Godliness and the Denial of Christ

Godliness and the Denial of Christ
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I. Cautions Concerning False

1 Don’t Expand the Category of False Teachers Unnecessarily
2 Don’t Empty the Category of False Teachers Uncritically

II. What We Learn About False Teachers

1 Their Way is Deception

A He knows how to keep the ungodly under judgment
B He knows how to keep us.

13 Then I said: “Ah, Lord God, behold, the prophets usay to them, ‘You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine, but I will give you assured peace in this place.’” 14 And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and ythe deceit of their own minds. 15 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name although wI did not send them, and who say, ‘Sword and famine shall not come upon this land’: By sword and famine those prophets shall be consumed. 16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword, with none to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. For I will pour out their evil upon them

2. Their End is Destruction


1 Destruction for themselves
2 Destruction for their followers
3 Destruction for the church.

III. Reminds us their Need is Transformation

False teachers

1 They are enslaved to the pleasures of this world.
2 They are lacking in the fruit of the gospel.

IV. What We Learn from False Teachers

1 We Learn the Value of Biblical Community
2 We Learn the Danger of Superficial Reformation

V. The Power of Gospel Transformation
1 2ND Peter 2:2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.
2 What we teach and by how we live—we are going to say something about Jesus.