Facing False Doctrine

 The Ministry of Facing False Doctrine

 Book of 2 Corinthians Chapter 11

 

 Doctrine to the Christian is the teaching of all we know about God the Father.

 The Lord Jesus Christ said: Joh 7:16  Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 

Joh 7:17  If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. 

 This is why we have the Bible today: to learn the Doctrine of the Triune God.

 Pro 4:1  Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. 

Pro 4:2  For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

 What is "false doctrine"? False doctrine is any teaching that does not conform to the truth of the Word of God!

 A false opinion of the Word of God is not according to the truth that God has revealed to us.

 Our greatest protection from false doctrine is the Holy Spirit that lives within us, but we must read and study Scripture so that He can open our eyes to the truth.

 2Ti 3:16  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 

2Ti 3:17  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. 

 When those who teach a false doctrine go against the Word of God, it is to slander the character of God!

 To even suggest that God would speak a Word that was contrary to His character is to assume that God Himself cannot operate without error!

 This is to suggest that God could fail, and this is impossible!

 We think sometimes that somethings are not right for us, or why somethings happened, but we can trust the Word of God.

 Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

 Job said: Job 13:15  Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. 

Job 13:16  He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. 

 There will be no one who disagrees with the Word of God in Heaven!

There will be no hypocrites in Heaven!

 How are we to treat the Word of God?

 2Co 4:2  But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 

2Co 4:3  But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 

2Co 4:4  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

 The Lord Jesus comes to us with His gift of eternal life, and all we must do is accept that gift in faith!

When we accept the Lord Jesus as our Savior, then we are also saying we are accepting all the Word of God as it is written.

 What is wrong with the Church today? The Church is becoming less and less aware that our love must be directed to the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Bridegroom of the Church.

 This is because the Church, like Eve, has failed to discover the craftiness of Satan.

Many who call themselves Christian today are being deceived in the places they go to worship.

 Satan has twisted the Word of God to mean something that God did not intend, and the Church is splitting and dividing through all its denominations.

 In the end, there will be only One Church as God had said from the start.

 *****2Co 11:3  But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

 Satan always quotes from the Word of God in a way that raises false doubts, and then Satan bluntly says that God will not make true what He has said.

 Gen 3:5  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

We will never be gods because we need the One True God!

 Truth means that facts conform to reality.

Truth identifies things as they are.

Truth is the perfection of God's being, which He fully answers to the Godhead.

Truth is that the Triune God is perfectly reliable in His revelations.

Truth is the Word of God.

Truth is that the Triune God can be trusted, because He is the only true God.

 He is the beginning of all knowledge and makes it available to us!

He is the source of all truth in every realm of knowledge, from morals to science.

 God is the truth in His person!

 Isa 45:5  I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: 

Isa 45:6  That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. 

Isa 45:7  I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. 

Isa 45:8  Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.

 Seduction used in this verse means having your mind corrupted from the simplicity of the truth of the Gospel.

 We must realize that wherever false preachers/teachers are, there is the likelihood that some minds will be corrupted!

 We already know that the Church is shrinking because many so-called believers have moved their focus away from Jesus Christ and are listening to the lies and the deceptions of the world.

 The Lord Jesus said we must watch out for this even now.

 Mat 24:4  And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 

Mat 24:5  For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. 

 There should be no doubt that the serpent that was taken over by the Devil led Eve away from the truth of God.

 The Devil knows this works, and he still uses this tactic today!

 He also got to Adam through his wife, Eve.

 1Ti 2:14  And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 

 We must never fail to discover the craftiness of Satan!

 Satan knows the Bible, but he will twist the truth to another meaning, and he is subtle about it.

 Eve gave in to seduction and was disloyal to the Word of God, which is always the truth taken in the context that the Holy Spirit gives it to us.

 God gives us this warning, the Holy Spirit gives us this warning, and the Lord Jesus Christ has given us this warning.

 We must spend some time studying the Scripture and asking the Holy Spirit to help us!

 Jesus said to the Pharisees: Mat 22:29  Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

 *****2Co 11:4  For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him. 

 If there truly was another Savior.

If there truly was a more powerful Spirit.

If there were a better Gospel, then we might reconsider our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

 In all religion there are none who claim this, because it is impossible.

 For the Christian it is Christ Jesus or no God at all!

 Act 4:12  Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. 

 Radical Jews were going around to the early churches teaching that the Lord Jesus was not God.

 They had tried this at the Church of Galatia and Paul wrote.

 Gal 1:6  I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: 

Gal 1:7  Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 

Gal 1:8  But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

 It is the same thing that goes on today!

Over half of the Church are bowing to a perverted gospel!

 False preachers/teachers who pervert the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ, and what we see that God has cursed them all!

 Cursed means they had devoted themselves to the destruction of the Church and deserve the curse of God.

Gal_6:7  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

 We should understand that Jehovah had provided all the Jews with enough information for them to recognize the Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ, but they had rejected God's Messiah.

 Mal 4:5  Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 

Mal 4:6  And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

 So, Elijah shall come and preach repentance, as John the Baptist did at Christ’s first coming; and unless the Jews listen to him and turn to Christ, they shall be destroyed, shall share in that eternal anathema, which shall fall on the ungodly at the day of judgment.

 Many false preachers/teachers preach against the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but it should never be a Jew who has the truth of God but only rejects it.

 They were confused about the humanity of the Messiah.

 The same Jesus the Carpenter was also Jesus the Son of God!

 They have certainly remained under the curse of God.

 We must look to the Lord Jesus Christ for the truth of our redemption and our deliverance from all sin.

 Rom 5:21  That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. 

 The doctrine of the humanity of Jesus Christ is equally important as the doctrine of the deity of Christ!

 The Lord Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary, who had the seed. The seed of a man was not needed nor involved.

 If He were born of Joseph, he would have had a sin nature as we all do.

 The body of Jesus was like the bodies of other men, except for those qualities which have resulted from human sin failure.

 The Lord Jesus was not some phantom. The woman at that well in Samaria recognized the Lord Jesus as a Jew.

 Joh 4:10  Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

 He suffered the pain of scourging.

 He suffered the horror of the cross.

 He thirsted.

 He got weary.

 He had a normal development, mentally, physically, spiritually, and socially.

 He had a human soul and a human spirit along with His human body.

 Jesus was a complete human being.

 He felt compassion for people.

 He had the characteristics of a human being.

 He became hungry.

 Mat 4:2  And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 

 He became tired and thirsty.

 He had emotions, He wept.

 He experienced grief.

 He had human names: Son of David, Jesus(Joshua, which means Yahweh saves).

 He also had all the characteristics of God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, who are the same.

 Php 2:5  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 

Php 2:6  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 

Php 2:7  But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 

Php 2:8  And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

 Those radical Jews did not agree with any of these things.

 *****2Co 11:5  For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 

2Co 11:6  But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things. 

 We should be very careful when we compare one preacher with another.

 If they both are called of God, then they both preach the message God has given them to preach.

 When it came to the Apostle Paul, he was being compared with false apostles who brought bad stories into circulation and that were received by these Corinthians.

 Paul's Christian life was at stake, so Paul began the defense of his character.

 Paul could have walked away, and many of these Corinthians would be in Hell today, but for the love of Christ and the love for these Corinthians, Paul had to defend his Apostleship.

 Paul refused to allow these Corinthians to fall prey to swindlers.

This is what a false preacher/teacher is, a swindler.

 You see, when you allow false doctrine into the Church, many will be swindled out of the salvation given to them by Jesus Christ.

 Eph_4:7  But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

 There is always a difference in the way a true Pastor does things and a man of false doctrine does things.

 Those who swindle the church out of salvation would seek to fill their pockets using the false doctrine of the Devil.

 The Apostle Paul could certainly measure up to the other Apostles, but God did not make one any greater than another.

 These wicked Jews who had infiltrated the church of Corinth could in no way measure up to the Apostle Paul because these were fake Christians, and the Church has far too many fake Christians in it today.

 They were well equipped to speak of the Old Testament doctrine, but they rejected the  “grace” of the New Testament doctrine.

 Jesus said: Mat_26:28  For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Mrk_14:24  And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.

Luk_22:20  Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

 The Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation of the New Testament, the New Covenant of God.

 Heb 7:22  By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. 

 Paul had said from the beginning of his ministry at this church that he preached only the truth of Jesus Christ.

 1Co 4:1  Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 

1Co 4:2  Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. 

1Co 4:3  But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. 

1Co 4:4  For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

 Those false apostles could not preach salvation because they did not know anything about the salvation of Grace that Paul preached.

 Paul was not an eloquent speaker, and he never claimed to be, but Paul knew all the Scriptures of the Old Testament as well as any other Jew and much better than most, but Paul also spent three years with the Lord Jesus Christ.

 Paul knew the truth of the New Covenant of God!

 Gal 1:15  But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, 

Gal 1:16  To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: 

Gal 1:17  Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

Gal 1:18  Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. 

 *****2Co 11:7  Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely? 

 Those fake Jews passed the plate after they preached, expecting a payment for their preaching, but the Apostle Paul never accepted a penny of support from these Corinthians, and they were rich enough to provide support.

 They accused Paul of sin, and part of his sin, as they saw it, was that he would not accept any money from them.

 Paul had a purpose for doing this. They could not say that Paul came to this church with the intention to make money.

 There are a lot of preachers who will not lower themselves to preach in any church that cannot offer them a salary or some kind of offering or a set price for their services.

 I think a lot of Tom Maxwell, who I learned a lot from, still do, and as far as I know, the church he preached in for these many years was never able to give him a salary, so he had to have a full-time job to support him and his family, and he preached for free.

 Every Jew was taught a trade in the days of Paul, and Paul was a tentmaker.

 Tentmakers were despised; the work was tedious, and it did not provide much of an income.

 The most important and most precious gift from Heaven is the Gospel, and these rich Corinthians had gotten it for free.

 We could say that to be free and unpaid was the Apostle Paul's pride.

 1Th 2:9  For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God. 

1Th 2:10  Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe: 

God expects us to support those who preach the truth of the Gospel, but even today those who twist the Word of God into a lie get rich while the average true Gospel preacher just takes enough to provide his needs.

 *****2Co 11:8  I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service. 

2Co 11:9  And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself. 

2Co 11:10  As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

 The only church that we know contributed to the Apostle for his support was the Church at Philippi.

 Php 4:15  Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only. 

Php 4:16  For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. 

 Paul said these words to these Corinthians ironically rather than literally. Paul never robbed any Church!

 In fact, it was a great honor to have a man as knowledgeable as the Apostle Paul to preach in any church.

 Paul had the touch of God upon him; those false preachers just spoke without conviction!

 The Church of Philippi was much more mature than the Church of Corinth and had the right motives for their giving.

 As we went through lessons on helping and giving, we must keep this in mind.

 Some people give support to those God has called or some other ministry of the Church expecting something in return, and they would be giving for the wrong reasons.

 Giving is not just an act; it is also an attitude.

 We know that even from the job of tentmaking, the Apostle Paul never really had many things that he actually needed to make his life more bearable, but he was not about to let any group of believers know this.

 If we are serving the Lord and are short on cash, we are not to tell others about it because we have a God who promises to provide our needs.

 Mat 6:31  Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 

Mat 6:32  (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 

Mat 6:33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 

Mat 6:34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

 If you have been in any church for very long, you have seen some missions almost begging for more support, and that is not so bad, but the truth is, where is their faith?

The greatest problem of the Church is our lack of faith!

 God does not neglect those He has called to the mission field!

 Many today are not bothered by where or from whom they receive money.

 It is easy to see that the Apostle Paul did not work that way, and we have no idea how many churches had their beginning with the Apostle Paul, and certainly nearly half of the New Testament was written by him.

 It probably shocked the rich church of Corinth to find out that Paul had suffered some needs during his stay in Corinth.

 They knew what Rome had done to many nations, and it had to hurt knowing that the poor people of Macedonia had provided many of Paul's supplies while they had provided nothing and had actually used it against him, calling it sin.

 Paul would not accept any support from them now because they had learned the truth, and they would be giving for the wrong reasons.

 After these things, Paul would not allow this church to support him at all, but he did ask if they would help the poor church in Jerusalem, who certainly had many needs, dealing with fanatical Jews every day.

 You see, we do not have to argue; we do not have to listen to what those who do not know the Lord have to say, because we have the truth.

 If the truth of Jesus Christ is in us and we are in the will of God for us, everything else is subject to that!

 We are not to boast, but we are to be bold in the truth of God!

 False doctrine is just that; it is false and has no real meaning then or today.

 People get caught up in false doctrine because they refuse to study the Word of God with prayer.

 *****2Co 11:11  Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. 

2Co 11:12  But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

 We must understand that as we stand boldly on the truth of God, a skeptic will seldom be convinced of the truth.

 A skeptic is someone who doubts the truth and who doubts the reality of any principle or doctrine.

 Some people just doubt everything!

Schools have ruined our children till they do not know what to think.

 This is the world we live in today!

 When we speak the Word of God and live the Word of God, God is our witness of the love we have for one another and for the lost.

 The Word of God will refute every argument of any deceiver. The Lord Jesus is our example of this when He withstood the attack of the Devil.

The Word of God has an answer for every problem in this world of sin.

 All deceivers will be revealed as false apostles, just as God did reveal His true Apostles, the Apostle Paul and the other eleven.

These twelve men turned the world upside down, and the Word of God still stands as the only real truth in this world

 The world had already begun killing these men of God, and James was probably already dead by now.

 All but the Apostle John would be hunted down, tortured, and murdered because they would not deviate from the truth of God!

Any group of any church can stand up and deny the Word of God, but that just makes them fools. 

This is a church seeking the love of the world rather than the love of God!

The Apostles could not deny the Word of God because they were eyewitnesses to the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ, and they were tortured because they would not change their story.

This is one of the greatest proofs of the truth of God.

The truth of God can be denied, but this does not make it any less true.

Those false apostles desired any chance to stand against the Apostle Paul.

Their main criticism was that Paul did not really care for the Church; he was just in it for the money.

Paul would not allow the people of this rich city to support him at all. He would not accept any gift from them.

These false preacher/teachers insisted that Paul did not want this church in Corinth to be a part of his ministry.

They insisted that Paul was too proud to allow himself to be taught by Jews who knew more than he did.

These false apostles used any chance to criticize the Apostle Paul just as the false preachers of today use every chance they get to criticize the true Church and the truth of the Gospel.

If the false church truly knew the love of God as they say, they would understand that it is because of the love of God for His children that He must always follow the truth of His words.

Mat_5:18  For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

The same Jesus many call trans.

The same God the Father they call God the Mother.

The Word of God that has so much of the truth removed from it.

The Word of God that has so much of the world added to it.

It is the Lord Jesus Himself who says that every part of the original Scriptures will be fulfilled down to every punctuation mark that was used.

God the Holy Spirit gave us these words:

Rev 22:18  For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 

Rev 22:19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. 

These words should put fear into every deceiver!

*****2Co 11:13  For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 

2Co 11:14  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 

2Co 11:15  Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

The Apostle Paul did not hesitate to tell this church at Corinth exactly what sort of people they were dealing with.

Remember all these letters were also passed around to all the churches Paul had started, so they all knew what Paul had said to Corinth.

We are not here to tear down any church or place of worship, but if that church or place of worship will not preach/teach the truth of God, then we must agree with the Apostle Paul.

Paul got his words from the Holy Spirit.

There are some of these deceitful workers of Satan in every true church, and these are the same ones who have caused so much damage to the Bride of Christ.

Satan can walk into any place of worship today because he can transform himself into an angel of light.

That church leader who does not teach the truth will never run Satan or his demons out of that place of worship.

He will just fit in with the crowd. He may or may not be the best dressed man in that place.

He may even say he is gay or trans.

He will certainly speak with a sugar-coated tongue.

He will lead all he touches into darkness because he is the ruler of darkness.

2Pe_2:17  These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

1Jn_1:6  If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

There is no doubt that there are countless numbers of young people who walk with this transformed angel, this dark angel who has transformed himself.

Satan is the very meaning of transgender in this world today!

So, it is no great thing if his ministers, his teachers, his preachers, are also transformed as the ministers of righteousness.

The next time you hear that word "transgender," then think of 2 Corinthians chapter 11 verse 14 and 15.

Satan is the original transgender!

We must cling to the truth of the Gospel and not allow such deceit into our Church.

God has already judged that their end shall be according to their works.

Rev 20:10  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. 

Amen