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In this video 0:00 The Imminent Judgment of False Teachers16:05 Characteristics of False Teachers29:59 The Invalid and Corrupt Delivery of False Teachers40:49 The Call to True Repentance and Change
The Imminent Judgment of False Teachers 0:00 Our father in heaven, we give you all the glory, honor, and praise for who you are, and, Lord, we thank you that we've been able to gather as a church family today to sing praises to you because you are worthy of all of0:11 our praise and all of our honor and all of our joy, and we're here today to seek you. We thank you that you hear our prayers and that you respond in the ways that you think are best, and we0:23 love you for that, and Lord, we thank you for your living and active word because we as a people believe that every time it is faithfully and accurately proclaimed that you are speaking, and Lord, this morning our prayer0:34 is speak, Lord, for we want to hear what you have to tell us. And Lord, we believe that in a room this size and on all our campuses, not only you can talk to us collectively, but individually, you can speak to each and0:45 every heart. And so now for all those who have gathered who desire to hear the Lord Jesus Christ speak directly to you, who will believe what he tells you, and who will by faith put into practice what he shows you, will0:55 you agree with me very loudly this morning by saying the word amen. Amen. Have you ever seen 1 of those interviews with somebody who's committed a heinous crime and it's now years1:07 later and they're interviewing the person to find out what their motivation was and why they did what they did and why was it that they thought that they could get away with what they are doing? I find it
1:19 sometimes fascinating if I'm in somebody's house that has 1 of those shows on. It's not normally a show I would watch, but it's so interesting when somebody starts talking about an event that you knew took place in the
1:28 past, and it was wicked, it was evil, and now it's been time that's passed, and they're sitting down chair to chair, usually in a jail cell or something like this, and they're beginning to talk to that person about what
1:40 caused you to do that? What was your life like growing up? What motivated you to act like this? What were you thinking while you were doing this? And as it unpacks, you begin to think, wow, how could somebody think like
1:51 that? And how could somebody act like that? And how could they be doing that while at the same time living like this so nobody else knew what was even going on? I believe when we get into the second chapter of
2:03 second Peter, this is really how it's reading. Last week we begun that study by taking a look at identifying false teachers and what a false teacher is and how false teachers are so prevalent in our society, 10 things to
2:15 look for in a false teacher, and we unpacked all that, but as Peter continues this section, he's really talking about He's answering the question of what does God think about them? Is he just gonna
2:27 let them get away with all this? And and what's their motivation behind doing what they do? And ultimately, why is this so bad that they're doing it? What's the big deal about being able to spot and understand what a
2:38 false teacher is about anyway? And that's really what this whole section is about. And as I've read through chapter 2 of second Peter this week, like over and over and over again, I had intended to break it up even more,
2:49 but the more I read it, I I believe that through the Holy Spirit, Peter is trying to make 1 big argument as to what false teachers are. And so what I wanted to do today is go through the entire chapter of second Peter
3:00 chapter 2 from where we left off last time starting in verse 4 and make our way through so you can see what his argument is. Because if you can understand the motivation behind a false teacher and you know how to spot
3:11 them and you understand what God thinks about them, it's only gonna help you in your walk with Christ and it's gonna help you as you're discipling other people so that they know how to spot a false teacher so that they
3:23 true can get the pure unadulterated word of the Lord. So today, we're gonna talk about 3 truths about false teachers and what they look like and what their outcome is going to be. So if you have your Bible today, I
3:34 encourage you to open your Bible up to second Peter chapter 2. Second Peter chapter 2. We're gonna begin in verse 4, but while you're turning to second Peter chapter 2 verse 4, I'll just bring you up to speed by reading
3:46 those first 3 verses that we took a look at last week. He says, but false prophets also arose among the people just as there will also be false teachers among you who will secretly introduce
3:58 destructive heresies even denying the master who bought them bringing swift judgment upon themselves. Many will follow their sensuality and because of them, the way of the truth will be maligned and their greed, they
4:09 will exploit you with false words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle and their destruction is not asleep. And we talked about 5 points from that last week. And really the the truth is false
4:20 teachers are real. God sees them. They're among us. We need to be able to spot them. The way of the truth is maligned because they deny the lordship of Christ. They're greedy. They're sensual, they
4:32 entice you with their words, and their judgment is coming, and right there is where we're gonna pick up and begin our study today to take a look at what Peter has to say about them. And I'm gonna give you 3 truths when
4:44 it comes to false teachers today, and the first is this, that when it comes to false teachers, their destruction is imminent and it's comprehensive. Their destruction is imminent and it's comprehensive. God sees
4:56 them and I promise you they will be judged comprehensively for what they do. Notice what he says. He says, for if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness
5:08 reserved for judgment, and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness with 7 others when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly. And if he condemned the city condemned the
5:19 cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter. And if he rescued righteous lot oppressed by the sensual
5:31 conduct of unprincipled men, for by what he saw and heard that righteous man while living among them felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds, then the lord
5:43 knows how to rescue the godly from temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise
5:55 authority. Here's what he's saying. It's a long if then sentence. If this and if this and if this and if this then this. It's 1 big thought, and he's really talking about
6:07 if as a first conditional class sentence. So he's really saying since. Since he judged angels and since he flooded the world and since he judged Sodom and Gomorrah and saved Lot out of it and saved
6:19 Noah's family out of it, then he's also able to save righteous people out of corruption and he's also able to hold the unrepentant for a day of judgment. God sees the whole world. That's
6:31 his argument. So just taking a look at this, you need to understand when it comes to false teachers, they don't get to go on forever. There's an end to what they do, and not only is there an end in this life, but
6:43 destruction for them is imminent, it's coming soon, and when it comes, it will be completely comprehensive. Notice how the apostle Peter paints a cosmic, then a global, then a specific situation of
6:54 judgment. Notice what he says. He says, for if you did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell, committed them to pits of darkness reserved for judgment. Even angels that God created, powerful
7:06 mighty beings that saw him when they sinned, when they rebelled, he kept them in pits awaiting the day of judgment. Now many Bible scholars will argue back and forth
7:18 as to which angels did God do that to, and that's a fun discussion and it's a fun debate, but the point of this is we need to realize it's not Satan because Satan's running around wild right now, and
7:30 Satan has helpers, and if you don't believe that Satan is alive, you haven't opened your eyes. He is alive and well and he is doing evil in this world. A lot of people believe that this took
7:41 place in Genesis chapter 6 in the first 4 verses where you see angels leaving their places of abode. Some people say that that's angels and they came and had relations with
7:53 women and produce offspring, and because they left their abode, that's what happened. Some people believe it was the angels. Some people believe the angels took over men's bodies. Whatever it was, it ticked off God
8:04 because human beings are the crown of God's creation. Men and women are the crown of his creation. Do you not realize, the bible says, you will judge angels. So when angels left
8:16 their dominion and went after that, which wasn't their domain, God held some of them. He's held some of them in pits of darkness, in Tartarus, really the lowest places of hell, 1 day awaiting
8:28 judgment. And it's interesting if you read through the new testament. Do you remember that time where Jesus cast the many demons, legion, out of the man? And they begged him, don't send us to the abyss, don't send us
8:40 to the pit, so he sends him into pigs and 2000 pigs rush off the side. They had that Bay of Pigs invasion and plop right in there. Remember that? Well, what would happen? He didn't send them to the pit. They were begging
8:51 not to go there, but apparently, for some angels that sinned against God, that's where they're awaiting judgment. And just so you know, God created a plan of salvation for human beings. God did not create a plan of
9:02 salvation for the angels. He didn't. Angels are in the presence of God. They're mighty beings who saw God and when they rebel, there is no chance for them to turn. There is no
9:14 hope for their redemption. Right? Human beings, we have a plan of salvation through Jesus Christ. And so Peter's making the case that don't miss this. Even the angels
9:27 that were the mighty ones of God that stood in his presence that sinned against him, many of those are in pits awaiting darkness, don't think false teachers will get away with it. Then he talks about not only a cosmic
9:38 judgment, but a global 1, And he said he he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness with 7 others others when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly. In
9:50 Genesis chapter 6, we see that God's heart was grieved that he had even created man because the thought of man at that time was only intended upon evil. Well, God would never destroy the world. He's already done it
10:02 once. He flooded the world. It was a global flood. It covered the entire earth. It wasn't just a local flood. And if you study science, there is evidence
10:14 all over the place of God's flood. Just look at our mountains, go out to Utah, go down to Arizona, go to the Grand Canyon. There's there's evidence everywhere. I remember being at the Grand Canyon with my kids a few
10:24 years ago when I was teaching the book of Genesis, and I remember they were talking about rocks that were in Appalachia were now cemented to these rocks in Arizona. And I remember asking him,
10:36 how did they get there? How did they travel from Pennsylvania to Arizona? And the guy said, millions and millions of years. And my son who was young at the time is like tugging, I'm like,
10:48 Dad, tell him that's a lie. Tell him it was the flood. Right? Because it was, and there's evidence all around that God rescued Noah and his family out of it. His wife,
11:00 his 3 sons, and their wives, and while he preached for 120 years to that wicked society and nobody but them repented and nobody came into the ark except them and the animals, God flooded it all. And if God was willing to
11:12 do it cosmically, we also saw that he was willing to do it globally, and then we see that he's willing to do it specifically. And what he mentions is the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And notice this, and he condemned
11:23 the cities of of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter. Now you can study this story in
11:35 Genesis 19, and you'll you'll see the wickedness of that city. That wickedness was so bad that Abraham prayed for that city when God told him he was going to destroy it,
11:47 and he pleaded with the Lord and he begged the Lord and he humbled himself before the Lord and he said, no. I'm just a man, but, you know, God, if there's at least 50 righteous people there, would you spare the city? And
11:59 he said, yeah. For 50, I'll do it. Then he began to think, well, lord, wait, wait, wait. What about and he begins to count all the way down. He gets all the way down to 10. Lord, if there's just 10 righteous people, will
12:10 you spare the city? And you know what God said? Yes. For 10 people, I'll spare the city. You know what that means? He couldn't find 10. There wasn't anybody there. God sends 2 angels
12:22 to Sodom and Gomorrah. They enter the city. They're gonna sleep in the town square. Lot says, you don't wanna be there. Those wicked people come into my house. When Lot brings the men in the house, the men surround his
12:31 house and ask them, Lot, hey. Send those men out to us so we can have sex with them. And Lot doesn't seem like a righteous person when I read about him in Genesis because you know what he says? Hey, I have 2
12:43 virgin daughters. Why don't you just take them? That doesn't seem righteous to me at all, but he's trying to protect these men in their hospitality. Eventually, the angels blind the people. They get Lot, his
12:55 wife, his kids out of the city and tells them don't look back. And Lot and his kids escape. Wife looks back. She turns to a pillar of salt as God rains fire down on
13:07 Sodom and Gomorrah. Now many people today will be like, well, there was never really a city called Sodom and Gomorrah. You can't find it anywhere. Duh. It turned to ash. I mean, it's just
13:18 ashes. You can't find it anywhere. Why? Because God thoroughly completely destroyed it And what Peter is trying to say, God has given judgment cosmically. God gives judgment globally. God gives judgment
13:31 specifically, and no 1 can escape God's judgment. However, notice what he says. But even in this global judgment, he was able to rescue Noah and his family. Even in this judgment of Sodom
13:43 and Gomorrah, it refers to Lot at least twice as a righteous man. Now it doesn't seem like his behaviors are righteous, so what is righteousness? Righteousness is believing God. It's trusting
13:54 God. When I hear that God calls Lot righteous, it gives me a lot of hope. It means my righteousness is not based upon my behavior. My righteousness is based on my righteous standing with the
14:06 Lord Jesus Christ. And in the new testament, I'm declared righteous by repenting of my sin and turning to God, and he's the 1 who declares me righteous, and the bible says the Lord knows those who are his and the Lord
14:17 sees my righteousness and even in the corrupt generation, he is able to save me out of it because of his mercy and grace. Is that not good news?
14:30 See, it's easy to look
14:31 at the world around and say, oh, what a horrible place. What a horrible this. What a God is able to see those who are righteous, who are wanting to live righteously, and it says it troubled Lot's heart every day because
14:40 there was nobody righteous in that city. But instead of just destroying the city and taking Lot too, he's like I can take Lot out of that. My judgment will be specific to individuals
14:52 and know this, when God comes, no 1 will escape his judgment. Not 1. There's not gonna be some trial where Jesus stands there and people plead their case and he's like, oh okay.
15:04 Yeah. It's over when he gets here. Now is the time to repent. Now is the time to get right. Now is the time to live righteous so that when the Lord comes, he will say well done good and faithful servant. Amen?
15:16 So what's he trying to say here? He's trying to say there's an end game to these false teachers. Their destruction is imminent. God sees them, and it will be completely
15:29 comprehensive. And if the Lord knows how to rescue you, the godly, from temptation, he also knows how to keep the righteous ready for a day of punishment, especially those who indulge the flesh and its corrupt desires
15:40 and despise authority. What's the message? If you call yourself a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ and you're not telling the truth, here's the message. You better repent today. You better stop speaking on behalf
15:52 of the Lord today, and you better find your way into a church where the word of God is being taught and sit in front of the pulpit rather than behind it and grow in the knowledge and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
16:00 That's the message. Because judgment is imminent and it is comprehensive, no doubt about it. Now let me give you a second 1. The second 1 is this. Understanding false teachers. When it comes to
Characteristics of False Teachers
16:12 false teachers, their description, how the Bible describes them, is insidious and carnal. It's insidious and carnal, and here's where you see their
16:24 motivations as he begins to unpack that starting in the middle of verse 10. Here's what he says about them. Daring and self willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,
16:36 whereas angelic majesties who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord. Here's 1 truth about false teachers, they're arrogant.
16:48 They're arrogant. They're brazen. They're cocky. They're pompous. They're rebellious. Listen to me. When God anoints a shepherd for his service, he anoints a shepherd for his
17:00 service, but the shepherds he anoints are simply mere men. That's it. There there's nothing special about them. Yes, we can be thankful if we're in a church where a man of God is
17:12 under the authority of God, is anointed by God to bring the word of God, but that man is not superhuman, that man is speaking on behalf of the God man Jesus Christ who is God, amen? And
17:24 here's the truth, what these false ones do is they're arrogant enough and self willed enough to even revile angelic majesties, angelic beings. Now it's
17:36 interesting in the book of Jude, there's only 1 chapter, so it's Jude chapter 1, but in verses 9 and 10, you read about even at the death of Moses when the archangel Michael and the devil were
17:48 arguing over his body, listen to what happened. He said, but Michael the archangel when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said,
17:59 the Lord rebuke you. But these men revile the things which they do not understand and the things which they know by instinct like unreasonable unreasoning animals, by these things they are
18:11 destroyed. Even the archangel Michael, 1 of those powerful beings that God created in the universe would not rebuke the devil, but
18:23 said, the Lord rebuke you. Can I just tell you something? We are not called in scripture to bind Satan. You do not have the power to bind Satan. You can't bind him. What power do you have?
18:35 Christ can. When we pray, here's how we're praying. We're not praying because we have authority and we're asking God to do what we want. We're praying because Christ has authority and we're seeking
18:46 him because we're depending upon his power to do what he wants. That's what prayer is about. We're seeking him. Oftentimes, false teachers will talk like they have some supernatural
18:58 power. They have power over angels. They have power over demons. They have power over there is no human being that has supernatural power. Only Jesus Christ has supernatural power, and we seek him in prayer
19:10 for his supernatural power to do what only his supernatural power can do. Make sense? Even when God gifts people, like, man, that that person can preach or that person really has a gift of compassion, that person
19:22 has a gift of healing. Who's the 1 doing it? Christ in them to the hope and glory of God. Amen? False teachers will always talk like they're special, like they're better than, like they're
19:34 different than, like they have a special relationship to God that you don't have, and they have authority that you don't have, and they have power that you don't have because they're arrogant. Can I say 1 other thing
19:44 while we're on it? When you listen to a good preacher, they shouldn't have an original thought. Their main thought should come right out of this book. Amen?
19:58 This does not mean they can't illustrate a point with a story, but if you hear someone preach and they're a great storyteller and they have these incredible mysteries that they're unfolding, but they've never brought up
20:09 the Bible 1 time, and then even at the end if they say trust Jesus and you say, well, they must be a Christian, think again. Your thoughts should come out of this book.
20:21 It's the daring, self willed, arrogant, brazen, pompous, cocky, rebellious, ungodly people that preach the other way. And when you see them, just know it's
20:32 insidious and it's carnal. Give me a second truth about them. They're ignorant. They're totally ignorant. He says this in verses 12 and 13, whereas he
20:44 says, but these like unreasoning animals born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling, which means blaspheming where they have no knowledge, will end the destruction of those
20:56 creatures also be destroyed, suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. Here's why they're ignorant. They blaspheme God with incredible confidence because what they believe that
21:08 they are doing is they are hunting for an audience. They are hunting for people that will listen to them. They are hunting for a crowd who will affirm them, and what the scripture is trying to make clear that while
21:20 they are not speaking on behalf of God, God is hunting them, and their destruction is going to be certain because what they're speaking is not true.
21:32 Right? And you see this all over the place in our culture. You see the you see the ignorant try to do this. They don't realize that God is the 1 who they're supposed to be speaking with, and if
21:44 they're not holding up the word of God and they're not speaking this book, here's exactly what they're doing. They are telling stories and they are telling vignettes and they are telling little ideas and little bits of
21:56 wisdom so that people are like, oh, so good. What what was good? That 1 about the puppy, it was incredible, and you closed the and it's like, what what was the point? I don't know, but he's
22:08 really spiritual. False. Because what they're saying is, god, while I stand here, shut up. Nobody wants to hear you. Everybody wants to
22:20 hear me. I want all your glory, so I want people to hear me. That's exactly what they're doing, but they won't say that. They'll trick you into believing that what they have to say is really
22:31 true. They're ignorant. Third, you'll know this because they're indulgent. They're indulgent. They're super super super deceptive because they're indulgent. They count it a
22:43 pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions as they carouse with you. These people are hedonists. They live for themselves. They indulge
22:55 in pleasure. They're pleasure seekers first and foremost. They wanna use the ministry that they've created for themselves for their own pleasure. Now there's nothing wrong with enjoying life. The world is the Lord's and
23:06 everything in it. Enjoy the things that God's given you and be blessed by it. These people are using their platform to indulge in the flesh so that here's what they don't teach. They don't teach holiness. They don't
23:13 teach repentance. They don't teach heaven. They don't teach hell. They teach that you're good, and they come alongside of you, act just
23:25 like you. They'll say stuff like this, I'm the cool pastor. I get to do what you do. We're all the same. You know, let's just hang out. Let's be good. Let's Because they don't wanna call people to holiness because they
23:35 themselves aren't holy. They don't wanna call people to repentance because they themselves aren't repentant, and all they care about is keeping a crowd that thinks that they're just like them so that they can both
23:45 journey to hell together. That's what it means to be indulgent. I'm living for me. I'm living for you to like me, and guess what? Here's what God is all about. God's all about your prosperity,
23:56 and here's what they teach. They teach the very things that every unregenerate person wants. They teach health. I mean, if I was to ask you this, who doesn't want more health? Who doesn't want more money? Who doesn't
24:07 want more freedom? Who doesn't want more happiness? I I want all those things, but they teach that as a bedrock and foundation of the truth. If you love Jesus, you'll have more health. If you love Jesus, you'll have more
24:19 wealth. If you love Jesus, your relationships will improve. If you love Jesus, everything about you will be better. If you love Jesus, you'll have more influence. Everything about life is good. If you're not experiencing
24:30 that, it's because you don't have enough faith. Just trust God a little more, give a little more money, then you'll have everything. It's a lie. Here's the truth. You follow Jesus, I promise you you'll
24:42 experience more persecution, more tribulation, more hardship, more difficulty, all those things, but here's what I'll also tell you, you'll enjoy life a whole lot more because your hope will be set on something that's
24:53 coming rather than right here. Amen? False teachers don't talk about what's coming because they don't believe it. True teachers will tell you, if you repent and believe Jesus, the day is coming. You'll
25:05 be part of his kingdom. If you refuse to repent and believe Jesus, you will die in your sins, and your sins will drag you to an eternal hell where you spend all eternity. True teachers teach that because they love God
25:15 and they love you enough to tell you the truth, but they're indulgent. Let me give you a fourth 1. They're also adulteress. They're also adulteress. Notice verse 14, having eyes full of
25:27 adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children. Trained is the word we get our word gymnasium from.
25:39 It means they work at greediness. They see an audience in front of them as a way to fleece them and make money from them. They never stop sinning. They're adulterers. Most cults
25:51 are filled with adultery. Most men that have are false teachers see women as objects and use the relationship they have from the front to have bad relationships
26:03 with women who are weak, and even more than that, they're spiritual adulterers because they won't teach the truth of God's word. They won't teach what God wants. They won't say the hard things because deep down they
26:14 don't care about God. They don't care about walking with God. They don't care about the hard things. All they care about is enjoying their life and being sensuous with the people that they're with, and friends, that's a
26:23 false teacher. That's a false teacher, And I'm not just talking about someone that's fallen before Christians can fall. There's times where God can convict anybody's heart and you've been too
26:35 greedy or you shouldn't look at that. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about an ongoing practice of adulterous lifestyle, an ongoing practice of greed. And then finally, this just
26:47 really sums it up. They're immoral. They're immoral. Notice this. Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness. They loved the
26:59 wages of unrighteousness. But he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey speaking with the voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet. They're immoral. They are
27:11 immoral. Balaam is listed in the new testament as an example all the time not to follow. If you go back to numbers chapter 22 and following, you can read about this story. Balaam was hired by Balak, the king of Moab, to
27:22 tell him to curse Israel. And he told is he told Balaam, he goes, I can't say what God doesn't want me to say. So in some sense, he wasn't a false prophet because every time that he went to curse Israel,
27:33 God spoke to him and he blessed Israel, which made the king of Moab really really mad. 1 time when he set out to go curse Israel, he's on his donkey that he rode all the time, and the pre incarnate son of God is standing
27:45 there in front of him, and he doesn't see it, but the donkey does. And the donkey tries to go 1 way, the donkey tries to go another way, and finally gets to a place where the only way for the donkey to go
27:57 forward is to come in contact with the living Christ, and the donkey's scared, and he drops down. And Balaam beats him 3 times, at which time the Lord empowered the donkey
28:09 to speak, and the donkey looked back over his shoulder and he said, what have I done that you beat me 3 times? And what's even funnier is Balaam begins to have a conversation with the donkey. Like, Well what
28:21 are you talking about? Finally, God opens Balaam's eyes and he sees him, and then he doesn't do what is wrong. However, however, as the story continues, we see the heart of Balaam, because the
28:33 heart of Balaam is, you know what, I wanted to get paid by the king. I wanted to get paid by the king because money means everything to me, so I can't speak bad about Israel, but here's what I can do. So he told the
28:43 king, if you can just get Israel to act immoral, they'll follow you that way. You can take them out that way, and that's exactly what he did. He was a prophet for hire. He was a shepherd for hire. He cared about money
28:55 more than he cared about the message. That's what a false teacher is. Not that pastor shouldn't get paid. Pastors should get paid. Nothing wrong with that. I'm talking about pastors that fleece
29:06 people and tell people that they owe them a certain amount of money to be able to do what they do. It's wrong. It's wrong in every single way, and that's what Balaam was doing. Balaam was immoral in every
29:18 way. He led God's people into immorality, and even though he didn't speak wrong, he trained people how to live wrong. So when you have arrogant, ignorant, indulgent, adulteress, and immoral people, that's how God sees
29:30 them. It's not good, and sometimes we don't see that because most of these charlatans dress really nice, are very good speakers, hold a bible,
29:42 have some truth in what they say, and when you hear them you think, what a nice person. If that quote nice person is immoral, arrogant, ungodly, and not letting God speak, they are some of the most evil
29:54 people on the entire planet according to how God sees them. We talked about last week how rat poisoning is 95 percent nutritious. False teachers don'tShow more
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