False Teachers Will Come
(2 Peter 2:1)
But there were also false prophets
among the people, even as there will be
false teachers among you, who will
secretly bring in destructive heresies,
even denying the Lord who bought
them, and bring on themselves swift
destruction. (NKJV)
What False Teachers Are Like
Satan: The Original False Teacher
Knowledgeable In Scripture
(Mat. 4:6)
"If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself
down. For it is written: 'He shall give His
angels charge over you,' and, 'In their
hands they shall bear you up, Lest you
dash your foot against a stone.'"
What False Teachers Are Like
Satan: The Original False Teacher
Knowledgeable In Scripture
(False Teachers Are Likewise)
(2 Timothy 3:7-8)
always learning and never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and
Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also
resist the truth: men of corrupt minds,
disapproved concerning the faith;
What False Teachers Are Like
Satan: The Original False Teacher
Satan is an “Accuser”
(Revelation 12:10)
…the accuser of our brethren, who
accused them before our God day and
night, has been cast down.
What False Teachers Are Like
Satan: The Original False Teacher
Satan is a Liar:
(John 8:44)
…he is a liar and the father of it.
What False Teachers Are Like
Satan: The Original False Teacher
Satan is Cunning:
(Genesis 3:1)
Now the serpent was more cunning than
any beast of the field…
What False Teachers Are Like
Satan: The Original False Teacher
An “Angel of Light”
(2 Corinthians 11:14-15)
And no wonder! For Satan himself
transforms himself into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no great thing if his
ministers also transform themselves into
ministers of righteousness, whose end
will be according to their works.
What False Teachers Are Like
False Teachers:
May Be “Godly”
(2 Timothy 3:5)
having a form of godliness but denying
its power. And from such people turn
away! …
What False Teachers Are Like
False Teachers Want Preeminence
Among Others
(2 Corinthians 11:12)
But what I do, I will also continue to do,
that I may cut off the opportunity from
those who desire an opportunity to be
regarded just as we are in the things of
which they boast. (NKJV)
What False Teachers Are Like
False Teachers Want Preeminence
Among Others
(2 Peter 2:3)
By covetousness they will exploit you
with deceptive words…
What False Teachers Are Like
Their Proof and Arguments Are
Sometimes Convincing
(Matthew 24:24)
"For false christs and false prophets will
rise and show great signs and wonders
to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
What False Teachers Are Like
False Teachers Sometimes Work in Secrecy
(2 Peter 2:1)
But there were also false prophets among
the people, even as there will be false
teachers among you, who will secretly
bring in destructive heresies, even
denying the Lord who bought them, and
bring on themselves swift destruction.
Discerning False Teachers From
Teachers of Truth
False Teachers: Tell People What They Want
to Hear
(2 Corinthians 11:4)
For if he who comes preaches another
Jesus whom we have not preached, or if
you receive a different spirit which you
have not received, or a different gospel
which you have not accepted--you may
well put up with it!
Discerning False Teachers From
Teachers of Truth
False Teachers: They Tell People
What They Want to Hear
(2 Timothy 4:2-4)
Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of
season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all
longsuffering and teaching. For the time will
come when they will not endure sound
doctrine, but according to their own desires,
because they have itching ears, they will heap
up for themselves teachers; and they will turn
their ears away from the truth, and be turned
aside to fables.
Discerning False Teachers From
Teachers of Truth
False Teachers: Their Submission (Or
Lack Thereof) to God’s Word
(2 Peter 2:10)
and especially those who walk according
to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness
and despise authority. They are
presumptuous, self-willed. They are not
afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,
Discerning False Teachers From
Teachers of Truth
False Teachers: Their Submission (Or Lack
Thereof) to God’s Word
(1 John 2:3-6)
Now by this we know that we know Him, if we
keep His commandments. He who says, "I
know Him," and does not keep His
commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in
him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the
love of God is perfected in him. By this we
know that we are in Him. He who says he
abides in Him ought himself also to walk just
as He walked. (NKJV)
Discerning False Teachers From
Teachers of Truth
True/False Teachers:
Known By Their Fruits
(Matthew 7:15-16)
"Beware of false prophets, who come to
you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly
they are ravenous wolves. "You will
know them by their fruits. Do men
gather grapes from thornbushes or figs
from thistles? (NKJV)
Discerning False Teachers From
Teachers of Truth
Teachers of truth preach the Word!
(2 Peter 2:18)
For when they speak great swelling
words of emptiness, they allure
through the lusts of the flesh, through
lewdness, the ones who have actually
escaped from those who live in error.
(NKJV)
Discerning False Teachers From
Teachers of Truth
Teachers of truth preach the Word!
(2 Timothy 2:15-18)
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God,
a worker who does not need to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun
profane and idle babblings, for they will
increase to more ungodliness. And their
message will spread like cancer. Hymenaeus
and Philetus are of this sort, who have strayed
concerning the truth, saying that the
resurrection is already past; and they
overthrow the faith of some.
Discerning False Teachers From
Teachers of Truth
Teachers of truth preach the Word!
(2 Peter 3:16)
as also in all his epistles, speaking in
them of these things, in which are
some things hard to understand, which
untaught and unstable people twist to
their own destruction, as they do also
the rest of the Scriptures. (NKJV)