1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,200 Well, our scripture reading. Scripture reading is from The 2 00:00:06,208 --> 00:00:11,400 Book of Matthew. Sermon on the Mount. 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:23,900 Matthew Chapter 7, We're coming down now to the last about 20% 4 00:00:23,900 --> 00:00:26,300 of The Sermon on the Mount today. 5 00:00:26,300 --> 00:00:29,100 We're in Matthew chapter 7, in our scripture, reading and text 6 00:00:29,100 --> 00:00:32,900 comes from verse 15 and following here. 7 00:00:32,900 --> 00:00:37,200 Now, the word of the Lord This is Jesus speaking, of course, 8 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:43,100 beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, 9 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:45,800 but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 10 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:51,100 You will recognize them by their fruits are grapes, gathered from 11 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:53,400 thornbushes or figs from thistles. 12 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,200 So, every healthy tree Bears, good fruit, but the diseased 13 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:02,400 tree Bears. Bad fruit a healthy tree cannot 14 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,700 bear, bad fruit. Nor can a disease done-- bear, 15 00:01:05,700 --> 00:01:09,000 good fruit. Every tree that does not bear. 16 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,600 Good, fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 17 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:17,800 Does she will recognize them by their fruits, the word of the 18 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:45,500 Lord, and you may be seated. False prophets. 19 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,800 First thing I did last this week when I began to prepare for this 20 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:56,700 message was, I just sat down? and pulled out a my legal pad 21 00:01:56,900 --> 00:02:00,600 and yeah I use it legal pad I don't use one of them silly 22 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:10,600 little and I started sketching all sorts of groups and 23 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:18,000 movements and things that in my opinion were false prophets led 24 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:23,100 by false, prophets espousing false teaching and in many ways 25 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:28,100 practicing Wicked and false practices. 26 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:31,800 And I filled up the legal pad before I could hardly realize 27 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:36,500 what I'd done. And it stunned me I began to 28 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:38,800 think about it. I kind of knew this, but as I 29 00:02:38,808 --> 00:02:45,700 laid it out before me, The vast majority of what calls itself 30 00:02:45,700 --> 00:02:49,300 Christian today. Is false. 31 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:59,900 That's just hard to imagine. but there are Heretics of the first 32 00:02:59,900 --> 00:03:02,900 order. People, that deny the 33 00:03:02,900 --> 00:03:06,200 Incarnation. People that are totally mistaken 34 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:08,900 about what Authority base. We have, whether it's the word 35 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:12,000 of God or tradition or the latest word from man. 36 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:17,200 God told me this morning and on and on I went and I was 37 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,200 frustrated to try to categorize it all because I wanted to spell 38 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:24,100 it all I wanted to name names. I know lots of names, I wanted 39 00:03:24,100 --> 00:03:26,700 to match them up with doctrines and pull something out of the 40 00:03:26,700 --> 00:03:29,200 scripture and I said, first of all, I don't have the time to do 41 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,900 that but more importantly, I really don't have the wisdom and 42 00:03:32,900 --> 00:03:37,600 discernment to do that. A good make a good shot at it, 43 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:43,900 but it's unbelievable. Amount of false things that are 44 00:03:43,908 --> 00:03:50,100 being taught in the name of the one who said, I am the truth. 45 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,300 While later in this particular passage, we're going to get to 46 00:03:56,300 --> 00:04:00,800 where Jesus talked about. Those that did a lot of 47 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,600 wonderful things in his name. And what he'll say to. 48 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,200 We'll save that for us under your two down the road. 49 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,200 What I thought I would do, since I filled up with a legal pad, 50 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:15,100 full of all sorts of false, teachers and false Doctrine, and 51 00:04:15,100 --> 00:04:17,899 false movements, and heresies, and everything, I could think of 52 00:04:17,899 --> 00:04:21,600 off the top of my head, I just decided Well, instead of 53 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,300 sketching, you my opinion, why don't I just read you a few 54 00:04:25,300 --> 00:04:29,000 words of scripture and let the scriptures speak for themselves? 55 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,100 And see what the apostles Doctrine is concerning these 56 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:37,100 false teachers and how we are to relate to them and what we are 57 00:04:37,100 --> 00:04:40,000 to do to them. So this will be as about every 58 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,000 third sermon, I try to put together a listing on a reading 59 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:46,300 of Holy Scripture. The first place I'll go is to 60 00:04:46,300 --> 00:04:49,400 Acts chapter 20. Paul is on his missionary 61 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,300 Journeys. He's coming back through a place 62 00:04:51,300 --> 00:04:54,900 where he had been before he stops in the elders, from the 63 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,500 fusion church, as well as the surrounding area. 64 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:03,100 Probably join him for. A real real long sermon and he's 65 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:05,800 teaching them and he's telling them and testifying to them 66 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,300 about how his ministry was among them. 67 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:12,900 And in Acts chapter 20, Verse 29. 68 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:20,000 Paul says, know that after my departure Fierce wolves will 69 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:25,700 come in among you not sparing the flock and from among you 70 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:32,000 your own selves will arise men speaking Twisted things to draw 71 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:37,000 away the disciples after them. Notice Paul uses the same 72 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,400 language, Jesus does, he calls them wolves? 73 00:05:41,300 --> 00:05:46,300 Ravenous wolves are here to Devour the flock. 74 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:52,800 And Paul says, After I'm Gone, these men will come in But 75 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:54,800 they're not going to come from the outside. 76 00:05:55,700 --> 00:05:57,100 They're going to come from among you. 77 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:00,800 And that's my application here in a few moments. 78 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:05,700 I'm going to talk about what's happening Among Us with the 79 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:08,200 false movements. The false teaching in the false 80 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:13,400 doctrines are in the PCA the Presbyterian Church in America, 81 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:16,200 not going to talk about the Mormons, the Jehovah's Witness, 82 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,200 the Roman Catholics and all the rest. 83 00:06:18,300 --> 00:06:20,800 We're going to talk about the Presbyterian Church in America 84 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:25,800 things that have Arisen Among Us and are being taught and 85 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:31,300 countenanced by our own. Pastors and professors and 86 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:34,600 leaders. Let out a hold attention for a 87 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,600 few moments. By the way, let's see how they 88 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,200 did the church at Ephesus that Paul was preaching to over in 89 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:44,400 Revelation. Jesus speaks to the church at 90 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,300 Ephesus. After about 50 years have gone 91 00:06:47,300 --> 00:06:53,900 by maybe 40 years have gone by and so he has a critique for the 92 00:06:53,900 --> 00:06:58,700 churches, the seven churches of Asia in John's Revelation in 93 00:06:58,700 --> 00:07:00,600 Chapter 2. There the first portion first 94 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:04,000 few verses apply to the church at Ephesus to the angel of the 95 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Church of Ephesus write. And then he says, I know your 96 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,200 works. It works your toil in your 97 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:13,600 patient endurance and how you cannot bear with those who are 98 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:18,900 evil but have tested, those who call themselves Apostles and are 99 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:26,800 not and found them to be false. Church of Ephesus had managed to 100 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,200 do it. They had identified the false 101 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,600 teachers. They had recognized the true 102 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:36,800 Apostolic Doctrine and had held to that faith in paste in the 103 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:43,400 faithful and patient endurance. And you cannot bear with those 104 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:45,500 who are evil. That teach the false Doctrine, 105 00:07:45,700 --> 00:07:48,600 wouldn't put up with it, called it out named it. 106 00:07:49,100 --> 00:07:53,000 And as we'll see in a moment, what Paul says, mark them. 107 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:59,800 Mark those that are false and avoid them and so that's what 108 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,200 the church at Ephesus had done. Now he has some other critique 109 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,300 of some of the things they had done one thing if we're not 110 00:08:06,300 --> 00:08:09,200 going to isolate ourselves here. But he told them they've left 111 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,100 their first love. It's an interesting. 112 00:08:12,100 --> 00:08:13,900 They were really good at discernment. 113 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:16,800 They could tell what was false. They didn't put up with it, they 114 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,600 disciplined. They put the in avoided, the 115 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:24,300 false teachers. But they'd still left their 116 00:08:24,300 --> 00:08:29,500 first love. They had grown cold indifferent 117 00:08:30,300 --> 00:08:35,799 backslidden, what do you think? Their first love was Should be 118 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:39,799 Christ. The bridegroom. 119 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,200 Sometimes we can do that, sometimes we can be real 120 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,800 Discerning and can really separate truth from error and 121 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,300 falsehood from the truth, and still lose. 122 00:08:49,300 --> 00:08:52,500 Our first love. Well, that's another sermon for 123 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:54,200 another day. Let's get back on topic. 124 00:08:56,500 --> 00:09:00,600 Paul. In Romans 16 said just what a 125 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:05,600 moment ago, I anticipated it. He tells the people that they 126 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:10,500 are to, I appeal to you, Brothers to watch out, or to 127 00:09:10,500 --> 00:09:16,800 Mark those who cause divisions in create obstacles, contrary to 128 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,700 the doctrine that you have been taught and avoid them. 129 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:22,700 In other words, watch out for them. 130 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:28,700 Keep your eyes and ears open. And when you discover them when 131 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:32,600 you discernment, avoid them for search persons, do not serve our 132 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,900 Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own appetites. 133 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:38,800 And that's a theme through this false Doctrine warnings. 134 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,700 We find in the apostolic Doctrine, the teachings of the 135 00:09:41,700 --> 00:09:44,800 Apostles is that these people are operating in the 136 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,600 satisfaction of their own bellies, it's their own 137 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:50,300 appetites. It's their own Pleasures that 138 00:09:50,300 --> 00:09:54,000 they are really working for their working for their own, And 139 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,300 Grand Iseman and they're working for their own profits. 140 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:01,700 And these are the, some of the motives, but by smooth talk and 141 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:05,800 flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive. 142 00:10:05,900 --> 00:10:07,400 That's the thing. You'll notice about false 143 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:09,400 teachers is there usually excellent teachers. 144 00:10:10,700 --> 00:10:13,600 You know, they were just incoherent teachers and didn't 145 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,400 have any appeal you wouldn't listen to anything that said 146 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:20,600 true or false. But because they are have smooth 147 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,700 teaching. They know theological words, 148 00:10:23,700 --> 00:10:27,300 they know things to say, they know the tone of voice, then 149 00:10:27,300 --> 00:10:29,900 they know the temperament of God's people. 150 00:10:29,900 --> 00:10:34,300 And so they're able to be highly deceptive. 151 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:38,700 And that's why they're told we're told to watch out for them 152 00:10:38,700 --> 00:10:43,300 by smooth talk and flattery Jude will say, later on if we get to 153 00:10:43,300 --> 00:10:46,800 it in a moment, Hilt, I say they have men's persons in 154 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,200 admiration. They're people that like to be 155 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:51,800 in high places and they like to be with others that are in high 156 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,100 places. Dr. So-and-so here. 157 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,200 Reverend so-and-so here. Bishop so-and-so there. 158 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:02,100 They have men's persons in admiration and they move ahead 159 00:11:02,100 --> 00:11:07,400 by flattery, and they move ahead by by compromise, so that things 160 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,700 can keep going and they can be elevated. 161 00:11:10,900 --> 00:11:13,700 One of the things you watch for, well, let's stay with Paul for a 162 00:11:13,700 --> 00:11:19,800 little bit over toward the latter part of Paul's Ministry. 163 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:23,100 Paul was very interested in reaching people, but so much of 164 00:11:23,108 --> 00:11:26,400 his work in the latter. Part of Paul's Ministry was 165 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:30,100 where he would go back to place. She had been before, if you 166 00:11:30,100 --> 00:11:33,500 receive his missionary Journeys, their big circles on your maps, 167 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:36,300 in the back of your Bible and they started Antioch in the go 168 00:11:36,300 --> 00:11:38,700 all the way through and they come back and they go around and 169 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,000 he goes to some places. He's being, he's going to some 170 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,600 other places but the time he writes the book of Romans he's 171 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:49,300 ready to operate and go all the way to the to hispania to Spain 172 00:11:49,300 --> 00:11:51,900 and Portugal to the further and western part of the 173 00:11:51,900 --> 00:11:56,000 Mediterranean, and he seeks to carry the gospel where the 174 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,400 gospel is not been before. But he still concerned about all 175 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:01,800 those churches that he's planted and all these churches, he's 176 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,700 ministered to in his missionary Journeys, in the prior years and 177 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:10,200 he does another thing. He sins young men, he has a 178 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,700 whole group of young men. They're listed in several of his 179 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:15,800 Epistles. He sends them to these places. 180 00:12:16,900 --> 00:12:20,900 And instructs them. And two of those men, we have 181 00:12:20,900 --> 00:12:23,900 some of the documentation that Paul gave them in. 182 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:29,100 It is the man Timothy young, man, Timothy and also Titus, and 183 00:12:29,100 --> 00:12:32,600 Paul several places, and let me just sort of sketch through 184 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:34,100 here. As we go in first, Timothy 185 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:40,000 Chapter, 4 verses, 11 and 2. Now, the spirit expressly says 186 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,200 that in the latter times some will depart from the Faith by 187 00:12:44,700 --> 00:12:47,800 devoting themselves to Seat for Spirits. 188 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:50,200 Do me notice how the theme is false? 189 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:54,200 It's deceit, it's misleading. Those are the things that that 190 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:58,400 are that are in the Forefront to deceitful, spirits and teachings 191 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:04,200 of demons through the insincerity of liars, Liars, 192 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:12,000 whose consciences are seared. Continuing and in chapter 6, in 193 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,700 verse 3, he admonishes Timothy, Teach an urge these things, if 194 00:13:16,700 --> 00:13:20,400 anyone teaches a different Doctrine and does not agree with 195 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,900 the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching 196 00:13:23,900 --> 00:13:28,700 that Accords with godliness and he goes on to talk about 197 00:13:28,700 --> 00:13:32,600 quarrels and controversies that spring up and all sorts of 198 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,000 things that are happened, constant friction among people 199 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,900 who are depraved in mine and depressed and deprived. 200 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,100 Out of the truth. Well, if I was a preacher, I'd 201 00:13:41,100 --> 00:13:45,200 be a good to point sermon right there, depraved in the mine. 202 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:51,600 And deprived of the truth. And they're imagining that 203 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:56,700 godliness is a means of gain. Is there anything that you've 204 00:13:56,700 --> 00:14:00,700 noticed in our Christian culture today, where they're concerned 205 00:14:00,700 --> 00:14:04,700 with money? Well, that's who he's talking 206 00:14:04,700 --> 00:14:06,700 about here. Who saw him at those guys. 207 00:14:06,700 --> 00:14:08,200 I don't have time to name right now. 208 00:14:09,900 --> 00:14:13,600 But continuing on, let's sketch through this, pretty quickly 2nd 209 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:23,900 2nd Timothy Chapter 4. Verse 3. 210 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:29,300 For the time is coming, when people will not endure sound 211 00:14:29,300 --> 00:14:34,300 teaching. But having itching ears, they 212 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:38,000 will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own 213 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:43,700 passions and will turn away from listening to the truth and 214 00:14:43,700 --> 00:14:50,600 wander off into myths. Is that happening in these days 215 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:56,400 where you have a tractional preachers who collect to 216 00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:02,000 themselves a huge, massive audiences who come to here? 217 00:15:04,100 --> 00:15:07,300 They come to hear but they have ears that they're ready. 218 00:15:07,300 --> 00:15:09,900 Just to have scratched like you would scratch your puppy dog. 219 00:15:10,900 --> 00:15:15,300 And they tickle their ears and the pet them on the head and 220 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:19,000 they coddle them. And they tell them things that 221 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:24,400 are peaceful and good, and success and prosperity. 222 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:28,100 They say, peace with the word, peace means, by the way, it 223 00:15:28,100 --> 00:15:30,200 means Health wholeness Prosperity. 224 00:15:30,500 --> 00:15:33,300 Well-being, they say, peace, peace. 225 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:38,000 When there is no peace. Because the troubled soul of the 226 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:43,200 wicked heart will never find peace but will always be seeking 227 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,900 and always be churning and always sneaking into these 228 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,900 deceivers. These false teachers will make 229 00:15:50,900 --> 00:15:53,400 that their operational principle. 230 00:15:53,900 --> 00:16:00,400 They will draw to themselves those that have itching ears and 231 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:04,100 they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit 232 00:16:04,300 --> 00:16:06,300 their own Passions. Yes. 233 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:17,200 Titus. Titus Chapter 1 verse 10. 234 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:23,200 For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers, 235 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:27,900 and deceivers, same thing, false deception lying especially those 236 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:31,200 of the circumcision party and we won't go into who that is. 237 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:35,700 But Paul name that name, they knew who they were and everyone 238 00:16:35,700 --> 00:16:37,800 else knew they were because he pointed him out. 239 00:16:38,100 --> 00:16:42,300 They must be silenced. They must be silenced. 240 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:49,600 They must be silenced in the rebuke an admonition, every 241 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:54,500 proof not silenced any violent way, but silenced, in terms of 242 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:59,700 making their doctrines known and their mouths hushed, they must 243 00:16:59,700 --> 00:17:02,000 be silent. Since they are upsetting whole 244 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:08,099 families by teaching for shameful gain, shameful gain 245 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:13,700 that, which they ought not, to teach and then Titus in three 246 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:22,200 10:00. As a person who stirs up 247 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:27,200 division after warning him once and then twice having nothing 248 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:32,300 more to do with him knowing that such a person is Warped and 249 00:17:32,300 --> 00:17:37,800 sinful, he is self-condemned Paul speaks in the same terms, 250 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,900 the Lord speaks in our text, it's you discern by their 251 00:17:41,900 --> 00:17:45,300 fruits, you know, them by their fruits. 252 00:17:45,300 --> 00:17:48,100 There's a good tree, bringeth forth, good fruit. 253 00:17:49,300 --> 00:17:51,000 Which Bears. Good fruit. 254 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,300 And, you know it you can see it and brings forth the fruit of 255 00:17:54,308 --> 00:17:56,500 the spirit, the fruit of righteousness. 256 00:17:57,700 --> 00:18:04,800 The fruit of holiness. then there is The bad tree bringing 257 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:10,400 forth the bad fruit. Things that only deceive and 258 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:15,800 only mislead. Peter, we've looked at Paul. 259 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:22,300 It's looking Peter for just a moment. 2nd Peter chapter 2, but 260 00:18:22,300 --> 00:18:26,500 false prophets also arose. Among the people just as there 261 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:30,800 will be false teachers among you who will secretly bring in 262 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:35,000 destructive heresies. They don't bring it in with 263 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,800 banners flying. They bring it into the 264 00:18:37,808 --> 00:18:44,300 smooth-talk words of flattery outstanding, presentations, 265 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,800 charts, and graphs, you know, all kinds of PowerPoint 266 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:51,800 presentations, that sound will come in. 267 00:18:53,300 --> 00:18:57,100 Be false teachers among you who will secretly bring in to suck, 268 00:18:57,100 --> 00:19:01,400 destructive heresies even denying the master, who bought 269 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,400 them bringing upon themselves, Swift destruction. 270 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:08,400 That's what Jesus said, said, Peter heard him say it when he 271 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,800 said it that this kind of teaching leads to destruction, 272 00:19:13,900 --> 00:19:18,500 And many will follow their sensuality since you Alchemy, 273 00:19:18,500 --> 00:19:22,000 and they'll follow their emotions, their senses, they 274 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,300 will follow their, their, their feelings, the things that are 275 00:19:26,300 --> 00:19:30,800 that are sensible to us and because of them, the way of 276 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:36,000 truth truth as opposed to false truth will be blasphemed. 277 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:40,000 That's one of the interesting things is that our world today 278 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:43,700 with so much error in the church and and so much, so many false 279 00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:47,600 teachers Ears. When you do hear a sound 280 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:52,000 biblical? Theologically orthodox. 281 00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:58,600 Teacher. They're usually blasphemed 282 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:06,400 somewhere another. If they're to biblical and too 283 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,400 much dedicated to the word, it seemed by the people they're 284 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:11,600 accused of not having the spirit of God. 285 00:20:12,700 --> 00:20:15,600 Not realizing that it's the spirit of God that inspired the 286 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,600 scriptures. Wouldn't have any scriptures. 287 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,100 One of the spirit of God, those that are in the Bible, they're 288 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:24,100 not ignoring the Holy Spirit. They're going to what he said. 289 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,100 They're the ones that are hearkening to his voice. 290 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,500 They're the ones that's listening to the Holy Spirit, 291 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,100 not some of the people that are doing and I won't go into what's 292 00:20:32,100 --> 00:20:34,200 going on in the name of the Holy Spirit. 293 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:36,300 I'm trying to be restrained today. 294 00:20:37,100 --> 00:20:43,000 How am I doing so far? It was the Holy Spirit that 295 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:47,300 guides us into all truth. Those that wrote the scriptures 296 00:20:47,300 --> 00:20:51,200 as they were borne Along by the spirit of God. 297 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,800 So that where they ended up was where God wanted them as the 298 00:20:56,100 --> 00:21:00,300 holy wind, the holy spirit of God, the holy Breath of God 299 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:05,300 inspired scriptures. If you want more and more of the 300 00:21:05,300 --> 00:21:08,200 Holy Spirit to be operative in your life, you need more and 301 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:12,900 more of his Holy Scripture. The operative in your life. 302 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,700 This is the holy spirit that enables you to understand the 303 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:20,100 scriptures. He is the one that illuminates 304 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:22,500 and sheds light upon. He's the one that brings 305 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:25,900 conviction to your soul when you read it and you say this is 306 00:21:25,900 --> 00:21:32,900 verily, the word of God. There's a false economy between 307 00:21:32,900 --> 00:21:35,400 the holy spirit in the Holy Scripture. 308 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,300 We're going to worship God and no God. 309 00:21:38,300 --> 00:21:43,300 We have to worship God in spirit and in truth, Thy word is truth. 310 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,900 And that's how we come to know and often the the true teachers 311 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:52,400 are blasphemed. They're accused of all kinds of 312 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:56,000 nuances of error that are really more than the inferential 313 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,700 reasoning of the hearers, not in want the band actually taught. 314 00:22:01,100 --> 00:22:04,000 In other words, they attribute the good word of the spirit of 315 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:09,700 God as blasphemy. So it's a serious confrontation 316 00:22:09,700 --> 00:22:12,800 is going to call for serious discernment, on the part of 317 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:18,400 people. Well John we read 11 from John 318 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:42,100 first John four. Beloved, do not believe every 319 00:22:42,100 --> 00:22:45,700 Spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. 320 00:22:45,700 --> 00:22:48,600 For many false prophets, have gone out into the World. 321 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,400 By this, we know the spirit of God, every spirit that confesses 322 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,800 Jesus Christ is come in. The flesh is from God. 323 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,900 And every spirit that does not confess. 324 00:22:56,900 --> 00:22:59,800 God confess. Jesus is not from God. 325 00:23:00,100 --> 00:23:02,700 This is the spirit of antichrist. 326 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:09,500 That's what Antichrist is. It's that spirit that goes. 327 00:23:09,700 --> 00:23:14,500 Against Christ at every Point. What world religions are 328 00:23:14,500 --> 00:23:18,400 Antichrist. Well, I'm out of time. 329 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,300 But will you grant me a couple of minutes to mention the PCA Or 330 00:23:24,300 --> 00:23:32,400 maybe. Ultimately wisdom and knowledge. 331 00:23:34,900 --> 00:23:39,300 Or not exactly the same thing. You need to know something 332 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,600 knowledge. The Latin word that used it all 333 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:48,700 the theological studies, the word skin, see a science science 334 00:23:48,700 --> 00:23:53,300 is knowledge, but wisdom is taking knowledge and 335 00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:56,100 understanding it in such a way that it can be applied. 336 00:23:56,100 --> 00:24:00,600 It can be used a certain way, it sets a framework for 337 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:05,100 understanding, all things and the worst false teachings that 338 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:08,700 come into the church or not, the variances of Doctrine, whether 339 00:24:08,700 --> 00:24:11,000 you believe in baptism by immersion or baptism by 340 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,600 sprinkling, or whether you believe this. 341 00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:16,100 This viewer that view and all kinds of nuances and two sides 342 00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:17,700 to almost every theological coin. 343 00:24:17,700 --> 00:24:21,500 You'll ever study every Doctrine scriptures is controverted in 344 00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:23,600 the in the history of the church. 345 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,700 And it's a maze walking through it, but but all of that be as it 346 00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:32,200 may and I'm all for doctrinal Orthodoxy and doctrinal Purity 347 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,300 and correctness. But the, but the first principle 348 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,600 of understanding, the things of God is to understand God's 349 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:42,600 Viewpoint in the world God's worldview and any attack upon 350 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:47,300 God's world view is attack upon ski and see us knowledge 351 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,400 science. Because God, created the world 352 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,800 and all things are as God created it and it's all the way 353 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,200 God called it to be. And we have three movements in 354 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,500 the PCA right now by movements. I mean, to say there's outside 355 00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:03,600 influences and then there are men with in our denomination 356 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:08,000 that are beginner sympathize except a firm and even batik, 357 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,600 subtly things that derive from these influences. 358 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,600 Let me mention him to you. He quickly one is the feminist 359 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,500 movement been around a long time. 360 00:25:16,500 --> 00:25:19,400 It's been around so long, we're in the third wave of feminism, 361 00:25:20,100 --> 00:25:22,600 and now it's an egalitarian view. 362 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,900 It's a view of the world. It's a view of the way the human 363 00:25:25,900 --> 00:25:29,100 being is. And it says that there's such an 364 00:25:29,900 --> 00:25:35,200 equality between men and women, a same nest, no differentiation 365 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:40,200 whatsoever that you can have women doing things that God in 366 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:45,300 his creation ordained man to do. It's an egalitarianism that says 367 00:25:45,300 --> 00:25:48,500 men and women are interchangeable and it works 368 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:50,600 itself out in roles of leadership. 369 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:54,400 And so they're saying that women can be Bishops and elders and 370 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:58,900 presbyters and even deacons. And I wish I had time to work on 371 00:25:58,900 --> 00:26:00,500 that a little bit, but we're already out of time. 372 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:02,700 So I'm on borrowed time. Anyway, I'll just suggest that 373 00:26:02,700 --> 00:26:04,800 to you and let you think. If you can hear anything 374 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,400 yourself in that area, the second one has to do with race. 375 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,700 The Bible says that God made of humanity, one Ray, Race. 376 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,100 There's no such thing as race is. 377 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:23,300 Mmm, it is God's one single race, the human race Adams Race. 378 00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:25,400 And it's a fallen race of sinful race. 379 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:30,200 It's a redeemed race in Christ. There are prejudices their 380 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:31,900 hatreds. They're all kinds of 381 00:26:31,900 --> 00:26:34,500 misunderstandings. There are all kinds of abuses 382 00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:39,900 and oppression that comes in and among the people of the One race 383 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:42,500 and it's based on all kinds of things. 384 00:26:42,500 --> 00:26:46,600 And we are now having Men in our denomination who are 385 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:51,600 intellectually flirting with, if not outright holding up to alien 386 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:56,000 Concepts, that have come in Social Marxist analysis, that 387 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,700 starts with there are two kinds of people, the oppressed and the 388 00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:04,900 oppressor, and the oppressed are to be favored in the oppressor. 389 00:27:04,900 --> 00:27:08,200 So that we have now kind of a chance to make bring about a 390 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:13,400 Justice and equality, a fairness that is not the justice that God 391 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:14,400 has set forth. It. 392 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:17,700 And so, we end up with all kinds of Reverse Racism, we end up 393 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:20,700 with demands. We end up with Perpetual guilt. 394 00:27:21,100 --> 00:27:25,600 You can never be forgiven of the sin of being One racer. 395 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,400 Another, and that is pressing hard Upon Our denomination. 396 00:27:29,500 --> 00:27:32,000 It followed the feminist movement about 10 years ago. 397 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:35,000 This one's been in our in our midst now, for about seven or 398 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,200 eight years. And the else. 399 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,300 And the third one is the homosexual agenda. 400 00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:44,400 There are about five years, we've had a revoice conference 401 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,400 that was hosted by one of our churches and what they talked 402 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:52,100 about was a group of men who are gay but claim to be Christian 403 00:27:52,100 --> 00:27:57,100 and wanted to be called gay or homosexual gay Christians and 404 00:27:57,100 --> 00:28:00,400 the debate is whether you can be such a thing, whether you can 405 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,400 identify with your sin, and with your depravity, and with your 406 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,500 lostness and but the issue is not whether Not thinking be in 407 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:09,500 the church. The issue is whether or not they 408 00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:14,900 can be pastors elders. And, and officers within the 409 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:19,400 church man who identify with their sin, this this conference, 410 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,500 the revoice conference was organized especially by men who 411 00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:24,200 know how to speak. The language. 412 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,700 They had been raised in conservative Evan Joseph 413 00:28:26,700 --> 00:28:29,700 denominations. They knew all the tones of 414 00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:32,600 voice, they knew how to pronounce God just right. 415 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:35,500 And they. And so they come in smoothly. 416 00:28:35,500 --> 00:28:38,600 And they talked all about warmth and sanctification, and loving 417 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,600 the Lord, and worshiping in the spirit and the feelings, they 418 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:47,400 can outtalk you with respect to the the, the trappings of 419 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,100 Christianity. But yet they're bringing in this 420 00:28:50,100 --> 00:28:53,200 particular idea. By the way, the they targeted 421 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:57,100 the most conservative and dominant and staunch to this 422 00:28:57,100 --> 00:29:01,100 point doctrinal denominations the Southern Baptist convention 423 00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:03,300 the Missouri. Synod Lutheran and The 424 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:06,900 Presbyterian Church in America. They're trying to come in and 425 00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:12,400 bring this gay Christian side B Christianity and how these men 426 00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:16,000 can be officers in the church just as well. 427 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:24,200 That come from Among Us. They're smooth. 428 00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:30,900 They're very, very attractive, they very subtle, they're very 429 00:29:30,900 --> 00:29:35,600 emotional, they're very I sat through General Assembly meeting 430 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:41,800 in 2019 and watched a whole room full of Paris Petit. 431 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,200 Rien Elders, ruling elders, and teaching Elders. 432 00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:49,000 Be enthralled by the testimony of one of these men. 433 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,600 And that's what we got to look out for. 434 00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:59,600 I'm trying to warn you. There's no retirement anywhere 435 00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:02,400 in the Bible. I found a verse over in Ezekiel 436 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,300 where it says that, I mean, in Isaiah where it says the 437 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:10,600 Watchman on the wall has got to stay there for the duration and 438 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:15,500 Warren God's people about the enemy that is within us. 439 00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:00,200 There's no retirement anywhere in the Bible. 440 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,800 I found a verse over in Ezekiel where it says that, I mean, in 441 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,100 Isaiah where it says the Watchman on the wall has got to 442 00:30:07,100 --> 00:30:13,400 stay there for the duration and Warren God's people about the 443 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,500 enemy that is within us.