False Teachers

How to Identify False Teachers

From the preceding examples Jude uses 3 points to prove the identity of these false teachers: (v. 8): “defile the flesh” – They pollute their own bodies (physical immorality)"despise dominion” – They reject authority(intellectual insubordination) &quo …

Don’t believe everything you hear

John explains how you cannot rely upon everyone who claims to preach a message from God (v. 1). Just because a man says he is presenting the Word of God from the Bible is no reason to believe that what he is saying is necessarily true. Each thing that you hear needs to be tested. …

IllustrationHavner – Know Your Bible

One could spend a lifetime in the study of false teachers and cults and never come to the end of it. Rather let him come to know his Bible and his Lord so well, that no false teaching can lead him astray. (The Vance Havner Quote Book, Compiled by Dennis Hester, p. 60). …

IllustrationMormons start over 1 new chapel a day

Most Mormon men at age 20 become a missionary for 2 years. They are sent out two-by-two around the world, not earning one cent, but paying their own expenses. They walk miles, knocking on hundreds of homes to see only one convert. It is estimated that for each convert, it takes 5 …