Cults

Don’t Provide Hospitality to False Teachers

Here we see very clearly the danger which John saw in these false teachers (vv. 7-9). They are to be given no hospitality; and the refusal of hospitality would be the most effective way of stopping their work. We can never compromise with mistaken teachers but we are never free f …

Beware of Cult Practices

In this passage we see that many people in Ephesus believed that illness and disease, and especially mental illness, were due to evil spirits who settled in a person. Exorcism was a regular trade. Many treasured their books on magic and their curios covered with charms because th …

IllustrationWhat Muslims believe about dead people

Muslims believe that all dead people are in some sort of dreamless state. Some Muslims believe that after a person dies, two angels ask him to write down his good deeds and bad deeds. Others believe that there will be a religious examination, with dire consequences for those who …

IllustrationCults Preach Heresy

My Bible college professor taught us about the danger of blaspheming God’s Son by claiming that He is anything less than God. He told how for some the earth opened, for some fire fell from Heaven, and for some floods came. He told us that he had one response when false cult …