to be your 

820
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,200
sufficiency, he said. 
Well, pastor, do you say a 

821
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,520
person's wrong to be rich? 
No, A person is wrong when their

822
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:29,880
wealth controls them, when it is
a God to them, when they won't 

823
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:31,560
let it go for Christ. 
Then there's a. 

824
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:36,560
Problem. 
But a person who's driven by 

825
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:41,320
their lust, their greedy lust 
for money, he comes into the 

826
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,000
church and he teaches it like 
this. 

827
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:49,320
Give to my ministry and if 
you'll give to my ministry, God 

828
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,360
will bless you however many fold
He decides you're going to get 

829
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,920
blessed that day. 
I don't know why he got to 

830
00:45:54,920 --> 00:46:00,880
decide that and these ignorant 
people. 

831
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:07,320
Give gobs of money to this 
person who is funding their own 

832
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,880
lust for cash in the church. 
You say? 

833
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,760
I know, but pastor, he was a 
preacher and I've known him for 

834
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:14,800
many years. 
Yes, and he lost his way. 

835
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:17,800
He forgot what it's about. 
He forgot godliness with 

836
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:20,520
contentment is great gain. 
That's why Paul is telling this 

837
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:22,480
to Timothy. 
He's saying, Timothy, don't lose

838
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,360
your way. 
There are many people who they 

839
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:28,920
have discovered that they can 
make money off of Jesus. 

840
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,360
Don't be one of them. 
We'll be driven by a lust for 

841
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,480
cash, by your worldly riches and
your worldly gain. 

842
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,040
Hebrews 13 The author of Hebrews
says this. 

843
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:43,960
He says keep your lives free 
from the love of money and be 

844
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:47,280
content with what you have 
because God has said never will 

845
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,600
I leave you, never will I. 
Forsake you What promise? 

846
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:52,240
You say, well that never would I
leave. 

847
00:46:52,240 --> 00:46:53,240
Will I leave you? 
Never will. 

848
00:46:53,240 --> 00:46:55,080
I forsake you. 
Seems kind of out of place, does

849
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:57,680
it? 
He's saying keep your lives free

850
00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:01,280
from the love of money and be 
content with knowing me. 

851
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,400
Be content with knowing that I 
am always there to meet every 

852
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:07,040
need that you have. 
I am your supply. 

853
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:10,400
I am sufficient. 
You need nothing else. 

854
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:11,960
It's important that we remember 
that. 

855
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:14,160
Why? 
So that we don't become driven 

856
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:19,400
by worldly riches. 
These false teachers, they have 

857
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,120
a lust for cash, just like their
predecessor, Judas Iscariot. 

858
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,320
We had a lust for cash. 
Didn't he sold out the Lord for 

859
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,520
30 pieces of silver? 
Oh, let's not forget, that's not

860
00:47:28,520 --> 00:47:32,520
the first time that he was 
identified as being driven by 

861
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,560
riches. 
There, as Mary took that vessel 

862
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:39,000
of nard, and she broke it, and 
she poured it on the feet of the

863
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,560
Lord. 
He was the one who said but this

864
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:43,440
is worth a lot of money. 
We could have done a lot of good

865
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:45,040
things with this. 
That's not really what he meant.

866
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:47,240
He was the keeper of the 
treasury. 

867
00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:49,520
He meant I could have more in my
hands. 

868
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:57,360
That same Judas Iscariot, 
predecessor to all apostates who

869
00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:59,680
would have a lust for cash and 
bring it into the church, 

870
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:05,160
exploiting people for their 
greed, using Christianity and 

871
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:09,640
some kind of false godliness to 
do the opposite of what Jesus 

872
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:11,400
said. 
Isn't that interesting? 

873
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:12,680
Because that's exactly what they
do. 

874
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,640
They use this to do the opposite
of what Jesus said. 

875
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,640
Here's what Jesus said in 
Matthew chapter 6. 

876
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,040
That's why I told you the 
teachings of Jesus. 

877
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:24,040
They're they're important, 
they're essential, he says in 

878
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:25,560
verse 19, Do not store them for 
yourself. 

879
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:27,960
Treasures on earth where malls 
and vermin destroy, where 

880
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,840
thieves break in and steal, but 
store them for yourself, 

881
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,400
treasures in heaven where malls 
and vermin do not destroy and 

882
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,120
where thieves do not break in 
and steal. 

883
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:36,760
You say, well, how does that 
contradict? 

884
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,320
How is that the teaching of the 
false teachers contradict that 

885
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,480
teaching there of Jesus? 
Here's what they say, Bring me 

886
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:45,640
money in this life and you'll 
get money back in your life. 

887
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:48,440
Now why would Jesus teach the 
lesson that he taught there in 

888
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,280
Matthew chapter 6 to turn 
around? 

889
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:52,920
And then make it about our 
worldly riches. 

890
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:56,320
He would never do that. 
He would never contradict 

891
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:56,920
himself. 
Why? 

892
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,720
Because He is the truth, and the
truth cannot contradict itself. 

893
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:05,360
Far too many false teachers are 
using Christianity to line their

894
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:06,800
pockets. 
You know it's true and I know 

895
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,720
it's true. 
They're lining their pockets 

896
00:49:09,720 --> 00:49:12,400
instead of pointing others to 
Jesus Christ. 

897
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,440
Shame on them. 
Shame on them. 

898
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,960
There is a dark and desolate 
hell that awaits them. 

899
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:24,240
They have a lust for cash, but 
they also are driven by a lack 

900
00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:26,320
of contentment. 
That's why Paul tells Timothy, 

901
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,760
we'll be driven by by the same 
thing these false teachers are 

902
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:31,800
driven by. 
You have contentment in the 

903
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,840
Lord. 
Godliness with contentment. 

904
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,440
That is the greatest treasure 
that anyone can have. 

905
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,720
You, you want to know the key to
happiness in this life? 

906
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:40,680
Are you listening? 
Everybody's looking for it. 

907
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,200
Godliness with contentment. 
It's a great game. 

908
00:49:43,720 --> 00:49:45,840
It's a great game. 
That means if you have $0.00, 

909
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,600
you are content and you are 
joyful in the Lord. 

910
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:51,480
If you have a gazillion dollars,
you are content and you are 

911
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:53,880
joyful in the Lord. 
And you know this, that he owns 

912
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:56,760
your poverty as well as the fact
that He owns your riches. 

913
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:02,880
You glorify Him in every 
situation, not like these false 

914
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:05,320
teachers who are driven by a 
lack of contentment, wanting 

915
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:11,240
more and more and more and more.
They forget that God has placed 

916
00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:13,160
them right where they need to 
be. 

917
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,760
He's given them exactly what 
they need. 

918
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:17,280
That's why he reminds Timothy 
here. 

919
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,120
For we brought nothing into the 
world and we can take nothing 

920
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:21,880
out of it. 
But if you have food and 

921
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:23,880
clothing, we will be content 
with that. 

922
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:25,920
What a heart. 
We have food and clothing, we'll

923
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:27,320
be content with that. 
Why is that important? 

924
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:28,840
Because that's all Christ ever 
promised you. 

925
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,080
Matthew 633 Seek ye first the 
Kingdom of God and His 

926
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,760
righteousness, and these things,
what things your basic needs 

927
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,280
shall be added unto you in this 
life. 

928
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,800
He has promised to take care of 
you, just as He takes care of 

929
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:42,080
the flowers and the field and 
the birds of the sky. 

930
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:44,720
He hasn't promised you that 
you're going to be the richest 

931
00:50:44,720 --> 00:50:46,480
person in America. 
He hasn't even promised you that

932
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:48,600
you're going to be the richest. 
Person in east Montgomery County

933
00:50:51,720 --> 00:50:54,880
fact. 
He warns US against a lack of 

934
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,640
contentment over and over and 
over again, forgetting who we 

935
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:01,520
belong to, forgetting that he's 
going to take care of us, losing

936
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:03,680
sight of those things. 
Know how dangerous that is? 

937
00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:06,640
How many have fallen victim to 
that, even in the? 

938
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,640
Church because of these sly 
teachers, right? 

939
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:11,440
If you love God, know that God 
loves you. 

940
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:14,040
And if you love God, he'll bless
you with earthly riches. 

941
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:20,400
Show me that in the Bible. 
He's one of the richest men that

942
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:23,840
we see in Scripture. 
Job had everything taken away 

943
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:26,720
from him. 
He said, well, God blessed him 

944
00:51:26,720 --> 00:51:28,080
in the end. 
He did, but he didn't have to. 

945
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:32,840
But all the lessons that Job 
learned with just being content,

946
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:37,840
just being content and knowing 
that God is God and he is under 

947
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,720
his care no matter where he 
finds himself in life. 

948
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:44,600
He himself said the Lord gives 
and the Lord takes away. 

949
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,560
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
That's godliness with 

950
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:51,080
contentment. 
That is what Paul is telling 

951
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:54,640
Timothy to be and to have, and 
he's warning that these false 

952
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:59,760
teachers do not have that. 
We must learn to glorify God 

953
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:04,200
with a little, because if you 
can't glorify God with a little,

954
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,600
you can't ever expect to glorify
God with a lot. 

955
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:09,640
Now I know what the charismatics
do. 

956
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:12,680
They act as if God is somehow 
holding that back from you until

957
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:16,040
you learn how to manage it. 
No, it's just a fact. 

958
00:52:16,240 --> 00:52:19,160
It's just common sense. 
Jesus teaches this. 

959
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:22,680
Common sense lesson in Luke's 
gospel in the 16th chapter, he 

960
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,280
says in verse 10, whoever can be
trusted with very little can 

961
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:28,080
also be trusted with much, and 
whoever's dishonest with very 

962
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:29,600
little will also be dishonest 
with much. 

963
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:33,080
So if you've been trust, been 
trustworthy and handling worldly

964
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:35,520
wealth, if you have not, excuse 
me, been trustworthy and 

965
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:39,080
handling worldly wealth, who 
will trust you with true riches?

966
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,720
What is he saying? 
You can't even handle the little

967
00:52:42,720 --> 00:52:45,720
bit that I've given you and 
allowed you to have by my grace.

968
00:52:45,720 --> 00:52:48,800
As far as? 
Worldly riches is concerned. 

969
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:52,680
What makes you think I'm going 
to trust you with any kind of 

970
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,840
heavenly riches? 
That's the lesson there. 

971
00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:57,400
That's something. 
That we all need to pay 

972
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,840
attention to why godliness with 
contentment is great gain. 

973
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:04,280
Paul reminding Timothy of this. 
These false teachers 

974
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:08,240
contradicting that at every 
turn, never satisfied with their

975
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:10,840
earthly possessions or their 
earthly positions. 

976
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:12,560
Right. 
Always telling the church how 

977
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:15,720
you deserve more. 
I don't hear that a lot. 

978
00:53:15,720 --> 00:53:17,560
You deserve more. 
You're somebody. 

979
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:19,840
I see churches who put it up on 
their billboards. 

980
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:22,240
I am not somebody. 
Christ does everything. 

981
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,400
I am dead. 
I died with Christ. 

982
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:27,480
Kirk Hall does not matter. 
Any riches I have or in Christ, 

983
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:31,320
the end. 
Yeah, we see this false teaching

984
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:38,000
come out constantly because of 
the American Dream, that bill of

985
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,760
lies that you've all bought into
that is not biblical at all. 

986
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:44,360
You're never satisfied with your
earthly possessions or the OR 

987
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:48,280
your earthly position. 
Always and constantly wanting 

988
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,720
more, more, more. 
Why? 

989
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,960
Lack of contentment, the lust 
for cash. 

990
00:53:55,240 --> 00:53:57,280
Greed is that idol that you 
worship. 

991
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,480
Covetousness is just something 
that you do and you are. 

992
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:05,080
You must repent of this. 
But unfortunately, these 

993
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:10,840
teachers, they exploit it. 
They exploit your weaknesses, 

994
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:17,640
they drag you into their trap. 
And the lust for worldly riches 

995
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:20,680
mixed with the basic 
discontentment of the American 

996
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:28,560
church drives us to covetous 
desires and false ideologies 

997
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:30,080
that are opposite of the word of
God. 

998
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:38,560
The sad thing is this, and let 
us be warned, the destruction of

999
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:41,600
false teachers. 
And the sad thing is this, as we

1000
00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:44,080
get to that fourth point, the 
destruction of false teachers, 

1001
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:47,000
not only do they destroy 
themselves, but they destroy all

1002
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:51,240
those who are falling. 
This isn't verse nine. 

1003
00:54:51,240 --> 00:54:53,800
People who want to get rich fall
into temptation, in a trap, and 

1004
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:56,280
into many foolish and harmful 
desires that plunge men into 

1005
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:57,960
ruin and destruction. 
Why is he saying this? 

1006
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,560
He's warning the people there at
Ephesus now. 

1007
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:05,080
Your lust for more is going to 
be fed by these teachers who 

1008
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:08,960
have a lust for more. 
Be careful, he says in verse 10,

1009
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:11,400
for the love of money is a root 
of all kinds of evil. 

1010
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:16,800
Watch this strong language here.
Some people eager for money have

1011
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:21,320
wandered from the faith. 
This is apostasy. 

1012
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,560
They've completely wandered from
the faith and pierced themselves

1013
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:29,320
with many griefs. 
American Christian, American 

1014
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:32,400
Church, please hear this 
warning. 

1015
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:34,320
Hear it. 
It's for you. 

1016
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,800
Many of you have been sold a 
lie, a bill of goods from false 

1017
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:41,800
teachers for hundreds of years 
in this country. 

1018
00:55:44,240 --> 00:55:47,040
They have told you that you can 
follow Christ and have all your 

1019
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:50,320
greedy desires of the flesh. 
And now they've repackaged it in

1020
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:54,520
our day in a nice little neat, 
concise package, right? 

1021
00:55:54,520 --> 00:55:58,920
The Word of Faith movement. 
It is a lie riddled full of 

1022
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:01,800
false teaching. 
Period. 

1023
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:06,760
Stay away from it. 
Don't listen to their podcasts, 

1024
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:10,240
don't buy their books, don't 
watch their services. 

1025
00:56:10,240 --> 00:56:12,320
Don't please. 
Attend one of their services. 

1026
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:20,800
Shut them down. 
Stop the life vein that feeds 

1027
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:23,960
them. 
Teach the word of God accurately

1028
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,760
so that Christians won't be 
ignorantly throwing their money 

1029
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:30,760
at these charlatans. 
These thieves heed the warning. 

1030
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:36,200
Lust for worldly riches will be 
the destruction of false 

1031
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:38,680
teachers and those who follow 
them. 

1032
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:41,880
Matthew 624. 
We can't take back what the Lord

1033
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,920
has already said. 
No one can serve 2 masters. 

1034
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,680
Either he will hate the one and 
love the other, or he will be 

1035
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:49,440
devoted to the one and despise 
the other. 

1036
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:54,440
You cannot serve both God and 
money. 

1037
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:58,920
Do do I need to read that again 
so that the American church can 

1038
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:04,160
hear that you cannot serve both 
God and money that is from the 

1039
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:07,240
Lord Jesus Christ? 
That is not Kirk Hall standing 

1040
00:57:07,240 --> 00:57:10,360
up here making up something. 
Because if it was up to Kirk 

1041
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:12,840
Hall, you know what I would say?
Line my pockets with your 

1042
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:18,400
stupidity and I would tell you 
any lie that I had to tell you 

1043
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:21,720
so that you would do that. 
But I'm not corrupt. 

1044
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:26,560
I'm not a false teacher. 
I'm not one of these people who 

1045
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:30,120
are exploiting the ignorant and 
the unlearned. 

1046
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,840
What is their destruction? 
Because they have destruction 

1047
00:57:33,840 --> 00:57:35,800
coming. 
What isn't? 

1048
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:38,680
Well, first, they're devoured by
greed. 

1049
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:44,720
They don't have to wait on this.
Greed is already eating at them.

1050
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:48,040
Second, Peter 2, verse 1, he 
says. 

1051
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:50,720
But there were also false 
prophets among the people, just 

1052
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:52,160
as there will be false teachers 
among you. 

1053
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:55,960
He says they will secretly 
introduce destructive heresies, 

1054
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,240
even denying the sovereign Lord 
who bought them, bringing swift 

1055
00:57:58,240 --> 00:57:59,920
destruction. 
I want you to pay attention to 

1056
00:57:59,920 --> 00:58:01,240
this. 
I know you've read this passage 

1057
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:02,800
already for another point, but 
read it again. 

1058
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:04,800
Swift destruction on themselves.
It's coming now. 

1059
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:08,080
Many will follow their depraved 
conduct and will bring the way 

1060
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:10,480
of truth into disrepute in their
greed. 

1061
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,440
These teachers will exploit you 
with fabricated stories. 

1062
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:15,880
That's why they don't preach the
scriptures, they preach stories.

1063
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:20,400
Their condemnation has long been
hanging over them and their 

1064
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:22,040
destruction has not been 
sleeping. 

1065
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:24,920
It is going on actively. 
They are being destroyed from 

1066
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:27,240
the inside. 
Out because of their greed. 

1067
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:32,440
It's eating it now. 
Devoured by it, they're trapped 

1068
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:36,720
by chasing their own sinful 
desires and greed. 

1069
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:44,840
I believe many of them know the 
truth intellectually, but they 

1070
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:50,520
love their greed more than they 
love the God who created them. 

1071
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:53,920
What do they do? 
They teach others to do the 

1072
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:57,120
same. 
Isn't that the big danger of 

1073
00:58:57,120 --> 00:59:00,280
false teachers? 
They duplicate and they make 

1074
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,080
disciples. 
That's why it's important that 

1075
00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:06,000
those of us who are sound in 
doctrine make disciples, because

1076
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:08,480
these false teachers do the same
thing. 

1077
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:10,600
They lead others into 
destruction. 

1078
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:12,680
That's how it works. 
That's why Jesus said in Matthew

1079
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:15,280
1514, He says this. 
Leave them. 

1080
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:17,000
They're blind guides. 
He's warning. 

1081
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:18,880
His disciples leave the 
Pharisees. 

1082
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:20,560
They're blind guides. 
They're false teachers. 

1083
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:23,080
What they're saying is not true.
He says the blind lead the 

1084
00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:26,240
blind. 
Both will fall into a pit. 

1085
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:33,120
That's the danger of that false 
teacher who is devoured by 

1086
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:35,560
greed. 
He will lead others to be 

1087
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:40,480
devoured by the same greed. 
That's why Paul said earlier 

1088
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:45,040
this first epistle or this 
pastoral epistle to Timothy 

1089
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:47,200
chapter 4. 
He says watch your life and 

1090
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:50,120
doctrine closely, persevering 
them, because if you do, you 

1091
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:52,440
will save both yourself and your
hearers. 

1092
00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:55,160
You know what a true man of God 
wants to do, what a true 

1093
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:57,720
shepherd wants to do. 
He wants to save both himself 

1094
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:00,640
and his hearers. 
How does he do this sound 

1095
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:05,240
doctrine, Sola Scripture, the 
word of God over and over and 

1096
01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:09,800
over again without compromise. 
But the false teacher does the 

1097
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:12,400
opposite. 
He's the blind leading the 

1098
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:14,640
blind, and he leads the blind 
into. 

1099
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:22,360
Pit devoured by their own greed.
Jesus is not silent about their 

1100
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:25,040
judgement. 
He says in Matthew 18-6. 

1101
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:28,440
If anyone calls as one of these 
little ones, those who believe 

1102
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:31,640
in me to stumble, that's the 
Christian who's perhaps a little

1103
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:34,000
ignorant. 
He says it would be better for 

1104
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:36,600
them to have a large millstone 
hung around their neck and to be

1105
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:38,080
drowned in the depths of the 
sea. 

1106
01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:41,320
I stood at the place where Jesus
would have said this. 

1107
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:50,440
And the fact is that when they 
actually mined this site, the 

1108
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:55,240
archaeologist came in and they 
found several 100 millstones 

1109
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:56,600
right there on the Sea of 
Galilee. 

1110
01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:58,560
And those millstones were I 
couldn't pick them up. 

1111
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:00,080
You couldn't pick them up. 
Probably three or four of us 

1112
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:02,880
couldn't pick them up. 
Jesus would have used that word 

1113
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:04,560
picture and he would have said 
it's better for you to have that

1114
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:06,240
millstone right there tied 
around your neck and thrown into

1115
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,760
the sea that was right behind 
him as he preached the sermon. 

1116
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:13,320
Why do I say that? 
Because when we follow false 

1117
01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:17,320
teachers, we are devoured by 
that same greed as they are. 

1118
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:22,720
They will suffer for it, and you
will suffer as well. 

1119
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:26,040
You will suffer in this life, 
and if you were not careful, you

1120
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:28,720
will suffer for all eternity. 
They were devoured and are 

1121
01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:30,880
devoured by greed, but they're 
destined for grief. 

1122
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:35,080
Grief, a dune. 
In the Greek it means this. 

1123
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:38,360
It means sorrow or sorrowful 
grief. 

1124
01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:42,320
They are brought to the deepest 
grief, and they are brought to 

1125
01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:46,720
this grief even in this life, 
having known the truth but 

1126
01:01:46,720 --> 01:01:50,560
openly rejected it. 
That is how the apostate is 

1127
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:53,120
described, coming to the 
knowledge of the truth. 

1128
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:56,560
There are so many who have come 
to the knowledge of the truth 

1129
01:01:56,560 --> 01:02:01,160
and yet do not know Christ and. 
Did you know that's very 

1130
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:05,560
possible you can come to the 
intellectual knowledge of Christ

1131
01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:10,680
and yet not know Christ? 
And how sad it is what grief 

1132
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:15,720
must be upon them to have heard 
the truth, to have known it 

1133
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:23,360
intellectually, but to then 
openly reject it because of 

1134
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:28,080
their own corruption. 
Oh, the misery of the apostate. 

1135
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:30,400
The misery, you say, Kirk, do 
you really believe that an 

1136
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:32,520
apostate is miserable? 
Do you think that they know? 

1137
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:34,800
Yes, they know enough to be 
miserable. 

1138
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:37,440
Go and look at Judas Iscariot. 
What did he do? 

1139
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:40,280
He apostatized from Christ. 
And what did he do? 

1140
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:43,440
He was so stricken with grief, 
even in this life, he hanged 

1141
01:02:43,440 --> 01:02:49,040
himself. 
Oh, they're full of grief. 

1142
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:52,600
This is what they're destined 
for. 

1143
01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:56,000
Destined for grief unless they 
repent. 

1144
01:02:57,480 --> 01:03:01,400
They've pierced themselves with 
many griefs even in this life, 

1145
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:04,440
but unfortunately, grief for all
eternity. 

1146
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:07,920
Or here's the eternal part of 
this, they're destined for grief

1147
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:11,680
not only in this life while 
they're getting rich off of 

1148
01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:17,000
Christ and off of his church by 
scamming people, one day they're

1149
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:18,800
going to pay for it for all 
eternity. 

1150
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:24,560
Second Peter chapter 2 this 
first God did not spare angels 

1151
01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:27,000
when they send verse 4, but sent
them to hell, putting them in 

1152
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:29,280
chains of darkness to be held 
for judgement. 

1153
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:31,880
If he did not spare the ancient 
world when he brought the flood 

1154
01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:34,760
on its ungodly people, but 
protected Noah, a preacher of 

1155
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:37,720
righteousness, and seven others.
If he condemned the cities of 

1156
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:40,440
Sodom and Gomorrah by burning 
them to ashes and made them an 

1157
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:43,560
example of what is going to 
happen to the ungodly, And if he

1158
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:46,800
rescued a lot, a righteous man 
who was distressed by the 

1159
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:49,320
depraved conduct of the 
lawlessness. 

1160
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:52,400
For the righteous man lived 
among them day after day, was 

1161
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:55,240
tormented and in his righteous 
soul by the lawless. 

1162
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:58,680
Deeds he saw and heard. 
If this is so, then the Lord 

1163
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:01,520
knows how to rescue the godly 
from trials and to hold the 

1164
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:04,360
unrighteous for punishment on 
the day of judgement. 

1165
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:08,360
This is especially true of those
who follow the corrupt desire of

1166
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:11,760
the flesh and despise authority.
Bold and arrogant, they are not 

1167
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:13,840
afraid to heap abuse on 
celestial beings. 

1168
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:16,960
He's saying this. 
This is especially true of those

1169
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:21,240
false teachers. 
They will experience eternal 

1170
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:26,920
grief in hell without apology. 
Second Peter 2. 

1171
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:30,000
The latter part of chapter 2, 
verse 17 says these people are 

1172
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,320
springs without water and mist, 
driven by storm. 

1173
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:34,920
Black as darkness is reserved 
for them. 

1174
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:37,440
For they mouth the empty 
boastful words, and by appealing

1175
01:04:37,440 --> 01:04:40,720
to lustful desires of the flesh,
they entice people who are just 

1176
01:04:40,720 --> 01:04:43,160
escaping from those who live in 
air. 

1177
01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:46,640
It's an interesting how those 
who come to faith in Christ 

1178
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:49,520
immediately these false teachers
want to try to suck them up 

1179
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:51,120
right? 
The charismatic movement tries 

1180
01:04:51,120 --> 01:04:52,760
to draw them in. 
Oh yeah, you have Jesus, but 

1181
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,280
you're missing so much more. 
You're not missing anything. 

1182
01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:58,120
You're missing nothing. 
If you have Christ, you have it 

1183
01:04:58,120 --> 01:05:00,160
all in Christ. 
All is contained. 

1184
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:04,520
Stop listening to those people. 
So they promised them freedom 

1185
01:05:04,520 --> 01:05:08,080
while they themselves. 
Are slaves of depravity for 

1186
01:05:08,080 --> 01:05:10,080
people who are slaves to 
whatever has mastered them. 

1187
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:12,440
If they have escaped the 
corruption of the world by 

1188
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:14,840
knowing our Lord and Savior 
Jesus Christ, and are again 

1189
01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:17,720
entangled in it and are 
overcome, they are worse off at 

1190
01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:19,320
the end than they were at the 
beginning. 

1191
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:20,560
I know many people. 
Want to say, well, see, he's 

1192
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:22,360
talking about losing salvation. 
He's not. 

1193
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:25,440
He's talking about a person who 
comes to the knowledge of Jesus 

1194
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:28,200
Christ and they even have some 
moral reform. 

1195
01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:29,600
But watch what he says at the 
end. 

1196
01:05:29,840 --> 01:05:32,600
It would have been better for 
them not to have known the way 

1197
01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:36,120
of righteousness than to have 
known it and then to turn their 

1198
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:39,560
backs on the sacred command that
was passed on to them. 

1199
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:44,000
Of them the proverbs are true. 
This is why it doesn't mean a 

1200
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:48,320
person can lose his salvation. 
A dog returns to its vomit. 

1201
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:50,800
What is he saying? 
Did that person ever cease to be

1202
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:53,120
a dog? 
No, if you're in Christ, you're 

1203
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:54,840
a new creation. 
You're not a dog anymore. 

1204
01:05:54,840 --> 01:05:57,280
Therefore you're not going to go
back and lick up vomit. 

1205
01:05:57,680 --> 01:06:02,640
He uses another illustration, 
and a sow that is washed returns

1206
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:06,360
to her wallowing in the mud. 
I know many of our students, 

1207
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,040
they show animals in the fair. 
Every year I go and I watch the 

1208
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:10,760
pig show. 
I know nothing about it, but I 

1209
01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:12,600
like to watch what's interesting
to me. 

1210
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:15,160
These kids will get these pigs 
all cleaned up for the pig show.

1211
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:17,560
And you know what? 
Before they enter into that 

1212
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:20,440
arena, a pig is going to lay 
down in another pig's mess. 

1213
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:22,880
Why? 
They're pigs. 

1214
01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:27,840
That's what pigs do. 
These people were never 

1215
01:06:27,840 --> 01:06:31,320
believers. 
They prove it by their lives. 

1216
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:33,960
They prove it by they're 
teaching. 

1217
01:06:35,440 --> 01:06:39,120
It'll be proved for all eternity
and hell, when they perish 

1218
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:41,560
because they did not repent and 
they did not turn to Jesus 

1219
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:46,400
Christ. 
And so just as this deception 

1220
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:49,160
falls upon these false teachers 
and those who follow them, so 

1221
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:51,520
will the destruction that 
follow. 

1222
01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:56,200
And so be warned, be warned. 
Know that this is not something 

1223
01:06:56,200 --> 01:06:58,000
to play with. 
This is not something to just 

1224
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:00,920
pass off as, oh, another sermon 
to fill time. 

1225
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:08,880
This could be the difference for
you between eternal life and 

1226
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:10,760
eternal death. 
Some of you have been LED astray

1227
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:15,640
by false teachers. 
I pray that you would see that 

1228
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:19,600
today for those who teach false 
things. 

1229
01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:22,160
I'll make no mistake when I read
those things about them. 

1230
01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:27,280
Spending an eternity in hell 
does not throw my heart, causes 

1231
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:32,040
me to pray for them, causes me 
to pray for the Jesse 

1232
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:34,720
Duplantises, Kenneth Higgins, 
the Joel Osteens. 

1233
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:39,000
You say? 
Well, Kirk, you're naming some 

1234
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:42,000
pretty big names there. 
They're all false teachers. 

1235
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:48,320
And I grieve for their soul 
because they've LED people down 

1236
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:50,640
a path of destruction. 
And if they don't repent, they 

1237
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:53,720
will spend an eternity grieving 
in hell. 

1238
01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:57,480
Can you imagine? 
In hell, when you have 100% 

1239
01:07:57,600 --> 01:08:01,480
consciousness and you were there
and for all eternity, while you 

1240
01:08:01,480 --> 01:08:05,920
were in torment for all 
eternity, all you can think 

1241
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:09,720
about is how you distorted the 
gospel for your own gain, how 

1242
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:13,720
you blasphemy Christ. 
What misery awaits them? 

1243
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:18,040
I would not wish that on my 
worst enemy. 

1244
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:21,920
May they hear the truth and may 
they repent of their sin and 

1245
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:29,160
turn to Christ and be saved. 
So we wrap this up, believer. 

1246
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:36,120
I can't wrap it up any other way
or any better way, and remind 

1247
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:39,040
you again of what the Lord said 
in Matthew Chapter 7. 

1248
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:41,600
He says watch out for false 
prophets. 

1249
01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:43,920
They come to you in sheep's 
clothing. 

1250
01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:48,160
They're in pulpits, but inwardly
they're ferocious wools. 

1251
01:08:48,960 --> 01:08:51,279
Buy their fruit, fruit. 
You will recognize them. 

1252
01:08:52,200 --> 01:08:55,640
You pick grapes from thorn 
bushes or figs from thistles. 

1253
01:08:56,319 --> 01:08:59,279
Likewise, every good tree bears 
good fruit, but a bad tree bears

1254
01:08:59,279 --> 01:09:01,359
bad fruit. 
Good tree cannot bear bad fruit,

1255
01:09:01,359 --> 01:09:02,840
and a bad tree cannot bear good 
fruit. 

1256
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:06,640
Every tree that does not bear 
good good fruit is cut down and 

1257
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:11,080
thrown into the fire. 
Thus, by their fruit you will 

1258
01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:13,520
recognize them. 
So, pastor, why is it so 

1259
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:16,000
important that we recognize them
so that they don't bring you 

1260
01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:19,359
down, so they don't lead you 
astray? 

1261
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:25,279
Let us be devoted to sound 
doctrine from the Scripture in 

1262
01:09:25,279 --> 01:09:32,920
the Scripture alone to the 
unbeliever having heard the 

1263
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:36,560
gospel message today. 
What is that what Jesus 

1264
01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:38,080
preached? 
Repent and believe. 

1265
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:42,359
I pray that the Lord would 
graciously allow you to do that 

1266
01:09:42,359 --> 01:09:46,160
today. 
He would regenerate you to a 

1267
01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:49,520
point by His Spirit where you do
have a desire to repent of your 

1268
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:52,600
sin and to trust in Jesus Christ
alone because only He can do 

1269
01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:56,640
that work. 
Because the sad fact is, this 

1270
01:09:56,640 --> 01:09:59,520
unbeliever, you've already 
bought into the lives of the 

1271
01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:02,880
false teachers. 
Oh, maybe in many ways, but I 

1272
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:05,480
can tell you too that 
potentially you have bought into

1273
01:10:06,440 --> 01:10:09,200
some of you have bought into the
ideology that's being spewed in 

1274
01:10:09,200 --> 01:10:13,160
this country that you don't 
really need Jesus, that all 

1275
01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:15,480
roads will eventually lead to 
heaven. 

1276
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:19,480
The problem with that is John 14
six where Jesus said I am the 

1277
01:10:19,480 --> 01:10:22,200
way, the truth and the life and 
no man comes to the Father, but 

1278
01:10:22,200 --> 01:10:24,560
by me. 
It is only through Christ that 

1279
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:27,560
anyone will be saved. 
Turn to Christ and be saved 

1280
01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:30,120
today. 
There is no alternate route. 

1281
01:10:31,440 --> 01:10:34,440
Stop buying the lives of these 
false teachers, the good old boy

1282
01:10:34,440 --> 01:10:38,080
ideology that if I just do 
enough good, I'll somehow make 

1283
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:40,160
it. 
You can't do enough good. 

1284
01:10:42,480 --> 01:10:45,240
Completely depraved. 
There is an unrighteous no, not 

1285
01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:49,760
one, no one seeks after him. 
You must be born again. 

1286
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:53,840
According to John chapter 3. 
You must be born again. 

1287
01:10:54,160 --> 01:10:57,760
I pray today that God would work
a new birth in you. 

1288
01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:03,120
Maybe you rub the school. 
In the modern church in America 

1289
01:11:03,120 --> 01:11:07,640
where you say this, you've 
bought into this lie. 

1290
01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:12,400
Well, I have Jesus, but I also 
like the things of the world 

1291
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:13,760
too, so I kind of have them 
both. 

1292
01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:17,800
That's a lie I had straight from
the pits of hell. 

1293
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:24,200
For if you love the world, the 
love of the Father is not in 

1294
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:26,680
you. 
That's what the word of God. 

1295
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:31,000
Proclaims you can't serve 2 
masters. 

1296
01:11:31,240 --> 01:11:33,240
That's not difficult to 
understand. 

1297
01:11:33,480 --> 01:11:36,880
Jesus is Lord of all, or He is 
not Lord at all. 

1298
01:11:40,720 --> 01:11:46,720
Are you following Christ because
you can't have both Jesus and 

1299
01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:50,400
the world? 
Are you following Christ? 

1300
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:52,400
You're never going to get there 
on your own. 

1301
01:11:52,400 --> 01:11:54,520
Those are lies that false 
teachers spew. 

1302
01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:01,200
Have you repented of your sin? 
And have you believed on the 

1303
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:03,560
Lord Jesus Christ and that alone
to be saved? 

1304
01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:09,240
Then and only then, the person 
be biblically saved, cleansed of

1305
01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:10,360
all their sin. 
Let's pray together. 

1306
01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:12,120
Father, in the name of Jesus, we
thank you for your word. 

1307
01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:15,880
We thank you that it is true and
we know that it will accomplish 

1308
01:12:15,880 --> 01:12:18,800
exactly what you desire for it 
accomplished today. 

1309
01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:22,840
God, I pray for the Sinner who's
here, the unbeliever. 

1310
01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:26,040
I pray that you birth faith and 
repentance in them today, that 

1311
01:12:26,040 --> 01:12:27,840
they would believe that they 
would turn from their sin and 

1312
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:30,720
turn to Christ as their only 
hope and be saved this very day.

1313
01:12:32,040 --> 01:12:33,800
God, I pray for each believer in
this room. 

1314
01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:38,600
I pray that you would protect 
them by your word from the many,

1315
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:42,560
many false teachers who are out 
in this world today seeking to 

1316
01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:48,840
devour, seeking to dismantle, 
sinking to cause division. 

1317
01:12:50,440 --> 01:12:53,400
And I pray that you give us 
discernment, that the 

1318
01:12:53,400 --> 01:12:55,720
discernment would come from the 
truth of Your Word, empowered by

1319
01:12:55,720 --> 01:12:59,240
Your Holy Spirit that lives in 
us, that we would stand and we 

1320
01:12:59,240 --> 01:13:02,200
would contend for the faith that
we have been entrusted to 

1321
01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:05,080
contend for, just as Jude has 
commanded us to do. 

1322
01:13:06,200 --> 01:13:07,480
May you be glorified in our 
lives. 

1323
01:13:07,480 --> 01:13:08,800
And we pray these things in 
Christ. 

1324
01:13:10,080 --> 01:13:13,080
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1325
01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:15,880
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1326
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